Race relations activists and observers say it is time to take off the masks that prevent people from acknowledging that systemic racism exists and police brutality happens.
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Friendly Advice to Trudeau from Australia
It was a moment of delightful reflection. The indecently smug politicians of a distant island continent, wealthy, cruel in refugee policy and lazy in development,…
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Drowned Syrian Boy’s Family Did Not Apply for Asylum: Ottawa
Following a highly emotional day in Canada after news broke that Alan Kurdi — the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish…
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As many as 1,200 boat people drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea headed for Europe during a 10-day period last April. The drownings drew…
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United Nations Human Rights Committee Calls for Changes to C-51
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has turned in a damning report on key Harper government policies, recommending changes to its controversial anti-terrorism law, C-51, and calling for an immediate national…
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Refugee Numbers Increasing Dramatically
They come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Eritrea, Libya and even West Africa. They walk many thousands of miles, traversing every imaginable landscape, using…
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Europeans should do more to stop refugee ships
I was in Italy on Oct. 3 when news broke about the overloaded ship that foundered off Santorino in the Mediterranean, resulting in the death…
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