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José Figueroa is currently facing deportation as a threat to national security. When he was a high school student in El Salvador he joined the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberacíon Nacional). The FMLN began as a left-wing guerilla organization opposing the military dictatorship and the death squads and their political masters in the ARENA (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista).
As our federal Liberals bow to Israeli pressure to sharply cut back aid to besieged Palestinians, Canadians have spoken their opposition by stepping up their donations to UNRWA-the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, founded in 1949 to help Palestinians following the establishment of the state of Israel.
Several hundred people staged a protest on June 2 in front of the CANSEC arms show at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa.
Ottawa has some gangs but does not have a major gang problem, according to Staff Sergeant Mark Patterson. He was one of the speakers at a recent forum on gangs, under the auspices of Crime Prevention Ottawa and the Youth Services Bureau.
Our cartoonist Gareth Lind lives in Canada's royal city, Guelph, Ontario, a cultural city with a large university situated at the junction of the Speed and Eramosa rivers.
If I told you 100 years ago that everyone, everywhere, would have a digital footprint, where all that we did, said, or wrote, every place we went, everyone we knew - in short, our life histories from birth to death, and beyond - could be recorded permanently using a handful of sand, you'd have dismissed me as crazy.
Does the first recorded image of a black hole mean we're almost at the end of what science can discover? The short answer is: No.
Market values have surreptitiously taken control of more and more aspects of our lives leaving a moral vacuum at the heart of our politics according to Michael Sandel, political philosopher at Harvard University and author of What Money Can't Buy: the moral limits of markets.
The flooding in Pakistan, the worst in 80 years, has eclipsed the devastation of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, the Pakistani earthquake of 2005, and the Haitian earthquake earlier this year, says the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
They live around the globe, non-residents for decades, many have become naturalized citizens of their host country; still they are a heartbeat away from their native land. Pakistani diaspora rejoices and celebrate at its victories on the cricket pitches and are stumped when they see the appalling inequities, endemic corruption and the untold sufferings in their native land. They pour their hearts out and rush to help when natural disasters strike their beloved country. Such is the nature of their relationship. With Imran Khan's emergence as the newly elected leader, people are rallying around him. There is hope for Pakistan.
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