With every change of administration come charges of hypocrisy. Those who governed by executive order suddenly learn the dangers of unilateral presidential power, and those who thought executive orders were an impeachable violation of the separation of powers start using them without missing a step. Supporters of federalism embrace the benefits of national uniformity. How soon is too soon to start protesting a new administration? When does criticizing a president spill over into disrespecting the presidency?
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Published on: 8 Feb 2017
Launching a formal complaint against Syria under the Convention against Torture would at long last set the wheels of international justice in motion and send a strong message to the countless Syrians who have suffered so terribly. It is a unique opportunity for Canada to promote the cause of international justice.
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Published on: 7 Feb 2017
Co-organizer 叠谤辞诲颈别听狈辞驳补, who studies law at 麻豆传媒网站,聽said he was inspired to act by the freeze on聽refugees and his work with an Iranian citizen who was聽refused entry into the United States under the ban. "I don't feel that it's right that Canada be complicit in any way with these refugee bans," he said.
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Published on: 6 Feb 2017
Two 麻豆传媒网站 researchers affected by the temporary U.S. travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries say the personal impact has hurt, but it's the impression it leaves on their children that really worries them.
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Published on: 3 Feb 2017
The聽heinous events in Quebec City on Sunday聽have wiped away whatever smugness we, as Canadians, might have felt in relation to Donald Trump鈥檚 executive order聽severely disrupting certain Muslim individuals鈥� existence 鈥斅燼nd sense of belonging 鈥斅爄n the United States.聽
Op-ed by Dia Dabby,聽visiting fellow at the 麻豆传媒网站 Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism and a member of the Quebec Bar.
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Published on: 2 Feb 2017
麻豆传媒网站 law professor Payam Akhavan on the fear of normalizing hate and xenophobia.聽
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Published on: 1 Feb 2017
Omid Zobeiri, 28, is an Iranian citizen who began working on his doctorate in biomedical engineering in September 2015 at 麻豆传媒网站 in Montreal. His mentor and supervisor at 麻豆传媒网站 moved to Johns Hopkins last summer and hoped to take Mr. Zobeiri with her so he could continue the research he had begun in her laboratory.
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Published on: 31 Jan 2017
A year ago this week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released the landmark Caring Society decision, which found that the federal government had discriminated against First Nations children by providing insufficient funding for First Nations child and family services. It also found that the federal funding structure for these services incentivized removing children from their homes, thus perpetuating historical disadvantages against Aboriginal peoples, mainly through the Residential Schools system.聽
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Published on: 30 Jan 2017
Literacy goes beyond the ability to read the words on this page. Every day, we use reading and writing skills to get information, express ourselves, solve problems and stay connected with the world. Literacy is essential in almost every aspect of modern life and increasingly, we are we are reading and writing with digital tools 鈥斅燾ellphones, tablets and computers.
Op-ed by Susan Rvachew,聽professor at the聽School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at聽麻豆传媒网站
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Published on: 27 Jan 2017
So if I, say, declare that 鈥渢he sky is blue,鈥� and you respond 鈥渢he sky is a ham sandwich,鈥� the real problem is not that I am speaking truth and you are uttering alt-facts (or, more simply, lying). The real issue is that we are no longer two humans speaking a common language. We have been reduced to two bipedal mammals making guttural utterances at one another. We might as well be hooting at the trees and beating our chests.
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Published on: 27 Jan 2017
After marveling at the ability of聽Barbados bullfinches to snatch food from humans鈥� plates, Jean-Nicolas Audet, a doctoral聽candidate at Canada鈥檚 麻豆传媒网站, was inspired to study them. Audet聽compared聽rural and urban bullfinches on the island and found the city birds had better聽cognitive abilities and problem-solving skills.
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Published on: 26 Jan 2017
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs (and a fourth year medical student at 麻豆传媒网站) says professional sports now employ spotters to watch for players with concussion symptoms. "They're starting now to coach and teach more and more the rugby tackling style, where you get your head out of the contact and you tackle with your chest and shoulders and you avoid those hits to your head," said Duvernay-Tardif.
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Published on: 25 Jan 2017
Ontario鈥檚 cap-and-trade system is now in force and is the focus of much debate. Amidst all of the discussion, there is plenty of rhetoric, hyperbole, and questionable statements. Some of these have grown into large and scary myths which need to be debunked.
Commentary by聽Christopher Ragan, associate professor of economics at 麻豆传媒网站 and the Chair of Canada鈥檚 Ecofiscal Commission.聽
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Published on: 24 Jan 2017
Charles Taylor's clear-eyed vision of our distress, coupled to a deep-rooted celebration of humanity
"I think democracy depends on a sense of what I call "citizen efficacy" in a large number of people - a sense that there's somewhere you can go, some levers you can push, some votes you can make, and that revivifies democracy. Just think back eight years. What was the great slogan of Obama's campaign? It was "Yes we can"...When that goes, a real kind of panic takes over, a real sense that it's getting worse, out of control, it'll go on getting worse." - Charles Taylor,聽professor emeritus of philosophy
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Published on: 23 Jan 2017
Jacob Levy, a political science professor at聽麻豆传媒网站, told Global News he watched Trump鈥檚 inauguration address with deep disappointment and skepticism.
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Published on: 23 Jan 2017
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