By Jasminee Sahoye The Canadian government and the Public Health Agency of Canada are warning travellers visiting areas where chikungunya occurs and in areas being affected by a chikungunya outbreak to take precautions. Chikungunya, aka, ChickV, Foulgunya and ChickyV, is a disease which typically causes fever, along with an arthritis-like pain in the joints and […]
Why do we prefer one candidate over any other? Are we influenced by the polls, our friends and colleagues, our personal interests, our sensitivities and biases, our own perception of the available candidates, or by the positions taken by the political movement that most closely mirrors our own political opinions? How many of us vote […]
By Shelagh Plunkett When I tell people I spent part of my adolescence in Guyana, most look at me with a blank expression. I imagine them turning their heads a little sideways like a puzzled dog. Guyana? Oh – it must have been fascinating seeing Africa in the 1970s. Things get no clearer when I […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon A 37-year-old man from the Caribbean was recently fortunate in having a deportation order stayed for four years on terms and conditions. For this article I will refer to him as Monty. I represented him in all his immigration problems leading up to his appeal before the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD). He […]
By Azeezah Kanji & Samira Kanji In his column on the horrific murder of journalist James Foley by ISIS militants, Jonathan Kay contends that while “the West” has rejected the morbid and inhumane culture of the glorification of death, Arabs still embrace it. According to Kay, “We Westerners had a cult of martyrdom once, until […]
By Nora Loreto Like many Canadians, I’ll be watching the Scottish referendum very closely. And, like many progressive Canadians, I’m hoping to see a yes vote. I’m hoping to see an independent Scotland. The Scottish vote is important for many reasons. A Yes vote is a vote against the storage of England’s nuclear missiles. It’s […]
By Michael Lashley The challenges faced by Canadian universities as employers of part-time teaching staff are not simply a financial issue. At the very least, they are an industrial relations issue. It is my contention that they also constitute an ethical issue because the terms of trade in this relationship between the employers and the […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon I recently represented a 26-year-old man from the Caribbean (whom I will call Don) who was successful in having the Appeal Division quash a removal order issued to him in 2011 for not declaring his dependent child on his application for permanent residence. Don’s parents and sibling came to Canada in 2006 […]
Why do mayoral candidates talk more about transit than about jobs in their campaigns? Is it that the polls identified transit as the issue that gains most traction among voters, and therefore the issue that will most strongly influence their choice for mayor? Or is that a mayor is seen as having very limited control […]
By Michael Lashley It is our duty to demand that everyone respect The Law. It is also our right to demand that the parties officially responsible for upholding The Law be held accountable for the manner in which they have protected and served the letter and the spirit of The Law. Some of us will […]
