Apr 19, 2016 | Politics
How do we gain respect? By demanding it. It’s time to proudly wear the symbols of our Jewish ancestry again – especially on campus. I read Facebook and Canada’s two national newspapers every morning. I get acid indigestion every morning....
Apr 10, 2016 | Politics
A 21 year old aboriginal man who burned a five year old girl with cigarettes and a lighter, permanently disfiguring her face, was given a sentence of 15 months. Fifteen months is his punishment for abusing a little girl. The Judge took into account that 21 year old...
Apr 6, 2016 | Ethics
ecently met a young man who lives outside Toronto, Canada, whose family originally came from Pakistan. I was taken by a tattoo on his arm-from his shoulder to his wrist. I asked him about it and he told me that is depicts the story of his maternal grandfather’s...
Apr 6, 2016 | Politics
The World response to the Palestinians is reminiscent of the way a teacher responds to the one wicked child in the class. You know: the child who is at different times: noisy, rude, impertinent, impolite, uncivil, discourteous, disrespectful...
Apr 6, 2016 | Politics
Hajera Khaja, a Canadian Muslim woman who is now “scared of the new face of Canada,” had the opportunity to write about her fears in the National Post, a major media outlet in Canada. “Like most visible Muslims who have experienced Islamophobia,...
