Even before our interview got underway, he told me, he was about to post a tweet that criticizes the Liberal government’s plans to send peacekeepers to Africa. “I’m blasting them and I said BS, Africa…
View More I’ll Take the Establishment Head-On: Obhrai
“Did I tell you the time I was called ‘a little girl’?” asks MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan incredulously. Sitting in her election campaign headquarters in Scarborough’s Malvern neighbourhood, the first-term MP is recounting her experiences in…
View More Lone Tamil MP Seeks Re-entry into “White Man’s Club”
Recently, without warning and without consultation, Rogers Communications decided to end all Italian-language news and current affairs television programming on the multicultural OMNI station. As a proud Italian-Canadian and a federal Cabinet Minister, many individuals…
View More OMNI Cuts: ‘A Deep and Personal Transgression’
The name Maria Mourani made national headlines in 2013 when her outspoken criticism of the Parti Quebecois’ proposed Charter of Values led her to switch parties. Recently, the Lebanese-Canadian’s name made headlines again, as she…
View More Talking Quebec-Canada Politics with MP Maria Mourani
In 2009, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan founded the political think tank Samara. They were concerned about a growing disengagement among Canadians from their political system, what MacMillan describes as a “turning away from the…
View More Fed Up With Politicians? So Is Your MP
It is unfortunate that a debate over selectively aborting female fetuses has been hijacked by politics in Ottawa. A Conservative member of parliament has tried to pass a motion that would have decried the practice,…
View More The Third Opinion: Aborting the Wrong Debate
Joe Daniel, the MP representing Don Valley East outside Toronto, has a remarkable personal narrative. With a name like Joe Daniel, there are few who would connect him with South Asian origins. But that is…
View More As multicultural as his constituents: MP Joe Daniel