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Mother of Killed ISIS Fighter Brings De-Radicalization Program to Canada

After Damian Clairmont's death fighting alongside ISIS in Syria, Damian's mother Christianne Boudreau hopes to prevent the radicalization of other westerners.
Hilary Beaumont
12.22.14
News

Blackface Is Still a Thing in Quebec

Blackface has a long, horrifying history as a racist art form. Even though it's almost 2015, white people in Canada still think it's okay to paint their skin and pretend to be a different race.
Stephanie Mercier Voyer
12.22.14
2014 in Review

Looking Back on the Amazing Year in Larry King's Interviews with Musicians

From making friends with fellow sex symbol Trey Songz to bringing up his ideal superpower at every turn, Larry King had a great year of interviewing rappers and singers.
Jonathan Peltz
12.22.14
ebola

IMF Debts Made the Ebola Outbreak Worse, Report Says

British researchers say stringent IMF lending policies left Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea with underfunded health systems and a shortage of doctors.
Samuel Oakford
12.22.14
Art

Artists Transform Forest into Bioluminescent Wonderland

Watch Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad turn trees, mushrooms, and even toads into pulsing, projection-mapped creatures.
Becky Chung
12.22.14
In Memoriam

RIP Joe Cocker, Dead at Age 70

The English singer has passed away from an undisclosed illness. He will be missed.
Eric Sundermann
12.22.14
Music

A No-Bullshit Review of Pop Music in 2014

Starring thinkpiece pop, Killer Mike, rave nostalgia, and the same boring white guys with guitars.
Sam Wolfson
12.22.14
christmas

My Big Fat Greek New Year Involves Shoving Coins into Cakes

I am proudly one-quarter Greek, and in the annual perineum between Christmas and New Year's, the only thing to do is make a vasilopita. Oh, you don’t know what that is? Why, it’s a Greek thing, of course.
Helen Nianias
12.22.14
Buenaventura

Buenaventura: Dismemberment and Displacement (Extra Scene)

In this extra scene, VICE News meets the mothers who have lost their sons and daughters to gang violence in Buenaventura, meeting under the name "Women Weaving Voices for the Disappeared."
VICE News
12.22.14
Art

[Best of 2014] The Year in Viral Art

This is the art that was all-but-inescapable in 2014.
Becky Chung
12.22.14
africa

Tunisia Gets Its First Ever Democratically Elected President

Beji Caid Essebsi has been confirmed as the winner of Tunisia's first free presidential poll. Essebsi beat current caretaker President Moncef Marzouki, who has been in office since the Arab Spring in 2011.
Leo Lord-Jones
12.22.14
americas

A War of Words Is Escalating Among Current and Former NYC Officials In the Wake of Police Killings

Saying the mayor was not at fault for anti-police sentiments, Bill Bratton joins current and former New York City officials in voicing their opinions after the murders of two NYPD officers on Saturday.
Kayla Ruble
12.22.14
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