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Ashoke Dasgupta

Ashoke Dasgupta is a freelance journalist and former editor of Compassionate Friend, Beauty Without Cruelty-India's magazine. He won a UNDP - Goethe Institute Award for Environmental Journalism in Nepal 1995, and the Canadian Ethnic Media Association's Best News/Feature Awards for 2004 and 2006. He got a scholarship to study journalism at Sheridan College Toronto in 2007, graduating with high honours. He has done internships at the Winnipeg  Free Press and CBC Radio, and been published in the Winnipeg Free Press, the Calgary Herald and the Toronto Star.

October 8, 2019
News/Politics/Top Stories

Race War Quickens Pace at ‘The Base’ as Mystery over Missing Neo-Nazi Lingers

The CAF says it has been “monitoring” Mathews since April, and will release him from the army in the coming weeks.

Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.
September 24, 2019
Books

The Globalization of Freedom Fights

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

August 12, 2019
Books

Is This Our Land? Review of ‘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

July 30, 2019
Arts & Culture

Grace Abounding: A Review of “A Prayer for Compassion” Screening for Winnipeg VegFest

“First live a compassionate life. Then you will know,” a quotation from the Buddha, passes across the screen as the film starts.

May 18, 2019
Arts & Culture/Top Stories

Sorry to Bother You — With My Accent

Written and directed by Boots Riley, “Sorry to Bother You” is a futuristic, humorous, damningly anti-capitalist film. It was Riley’s entrée to

May 10, 2019
Commentary

No Apology For Heroism: Linda Sarsour

The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (SPCW) evolved into an organization dedicated to equity, social justice and change. SPCW marked its centenary

new horizons
February 19, 2018
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New Horizons in Voluntourism

Elsie James (83) pulled into Fernie, British Columbia, with her family when she was seven. The rain-drenched moon raised its Aladdin’s lamp

January 24, 2018
Commentary

Cathy Wong’s Fear of a Bus Driver

Cathy Wong (61), who emigrated from Hong Kong, had an unpleasant experience last December, with a racist bus driver. The incident came

December 18, 2017
Immigration

Trump Dims the Lights in Jerusalem

President Donald Trump announced on December 6 that the US would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel unilaterally, triggering global protests

March 29, 2017
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“We All Have Xenophobia to Some Degree”

The Islamic Social Services Association recently organized a conference on the theme of “At the Heart of Human Rights is Human Dignity”

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