Tariq Ramadan Urges France to Unite PARIS – Criticizing the anti-Islam rhetoric played by presidential aspirants to win votes, prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan has urged French politicians to work to unite their country. “Instead of talking about halal meat, the burka, national identity and dividing France, you should unite it,” Ramadan told a [...]

The United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned last week’s missile test by North Korea on Monday and warned it will take stronger action if there are more launches or nuclear tests. The council also instructed the standing sanctions committee on North Korea to consider adding new companies and individuals to its blacklist, along with a [...]

Montreal police are investigating after bags of bricks were thrown onto the tracks and emergency brakes were pulled in several metro stations this morning. The disruption caused service to be halted on three metro lines at the start of rush hour. Trains started up again about 30 minutes later. Montreal transit corporation spokeswoman Isabelle Tremblay [...]

  It will be more than a year before B.C. residents go to the polls in a provincial election, but Premier Christy Clark is already electioneering. In a speech Monday to a crowd of about 800 sponsored by the Urban Development Institute, Clark appealed to those “who care about a future for free enterprise,” to [...]

Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record – presented with minimal gloss – of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military. Photographed by several Palestinian cameramen both during and after the offensive, this powerful film by director Vibeke Løkkeberg focuses on the [...]