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Mental health of immigrantsThe Canadian Charger
November 27, 2011
Providing mental health services to immigrants and refugees is a particular challenge because of the need to understand and deal appropriately with cultural factors different from the Western Judaeo-Christian cultures that Western psychiatry is familiar with. But that is not all. According to Dr. G. Eric Jarvis, a psychiatry professor at McGill, "The patient may be influenced by more than one culture. There is the culture from before immigration as well as the culture which he is more or less integrating into in his new home."
Mental Health Policy for NewcomersReuel S. Amdur
November 27, 2011
According to Farah Mawani, international studies have shown that immigrants and refugees have higher rates of mental health problems, and the problems may increase over time. She is a Ph.D. student at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and was speaking at St. Paul University in Ottawa at the "Cultural Diversity & Mental Illness" conference of Healthcare Canada on November 18. She recently completed a contract with the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Mental health problems of today's youthReuel S. Amdur
November 27, 2015
The Royal Ottawa Hospital, in conjunction with the Ottawa-Carleton District Board of Education and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), held a public educational program at Ottawa's Robert Borden High School on September 30. Children's mental health was the topic.
Mental health, no one wants to discuss Reuel S. Amdur
October 7, 2009
Welcome home, Jeffrey Arenburg. U.S. federal court judge Richard Aracara ordered his deportation back to Canada after he served time in an American prison for punching a U.S. customs officer in the mouth at the Buffalo border post in November, 2007.
Mental health: The parental roleReuel S. Amdur
October 22, 2015
Parents have a major role in promoting their children’s mental health. That is what Dr. Hazen Gandy, head of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) recently told an audience in Ottawa.
Merchants of death come to OttawaReuel S. Amdur
June 9, 2010
The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) hosted CANSEC at Ottawa's Lansdown Park on June 2 and 3.
Mexican rights violations hurt Canada Reuel S. Amdur
May 8, 2015
Mexico is the go-to place for car manufacturers. Volkswagen, BMW, Nissan, Mercedes. Even General Motors, after Canadian taxpayers footed the bill of billions on the bailout. The Harper government sold our shares in GM recently, at a loss of billions, to help Finance Minister Joe Oliver supposedly balance the budget.
Middle East: What peace process?The Canadian Charger
May 16, 2011
The Cairo's unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah has caused consternation in the Israeli government. It was already upset by the announcement that Egypt would open its border with Gaza, thus ending Gaza's isolation and Israel's ability to control what products and who can enter and leave.
Migrant workers in Ontario are terribly vulnerable Luisa D’Amato
February 15, 2012
The police say "driver error" was to blame for that horrible crash near Hampstead this week that killed a vanload of agricultural migrant workers from Peru.
Miliband, Aboul Gheit and Galloway Yvonne Ridley
January 27, 2010
I am beginning to wonder what is the point of David Miliband - a question I've no doubt Gordon Brown posed just a few days ago following the failed coup to have him ousted.

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