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Belief-based care denial: Let’s change the terms of the debate
In medicine, so-called “conscientious objection” occurs when a healthcare professional refuses to provide a legal medical service based on their personal or religious beliefs. This happens mostly for...
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Canada shows it doesn’t really care about stopping genocide
The international legal order along with the human rights of Palestinians under Israeli rule and in the West are under assault by Israel and its Western cheer leaders like never before as three...
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Keep safe consumption sites open, and let the people live
Who decides how people should lead their lives? Or which lives are more important than others? In authorizing the decision to close all safe consumption sites within 200 meters of a school or daycare...
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Canada’s hypocrisy on ‘rule of law’ shows as Rohingya marks 7th Genocide...
In September 2018 Canada took leadership on the world stage when it became the first country to recognize Myanmar’s atrocities against the Rohingya minority in that country as genocide. As violence...
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Capital Pride and the commitment to solidarity
Over 5,000 people marched through Canada’s capital on Sunday chanting “Pride is a protest” – a slogan which harkens back to the origins of Pride, when in 1969 the Stonewall Uprising against police...
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How safe are the rights protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck (former Prime Minister of Prussia), people who like law and sausages should never watch either one being made. Meaning that if you stop to consider what goes into the...
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Introducing Series VII of the Courage My Friends podcast
The Courage My Friends podcast series returns for its seventh season on September 10. After yet another summer of record-breaking heat and flood, what better way to start our season than with Episode...
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Israel cannot be trusted to investigate the death of Aysenur Eygi
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shooting death of Aysenur Eygi, an American volunteer observer from Seattle, last week is drawing new Western attention to the mounting casualties in Gaza and the...
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The Edmonton police killing of Mathios Arkangelo and what Canadians can...
Protesters recently gathered for a rally outside Edmonton Police Service (EPS) headquarters to demand justice for the death of Mathios Arkangelo, who was shot and killed by an EPS officer in June. The...
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Unhealed wounds: Canadian Yazidi survivors battle trauma 10 years after the...
On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked Shingal (Sinjar), a region predominantly inhabited by the Yazidi people, resulting in the deaths of around 12,000 people and the...
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Should we subsidize billionaires helping Israeli military?
Last week a judge accepted a copyright infringement request from Indigo requiring Canadian telecommunications companies to block the website Indigo Kills Kids. The ruling came days before protests...
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Australia is cutting access to sex work services for people living with...
Australia’s leading, left of centre Liberal Party announced austerity measures recently and will be tightening the proverbial belt on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)—equivalent of...
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The meaning of October 7 one year later
The rhetoric from the Israeli government and its supporters is becoming more alarming. A familiar phrase, redolent of past persecution of the Jews, “blood libel,” was hurled against legitimately...
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Palestinian Canadians face broken trust on Gaza war anniversary
Since October 7, 2023, Nariman Ajjur has been consumed by a relentless tide of anxiety and grief for her family and homeland. Each morning, she wakes to the glow of her phone, bracing for the next...
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Canada’s response to homelessness now constitutes a crime against humanity
Last month I wrote about the dangers and jargon in our language on homelessness. I have a new take. October 8 marks 26 years since advocates declared homelessness a national disaster. The rest is...
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Toronto police audit of its body camera program raises red flags
In June 2023, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) conducted its internal annual audit of its body-worn camera (BWC) program following its full scale roll out across frontline officers in 2022. The...
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The bike lane metaphor: Navigating the path toward housing for all
Our relationship to urban space is an ever evolving dance. Our movements are shaped by ever-shifting assumptions about who belongs where, and why. There is a metaphor that has plagued me recently....
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Solidarity with Palestine: How all forms of oppression are connected
Monday, October 7, 2024 marked the one year anniversary of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in Israel-Palestine, which was followed by Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. Over the...
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Lebanese-Canadians fear Lebanon faces same fate as Gaza
When Bassel Eehor, a Lebanese-Canadian living in Toronto, watched the news of Israel’s relentless airstrikes on Palestine, his thoughts turned immediately to his family in Lebanon. Just weeks ago, his...
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Canada turns its back to Sudanese refugees
Since the Sudanese civil war erupted in April 2023, there has been no sign of an end to conflict. This month, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) doubled down on an offensive against the paramilitary...
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