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Our Holiday Reading Selections — A Celebration

NCM News Desk and David Christopher December 23, 2019 No Comments Christopher M. Briggs.Dr. BR Ambedkar Jason DeParle Juliet Blackwell Oakland Ross

NCM Collective members share some of their holiday reading selections for 2019

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Inclusive Storytelling: What Canadians Can Do

Shabana Ansari December 16, 2019 No Comments Because I can books diverse Ottawa Peacock Press Shabana Ansari

Books help us appreciate cultures, open hearts and minds, and promote tolerance and understanding

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A Conversation with Award-Winning Author Suketu Mehta

Gavin Barrett and Mayank Bhatt December 2, 2019 No Comments

Fifteen years later, Suketu Mehta has published another path breaking book. ‘This is Our Land – An immigrant’s manifesto’

Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.

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The Globalization of Freedom Fights

Ashoke Dasgupta September 24, 2019 No Comments anti-colonial book review books colonialism India Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent Priyamvada Gopal

When Britain was toiling against its Egyptian possessions Blunt was sent there to gauge public opinion

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Is This Our Land? Review of ‘An Immigrant’s Manifesto’

Ashoke Dasgupta August 12, 2019 No Comments book review colonialism immigrant India Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found migrant Suketu Mehta This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto

A new form of global class structure has evolved in which white parents in the developed world hire nannies from Cameroon or the Philippines to leave their own children and come look after white ones in the west

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New Book Offers Insights on Life, God and the Universe

Robin Arthur June 25, 2019 No Comments Atheism Big Bang Theory Cosmology Morality Philosophy religion Science Theology

If life began in a primordial ocean with organisms evolving from elemental atoms which, instructed by a self-creating universe of natural laws, suddenly flashed into…

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Finding Mr. Wong: A Tale from Canada’s Exclusion Era

Susan Crean June 1, 2019 No Comments Canada Canadian Authors Canadian Pacific Railway CHINA Chinese head tax discrimination exclusion act Immigration Susan Crean

Although the Canadian government officially apologised for the Chinese Head Tax, we’ve not yet connected all the dots

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Historic Head Tax Unites Canadians at Book Fair

Shan Qiao May 31, 2019 No Comments Asian Heritage Month Canada Canadian literature CHINA Chinese head tax Chinese Immigration Act Finding Mr Wong immigrant writers Lien Chao Susan Crean Wong Dong Wong

A piece of Canadian history brought two award-winning writers together at the Author’s Book Fair during Asian Heritage Month. In 1885, Federal Parliament passed the Chinese…

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Immigration Law Handbook Presents Worthy Tool, but at Times Misses Mark

Andrew Griffith May 13, 2019 No Comments handbook Immigration law lawyers policy refugees

While the material is complex, and the intricacies appear almost infinite, the authors have made every attempt to write in as accessible language as possible

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Borders Explored at 4th Annual Festival of Literary Diversity

Mayank Bhatt May 7, 2019 No Comments Brampton Canada Reads Canadian Authors Canadian experience diversity Festival of Literary Diversity FOLD Immigration multicultural The Rose Theatre

By Mayank Bhatt in Mississauga, ON The fourth annual Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) came to a close yesterday. Every year during the first week…