Speaking on Governor’s Island, misty-eyed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised a decision to allow an Islamic center to be built near Ground Zero.
Bloomberg choked up during his delivery, which highlighted the spirit of religious …

The raging controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” is quintessentially American: free of facts and logic and unapologetically exploitative of emotional issues in the tradition of bare-knuckled partisan politics; yet also an occasion for responsible …

The United Nations has characterized the destruction caused by the floods in Pakistan as greater than the damage from the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Yet nearly …

June 30, 2010
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From YFile
Criminal lawyer and civil rights activist Marlys Edwardh (York University, LL.B ’74), known for her work with the wrongly accused, told future lawyers Friday that the greatest challenge of their era will arise from …

By Faisal Kutty
The long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 is finally out today.
Confirming what many security experts have believed …

By Sheila Pratt
EDMONTON — Defence lawyers went to federal court in Edmonton Tuesday to try to force a review of the government’s refusal to repatriate Omar Khadr, the Canadian accused of killing an American soldier …

Editorial from The Globe and Mail
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who is subject to a United Nations blacklist that would do Franz Kafka proud. He is a free man living in a …

By Rebecca English
Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ’spiritual principles’ in order to save the environment.
In a high-profile speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world …

By Hajara Kutty
Does postpartum depression cause mothers to kill? It’s a question some may ask following the triple stabbings last week by a Winnipeg mother said to have been suffering from postpartum depression.
Fortunately, the answer …

By Tom Godfrey
TORONTO – Hard-core protesters who plan to wreak havoc at the G20 summit will sneak into Canada from the U.S. through remote border crossings, police say.
The protesters likely won’t be boarding …

By Gerald Caplan
Are you old-fashioned? Do you still believe in gender equality? Do you intend to promote gender equality? Do you believe a woman should be able to have an abortion if she …

By Paul Koring
A constitutional challenge contends the Canadian government can’t strip a citizen of his rights, seize his assets and make it a crime to employ him just because the UN Security …

By John Mackie
Though Islamic finance has made significant headway in Europe and the U.S., it remains in relative infancy in Canada.
In one notable development though, in late December, Toronto-based company Ansar Financial and Development …