Can Karen Stintz bring us new rapid transit? Let’s hope so
To anyone who has ever sat in Toronto gridlock at rush hour, ready to kill the driver in front of them or hurl themselves out the window of their overcrowded bus, it’s pretty obvious that we need more rapid transit as soon as possible in this...
‘Israeli apartheid’ is a slur that does no one any good
Campuses around the world are beginning to witness a series of annual events known as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), and it’s a particularly depressing time of the year to be a progressive Jew. That’s because when you call Israel an apartheid regime, as many on the...
This guy has tenure at Columbia
Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, had this to say on Al Jazeera’s website on Oct. 27, 2011. It’s a deconstruction, of sorts, of recent speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the...
White elephant in Winnipeg?
Martin Knelman wrote this fawning piece that appeared in the Toronto Star about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, now under construction in Winnipeg. This $300-million-plus facility is being built with money from three levels of government and private fundraising, which is being led by Gail Asper,...