By Sukaina Jaffer in Toronto, ON Quebec’s secularist Bill 21, which bans public workers from wearing religious symbols, dredges up memories of a similar ban…
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Short Choices: The French Presidential Elections
by Binoy Kampmark in Melbourne, Australia The establishment got another burning in the French elections on Sunday, revealing again that there is no level of voter disgust…
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French Judges Issue Another Release Order for Canadian Held over Bomb Attack
by Amanda Connolly in Ottawa Two French counter-terrorism judges have issued, for the sixth time, a release order in the case of extradited Canadian Hassan Diab,…
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Journalism: What is Lost in Translation
By Our National Correspondent in Ottawa, ON Lucile Davier, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, has spent many years looking at journalism…
View More Journalism: What is Lost in TranslationBoko Haram: Where is the Global Outcry?
by Maryam Mirza (@MsMMirza) in Ottawa #JeSuisCharlie #IAmBaga Both powerful hashtags. Both ways for people all around the world to express public outcry over the…
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Cinema Verité in Paris: Hope for a Happy Ending
by Hadani Ditmars (@HadaniDitmars) in Vancouver As the Academy Award nominations briefly usurp global terror headlines, I recall how watching events unfold in Paris last…
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Angry Second-generation Immigrants
by Richard M. Landau Last year we witnessed surprising riots and fire in the streets of Stockholm, largely perpetrated by young men whose families originated…
View More Angry Second-generation ImmigrantsSyria: a truly wicked problem
by Hakam Kherallah They cannot go unnoticed – luxury cars with Syrian number plates roaming the streets of mega-rich Dubai, which is playing host to…
View More Syria: a truly wicked problemMulticulturalism’s Tim Hortons test
By Elie Mikhael Nasrallah Multiculturalism is under siege from all sides and has nowhere to hide: certainly not in Britain or France or Germany. It…
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