Lucile Davier, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, has spent many years looking at journalism that relies on translating from a foreign language. In a sense, her work examines the implications of…
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Recent terror attacks in Europe have unnerved Canadians and many wonder which nation or what out-of-the-way tourist spot may be the next venue for a suicide bomber. New Canadian Media asked two experts on the…
View More ‘We are Just as Safe as a Year Ago’More than 160 Canadians lost their lives, more than 1,000 were wounded, and the government spent over $20 billion during Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. Stephen M. Saideman, a scholar and the Paterson Chair in International…
View More Author Revisits Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan
New writers are using mentorship opportunities to create and share more diverse and inclusive stories about Toronto’s history and culture. “What we want to do is to create a living history of Toronto through literature…
View More Diaspora Dialogues Gives Emerging Writers a Voice“Immigration played a role in the Brexit campaign”, reported The Wall Street Journal. Since there were only four percentage points between the winning side (to leave the European Union) and the losing side, it is…
View More Defending Western Values in Brexit’s Wake
Café Babanussa is a story about mental illness that has never been told before. Through the journey of a young, mixed-race woman exploring Germany in the 1980s, we see how mental instability creeps into the…
View More Novel Provides Realistic Portrayal of Mental Illness
In the wake of Brussels — at least for now — we’re back in the bad old days of the War of Civilizations narrative. In the face of terror most foul, fury and vengeance are…
View More We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons from Brussels — and It’s Going to Cost Us
For more than a year, Canadian CF-18s have been striking ISIS targets with laser-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles. Airstrikes began in Iraq in November 2014, but the Conservatives voted to expand the fight into Syria last March. In…
View More Middle Eastern Promises: Will Canada Be Forced Into War?People running across the borders, others hanging for their lives on an overcrowded boat and a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a beach. These are just some of the chaotic images reported to us…
View More Refugee Journalists Take Over Danish NewspaperThe refugee crisis in Germany has flooded the media with coverage on the diverse aspects of the situation, from negotiations among European nations about refugee flows, registration and distribution to the logistics of housing the…
View More Syrian Refugee Crisis in Europe – Implications for Canada