links for 2008-04-23
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“The festival, a celebration of Caribbean culture considered the biggest of its kind in North America, drew some 1.2 million revellers last year, and there are hopes for even larger crowds with the new events, organizers said yesterday as they unveiled th
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“About 60 corrections officers, maintenance and office personnel held a demonstration yesterday at the Toronto West Detention Centre in support of a colleague whom they say has been shown the door because of racism.”
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“An influential Chinese-Canadian blogger on Olympic protests, media bias and how Tibet has become a fantasy land for Westerners.”
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“Humanitarian aid, not weapons – that’s where money raised by Tamil immigrants in Quebec goes, the Sri Lankan-born owner of the community’s Montreal cultural centre said yesterday.”
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‘One of my favourite lines from the film is “the colonizers sure taught us well because the same system they used to divide and conquer our peoples, we are using against each other” and this is in reference to the whole Indian card status and band reg
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“in countries such as France and Spain, people are choosing to adopt healthy, white children from abroad rather than children in their own country who are mainly from ethnic minorities.”
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“two sticking points: a preoccupation with how race and racism is dealt with in the US (rather than focusing on the specificities of the Canadian context) and promoting the myth of a non-racist, multikulti Canadian society.”
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