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Vikram Nijhawan

Vikram Nijhawan is a Toronto-based journalist and local reporter who has written for Metroland community newspapers and for magazines including Literary Hub and Hazlitt. He currently covers Peel region city council politics for The Peel Report. Vikram was a 2025 Local Journalism Fellow, supported by the J.P. Bickell Foundation.

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When You’re Afraid That Your Classmate Is a Spy

From death threats to surveillance and intimidation by their government, Chinese students at Canadian universities feel the chill of transnational repression.

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