Borneo rain forest. Canada's 1 %. Slave-trade.

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• AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), Public and World News Network pick up coverage of new research from Concordia bearing on protection of the rain forest in Borneo and the cultural safety of Borneo's Kelabit people. The study, published in AlterNative, was authored by Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, associate professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• MSN finances reprises an article from Le Devoir examining reported revenue increases among Canada's wealthiest. It references a 2016 study led by Michael Carney, professor in the Department of Management, and Robert Nason, assistant professor in the same department in the John Molson School of Business, of the fortunes and lifestyles of the wealthiest "one percent" in the United States. 
• Global Research picks up an article from Zero Hedge about the reported slave-trade in Libya. It references and quotes from the book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa (Baraka Books, 2012), by Maximillian Forte, associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science.

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