By Dawinder Sidhu
Who counts as “us” and who counts as “them” has shifted throughout modern American history. For decades, African-Americans were “them,” judged to be members of an inferior race and denied basic rights. In …

By Alexander Bolton
A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.
Democratic leaders have proposed requiring …

If you don’t have the opportunity to read the Federal Court ruling (which is really worth reading), you might be interested by this summary analysis prepared by Matthew Behrens.
The link to the actual …

From The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A hunger-striker accused of terrorist links has once again been ordered freed from prison under strict conditions.
In a decision released Monday, Federal Court Justice Edmond Blanchard said Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub …

By Sharry Aiken, Catherine Dauvergne, Donald Galloway, and Audrey Macklin
The human rights of refugees in Canada are under siege. The immigration minister is moving towards new legislation regarding refugees. His recent actions suggest this will …

By Tim Naumetz
OTTAWA – A Federal Court judge will soon be tasked with answering a question that most likely hasn’t come up in a Canadian courtroom before: what is a spy?
The question is key …

By Bill Curry
Ottawa — The number of refugees gaining asylum in Canada has dropped dramatically under the Conservatives as new figures reveal the impact of the government’s efforts to transform this country’s immigration system.
New statistics …

From Times Higher Education, May 7 2009
Ann Singleton, Steve Tombs and David Whyte decry the insidious way in which academics are being used to monitor foreign students and staff
We are among the growing number of …

From CBC NEWS
Dutch politician Geert Wilders is planning a sequel to his controversial anti-Islam film Fitna, to be released in 2010.
In an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf published on Thursday, Wilders revealed some of …

• Anti-war MP banned on grounds of national security
• ‘This idiotic ban shames Canada,’ says Galloway
Deborah Summers and agencies
Anti-war MP George Galloway has been banned from Canada, it emerged today.
A Canadian spokesman confirmed that the …

March 01, 2009
By Justin Podur
On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate” regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of …

By Faisal Kutty
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 19, 2006
“Our children did not enlist to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity,” said Cindy Sheehan, the prominent American anti-war activist who toured Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa during the first week …

By Faisal Kutty – Five years of legal wrangling and eighteen months of asylum in the basement of a Toronto church finally paid off last week for a Palestinian family seeking legal status in Canada.
Seventy-one-year-old …

By Faisal Kutty — Members of a stateless Palestinian family, denied a stay of deportation from Canada, have taken sanctuary in a Toronto church. Immigration Minister Lucienne Robillard refused a last-minute request from the …