After a major earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday just a month after the country’s President was assassinated, calls grow for a political solution without foreign interference.
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Immigration lawyers in Canada are warning about risks caused by the spread of misinformation as the Trump administration rolls back a U.S. government program that shielded illegal immigrants brought to the United States as minors from…
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When Elizabeth Philibert arrived in Montreal as an émigré in 1979, she immediately felt the city would be her closest connection to Haiti. The city’s circle of activists quickly embraced Philibert, who had risked her…
View More Haitian Canadians in Quebec: A Rich Political History
While candidates in Quebec are doing their best to reach out to new Canadian voters in the current federal elections, some advocates are hoping that the current Syrian refugee crisis will widen the conversation on…
View More Quebec’s Federal Candidates Urged to Tackle ImmigrationGreat changes were on the horizon. It was the end of March 1789. The Estates General had been summoned by King Louis XVI, and the forty “Immortals” of the Académie française gathered in an “secret…
View More Dialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany LaferrièreGreat changes were on the horizon. It was the end of March 1789. The Estates General had been summoned by King Louis XVI, and the forty “Immortals” of the Académie française gathered in an “secret…
View More Dialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany LaferrièreDiaspora populations are increasingly being seen as “bridge builders” between host countries and the nations they come from, particularly amid crisis situations as with the recent earthquake in Haiti. With more and more countries –…
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