My dad recently retired from the federal public service after spending over three decades serving this country. His job was to make sure that Canadian-made airplanes were as safe as possible. He was celebrated for…
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Amira Elghawaby is an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate. Along with frequent appearances on Canadian and international news networks, Amira has written and produced stories and commentary for CBC Radio, the Ottawa Citizen, the Literary Review of Canada, and the Globe and Mail. She is currently a freelance contributing columnist for the Toronto Star.
100 Plaques Unveiled to Commemorate Internment Camps
Yurij Fojczuk immigrated to Canada in 1912 and set up a homestead. He would come to be known as George Forchuk. Two years later, in 1914, Forchuk was arrested under the War Measures Act for…
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Spy Agencies Have Too Much Latitude
How much does it concern you that your emails, texts, social media, and phone calls might be monitored? If recent polling from both around the world and here at home is any indication, it probably…
View More Spy Agencies Have Too Much LatitudeWhen Culture Robs Girls of Role Models
“You can’t be what you can’t see.” — Marian Wright Edelman, human rights activist I can’t begin to imagine life as a teenage girl nowadays. Just turn on the television, check out Facebook, stand at…
View More When Culture Robs Girls of Role ModelsFair Elections Act May Hurt New Canadians
Canadian immigrant service providers are worried that the Conservative government’s proposed election bill will potentially impact the voter participation rate of new Canadians and ethnocultural communities in future elections. Currently, citizens who don’t have proper…
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Teaching Students to be “Culturally Bilingual”
The country’s largest and most diverse school board was in the spotlight earlier this month for all the wrong reasons. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB)’s plan to help Somali-Canadian youth better succeed in school…
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The Invisibility of Canada’s Diversity
“The world we inhabit is a world of representation. Media do not merely present a reality that exists ‘out there;’ nor do they simply reproduce or circulate knowledge. As active producers of knowledge, media construct…
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