By Zi-Ann Lum- The Huffington Post Canada Sun News columnist Ezra Levant used Remembrance Day to eviscerate an Ontario school board over a memo about students’ attendance of Remembrance Day ceremonies. Levant accused the school board of allowing Muslim students to be exempt from Tuesday’s services, referring to a memo issued by the Greater Essex County District School Board in southwestern …
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The Age of TV Jokers: Arab Media on the Brink
By Ramzy Baroud As I was finalizing my research for this article, I found myself browsing through a heap of hilarious videos by mostly Egyptian TV show hosts Tawfiq Okasha and Amr Adeeb. In one of his numerous videos on youtube, Okasha, the star and host of the Cairo-based privately funded al-Faraeen channel, tries to explain the differences between the …
أكمل القراءة »Canada: The land of jobless immigrants
By Fatima Syed Welcome to Canada. We lied about the opportunities. That is the realistic undertone to the new immigration policy announcement by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander on October 31, 2014, which declared that Canada aims to welcome as many as 285,000 new permanent residents next year. The last time Canada admitted as many as 280,000 permanent residents …
أكمل القراءة »Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar and Canada
By Tyler Durden – The Global Research The march of global de-dollarization continues. In the last few days, China has signed direct currency agreements with Canada becoming North America’s first offshore RMB hub, which CBC reports analysts suggest “could double maybe even triple the level of Canadian trade between Canada and China,” impacting the need for Dollars.But that is not the week’s biggest …
أكمل القراءة »Islamic State releases audio of “caliph” Baghdadi refuting death rumors
Extremist group Islamic State (IS) on Thursday released a defiant audio clip of Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after air strikes sparked rumors that he was killed or wounded. In the 17-minute clip, a man implied to be the IS leader vowed that the group will continue to expand in the region despite the international aerial campaign, and that it will …
أكمل القراءة »QS World University Rankings reveal no universities from Arab or Muslim nations among top 100
British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published it annual list of QS World University Rankings, with no university from an Arab or Muslim country unsurprisingly making it to the top 100 universities in the world. The QS rankings are one of the three most widely observed and influential international university rankings, alongside the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the …
أكمل القراءة »Canadian universities do well in QS rankings
British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published it annual list of QS World University Rankings, which saw 24 Canadian Universities find a place among the top 700 universities in the world. The QS rankings are one of the three most widely observed and influential international university rankings, alongside the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education World …
أكمل القراءة »Syrian veteran opposition member jailed after being detained at border
Syrian authorities on Thursday jailed veteran dissident Louay Hussein, arrested a day before as he tried to visit his family abroad, his lawyer said. The 54-year-old was detained at the Lebanese border, from where he planned to travel to Spain, his movement Building the Syrian State said on Wednesday. A judge later accused him of “weakening national sentiments” and spreading …
أكمل القراءة »Report warns of “new level of hopelessness” for Syrian refugees
A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee released on Wednesday suggested that the plight of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war has reached “a new level of hopelessness” as overstretched neighboring countries make it a lot more difficult to escape and developed nations like the US only resettle a small number of refugees. According …
أكمل القراءة »Gulf nations to meet informally ahead of annual summit
Arab leaders from Gulf countries may hold a special meeting to agree on differences among themselves ahead of an annual summit in Qatar in December. Kuwaiti daily Al-Anbaa reported that consultations are underway for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders to gather informally before the summit at Doha on December 9th-10th. The gathering will go ahead as scheduled after a “special …
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