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(Toronto) Amira Hass - the daughter of Holocaust survivors - a reporter and columnist for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz says she is the only Israeli Jewish journalist living and working in the occupied Palestinian territories. Now based in the city of Ramallah, she has lived in the West Bank since 1997 and in Gaza for four years before that.
As some 2,000 people recently marched from Ryerson University down Church Street, in a steady drizzle, chanting "Occupy Bay Street not Afghanistan," their numbers and their passion indicated their message resonated across a wide spectrum of society.
Ed Broadbent expressed disappointment in Barack Obama when he spoke at Ottawa's First Unitarian Congregation on September 27. "You don't compromise before you even take your position," he said. "He is decent and thoughtful, but he isn't the politician that Bill Clinton was." Broadbent was especially critical of Obama's failure to act firmly on the issue of Israeli settlements.
On November 5th, millions of Muslims who made the pilgrimage of Hajj will gather for prayers on the Plain of Arafat at the foot of the Mount of Mercy, located just outside the holy city of Mecca. The next day, they will celebrate Eid-Ul-Adha, joining the world community of Muslims everywhere who could not perform the Hajj this year.
National Post's columnist Barbara Kay hates Jews and Muslims. She wrote a column on Sept 30, 2009 titled "The Jewish enemy within" attacking Naomi Klein calling her "Canada's most famously faithless Jew," and Dr. Diana Ralph, calling her group Independent Jewish Voices an "Israel-hating fringe group," and calling Ralph herself an "anti-Zionist, anti-American conspiracy theorist." And on October 8, 2008 she wrote, "We must know the enemy (Muslims) within to fight." All articles are posted on her blog - for now.
Addiction is a serious problem in Canada-10% of the population affected, 20% of deaths related to addiction, 10% of hospitalizations, and a cost of $40 billion a year. It was the topic of a lecture at the Royal Ottawa Hospital on November 4, where Dr. Marco Leyton spoke. He is an associate professor at McGill and president of the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
An ongoing report by the Associated Press has outlined how the NYPD, under the command of the CIA, has "carried out a series of initiatives aimed at the Muslim community of New York, often stalking, profiling and secretly surveying followers of Islam solely based on religion." This has resulted in community leaders advising Muslims to cut any ties they have with the NYPD.
Piracy has moved from the Horn of Africa up to the Mediterranean. On November 4, Israeli commandos boarded two vessels on the high seas, seized the passengers and crew, and took the vessels and cargo, which were en route to Gaza to deliver medical supplies, challenging the blockade.
Health is not just a medical issue. There are social determinants of health, and one of the keys is income distribution, poverty if you will.
London Immigration lawyer Ed Corrigan said his libel case against Will Hector for calling him "one of the worst anti-Semites in Canada and an idiotic spammer," in an email to the Law Union of Ontario (LUO) List forum, will be a precedent setting legal decision on the question: "is criticism of Israel or Zionism anti-Semitic?"
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