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Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds; Fifty-four Variations on Voice. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-28897-6
It was an extraordinary election. Both Stephen Harper and Jack Layton got the results they were aiming for. Stephen Harper got his majority and Jack Layton replaced the Liberal Party not only as the Official Opposition but quite possibly as the only federal alternatives to the Harperites. Canada now looks like so many other countries with one party on the Right and one on the Left. So why do I feel so bad?
As Guelph's population has grown, there has been a corresponding increase in our city's diversity. While there has at times been friction as different groups attempt to live side by side, there have been many positive illustrations of multiculturalism. One such example is Guelph's Muslim community.
Attempts to challenge the biased coverage of Canadian newspapers on the Israel/Palestine issue through the Ontario Press Council (OPC) have been disappointing.
A world-class drama is unfolding in Canada.
On Thursday, July 7th, 2005, the city of London, England was closed down after explosions on three subway cars and a bus. The blasts killed 56 people and injured hundreds; the country was traumatized.
(This letter was submitted to The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism http://www.cpcca.ca/home.htm )
The censure of Israeli Apartheid Week in Canada by Ontario MPPs, by the Liberal and Conservative national leaders and now by the Toronto School Board represent threats to freedom of speech in Canada that must galvanize Canadians into action.
Dear Mr. Mansbridge: I was expecting to be disappointed by your interview with Netanyahu, knowing that the CBC would have to be respectful of him as leader of Israel, but I was appalled at your refusal -- or inability -- to confront him on the dangerous propaganda and outright lies that he had the chuzpah to spew on CBC, including:
Alison Weir's short, powerful book documents hidden stories that have led to the major conflicts of the past century; understanding this history should help pave a path to peace in Israel/Palestine, and hopefully, to an American government that puts American interests first. Weir has written an accessible, myth-busting book that is meant to be widely read; it is tightly focused, with less than 100 well-referenced pages.
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On July 7, 2024 in Toronto, Canada, Dimitri Lascaris delivered a speech on the right to resist oppression.