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Catherine Whelan

Radio Producer
Catherine Whelan is a radio producer, poet, and preposterous wordnerd. Catherine has lived, worked, and studied in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Southern California, and Western Massachusetts. Formerly she was a radio producer for WGBH News. Prior to that she contributed to the Peabody Award-winning program State of the Re:Union. She loves making noise. 
YouTube "Bawse" Lilly Singh.
Arts
Look out Hollywood. YouTube ‘bawse’ Lilly Singh is going mainstream.
Author Scaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and is a culture writer at BuzzFeed.
Culture
White privilege in brown Canada
Angela Dimayuga
Arts
When a queer Filipina chef said she didn’t want to be featured on Ivanka Trump’s website, the reaction missed the point
Syrian refugees hold Canadian flags
Justice
Is the US a ‘safe’ country for refugees?
Draft executive orders proposed a 40% cut in funding to the United Nations.
Global Politics
What a cut to its UN funding does to US leverage in the world
Boat with Jews sailing from Falster, Denmark to Ystad in Sweden, taken between September 1943 and October 1943.
Conflict
For a Jewish World War II refugee, Trump’s immigration restrictions are ‘unimaginable’
Protestors gather at San Francisco International Airport to oppose Donald Trump's "Muslim Ban."
Conflict
Donald Trump’s ‘disruptive’ leadership style presents huge problems for Homeland Security
Dancers with hands up
Books
The next generation takes a dance from Hawaiian history into the future
Donald Trump appears at a campaign rally in Maine.
Global Politics
In the ‘Middle Suburbs,’ Americans find themselves pulled left and right
What are Egyptians thinking about the US election?
Global Politics
Why some Egyptians may support Trump in the US election
A rescue boat of the Spanish NGO Proactiva approaches an overcrowded wooden vessel with migrants off the Libyan coast in Mediterranean Sea.
Conflict
An Afghan refugee is using drones to save other refugees’ lives