Today, the shocking events that happened at the National War Memorial on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa terrified the nation. Like an electric current, the tension, the fear, […]
Category: Politics
Harper government joins war on terror
Yesterday, the Conservative government put their ‘money’ where their words were, and officially joined the new coalition of the willing. As I write Canadian fighter jets […]
Kobane is the Kurdish Thermopylae: We are all Kurds now
As I’m writing these words this morning, the situation is becoming direr for the Kurdish resistance in Kobane. So far, the resistance has bravely faced the 22 days […]
The gates of hell have opened: The hypocrisy of humanitarian intervention
We’re in the thick of it, there’s nothing else to say. All the international credibility gained out of Canada’s decision not to intervene in the […]
Stand in solidarity for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
The annual March and Vigil for Missing and Murdered Native Women will take place at Place Émilie Gamelin, this Saturday, on October 4, between 6PM […]
Ideology is dead, long live ideology!
A specter is haunting democracies throughout the world. A barely visible cloud, an entangling nebula is settling in throughout large swaths of modern political rhetoric. Many […]
Political spam: No way this can possibly work
The other day I got an email from Chrystia Freeland. At first, I thought that it must be part of a new strategy by the […]
International students have rights too
Legally speaking, I’m not Canadian. What I am, however, is a university student in Canada. I’ve made the conscious decision to leave my home country […]
Okay Mulcair, now you’re starting to impress me
To quote Katie Nelson, “When Global uses ‘unreal’ as an adjective you know it’s worth watching!” Yes, the scene in the Canadian Parliament a few days […]
Orientalism, Kurds and the never-ending war
In my latest article about Stephen Harper’s grand folly of wanting another military intervention in Iraq, I painted a very bleak picture, criticizing the third Western […]