Settlement workers seeking opportunities to upgrade their knowledge and exchange ideas about tackling the challenges faced by refugees, will be given the opportunity through a…
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Diaspora Sees Return of Hope Over Iran Deal
After months of intense negotiations, Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations (the United States, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom),…
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Bilingualism is arguably what sets Canada apart from the rest of North America – it has historically been the strength of our nation. However, of…
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No Hierarchy of Human Rights
An alarming idea has recently been circulating in human resources circles in Canada: when it comes to competing human rights, maybe there should be a…
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It’s not about sex — it’s about the law
There has been much talk about York University’s decision to accommodate the religion-based request of a male online student to not engage in group meeting…
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Reasonable Accommodation: What is Reasonable?
In any discussion about multiculturalism, pluralism or interculturalism, the question of balance between integration, or “fitting in” to the mainstream, and accommodation, or the mainstream…
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Dr. Vivienne Poy’s Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada was launched at York University in Toronto recently. The retired Senator…
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