Ayesha Lye

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  • In Response to #SochiProblems

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    I’ve been keeping tabs on the #SochiProblems tag on Twitter and have been noting with some amusement the issues that athletes, journalists, and others have been having with the Olympics facilities in Sochi, Russia. Still, something was causing me some consternation.

  • City budget: Parkway, participatory politics, and police spending

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    The City of Peterborough is set to finalize its 2015 budget on February 2. The budget was first proposed in early December and has since finished its reviews by individual council members and the Budget Committee. This past Wednesday January 21, there was a public meeting that saw interested citizens address the city council with…

  • Immigration and Multiculturalism in Peterborough

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    Part of my third year of my International Development degree I completed a research project for a local not-for-profit investigating the immigrant community of Peterborough, ON. I found that the immigrant community in this small city behaves much differently than the communities in large cities–which the majority of diaspora research focuses on.