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The Mubaraks - Egypt's most hated familyThe Canadian Charger
January 30, 2011
(Cairo, January 30, 2011) After 30 years of iron-fisted rule, Egyptians have come to revile President Mubarak, his wife and his two sons. Much like the family of former Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, the Mubarak family has a hand in almost every business in Egypt.
Tunisia: One of U.S.'s tyrant friends has goneThe Canadian Charger
January 20, 2011
Less than a month after a young Tunisian graduate, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire triggering a popular revolt against the 23-year rule of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the president has fled to Saudi Arabia, and commentators are speculating on which U.S.-backed tyrants may be next.
Ben Ali and his family are not welcome in CanadaThe Canadian Charger
January 20, 2011
Well-informed sources are saying that Tunisian ex-president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, his wife, his family and his wife's family are expected to head to Canada after a stay of several months in Saudi Arabia. Canadians hope that the Harper government does not welcome one of the world's most corrupt leaders. France did not grant Ben Ali's plane landing rights and asked all members of his family already there to leave the country.
The U.S. acceptance of violenceThe Canadian Charger
January 26, 2011
Five days after the shooting in Tuscon Arizona that killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Congresswoman Giffords, the CBC reported that in the four days after the shooting, 350 people died of gunshot wounds in the United States, yet this doesn't seem to be an issue, as little or no concern is being shown. Where is the moral outrage toward such senseless carnage?
Ottawa deporting Salvadorean José Figueroa The Canadian Charger
January 26, 2011
José Figueroa is currently facing deportation as a threat to national security. When he was a high school student in El Salvador he joined the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberacíon Nacional). The FMLN began as a left-wing guerilla organization opposing the military dictatorship and the death squads and their political masters in the ARENA (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista).
Israel has no right to exist, but only to coexistThe Canadian Charger
February 3, 2011
"Peace is not a process. It is a state of being. You either have it or not. The Palestinians have not had peace since 1949. They have been under siege." That is how Trevor Purvis, Carleton University professor of international law summed up the situation of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in Israel itself.
Libya: Canadians call for action nowThe Canadian Charger
February 23, 2011
(Ottawa) A delegation met opposition parties, the Liberals, NDP and BQ, to demand immediate action by the Canadian government and NGOs to save the pro-democracy revolution in Libya. The delegation included Dr. Mohamed Elmasry, Ms. Safia Aghliw, a young Libyan Canadian, Mr. Ahmad Zarrug, a Libyan Canadian businessman who has just returned from the Libyan capital Tripoli and Mrs Faizah Ghadban-Kandar, an active member of Ottawa's Arab and Muslim communities.
Asmaaa Mahfouz, a woman behind Egypt’s pro-democracy revolutionThe Canadian Charger
February 5, 2011
So much has been written about women's rights in Muslim countries, even citing this issue as a justification for the western military invasion, but the western feminist movement remains largely silent about the current pro-democracy uprising in Egypt.
Mubarak to leave "in dignity"?The Canadian Charger
February 10, 2011
What next in Egypt? The U.S. has gone back and forth, at one point saying that change must occur "yesterday", and then the tune changed. "We need to get a national consensus around the pre-conditions for the next step forward. The President must stay in office to steer those changes," said special envoy Frank Wisner.
Mubarak is out, no thanks to the U.S.The Canadian Charger
February 10, 2011
After years of lamenting the lack of democracy in the Arab world, the U.S. has met the Egyptian pro-democracy revolution with fear and trepidation. Indeed it was doing everything it can to stop it.

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Today’s topic is the Origins of Islamic History Month in Canada In this show, we are interviewing Dr. Mohamed El-Masry a professor at the University of Waterloo