Updates + Events
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Putting Police On Trial
What happens when police are charged with breaking the law?
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GRP pilot program brings global students together
The GRC is launching a pilot program, which will bring students around the world together to produce major works of journalism.
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International Justice in the Age of Populism: A Talk with Dr. Payam Akhavan
At this talk, hosted by the Global Reporting Centre, Dr. Akhavan discusses the challenge the rise of populism poses to the international justice system. The United Nations and International Criminal Court are increasingly viewed as elitist and a threat to national sovereignty. Are these concerns legitimate? How can they be addressed?
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This American Life Host Ira Glass Holds Master Class for Global Reporting Centre
Ira Glass, the voice and journalist behind This American Life, held a private master class with staff, fellows and friends of the Global Reporting Centre.
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Town Hall on Rare Diseases: Developing a Canadian Strategy for Rare Disease Treatments
Town Hall on Rare Diseases brings together a diverse panel of speakers to discuss the challenges of providing costly drugs for Canadians suffering from rare diseases. The public town hall, hosted by Paul Kennedy of CBC Ideas, will take place on October 23rd, 2018, at the BMO Theatre in Vancouver’s Olympic Village at 6:30 p.m.…
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Niranjan Takle: Journalist on the Fascist Trail
Investigative journalist Niranjan Takle will be in Vancouver to discuss his seminal investigation of the murder of a judge, which highlighted corruption and the country’s political decline.
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“Letter from Masanjia” highlights the true cost of consumption
In 2012, Julie Keith found a letter in a Halloween decoration. Inside was an SOS from the Masanjia Labour Camp, one of China’s most infamous prisons.
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Prominent Trump Critic David Frum at GRC
David Frum spoke at a GRC/Vancouver Institute event. The former George W. Bush speechwriter is the author of Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, a scathing critique of the Trump presidency.