Category: Communities

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?’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

By John J. Hanan Keith Searson hasn’t left his room, other than to use the washroom or kitchen, for days. He often falls asleep in his clothes, with bloodshot eyes and smokey breath. However, Searson, 27, isn’t hooked on heroin, or any other illegal substance, but to online video games. Searson says he’s played the […]