In Quebec, 10 women have died from domestic violence in the past 10 weeks. NCM reporter Farah Mustapha looks into the steps that are now being taken by the community and the Quebec government.
View More Quebec’s Fight for Change After 10 Women Killed in 10 Weeks
Unique program to help couples in their journey of migrating to Canada aims to reduce relationship breakdowns and intimate partner violence.
View More Program to help New Canadian Couples Work on their RelationshipsBelief is a novel by Mayank Bhatt, a Mumbai-born resident of Toronto. It tells the story of the son of Indian immigrants to Canada who cooperates with terrorists to identify Canadian places to bomb, in…
View More Novel Explores Road to Radicalization
Four hundred years ago, on April, 23, 1616, William Shakespeare passed away. His plays are so special that today we can critically reflect on any topic when reading, staging, or watching them: social inequality, politics,…
View More Accents Celebrated at Shakespeare ReadingFive months after Harper’s Conservatives made a pre-elections pledge to establish a controversial “barbaric cultural practices” tip line, a group of lawyers and legal organizations in Vancouver have launched a different kind of phone line…
View More Legal Hotline Created After ‘Significant Increase’ in IslamophobiaAsking seniors subtle questions about their daily routines opens up dialogue – and can point to signs of elder abuse, which rarely reveals itself in obvious ways. Nirpal Bhangoo-Sekhon often asks seniors she meets about…
View More Breaking Silence Around Elder AbuseIn this week’s round-up of what’s been making headlines in Canada’s ethnic media: The Liberal government is set to repeal Bill C-24; municipal councils wage war on Uber and Canadians react to Haryana violence in…
View More Make Citizenship Easier, Not Harder: McCallumIn this piece, journalist Alireza Ahmadian discusses Canada’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia with Cesar Jaramillo, Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, a non-governmental organization working in Canada and abroad to advocate for policy reform to…
View More Saudi Arms Deal Not Worth Economic Gain: Jaramillo
Sixty-seven years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 50 years after the adoption of the two Covenants, which along with the Declaration became known as the International Bill of Human…
View More Canada Must Open Its Door Without DiscriminationOn Oct. 17, mayoral candidate Henriette Reker was stabbed in the neck during a campaign stop in Cologne, Germany. The perpetrator, a 44-year-old unemployed man, was furious about Reker’s support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy, which…
View More Canada is Not Immune to Racist Ideology