International

The pandemic has been very hard on all of us. For the movie industry, it hit like a hurricane: theatres closed down, productions were interrupted, and many lost their jobs. After more than half a year of living in the crisis and having to delay the release of many movies, Warner Bros, a division of AT&T, has decided that every film scheduled for 2021 would be released both in theatres and on streaming platform HBO Max for a period of 31 days (Lussier). Though it is a very beneficial way for the viewers to watch new movies by staying home…

What may be the largest people’s protest in history is now taking quite a gory turn. What started as a peaceful farmers’ protest movement in India now involves an estimated two hundred million people since August (Troyer, 2021). The protesters, mainly from the states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana marched on the capital in November to voice their discontent on three new laws concerning agriculture that were passed by the federal government back in September (Times Of India, 2020; Reuters, 2020). They were met with tear gas and water cannons as police tried to block their path to Delhi…