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It was the craziest thing. I was just going home from rehearsal, and I was so caught up that I didn’t even notice that long after sunset the lights were out all over town. An ambulance drew up, and a […]

The view is impressive from the balcony of the Muhsen family’s apartment in Abu Dis. Hisham, a fine arts teacher at Al Quds University, gazes over the rolling hills of Jerusalem, the campus, the valley, and the 8-metre concrete wall […]

Montreal has the distinction of being the most “bombed-out” graffiti capital. “Bombing” in the graffiti world refers to the act of vandalising property with one’s signature or logo. “Bombing”-type graffiti can manifest itself in many different forms, but always happens […]

Lately, opinion writers have taken to labeling everyone who supports the Palestinians, as “Palestinians”. For instance, Canada’s changing UN votes on Israel won’t  “impede Canada’s ability to be the “honest broker” the Palestinian community wants our government to be”, wrote […]

I was born in Barquisimeto, known as the musical capital of Venezuela. As a child I discovered that my voice was my best instrument. I was brought up on my country’s folklore music. Then other songs entered my life, full […]

{Montreal Native Canadian artist and Mohawk activist, Ellen Gabriel, through her paintings and drawings, takes part in deconstructing the negative stereotypes that remain towards the first inhabitants of our land.} * * * * * * * * ”Art has […]

By Eduardo Galeano. Writer, Uruguay Translation. coorditrad@attac.org volunteer translators (*) Times of fear. The world is living in a state of terror, terror in disguise: some say it comes from Saddam Hussein, now tired of being enemy number one, or […]

Bhopal , 1984 Night shift: He separates smells with ease Dust of pesticide enfolds him like ivories Entangled in Carbide’s empire my son, the scientist, labors on Outside on famished footpath groundnut fire keeps me warm, I, the night watchman, […]

URGENCE Lorraine Simms has been painting professionally since 1991. Her work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank and the Musée du Québec. She has taught painting and drawing at Concordia University and […]

I lose people. They die in ways that are incomprehensible to me. Making their entry in an almost gentle and unsolicited way, they exit brutally, inappropriately, usually suddenly. They mark my existence and are the worlds and songs and reflections […]

[Rawi Hage is a Montreal writer. Born in Lebanon, he immigrated to Canada in 1992. His work has appeared in Mizna, a literary journal in Minneapolis, and Al-Jadid, a magazine in Los Angeles]. A call rang out over the whole […]

[Mark Kingwell is the author of several book including In Pursuit of Happiness. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, Utne Reader, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Observer, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail. The following […]

[Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at University of Ottawa] In Yugoslavia, the IMF has become the steadfast financial bureaucracy of the western military alliance, working hand in glove with NATO and the US State Department. The International Monetary Fund […]

[NOAM CHOMSKY is one of America’s most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of human rights […]

[The editorial below confines itself to the task of establishing a set of principles that will determine, in advance of individual policy, an universally just immigration policy template.] HOW TO DE-POLITICIZE IMMIGRATION “Handle with extreme care” might be the warning […]

History never confesses. “Guyana cannot be allowed to slip into a state of ethnic division or social polarization. Every leader, organization and citizen has a duty to prevent a widening of the gulf.” I recently read an account of the […]

It’s Day Forty-seven, the bombings continue and “tragic mistakes” and “regretful errors” too and ruined life hourly trickles out of Kosovo and defiant Belgrade amid the rubble keeps on saying No and “we are sorry but we’ll go on pounding” […]

I think I went looking for Julie because I was tired and hungry. It was miserable Wednesday night — dark, rainy, cold, and I had my hood pulled up, even though it dripped water down my neck. The gang had […]

Tempus Fugit Yes. It was true. There was no doubt about it. The telltale signs on the grass and leaves and asphalt were visible from her third-floor balcony. She took a big gulp of air and her nostrils confirmed what […]

Serai Sands A decade slips by A millennium approaches And we return To search for new Serais For blinded and stunned travellers… Collectors of treasure boxes… Each grain taken away, one by one Till there is just one left In […]

INVISIBLE BOMBAYS We left somewhere a life we never found, Customs and gods that are not born again… –Dereck Walcott.   You in your blue lattice houses Should not listen to streamers of my steps Maps of my arrivals and […]