By Oscar Wailoo There was a time when to find out what was going on at home and abroad, you looked to the newspapers. You couldn’t go wrong with the Globe and Mail or the Star and, if you were really a sophisticate and wanted to speak on a subject with authority, you read the […]
By Michael Lashley There are times when we do not know whether to laugh or to cry. We want to find a new set of wishes, a different setting that will remove all the causes of unhappiness, quarreling and rivalry for money, political power and influence. Whoopi Goldberg filled our hearts with her group’s rendition […]
A Christian minority family in Pakistan recently had negative decisions on their refugee claims set aside by the Federal Court, which ordered a new hearing by a different panel member. The family is comprised of a husband who I will call the Applicant, his wife and young daughter. They all arrived in Canada in January […]
One has to make a deliberate effort not to use cruder language to describe and condemn the crassly commercial exploitation of short-term, temporary and contract teaching personnel by our country’s universities and colleges. To make matters worse, our undergraduate students are also suffering the direct consequences of this ruthless, obscene and vulgar commercialization of post-secondary […]
By Charles Aaron-Simon Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, took office last January as the 13th Chairperson of the African Union. It was an expression of the collective desire to honor him and his political party, ZANU-PF, for political accomplishments that stand as operational guides of political possibilities for African peoples and their leaders. The selection […]
By Michael Lashley Before I delve into the phenomenon that is Hillary Rodham Clinton, it may be useful to raise a few points of order. First, let us bear in mind that in politics perception is very, very often a more decisive factor than the truth. Consequently, it is meaningless to pursue any doubts as […]
Are potential immigrants and foreigners resident in Canada entitled to treatment that is just, reasonable, equitable and consistent with the basic human rights which are the cornerstone of our democratic society? That is clearly not the view of the current Conservative federal government in Ottawa. The Conservatives have a quite different understanding of the extent […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon After a decade of immigration struggles in Canada resulting in the deportation of a husband and his recent return on a Temporary Resident Permit the entire family was granted permanent status last week. They requested that I refer to them in this column as Devon, Roanna and their son Junior from the […]
By Nora Loreto In 2002, Canadian citizen Maher Arar was deported to Syria. He was held until October 2003 and was tortured. An inquiry later found that information shared by the RCMP was used to enable his deportation and detention. When Université Laval student Ahmed Abassi was celebrating his marriage in Tunisia in 2013, his […]
By Michael Lashley It is perhaps useful for me to personalize my approach to Caribbean cuisine and Caribbean music and to raise the issue of their place in our personal lives, our professional lives and our formal education system. Of all our assets, Caribbean cuisine is one of those that we have neglected the most […]
