A month ago, thousands of chanting voices echoed between downtown towers in the core of Canada’s largest city, with people reclaiming the…
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Since the collapse of the last round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003, Canada and the…
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Muslim community leaders decry fallout from increasingly divisive reasonable accommodation dialogue. Islamic identity in Quebec rests at the centre of the current…
A history of popular rebellions is woven into politics in the Philippines, from the 1986 "People Power Revolution" of street protests that…
Violence surrounding the Philippine elections, including multiple assassinations and targeted bombings, has raised concerns internationally. Controversy over the mid-term elections of 2007,…
MANILA–Across the Philippine archipelago, millions of voters cast ballots in the 2007 mid-term elections in May while a wave of political violence…
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