“The #CancelCanadaDay conversation isn’t a referendum on whether or not Canada is a good place to live. It’s about acknowledging the fact that Canada is built on a foundation of colonialism and Indigenous genocide,” writes Marcus Medford looking back on the Canada Day weekend.
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Facing financial barriers and complicated paper work, most Yazidis settled in London, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary have been unable to take advantage of it
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Imagine being a child bride in pre-revolutionary Iran – suffering abuse on a daily basis, being forced into a joyless marriage and having children at the age of 13. There is no law or organization…
View More Political Upheaval Brings Women Together in HealingA little moral outrage is a dangerous thing. So learned a certain dentist from Minnesota with a penchant for trophy hunting this week when he faced the wrath of the Internet hive mind for killing a now…
View More A Pantomime of Misplaced Moral OutrageThey are disappearing. When I arrived in Toronto in 1978 and first became involved with Armenian issues, there were many survivors still alive. Every year on April 24 — the day commemorating the Armenian genocide…
View More In Denial: The Armenian Genocide, a Century Later
Imagine that I took all the e-mails and messages that I have ever written, as well as recordings of all Skype calls that I have ever made, and gave them to a group of strangers.…
View More Privacy is an Irreplaceable Refuge
Every April since 1994 I find myself struggling with what to feel or to write about yet another anniversary of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis. So here I am again, on the 19th anniversary…
View More Remembering Rwanda for humanity’s sakeEven before its planned opening in 2014, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba has had its share of critics. They insist that the museum fails to adequately address certain aspects of its…
View More Winnipeg museum needs rethink, say immigrant groupsUkrainians in Canada have always been dedicated to pressuring the Canadian government to maintain strong ties with Ukraine. Several Governors General, including Ray Hnatyshyn, Adrienne Clarkson and Michaëlle Jean have made visits to the country.…
View More PULSE: UkraineThe Armenian Diaspora and Turkey’s civil society should work together to pressure the Turkish government to recognize the Armenian Genocide, a Turkish-German historian told the Armenian community in Toronto, ruling out that recognition would lead…
View More Historian urges Armenian diaspora and Turkish civil society to join forces