He tells me that the government came to decontaminate his house simply by washing the walls and the roof.

        Born in Guatemala in Central America in 1950, Roberto Godoy has been living in Montréal since […]

Dheepan is a Tamil-language film directed by French director Jacques Audiard, featuring Jesuthasan Anthonythasan as Dheepan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan as his […]

Following the rhythm of the seasons suggests an ebb and flow: a life in harmony.

      Generous Inuit throat singer, Nina Segalowitz, offers Montrealers an unforgettable experience: the joy of playing – using […]

    Farida by Naïm Kattan, translated by Norman Cornett and Antonio D’Alfonso, Guernica Editions, 252 pp. Canadian novelist, essayist and critic, […]

For six days, Imraan and his fellow passengers talked about games and films, keeping themselves distracted from thoughts of their families and the war they had left behind.

  The desires for freedom, safety and self-determination move people across the globe, away from familiar landscapes and across geographic […]

    Spoiler alert: If you are a devoted believer that putting Canadian “boots on the ground” in Syria will […]

  The eyes of the taxi driver regard me in the mirror. “Why are you going out in this storm?” […]

But the Empire is wracked with growing contradictions.

Rampant globalization, senseless war, anthropogenic climate change, unbridled technological innovation and even (why not?) old-fashioned greed are the ingredients that lead to massive destabilization of human populations.

I rarely follow a preconceived plan of action

What we are seeing is a return of chaos whenever there is a unilateral decision to close borders

a woman clutching the arm of a cloud

Together, perhaps we can recover our common spaces and our interdependent communities

Here I was, a seventy-year old Canadian artist, and yet I found the garment workers in Bangladesh eager to participate and to be part of something.

The Rohingyas become a stateless population in 1982

Hu has a lithe and beautiful body which he struts throughout the film in a fluid graceful calligraphy