Quebec’s secularist Bill 21, which bans public workers from wearing religious symbols, dredges up memories of a similar ban France initiated in 2004. In 2004,…
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Short Choices: The French Presidential Elections
The establishment got another burning in the French elections on Sunday, revealing again that there is no level of voter disgust that will not find…
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French Judges Issue Another Release Order for Canadian Held over Bomb Attack
Two French counter-terrorism judges have issued, for the sixth time, a release order in the case of extradited Canadian Hassan Diab, being held in France…
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Journalism: What is Lost in Translation
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…
View More Journalism: What is Lost in TranslationBoko Haram: Where is the Global Outcry?
#JeSuisCharlie #IAmBaga Both powerful hashtags. Both ways for people all around the world to express public outcry over the mass killings of people in France…
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Cinema Verité in Paris: Hope for a Happy Ending
As the Academy Award nominations briefly usurp global terror headlines, I recall how watching events unfold in Paris last week was a somewhat cinematic experience.…
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Angry Second-generation Immigrants
Last year we witnessed surprising riots and fire in the streets of Stockholm, largely perpetrated by young men whose families originated in the Maghreb region…
View More Angry Second-generation ImmigrantsSyria: a truly wicked problem
They cannot go unnoticed – luxury cars with Syrian number plates roaming the streets of mega-rich Dubai, which is playing host to tens of thousands…
View More Syria: a truly wicked problemMulticulturalism’s Tim Hortons test
Multiculturalism is under siege from all sides and has nowhere to hide: certainly not in Britain or France or Germany. It is persona non-grata even…
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