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World News - A Political Rundown

Raihan Hassam (G9)

Canada, Public Health Agency of. “Epidemiological Summary of COVID-19 Cases in Canada.” Canada.ca, 7 Aug. 2020, health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html.

Elflein, John. “Canada: COVID-19 Deaths by Province.” Statista, 7 Dec. 2020, www.statista.com/statistics/1107079/covid19-deaths-by-province-territory-canada/.

“Shooting the Messenger in Morocco.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, www.economist.com/international/2000/12/07/shooting-the-messenger-in-morocco.

“The World Needs to Stop War Crimes in Ethiopia.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, www.economist.com/leaders/2020/11/26/the-world-needs-to-stop-war-crimes-in-ethiopia.

Representation and Diversity in Politics

Nika Neely (G8)

Hamlin, Kimberly. “Perspective | Kamala Harris Shows Women Can Thrive in Politics Doing Things Their Own Way.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 10 Nov. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/10/kamala-harris-shows-women-can-thrive-politics-doing-things-their-own-way/.

Rogers, Alex. “Ritchie Torres Wins House Race and Will Become First Black Member of Congress Who Identifies as Gay.” CNN, Cable News Network, 4 Nov. 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/politics/ritchie-torres-house-win/index.html.

Stracqualursi, Veronica. “Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride to Become Nation's First-Ever Transgender State Senator.” CNN, Cable News Network, 4 Nov. 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/politics/sarah-mcbride-delaware-state-senate/index.html.

The Selective Limitation of Certain Political Views

Rohin Dhaliwal and Anthony Gu (G9)

“Abigail Shrier | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 108.” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSlmfp7euo.

Clayton, James. “Social Media: Is It Really Biased against US Republicans?” BBC News, BBC, 27 Oct. 2020, www.bbc.com/news/technology-54698186.

“Facebook and Twitter Restrict Controversial New York Post Story on Joe Biden.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 15 Oct. 2020, www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/14/facebook-twitter-new-york-post-hunter-biden.

“How to Deal with Free Speech on Social Media.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/22/how-to-deal-with-free-speech-on-social-media.

Madelineorr. “Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Twitter User Crying 'Transphobia'.” The Federalist, 13 Nov. 2020, thefederalist.com/2020/11/13/target-swiftly-bans-book-on-behalf-of-anonymous-twitter-user-crying-transphobia/.

Shrier, written by Abigail, and Published by Quillette Magazine. “Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why Is Silicon Valley Helping Them?” Quillette, 19 Nov. 2020, quillette.com/2020/11/07/gender-activists-are-trying-to-cancel-my-book-why-is-silicon-valley-helping-them/.

“Social Media's Struggle with Self-Censorship.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/22/social-medias-struggle-with-self-censorship.

“UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.” United Nations, https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/UN%20Strategy%20and%20Plan%20of%20Action%20on%20Hate%20Speech%2018%20June%20SYNOPSIS.pdf.

COVID-19 Vaccines: What You Might Want to Know

Sultan Chatila (G8)

Park, J.C.; Suh, H.; Lee, D. H.,“Preclinical Evaluation of Prototype Products.” Yonsei Medical Journal, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10661028/.

“Immunogenicity.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunogenicity.

“Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate, Meeting All Primary Efficacy Endpoints.” Pfizer, www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine.

BITANUZIRE JAMES KALEMA, et al. “RNA Vaccines: a Novel Technology to Prevent and Treat Disease.” Science in the News, 10 July 2015, sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/rna-vaccines-a-novel-technology-to-prevent-and-treat-disease/.

“Vaccine Testing and Approval Process.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 May 2014, www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/test-approve.html.

“Vaccine Tracker.” CBCnews, CBC/Radio Canada, newsinteractives.cbc.ca/coronavirusvaccinetracker/.

Walsh, Marieke, and Jeff Gray. “Canada Will Get COVID-19 Vaccines after Other Countries Due to Lack of Manufacturing Capacity, Trudeau Says.” The Globe and Mail, 25 Nov. 2020, www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-will-get-covid-19-vaccines-after-other-countries-due-to-lack-of/.

WHO. “WHO GUIDELINES ON CLINICAL EVALUATION OF VACCINES: REGULATORY EXPECTATIONS .” World Health Organization, www.who.int/biologicals/publications/clinical_guidelines_ecbs_2001.pdf?ua=1.