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The case against FrackingReuel S. Amdur
August 9, 2013
"Fifteen years ago I witnessed a massive boiling, exploding ball of gas that had just leveled a building, killing 11 people, most of them teenagers. I thought I had learned how dangerous natural gas can be. I was wrong." Those were the introductory words by Jennifer Burke, from a sermon recently delivered at Ottawa's First Unitarian Congregation. In university, she studied biology and ecology, and she has lived in places where fracking is going on.
A modational Muslim womanThe Canadian Charger
August 8, 2013
Hanan Awad, an environmental studies graduate teaching assistant at the University of Waterloo, describes herself as a modational Muslim woman. She said she actually invented the word modational to describe a modern lady with a traditional twist.
Alex Colville, a wonderful gift to the worldThe Canadian Charger
August 8, 2013
Alex Colville's biographies will read born August 24, 1920 and died July 16, 2013. It is hard to believe that this great energy has left us. These biographies will also describe Alex Colville as a significant Canadian painter of the late 20th century, whose work has been as important as that of the Group of Seven to Canada and to the world, and as familiar.
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's hate speechProf. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
August 8, 2013
During the one year of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi's rule, Christians, Shi'a, moderate Muslims, judges, media, business people, artists and any Egyptian critical of Morsi and his Brotherhood rule have been demonized and called "infidels" in the public square, in mosques, in the Brotherhood print and TV and above all at official functions where Morsi was attending.
Harper's enemies listThe Canadian Charger
July 24, 2013
In the days when Stephen Harper was a trusted lieutenant of Reform Party leader Preston Manning and an influential ideologue, trusted with vetting Reform Party political strategy, Mr. Manning was often characterized as paranoid but Mr. Harper himself escaped this label; until now that is.
Canada vs. US: Medical needs of non-citizensThe Canadian Charger
July 24, 2013
Jason Kenney, Canada's ex-Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, has cut health care for refugees.
Cuts to interim federal health program for refugees unfair and unjustEdward C. Corrigan
July 24, 2013
"Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees." Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate, Globe and Mail, July 7, 2012.
The mediatization of Egypt's June 30 Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
July 24, 2013
Thanks to today's media technologies, some events just seem to happen 'out of nowhere' such as Egypt's June 30th popular uprising/coup. Mediatization refers to the role of the media in reporting such events and the perceptions that they create, sustain, or challenge.
U.S. whistleblowers face harsh fateGwynne Dyer
July 24, 2013
Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow since June 23, while the United States government strives mightily to get him back in its clutches.
Harper advocates for religious freedom?Reuel S. Amdur
July 24, 2013
I recently had an article about the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma published in the Seventh Day Adventist magazine Liberty. The editor tacked a note at the bottom of the article noting that the Canadian government has recently created an Office of Religious Freedom. He thought that that Office might want to pursue the matter.

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In the second instalment of Women of the Resistance, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Palestinian-Canadian artist, Rehab Nazzal.