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25-03-12
Digital Medicine Rola Harmouche

  Quebec’s health records are going digital. Recently, I along with other Montrealers received a letter in French describing the  Read more…

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25-03-12
L’usage des technologies grand public Frédéric Plourde

    Note de l’auteur: Le texte qui suit est un texte d’opinion et non un essai. Il ne fait  Read more…

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25-03-12
Making babies for profit Shree Mulay

    Hypothetically, a child asks “Mama and Papa who is my real daddy?” In the old days, before the  Read more…

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25-03-12
Did Someone Say Twitter? Matthew Soule

      Dad gets home from work and goes down into the basement to watch television and  go on  Read more…

ganesh maya

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25-03-12
The Elephant God, Technology and Ethics for the 21st Century. Random thoughts on a not-so-random conspiracy. Maya Khankhoje

  Ganesh,  also known as Ganapati,  was the son of Siva and Parvati, two high-ranking deities in the Hindu pantheon.  Read more…

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25-03-12
New Technology and Ethics: Where Are We Headed? Mark Silverman

  One hundred years ago H.G. Wells grappled with the affliction of war.  He saw the ebb and flow of  Read more…

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25-03-12
Innocuous platform or spying machine? Shubhobroto Ghosh

    A recent picture, amongst others, of Mark Zuckerberg doing the rounds in cyberspace was a source of some  Read more…

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25-03-12
Whose Body Is it? Deirdre Silverman

    Reproductive Technology and Ethics Until the development of reliable contraception methods in the 20th century, control of the  Read more…

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25-03-12
Discovering (Abstract) Kinokaleidographs (Through the film Propos contemporains sur la femme décousue) Pietro Ferrua

  In 1984, my good friend Maurice Lemaître, a noted French intellectual and artist who is prominent in the Letterist  Read more…

Colombia Witness for Peace 2011 083

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25-03-12
Surviving Progress – Montreal filmmakers ask documentary-question: will more be too much? Tariq Jeeroburkhan

  “Humanity’s ascent is often measured in terms of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards towards  Read more…

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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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