Author: Aase_a

The Price We Pay For Power: “Should democratic governments have the ability to hold more control and power in special circumstances?”

Aase Ade-Akhani (9) | STAFF REPORTER

The Canadian government has just recently ended the emergency powers provided by the emergencies act formally known as the war measures act, which it invoked to tackle the weeks long protests by the freedom convoy aka “the truckers protests.” Although these emergency powers allowed the government to handle the protests, it also brought into question if and how much power democratic governments should hold in special circumstances? read more

Profit over lives: “Should businesses prioritize returning to regular productivity levels during the pandemic, or focus more on safety measures?”

Aase Ade-Akhani (9)| STAFF REPORTER

The COVID-19 pandemic has had dire consequences for the world and has caused us to re-evaluate how we operate our healthcare systems, and how much they can handle before cracking under the pressure. It has affected all parts of human life, specifically businesses and how they are run and will be run in the future. read more

“Who’s to blame?”: Should social media platforms have tighter content regulation, or is it the responsibility of users to determine what content to interact with?

Aase Ade-Akhani (9) |STAFF REPORTER

Since the dawn of the internet and social media as a platform, we as humans have faced the very difficult and complicated question of censorship, and what should and shouldn’t be allowed on the internet. This has lead to many people questioning how much right a company has to limit individual opinions -no matter how harmful- on the internet, and how much responsibility falls on the individual to regulate themselves and their opinions. read more

Should humans continue to develop weapons and other technology that can potentially be dangerous?

Aase Ade-Akhani (9) | STAFF REPORTER

Guns, bombs, synthetic media and more are weapons that humans have created and used to either help or attack the people around them for better or worse. For most, if not all, of human history, we have used weapons like this to help liberate our fellow humans in dire situations like the liberation of the German- occupied Netherlands in WWII, but we have also used it to unnecessarily exert power over other countries like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII. read more

A Pig for a Life? : Should human organs be grown in animals for the replacement of damaged organs in humans?

Aase Ade-Akhani (9) || STAFF REPORTER

On October of 2021, The New York Times published an article detailing a the recent scientific breakthrough of transplanting a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human and found that it worked normally. Although this was a significant leap in science and medicine in general regarding organ transplants, it raised the question of whether it is ethical to genetically modify animals for the sake of growing organs to then be transplanted into human. read more