Donald Wright teaches at the University of New Brunswick and is the author of Canada: A Very Short Introduction. Fifty years ago today, on Oct. 8, 1971, Canada became the first country in the world to ...

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While the latest event was run by the Blue Jays, the idea for it was originally co-conceived by Ethnicity Matters, the ...

I have news for non-Canadians. Multiculturalism is alive and well – in Canada. It could be better, but it is alive. Both multi and cultural are here – we are in the streets, in the neighbourhoods, in ...

Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard celebrates with the Larry O'Brien Trophy after defeating the Golden State Warriors in game six of the 2019 National Basketball Association Finals at Oracle Arena ...

The world appreciates Canadian multiculturalism, despite all its problems, as a successful model of embracing diversity. Those looking from the outside ask why multiculturalism works so well in Canada ...

In 1988, Canada officially became a multicultural country. “Did Canada culturally commit suicide?” a Catholic writer now wonders. "Let's not be surprised: for some years Canadian elites have dreamed ...

Here's also a country, locked into the same self-portrait, that blinks in we're-good-guys bewilderment to think that savaging gentle, tolerant Canada was the idea driving these Muslim extremists from ...

As the European Union is struggling to deal with the migrant crisis (hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean), German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on record as saying “you can’t all come,” ...

The world is burning with the fires of illiberal populism. The flames take on different shapes in different nations. There is Trump’s lurid xenophobia in America, Brexit in Britain, a right-wing ...