Tag: immigrants

• Is there a plague on both our houses?

  We take a lot for granted in Canada, don’t we? Or is it just me? I mean, I know there is poverty, food insecurity and discrimination for some here, as well as many of the other things that plague the rest of the world, but it still seems to be a pretty nice place… Well,…

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  July 27, 2022

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  Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, Canada, expectation shock, Ginny Lane, Hassan Vatanparast, immigrant children, immigrants, obesity, refugee children, refugees, sedentary lifestyle, The Conversation, University of Saskatchewan, Western diet

• Anarchy loosed upon the world

  It was a warm and sunny afternoon -a wonderful day to find a park bench and read my book. I had the perfect place in mind, too: a lonely meadow surrounded by trees overlooking the ocean just outside the city. I could divide my face between book and breeze, birds singing in the trees, and…

  gozzter

  June 5, 2019

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  civility, democracy, headscarf, hijab, immigrants, Jürgen Habermas, prejudice, public sphere, Steven Klein, University of FLorida