David McCandless, a visual data journalist, provides the breakdown of soldier casualties in Afghanistan in The Guardian. Canadians have suffered a disproportionately high number. In fact more than any other NATO party, or even the…
Howard Wasserman asks, Can students enjoy exams just a little bit and is there ahything we can do to help? Or is an exam always an uncomfortable medical procedure and any effort to make it…
Olivia Ward of the Toronto Star says that history will judge the architects of the “War on Terror.” As the second decade of a broken century limps into view, some in the United States and…
Over 13Â years ago Jeru Da Damaja warned wannabe gangsters in Wrath of the Math, I never knew hustlers, confessed in stereo. Or on video, get caught you’ll know who turned State’s Evidence, murder weapon,…
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Earlier today Iran began large-scale war games to simulate a response to attacks on its nuclear sites. But these games are hardly for fun, as the country intends to showcase its capability of defending against…
special contribution by Faraz Siddiqui Toronto, Oct 28th: In what seems to be a rising fad, a Canadian Muslim organization has asked the federal government to ban woollen socks from public spaces. According to a…
Chris Hedges is the author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, released this summer. He wrote the book before the economic meltdown, but foreshadowed some of the challenges…
Prof. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University, a third-generation Israeli who suffered severe war wounds resulting in physical disabilities, has come out with a strange proposition. The only way that Israel can save itself from what…
Reproduced with permission of the author Please accept my personal thanks for your recent public statement condemning the inexcusable treatment of fellow Canadian, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, by Canadian embassy staff in Nairobi, Kenya. The extremely…
Infamous Muhammad Cartoons are decidedly not worth the fuss of re-publication according to dozens of experts consulted by Yale University and Yale University Press. As reported by New York Times columnist Patricia Cohen: So Yale…
