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Truck and Trolley

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26-06-10
Living in Traffic Maria Worton

  I have a relationship to traffic, similar to the kind of relationship a goldfish has to the water in  Read more…

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25-06-10
The rural West Island: Montreal’s lost patrimony George Vassiadis

  Exactly two decades ago I left the West Island to come and live in the United Kingdom.  Like many  Read more…

Sodi Sambo

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31-03-10
Sodi Sambo: The Woman Who Cannot Be Forgotten Priyanka Borpujari

  Why would one state government spend sleepless nights trying to provide maximum security to someone whose mere existence is  Read more…

George Sand at 60 years old

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31-03-10
George Sand : une femme remarquable / A remarkable woman Irène Johnson

English version below. An extract from the documentary George Sand: The Story of Her Life produced by CNDP 2004, Montreal (Quebec)  Read more…

Mirella4

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31-03-10
Doting daughters. You haven’t come a long way, baby! Mirella Bontempo

  After years of denouncing Mother Country’s contempt for its emigrants stuck in the 1950s, I am airing the dirty  Read more…

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30-03-10
My First Time with Salman Rushdie Sana Saeed

  Amongst the most memorable names  that I heard as a child, growing up in a South Asian Muslim household,  Read more…

Bedtime Reading by Susan Dubrofsky

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01-12-09
Because it opens your Heart Maya Khankhoje

                    Literature has always been important, is still important and will continue to be important for as long as human  Read more…

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01-12-09
“Learning my ABCs” Durga Chew-Bose

  Often inflated and possibly misleading, the titles I chose for my college Lit essays were always picked last and  Read more…

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01-12-09
Proverbs writ large Anna Fuerstenberg

The novel encourages – a form of storytelling that promotes our sense of being individual, but never forgetting the bond  Read more…

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26-09-09
Homelessness – A Matter Of Choice Bernard Miller

  If homelessness of an individual or family is a tragedy, homelessness of millions of people must multiply that tragedy  Read more…

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26-09-09
The Walks, the Pavements, the Categories and the Statistics Rana Bose

  Twenty five years ago a man strolled by me on Viger Street in Montreal. I figured he was a  Read more…

sorry

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24-06-09
Art IS democracy Rana Bose

Art is Democracy ! Acknowledgements: 1)The Design of Dissent, Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic, Rockport Publishers Inc. www.rockpub.com 2)Paper, Paper  Read more…

Cartoon by Susan Dubrofsky

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30-03-09
What’s happening in Sharbot Lake, Ontario? Susan Dubrofsky

 

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30-03-09
Shifting Discourse on Gaza Sana Khawaja Saeed

A cosmic motherly-sounding voice has always told me that even the darkest of clouds have silver linings. The past two  Read more…

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30-03-09
Podcast: Dimitri Roussopoulos on the Military, Environment and Democracy! Dimitri Roussopoulos

  All militarization has environmental consequences.  All of which have little to do with democracy. The other day, Montreal economist,  Read more…

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30-03-09
Toward a New Urban Movement Dimitri Roussopoulos

  In the rush of city life, it is exceptional for a large gathering of people to get together to  Read more…

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02-01-09
Worker Rights Stan Gray

Rights are won through popular struggles. But once enacted into law, they have to be enforced.  Governments are usually reluctant  Read more…

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02-01-09
The International Recognition of Indigenous Rights Warren Allmand

[Adapted from an article by Warren Allmand in publication "Ideas, Interests & Issues, by George Maclean and Brenda O'Neill 2008  Read more…

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02-01-09
Making a Killing Aziz Choudry

Hired Guns, Big Bucks, No Rules

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03-07-08
1968 / 2008 – Redoing Hope Paula Friedman

“We would sing in the ululating voice of the women of Algiers”

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03-07-08
The 60′s, When Sex Held the World Together John Molto Fretz

“…the British managed the so-called sexual revolution with an ingratiating ease and sophistication.”

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01-01-08
Québec mon Pays Susan Dubrofsky

There were twelve of us in three cars driving from Montreal to Baie St-Paul and I was the only English-speaking  Read more…

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01-01-08
“Real Work” Ashoke Dasgupta

“The immigrant story is, however, not always a happy one….”

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01-01-08
Road to Fair Representation: A Look at the Politics of Transition in Nepal Dr. Pramod Dhakal

“The people of Nepal never stop surprising the world…”
cartello1

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02-06-07
Italophobia: more of a generalized malady – part 2 Mirella Bontempo

Part 1 is contained in Volume 20 No. 1 – ed Only until recently, the fabled term Italophobia emerged and  Read more…

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01-06-07
Everybody is talking green, but what does this mean? Dimitri Roussopoulos

The auditorium of St. James United Church on Ste.Catherine Street was packed with an eager crowd of over 300 persons.  Read more…

fall

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01-06-07
A big story in a small place Patrick Barnard

I – A Public Place Like A Painting We are all acutely aware that our world is both a big  Read more…

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01-03-07
We need to end Montreal’s attacks on activists Scott Weinstein

March 14, 2007, Montreal   Jaggi Singh, taken from the Montreal Mirror Jaggi Singh, a well-known Montreal-based social justice activist,  Read more…

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01-03-07
The U.N. spins its mission in Haiti Darren Ell

  Port-au-Prince, March 2nd, 2007: seeing the arrival of journalists, MINUSTAH troops take leave of a group of angry Cité  Read more…

dstel

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01-03-07
Italophobia: more of a generalized malady Mirella Bontempo

Part 1 – Given the size of this article it will be published in 2 pieces. Part 1 in Vol  Read more…

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