This week marks National Volunteer Week, the perfect time to highlight the connection between volunteerism and citizenship. As the Institute for Canadian
Tough times bring out the best in people – or the worst. The recent brouhaha over the hiring practices of the Royal
Every April since 1994 I find myself struggling with what to feel or to write about yet another anniversary of the Rwandan
If you are reading this on your handheld device, please sit down and put your device on a table, lest you drop
I would describe my own resignation as executive editor of a Filipino-Canadian magazine (Living Today) as nothing more than a tempest in
On March 15, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa held a day-long symposium on Afghanistan. It was not
It is unfortunate that a debate over selectively aborting female fetuses has been hijacked by politics in Ottawa. A Conservative member of
“Most Canadians in favour of limits on immigration: poll,” read a recent headline in the National Post. It sounded ominous, perhaps an
Imagine Halifax city’s whole population of around 400,000 being denied the right to vote in its municipal election. Not very hard to
“Immigrants need to know the rules of this land.” “They need to know that Canadians do not tolerate violence against women.” “They