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How Do Global Norms Bear on Reconciliation with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?
- Analysis
- June 3, 2015
This week, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Justice Murray Sinclair, released its preliminary findings from a five-year inquiry into the terrible era of residential schools for Aboriginal children in Canada. These findings, and the surrounding public discussion, touched on a wide range of topics: the abuses inflicted on children in those schools, their
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At Any Cost: The Injustice of the ‘4 and 4’ Rule in Canada
- Analysis
- June 1, 2015
By Stephanie J. Silverman Published on openDemocracy, May 29, 2015 Tens of thousands of law-abiding foreign workers residing in Canada became deportable last April. This sudden vulnerability to deportation resulted from the Parliamentary passage of a small legislative change called the “cumulative duration rule”, known colloquially as the “4 in, 4 out” or the “4
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Counterterrorism: Is it Working?
- Analysis
- May 28, 2015
Published in the Globe and Mail, May 25, 2015 The Islamic State terrorist group now commands the greatest army of foreign mercenaries in modern history. Current estimates of its size range from 20,000 foreign fighters to a Central Intelligence Agency figure of 31,000. This army of fighters is essential to IS’s battlefield power, at least
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Why ISIL Both Destroys and Exploits the Middle East’s Antiquities
- Analysis
- May 27, 2015
On May 20, forces of ISIL (the terrorist organization Islamic State in Iraq and in the Levant, also known as IS or ISIS) managed to take control of the Syrian city of Palmyra. The city, which has a population of 50,000, is of importance for its strategic position near gas fields and roads that cross
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