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  • What a Donald Trump presidency means for the Middle East

    Beirut, Lebanon – It’s 7:30 am and the American election results are becoming undeniably clear. I’m caught between stunned disbelief and paralyzing panic as I...
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  • It’s a kangaroo court for Mohamed Fahmy

    CAIRO - When Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird landed in Cairo last week, Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy had been in Egypt's infamous Tora Prison for...
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  • Trouble in strikeland

    MONTREAL - Student unrest may have triggered Premier Jean Charest's fall election call, but that doesn't mean the activists who led it agree on how...
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  • Quebec protests search for strategy

    Montreal - With the collapse of negotiations between the Charest government and student leaders last week, and the persistence of the nightly pots and pans...
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  • The many influences of the Montreal protests

    Montreal - Sitting in the living room of a friend's Mile End apartment just shy of 8:00pm of Thursday, I am called into the street...
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  • Quebec takes liberties with Bill 78

    MONTREAL - North America's longest-running student strike marked its 100th day this week amidst a legislated crackdown, putting Canada on the map as a global...
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  • Quebec’s Maple Spring

    Montreal - As 180,000 students continue their 12-week strike against tuition increases, and police respond with concussion grenades, pepper spray, batons, kettling and mass arrests,...
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  • G20 Civil wrongs

    When public safety minister Vic Toews introduced his new anti-terrorism strategy last month, many were stunned to discover the feds were targeting groups - enviro,...
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  • Flotilla finale

    The saga of the activists on the Canadian boat to Gaza headed into its final chapter on Tuesday, July 19, when one of the boat's...
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  • Raid on the Tahrir

    Aboard the Tahrir, Agios Nikolaos, Crete - Activists aboard the Canadian boat bound for Gaza spent weeks readying themselves for the drama that unfolded July...
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  • Gaza-bound or not?

    The Canadian ship, The Tahrir, attempting to reach international waters on route to Gaza, has been intercepted by Greek coast guards and is being taken...
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  • Israel’s Greek blockade

    CRETE, ST NICHOLAS - It appears that Israel's blockade of Gaza has been extended to Greece, as the Greek coastguard is moving decisively to block...
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  • The audacity of Alice Walker

    ATHENS - I first meet Pulitzer Prize winning author and civil rights activist Alice Walker in the Athens port while touring the American boat participating...
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  • Greece to Gaza

    ATHENS -Tension is building here as a possible showdown between the flotilla and the Greek government looms.Already facing massive social upheaval over cross-the-board austerity cuts,...
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  • The Gaza cruise

    ATHENS-"Oh my god Jesse, you've got to come, it's a Mediterranean cruise to Gaza," filmmaker and social justice activist John Greyson said to me, tongue...
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