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By Wesley Wark   The white-hot urgency which once attended the issue of creating a foreign interference registry (sometimes impolitely referred to as a “foreign agent” registry) seems to have vanished from political and media agendas. That may not be a bad thing. Complex issues are rarely well solved by such insistent drumbeats. Creating a […]

By Tylor Anderson   On Nov 15, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, Minister Mary Ng stated that the resumption of trade talks with India hinges on their cooperation in investigating the killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. The incident, occurring on June 18 in a Sikh temple

Please click here to sign the statement.    In the face of the urgent risk of losing the only two Chinese community social service centres in Québec, the Chinese Family Services of Greater Montreal and the Centre Sino-Québec, the undersigned organizations are proud to participate in the Coalition to Save Chinese Québec Institutions (Coalition pour

The results are proof that voters “see through the scapegoating,” said EunSook Lee, director of the National AAPI Power Fund. By Kimmy Yam   A demonstrator holds a sign during an AAPI Rally Against Hate in New York City on March 21, 2021. Amir Hamja / Bloomberg via Getty Images   A new poll released on Wednesday

The study also found different generations respond to anti-Asian racism differently. By Vanessa Balintec Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Pak-Kei Wong couldn’t always tell when he was the victim of racism. He often questioned if he was a victim of bad luck or circumstance. Anti-Asian racism was hard to discern, he said, let alone prove.

We must hold our governments accountable for their role in the housing crisis instead of laying the blame at the feet of hard-working new Canadians.  by Hans Jain   As a first-generation Canadian and a purpose-built rental housing developer, I am worried that the housing crisis may cause an increase in xenophobia. Recent polling shows

    Overall, while acknowledging that he had seen only a sliver of some of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities, he said he saw “a real United States” with “warm-hearted and passionate people” – a contrast to the negative images he and his classmates often see in the media.   A group of Tsinghua University

  Speech to The Canada Committee 100 Society The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo Independent Senator for British Columbia    Good afternoon. I have been asked to speak on “blind spots” in Canadian foreign policy and that is what I will do. Every country has blind spots in its approach to international issues because of a

Cold War effect could slow the economy and weaken dialogue on crucial issues.  by Don Pittis Canadian domestic politics have helped magnify the most recent dispute between Beijing and Ottawa into a full blown tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats. While some experts who track relations between China and Canada play the spat down — one called

It is an easy strategy to transfer blame onto other nations when your own failures are so evident. Meanwhile, we stumble in the dark with unverified data leaked by the responsible Canadian agencies, seeking to transfer their own failures far from our shores.  by Gar Pardy   OTTAWA—The Canadian ship of state is leaking again,