The current debate about the Confucius Institute focuses primarily on whether a nation that restricts discussion about its human rights record should be given a select place within New Brunswick schools to promote its language and culture (and by extension a highly selective understanding of Chinese politics and history). This is an important, and long overdue, conversation. But this focus belies a larger issue: our province’s delegation of educational programming to organizations that are outside of the education system. 

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Prostitution, payment for the exchange of sexual services, has long been a source of heated debate—about its morality, legitimacy, and treatment by governments. The controversy stems from deep-seated beliefs about the ethics of sex and of trading sex for money and the consequences for sellers.

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