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ypically this refers to any recent news story (within the past year or two) that is of interest to the general public, from anywhere in the world. For this assignment, the story you choose must be about a social issue, problem or phenomenon that is of sociological interest and that can be analyzed sociologically. Your topic MUST connect with material covered in the required textbook for THIS course (Schaefer and Haaland, Society: A Brief Introduction). For example: CBC News reported on Oct 22, 2015, that “Nunavut's premier has declared suicide a crisis in the territory” (CBC News 2015: para 1). This news story is current, it obviously has links with our first unit on suicide and can be analyzed sociologically using material from the course text, so it is a highly suitable topic for this project.