Canadian Ethnic Media Association

By Robert Fisk

(Republished courtesy of The Independent)

This has been a good week to be in Canada or an awful week, depending on your point of view to understand just how irretrievably biased and potentially racist the Canadian press has become.

For, after the arrest of 17 Canadian Muslims on terrorism charges, the Toronto Globe and Mail and, to a slightly lesser extent, the National Post, have indulged in an orgy of finger-pointing that must reduce the chances of any fair trial and, at the same time, sow fear in the hearts of the countrys more than 700,000 Muslims.

In fact, if I were a Canadian Muslim right now, Id already be checking the airline timetables for a flight out of town. Or is that the purpose of this press campaign? (more…)

CEMA President Ben Viccari’s Address at the Asian Heritage Month celebrations organized at the University of Torontos Hart House by the Korean-Canadian Literary Forum-21.

Im ambling through Little Italy and pause at the Balfour bookstore on College St where I look through the one dollar bin outside. Serendipity takes over. Heres Cyril Connollys anthology from his literary magazine Horizon published between 1939 and 1944 and heres a poem Ive been trying to find a very long time.

Its by Alan Lewis, the young Welsh soldier-poet who died in an accident in Burma in 1944 and it was written three years earlier while he was still in England. It begins:

All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors

Have sprawled in our bell tents, moody and dull as boors… (more…)

David Zimmer, MPP for Willowdale and parliamentary assistant to Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant had obviously spent a great deal of time organizing his address to CEMA members on June 1.

With clarity, he walked members through the intricacies of the new Human Rights Code Amendment Act recently introduced by the McGuinty government. (more…)