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  Bernie’s View: Peace; Just a concept without real action

  This past Wednesday was “International Peace Day.” It is UN inspired and celebrated each year on September 21st. According to the United Nations website, “The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.” Indeed, this year’s theme was “The Sustainable Development… Read more »

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  The Couchiching Conference: Where People Come to Disagree

  Authors: Rebecca Hagos & Phoebe Warren The Couchiching Conference aimed to tackle what Canadian identity means, bringing together a vastly diverse group to Geneva Park Conservation in Orillia, ON, giving them the opportunity to connect, discuss and learn. The weekend was filled with workshops including: “Rights & Responsibilities”; “What It Means To Be A Canadian Citizen”;… Read more »

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  Call for Workshops: 2016 Citizen Summit

   2016 Citizen Summit Refugees in the 21st Century: Who’s Responsible? Whose Responsibility? Saturday November 5, 2016 | Thomson House, McGill University |  Montréal, Québec     Call for Workshop Proposals The Mosaic Institute is pleased to announce that the call for workshop proposals for the 2016 Citizen Summit on the topic of Refugees in the 21st… Read more »

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  Bernie’s View: Walking the Walk of the Canadian Human Rights Museum

  It was to have been the very last time that a world gone mad would permit the attempted genocide of a people. For Jews it became known as the Holocaust or in Hebrew the Shoah; for the Roma, another group persecuted by the Nazis, it was called the “Porajmos” or the “Devouring.” To be sure… Read more »

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