Tag: terrorism
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Lawyer warns of systemic racism fuelling the security state
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN While some Canadians may find the niqab an infringement on Canadian culture, legal scholar and activist Azeezah Kanji sees the recent election debate as one of the latest examples of a deeply entrenched system of institutionalized racism. Two weeks ago, University of Toronto’s Hart House hosted its annual Hancock Lecture, given by…
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If Harper wants to end terrorism, he should stop participating in it
EDITORIAL BY JAKE HRIBLJAN Terror. What images come to mind at the sound of that word? September 11th, George W. Bush’s declaration of the “War on Terror”, al-Qaida, the Islamic State: these images pour in before the last “r” can be uttered. Politicians, both Canadian and American, bombard us with warnings of terrorists in the Middle…