What happened on the way to Washington Canada

What happened on the way to Washington

January 30th, 20090 It seemed like a great idea. Tyrone Edwards, who heads up the Remix Project, a Toronto arts and culture organization, organized a trip to the inauguration in Washington....
Israeli decries house demolitions Canada

Israeli decries house demolitions

January 24th, 20090 Jeff Halper is co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. He has researched and...
Killing of insurgent described Canada

Killing of insurgent described

January 17th, 20090 A court martial in Canada heard on January 6 the basics of the government's case against Captain Robert Semrau. He is charged with killing a wounded Taliban in Helmand...
Canada

Ontario Union: Bar Israeli teachers

University employees in the Ontario Branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are calling for a ban on Israeli teachers in Ontario universities in reaction...
Canada

Interrogator appears on CBC

Damien Corsetti, a former U.S. military intelligence investigator who acted as an interrogator at Bagram in Afghanistan and at Abu Graib in Iraq, was interviewed...
Canada

Khadir wins seat in Quebec

Who said Canadian politics are dull? Canada’s current political crisis began when the Conservative minority government presented an economic update to Parliament. The...
Canada

Al Haq lawyers tour in Canada

The National Council on Canada-Arab Relations is sponsoring a Canadian tour by two lawyers with Al Haq, a Ramallah-based human rights organization that monitors and...
Canada

Mosque and synagogue together

When Sheykh Zahir Bacchus of Lote Tree Foundation in Brampton (a city near Toronto) and Rabbi Yossi Sapirman of Beth Torah in Toronto met at a seminar on serving the...
Canada

Conservatives try to keep the lid on

The Conservative government is going to court to prevent the Military Police Complaints Commission from holding hearings on allegations that Canada ordered its soldiers...
Canada

Said, Halloween treat, not a trick

The late Edward Said said that the West has an imagined, false picture of the East, which he called Orientalism. Halloween weekend was the occasion for a...
Canada

Another Canadian held abroad

Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal has been sitting in an Ethiopian jail for two years, having been arrested while fleeing Somalia during the fighting in that country....
Canada

Islamic Congress loses again

On October 10, the British Columbia Human Rights Commission handed down a decision dismissing charges brought by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) against Maclean's...
Canada

Arabs among candidates for parliament

While they are not likely to win a seat in the current Canadian federal election campaign, there are two Arabs and a man of Hindu background running for office in the...
Canada

Dubai company investigated

Dubai's state-owned Nakheel Corporation, now a 20% owner of Canada's Cirque du Soleil, is currently being shaken by allegations of corruption.  Such allegations...
Canada

Deserter gets reprieve

Jeremy Hinzman was due to be deported back to the United States on September 23, but a last minute court decision has given him more time.  Hinzman, who deserted...
Canada

Victim of U.S. torture freed

Javed Yazamy gives the lie to Condoleezza Rice's most famous pronouncement: "We don't do torture."  He had broken ribs, acquired at Bagram.  His crime was that...
Canada

Catering to Israel

James Petras.  The Power of Israel in the United States.  Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2006. This book is something of a mixed bag.  There are many...
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