Her story reads like a movie script. Twenty years ago, Maryam Monsef fled the brutal rule of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and now, two decades later, she has become the first Muslim to be…
View More MP Monsef Proves Afghan Women’s Strength, Ability
The post-mortem of the federal election is ongoing and until it is complete we will not know the full dynamics behind the results. But one view that is emerging is that the Liberals outperformed the…
View More Attack Ads in Ethnic Papers ‘Insulting’
This has been an historic election – one which journalists, academics and party strategists will be decoding for years to come. As New Canadian Media’s (NCM) ombudsperson, I was privileged to have a ringside seat…
View More On the Road to Democratic Journalism
With the final ballots long since counted and the prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau preparing to name his cabinet, members and guests of the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CFJ) gathered in downtown Vancouver to reflect on the…
View More Conservatives Misread Immigrants: Journalist Panel
One of prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau’s first orders of business will be to form a cabinet. It is one of the most difficult tasks facing any prime minister, as there is a need to strike…
View More “Diversity a Given” in Trudeau Cabinet
Justin Trudeau has now officially been elected as Canada’s 29th Prime Minister and with him come promises of investment in infrastructure, electoral reform and changes to the lengthy family reunification process. Some of those changes…
View More Pros and Cons of Family Reunification
For the first time in Canada’s electoral history a Mandarin-speaking member of Parliament was elected. Now hailed by the Chinese Mandarin community members as their “true voice”, the Liberal party’s Geng Tan won the Don…
View More First Mandarin-Speaking MP Elected in Canada
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was not subtle about his use of cultural differences as a trigger for fear during the election campaign. His government pressed its case against a Muslim woman fighting to wear her…
View More For Muslim Women, Liberal Victory a Rejection of Divisive Politics
Canada has spoken and its ethnic minority electorate has made it clear that they are on the same wavelength as the rest of the country. The “905” belt around Toronto city, that famously shored up…
View More Generational Shift Helps Liberals Sweep GTA Suburbs
Residents in a Don Valley West neighbourhood have been blitzed with flyers over the past week linking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, and suggesting that a vote for Trudeau is…
View More Don Valley West Blitzed by Anti-sex Education Flyers on the Eve of Election