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  Canada supports one of the most expensive education systems in the world; yet four out of 10 graduates from  Read more…

This document, Kastevæsenet, was written in Danish by Johanne Nielsen, who was born in November 1873, in Fiolstraede, a district  Read more…

“Il est comme un chauffeur de taxi!” Which means he could be Black, Haitian, Iranian, incomprehensible, immigrant, shifty, or that  Read more…

There have been several exemplary articles over the last couple of months challenging and exposing a euro and ethno-centric point  Read more…

It is generally accepted that the term caste as applied in India was introduced by the Portuguese when they established  Read more…

The city, with its street grids, the space given over to cars, to stores or housing or public spaces seems,  Read more…

I. Inequality and Breakdown   In the spring of 2013 we are still living in an economic crisis of global  Read more…

A hero can do no wrong, and this idea is difficult to refute, especially if you are talking to a  Read more…

Cigarette smoke rises in small plumes, merging into the dust beam created by the projection light in a full theatre  Read more…

    Aonan Yang was born in Wo Long Quan, (Dragon Creek Village), Liao Ning Province, China. As a youngster,  Read more…

  I would like to share with you a few thoughts on my experience as someone born and brought up  Read more…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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