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Part Two: Post-Modern Sounds of Anti-Semitism

Diane Weber Bederman | Posted 06.09.2013 | Canada
Diane Weber Bederman

This is the sound of anti-semitism. It knows no boundaries. The sound travels through time, crosses generations, gender, religion, race, culture, ethn...

Are Woman Orators as Powerful as Men?

Shannon Skinner | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Living
Shannon Skinner

As I continue to hone my public speaking skills, my speaker coach recently asked me a simple question: who do you consider the greatest orators? I rattled off a number of them, such as the obvious J.F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King. Then I realized my list comprised entirely of men. So, I had to do more digging.

Watching the Watchdog: Obama Has a Dream

Tim Knight | Posted 03.24.2013 | Canada
Tim Knight

Tim Knight writes the regular media column, Watching the Watchdog, for HuffPost Canada. Two hundred and thirty-seven years ago the people of the Unit...

WATCH: Tory MP's MLK Quote In Gun Speech In Poor Taste?

The Huffington Post Canada | Michael Bolen | Posted 04.05.2012 | Canada Politics

The Tories are celebrating the end of the long-gun registry on Thursday (though not in Quebec), but one MP's speech on the issue is raising questions ...

Quick Study: How To Get Involved As A Family

The Huffington Post Canada | Arti Patel | Posted 01.16.2012 | Canada Living

Quick Study [kwik stuhd-ee]: The Huffington Post Canada's tips to make your life a little sweeter, five minutes at a time. Think of it as a cheatsheet...

Sorry, Dr. King Did Not Consider You An Enlightened Anti-Zionist. Deal With It.

Douglas Anthony Cooper | Posted 01.17.2012 | Canada
Douglas Anthony Cooper

It is painful to be called an anti-Semite by a deceased saint. Yet the dead speak, even when we wish they'd keep their thoughts to themselves. There is a tremendous effort to deny that Martin Luther King ever said these words: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism." Unfortunately, he did.

"Who Gassed You Today, Dad?" One Man's Memory of Street Protests

Raymond Heard | Posted 12.04.2011 | Canada
Raymond Heard

The essential difference between Occupy Wall Street and street protests a generation ago is that the latter were for human rights and peace, whereas the motive of the former is mainly economic. Given that history can repeat itself as farce and tragedy, here are some recollections of the high points of the American protests.

Is President Obama a Sellout?

Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 07.30.2011 | Canada
Amarnath Amarasingam

Princeton professor Cornel West's full-frontal assault on Obama is deeply unfair and disturbing. Such statements drip with condescension and signal that accusations of Obama not being "black enough" may resurface during 2012.