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29-12-11
Deconstructing CANLIT: Considering the Other Cyril Dabydeen

– No language is neutral Derek Walcott To my students at the local university I announced that we would be  Read more…

Photo credit: Rana Bose

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29-12-11
A Montreal Life Marianne Ackerman

Between the ages of twenty-eight and forty-four, I lived for Montreal. Nothing could have budged me from this town. Pure  Read more…

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29-12-11
Literary Awards and the Spurned Writer Linda Leith

The 2011 literary awards season is drawing to an end, with new stars such as Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt  Read more…

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29-12-11
Ghazaling in English – A Canadian Poet’s Literary Journey Sheniz Janmohamed

  I was first introduced to ghazals by my father. Well, not really. I first heard ghazals at my father’s  Read more…

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29-12-11
Why to Read and How; or On Teaching and Being Taught Paul Hawkins

I don’t want to talk about what to read—that anyone can choose for themselves.  What I want to talk about  Read more…

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28-12-11
Nature In A Box : representations of zoo animals in Canadian literature Shubhobroto Ghosh

Of late, I have been deluged with messages regarding the shifting of elephants from Toronto Zoo to the PAWS(Performing Animal  Read more…

Yellow door

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28-12-11
Behind the Yellow Door Ilona Martonfi

  [Please note that this piece was originally published in Poetry Quebec. - ed]   3625 Aylmer Street, Montreal    Read more…

Dawson Peace Garden photo #3

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27-09-11
Teaching “the Other” Patrick Barnard

  Dawson – The New “Other” as The New “Us”?   Most writers and journalists who have grown up with  Read more…

Chinese Laundry Mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown

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27-09-11
The Multicultural Panic Mirella Bontempo

  The mass shootings in Utoya, Norway seemed to have shocked the average person, who has never noticed the trends  Read more…

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27-09-11
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” : an examination of identities Shubhobroto Ghosh

  When I was in class three, I remember reading a story about Guru Nanak which spoke about his perplexity  Read more…

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27-09-11
“When did Canada…” Matthew Soule

  When did Canada become the country that it is today? Only a few years ago it was seen as  Read more…

Abdullah Al Malki

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27-09-11
Taking Responsibility for Torture: How their irresponsibility makes us all pay Tariq Jeeroburkhan

  August 15, 2011 – Abdullah Al Malki is a family man with a life story to tell, and based  Read more…

A QDF board picture from 1992. There are a lot of active people from that scene in the picture including: Nik Pynes, Clare Schapiro, Cas Anvar, Paulina Abarca, Ralph Allison, and Bert Henry.

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27-09-11
An Interview with Guy Rodgers Anna Fuerstenberg

  Editors Note:  Guy Rodgers, writer and scenariste, has been a tireless campaigner for English Language Artists in Montreal Quebec.  Read more…

John Bradley

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04-07-11
Montreal Notes Patrick Barnard

I – Wings in The Dust   Le vieux Paris n’est plus (la forme d’une ville Change plus vite, helas!  Read more…

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04-07-11
Montreal Municipal Musings: The Political Faucet: Turning Supporters On And Off Sam Boskey

On the night of the May 2, 2011 federal election which saw the NDP come out of nearly nowhere to  Read more…

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04-07-11
From Montreal to Paris – A Memo Dimitri Roussopoulos

  Spring days are very much here.  Both the sunny warm days and political hopefulness is everywhere. My sojourn in  Read more…

Kent St. today on Google Street View

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04-07-11
Community Organizing in Côte-des-Neiges Then and Now Sujata Dey

  If the commercials are to be believed, there is nothing more Canadian then a Tim Horton’s donut shop where  Read more…

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04-07-11
My Town, Your Town Matthew Soule

    Montreal is a special city. Some would say that it has a European charm that is rare in  Read more…

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04-07-11
“Have gun, will shoot” Shubhobroto Ghosh

    Ten years ago, after the 9/11 attacks, many commentators in Europe and USA expressed dismay at the way  Read more…

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04-07-11
“The taser killed Aron Firman”: More than just another Canadian taser death Patrick Bolland

The CBC report on 6 December 2010 left no room for doubt: “Taser killed Ontario man: Ontario Special Investigations Unit” (1). The SIU, an independent body, had just issued its report on the death of Aron Firman in Collingwood, Ontario.

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04-07-11
The Politics of Prisons Sylvia Goldfarb

  Does Canada need bigger prisons, as proposed by the now newly elected Conservative government and at what cost? At  Read more…

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29-04-11
The Egypt you teach me at school Maha el Marraghi

I have never been involved in politics, I had made up my mind on the whole thing a long time  Read more…

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28-04-11
“The idea of putting a ramshackle coalition in office” Mary Ellen Davis

The above words, from our prime minister’s mouth, on April 4 2011, are supposed to spread fear in our souls,  Read more…

I want to serve my people - Mubarak

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12-03-11
“The Revolution Will Be…Live.” and The Co-Creation of Value Maria Worton

You’ll recall Marshall McLuhan, the “medium is the message” man.  He knew. He knew what the computer could do… this  Read more…

Smoking Mirror Cartoon

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12-03-11
Images Shift the Discussion! Rana Bose

This is how it all started. As Tunisia and Egypt were followed by Yemen and Bahrain  and as  I remained  Read more…

The 74-year-old Italian leader

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12-03-11
The Dumbing-Down Revolution will be Televised Mirella Bontempo

The anomaly that is Italy– where a media mogul can have total control of the private and public television, print  Read more…

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12-03-11
Everyone is a Journalist Today Shubhobroto Ghosh

The original saying went, ‘Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” Well, the perception seems to be  Read more…

peter martin 2a

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12-03-11
The Command Line is Mightier than the Rubber Bullet (fear me) Peter Martin

A few months ago, fearing terminal unemployment, I emailed some of my coder friends a query: “So, things were a  Read more…

soule graphic

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12-03-11
Tiny Blue Ball Matthew Soule

The world isn’t what it was ten or even five years ago. Technology has taken our planet and transformed it  Read more…

Tia Tura teaches how to weave palma in Xichu

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27-12-10
Indigenous Women of San Cristóbal: In Search of a Place in the Globalized World and Local Society Tomás Ramírez

Editor’s note: San Cristóbal de las Casas, located in the central highlands of Chiapas, was catapulted into the limelight on  Read more…

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