After extensive lobbying, the Philippines’ Commission on Elections extended the deadline for overseas absentee voting. But Filipino migrant rights advocates say the extension does not go far enough.
View More Under Pressure, Manila Extends Overseas Voter Deadline
Quebec’s Bill 21 and Bill 96 have been strongly condemned for discriminating against religious and ethnic minorities in that province. But all of that has been overshadowed by the English-language debate moderator’s pointed question to Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, writes John Miller.
View More This Election’s Most Influential, Fair Question
“Liberation for some is liberation for none.” NCM reporter Daniela Cohen recaps Monday’s B’nai Brith election debate in Winnipeg South Centre.
View More B’nai Brith Debate Highlights Rising Anti-Semitism and Conflicted Relationship with Israel
Anti-racism advocates are calling on key political leaders in Canada to publicly renounce Quebec’s Bill 21 “secularism” law during this election campaign. Last April, the Quebec Superior Court ruled that although the secularism law violated the basic rights of religious minorities in the province, those violations are permissible because of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause.
View More Anti-Racism Advocates Call on Party Leaders to Help Kill Bill 21
Elections Canada is urging community leaders to get New Canadians, whose turnout at the polls have been historically low, to the ballot box.
View More Getting New Canadians to ‘Get Out and Vote’
NCM reporter Hakam Kherallah is in Turkey, home to the world’s largest Syrian refugee community, to examine the attitudes of the diaspora to the Syrian presidential elections.
View More Syrian Elections: Farce or Another Rebranding Attempt?
Other than a generally immigrant-friendly outlook, a review of ethnic media Oct. 27 – Nov. 1 shows that these outlets foresee a relatively stable government — “stable as a mountain” in the description of one Chinese outlet
View More Ethnic Media Coverage Portrays Minority Liberals as Friendly to Immigrants
“Canadians do not hate him [Trudeau] enough to show him the exit door.”
View More A Glimpse into Trudeau’s Victory through the Eyes of Ethnic Media
In general, differences among the four main parties are a matter of nuance
View More Election 2019: Party Platform Immigration Comparison
“All these debates could achieve one thing – making Trudeau the prime minister of Canada once again – not due to Trudeau’s ability, but due to the others’ inability”
View More Election Debates: A Tale of Two Hares and Four Turtles