As we hobble into a new year, it feels as though we’re sitting on a powder keg — an unstable world and political order that can erupt at any time.

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It’s not as though our planet hasn’t endured instability, violence and conflict, economic meltdown, expansionism, plagues or epidemics in the past. But with social media, instantaneous communication and real-time news and information like never before, everything seems much more intense and volatile.

Against this daunting backdrop, there are also important political stories in Quebec and Canada that you can expect to be reading a lot about in these........

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