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

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The Globalization of Freedom Fights

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

By Robin Arthur in Halifax, NS If life began in a primordial ocean with organisms evolving from elemental atoms which, instructed by a self-creating universe…

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

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

By Susan Crean in Toronto, ON The story of Chinese immigration to Canada is best known for two things. First, the arrival of Chinese labourers…

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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

By Shan Qiao in Toronto, ON A piece of Canadian history brought two award-winning writers together at the Author’s Book Fair during Asian Heritage Month. In…

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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…

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Jagmeet Singh Courageously Tells Life Story In New Book

Surjit Singh Flora May 1, 2019 No Comments #metoo Andrew Scheer book review Federal Election Jagmeet Singh Justin Trudeau Love & Courage Love & Courage: My Story of Family Resilience and Overcoming the Unexpected NDP Sikh

By Surjit Singh Flora in Brampton, ON I have respect and admiration for Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the New Democratic Party. I appreciate that…

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Diversifying Canada’s Literature

Tazeen Inam March 27, 2018 No Comments Author Ethnic Women as Active Participants Israel language literature Ontario publish Somalia Tazeen Inam Toronto

Language barriers, migration trauma, cultural discrepancies and family responsibilities; women authors of diaspora are defying the odds, breaking through different obstacles to have their voices heard.

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Justice for Jassi

Fabian Dawson September 15, 2017 No Comments Asian Pacific Post Fabian Dawson Harbinder Singh Sewak Jupinderjit Singh Justice for Jassi Mata Press Service novel

Last week, 17-years after Jassi was found dead with her throat slit in a ditch outside the industrial metropolis of Ludhiana in Punjab, the Canadian chapter of this tragedy came to a close