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What is trauma?Reuel S. Amdur
October 8, 2013
On September 18, there was a horrific accident in Ottawa, involving a bus and a train, with injury and loss of life. In quick response to this event, the Royal Ottawa Hospital held a public information session a week later, to inform survivors, families and friends, and the general public about how to cope with such traumatic events. Psychologists Luis Oliver and Michele Boivin presented the information.
UN looking at Canada's Aboriginal conditionsReuel S. Amdur
October 22, 2013
James Anaya, UN special rapporteur on the rights of Aboriginal people, recently completed a nine-day visit to Canada.
A Book Review: I Am Malala Reuel S. Amdur
October 22, 2013
I Am Malala, By Malala Yousafzai, Little, Brown & Co., 2013.
Ottawa acts to contain GangsReuel S. Amdur
November 5, 2013
In a public reporting session on October 21, Crime Prevention Ottawa outlined the community's cooperative response to the problem of gang activity in Ottawa.
What is Harper Trading Away?Reuel S. Amdur
November 29, 2013
Stephen Harper recently described the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) as "the biggest deal in our country's history." That is a claim rather difficult to substantiate, considering that many of the provisions of the agreement are unknown. According to Nadia Alexan, not only the general public but even members of Parliament and provincial governments are being kept in the dark. "Only the corporations are involved in the discussions," she charged.
A Giant has fallenReuel S. Amdur
December 8, 2013
Following Nelson Mandela's death we are being deluged by hagiography. Indeed there is much to praise, but better we should try to understand his role in history. To begin, it is clear that the festering sore of apartheid could not survive indefinitely, with a privileged white minority astride a much larger subjected black minority and growing international isolation. The seething unrest threw up Mandela as the leader and spokesman for the unrest, but had it not been Mandela it would have been others. In that sense, he was not indispensible. The anthropologist Leslie White, writing in the American Sociological Review back in 1947, expressed the matter eloquently.
SchizophreniaReuel S. Amdur
December 8, 2013
In the popular mind, there is often a misidentification of schizophrenia with dissociative identity disorder, known to the general public as multiple personality. These are two quite distinct conditions. Let me illustrate from my own experiences. First, schizophrenia.
Alternatives to Post Office cutReuel S. Amdur
January 29, 2014
Be careful what you wish for. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) urged Canada to turn the Post Office into a crown corporation, at arm's length from the government. Well, a crown corporation is what they and all of us got, beginning in 1981. Big mistake.
Harper takes the Circus to IsraelReuel S. Amdur
January 29, 2014
The first thing to note about Stephen Harper's trip to Israel is the make-up of the entourage: who was included and who not. And, incidentally, who is paying?
The Affordable Housing CrunchReuel S. Amdur
February 18, 2014
On February 3, Carleton University held a public forum on the issue of affordable housing, featuring Carleton University professors Ian Lee and Benjamin Gianni, as well as Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto's Chief Planner, and Brock Carlton, CEO of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

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In the second instalment of Women of the Resistance, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Palestinian-Canadian artist, Rehab Nazzal.