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Communities Features

Painted faces, renewed hope

By Rachel Hahn A short and burly black woman wearing a bright orange head scarf and a matching dress applies calamine lotion to my face. I don’t have a rash. She’s using the lotion to create circles and dots, similar to the ones on her own face, so that everyone will know I am celebrating […]

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No dreams of justice

By Robyn Doolittle It’s 4 a.m. and Richmond Bugyet-Twum is wide-awake. For the past year, he hasn’t been able to sleep past this hour — the time the police called to say his son Jerry had been shot and killed. In a desperate quest for a full night’s sleep, Richmond returned to his native Ghana […]

Communities Features

Bringing the message home

By Ayah Mckhail A Palestinian woman is crouched down, pressed against the wall of her cinderblock home in the Balata refugee camp on the outskits of Nablus. Outside, the azure sky billows with smoke from heavy machine gun fire. Its unmistakable stench wafts through her home. The woman doesn’t dare look outside. She’s done it […]

Communities Features

Hush baby, mommy’s studying

February 4, 2004

By Samantha Israel Pep Philpott, 43, is in his first year of Ryerson’s post-graduate journalism program and if he wants to keep up with the rest of the class, he must rise before the sun. Philpott starts his day at 4:30 a.m. every weekday morning, and by 5:00 he’s ready to begin his school work. […]

The disappearing skyline

January 28, 2004

By John Qubti HONG KONG –Last Halloween I stood in line at Toronto’s Pearson airport, staring at an Asian boy wearing a bright red Pokémon outfit. We were waiting to board our flight to Hong Kong. I did a double take when my boarding pass said the flight was 22 hours from Toronto and only […]

This beauty’s appeal is universal

January 14, 2004

By Katia Livshiz Natalie Glebova never dreamed of becoming a beauty queen. Growing up in her native Russia, the fourth-year ITM student was too busy playing piano, practicing gymnastics and getting ready for a career modelling in magazines and catalogues. When she saw the Miss Universe pageant on television last year, she though ‘why not?’ […]

The other occupied territories

January 7, 2004

By Jordan Health-Rawlings When students emerged from the Olive Baker Lounge after a presentation on violations of Palestinian human rights by Israel last December, they walked right into the far of pro-Israeli activism. “Do you want this in your neighbourhood?” asked a poster featuring an Arab man dressed in the traditional Palestinian head scarf with […]

The bitter taste of fear and hate

November 26, 2003

By Fatima Nafm Shereen Al Tamimi dreads the end-of-day bell at the North York Islamic school where her mother teaches Arabic. Outside the school, she knows the car will be parked, its passengers waiting patiently to harass the school teachers. Sometimes they stare silently, sometimes they call out ‘terrorist,’ and once one of the cars […]

Film recalls Rwandan horror

November 5, 2003

Through the lens of love explores hope in the aftermath of horror

Raising the African dead

November 5, 2003

How the rest of the civilised world sat back as Tutsi Rwandans walked into the Hutu slaughterhouse...

First comes love, then marriage … maybe

Jennifer Allen examines how South Asians are maintaining traditional marriage practices in the modern Western world

When Irish eyes are filled with hops and barley

John J. Hanan manages to get to the bottom of St. Patrick’s Day without sipping any green beer.

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