Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protesters have been getting a lot of airplay in newsrooms, thereby fanning the flames of misinformation and driving the vitriol that we have seen during this election campaign. It’s only going to get worse, argues Marcus Medford.
View More Protesters (Populists) at the Gates
The presence of Canadian soldiers going through the streets of an African country can be weighty in terms of optics.
View More Canada — not Norway or Ireland — is in Africa for the Long HaulSecurity and media experts are questioning the decision of police to grant journalists access to the personal belongings of the San Bernardino shooters. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, opened fire at a staff…
View More Experts Question Reporting on San Bernardino Attack
Four million Syrians have fled their country and millions more are living in dire conditions in refugee camps. But very soon, a tiny fraction of them will be calling Canada home. This week, the Canadian…
View More Refugee Family ‘Very Happy’ to Come to CanadaThe Canadian government announced their plan today to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the country by the end of the year, with an additional 15,000 to follow in January and February of 2016. The Ministers…
View More Govt Scales Back Year-End Refugee TargetCanada has announced an additional P128 million (C$3>58 million) of security assistance to the Philippines to further support the Bangsamoro peace process and address regional and global security threats. Canada will deploy additional Canadian police…
View More Canada Gives Millions to Check Security Threats
The Conservative government tabled the Anti-Terrorism Act 2015 – the latest in a string of legislative amendments aimed at protecting Canadian national security – this past Friday. The Act includes amendments to a suite of…
View More New Anti-terrorism Bill May Fragment Community RelationshipsMontreal − A new study published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy challenges the perception that the Somali Canadian community has failed to integrate into the wider society. Instead, its author finds that…
View More “We are Canadian, too,” say Somali-Canadians