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Last week on May 15, the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the disaster that befell Palestinians when Israel was founded Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) held a demonstration at the Human Rights Monument in Ottawa. This was followed by another on Parliament Hill on May 18.
Alternative views via independent not-for-profit media are so important today as ever.
Alan Hart is an author and a journalist. He is the former Middle East chief correspondent for Britain's Independent Television News and a former BBC "Panorama" programme presenter whose beat was the Middle East.
The Road to Apartheid is a film which looks at the ways in which Israeli treatment of the Palestinians is like how white South Africans treated the blacks, and how different. Is Israel's treatment of the Palestinians Apartheid?
In her book Sex in the Citadel: Intimate Life in the Changing Arab World, Canadian author and academic Shereen El-Feki argues that, "We need to think about what's happening in intimate life, because our sexual lives in the Arab world are a reflection of what has gone wrong, over decades, over centuries; and if we don't fix those, it's going to be very hard to achieve the reforms millions of us are hoping to see in economic political and social life and cultural life ."
The Harper government is quietly seizing greater control of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while a public advocacy group accuses the Tories of stacking the CBC's board with political allies.
It is rarely a good idea to draw maps in a hurry. But this is what colonial cartographers did in the Arab world after the First World War, and the borders they painted were superimposed on old tribal and religious attachments that long predated the new states.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top-secret studies, the "Human Radiation Experiments," done over a period of 30 years, in which the US conducted radiation experiments on as many as 20,000 vulnerable US citizens.
The Conservatives were always going to easily pass their anti-terrorism bill.
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is doing it. Canadian Council of Chief Executives president John Manley is doing it. CIBC Deputy Chief Economist Benjamin Tal is doing it. What are they doing?
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