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Last year, as a Muslim Canadian family took their evening stroll during lockdown in London, Ont., a white man rammed his pickup truck into them. Four of the five family members were killed.
The incident sparked horror and outrage. But the truth is anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise in the 20 years since 9/11. Violent hate crimes continue unabated. Devastated communities have called on lawmakers to better protect them.
In today’s episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, legal scholar, Natasha Bakht from the University of Ottawa, says Canadian lawmakers have not only failed to deter anti-Muslim hate, they are making it worse — in essence, legalizing Islamophobia.
Bakht is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa and author of In Your Face: Law, Justice and Niqab wearing women in Canada. She spent the past five years researching the rise in anti-Muslim attitudes in North America.
In her book, Bakht explores the stories of niqab wearing women who have faced discriminatory laws. Join us to listen to this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient; please also explore the additional reading list in our show notes.
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All the best.
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Vinita Srivastava
Host + Producer, Don't Call Me Resilient | Senior Editor, Culture + Society
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Supporters gather to demand action against anti-Muslim hate after a white man attacked two Muslim women wearing hijabs in June 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Vaishnavi Dandekar, The Conversation
In today’s episode, we take a look at some ways lawmakers have legalized Islamophobia through niqab bans and other restrictive policies.
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A skeleton of an Allosaurus on display at Drouot auction house in Paris, in October 2020. It sold for three million euros, double the asking price.
(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Jessica M. Theodor, University of Calgary; Margaret E. Lewis, Stockton University
The sale of fossils at auction houses reflects a problematic trend of privileging profit over knowledge and education.
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Jaskirat Singh Sidhu arrives for his sentencing hearing in Melfort, Sask., in March 2019.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kayle Neis
Jessica Templem, York University, Canada
Sidhu is not being deported as punishment. He is being removed because he has been positioned as a foreigner in Canada who has lost the privilege to remain.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Fury personally greets Angelika, the first Ukrainian refugee off the plane at St. John’s, NL, on May 9, 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Greg Locke
Anthony Fong, University of Toronto; Zamir Saar, University of Toronto
The disparate treatment of Ukrainians compared with other refugees to Canada suggests to some an unfairness in our immigration process at best — and systemic racism at worst.
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The strain of H5N1 bird flu identified in Canada, the United States and Europe can cause severe disease and high mortality in domestic poultry.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Shayan Sharif, University of Guelph; Jeffrey J. Wichtel, University of Guelph
Avian influenza virus — or bird flu — can infect domestic poultry such as chickens and turkeys, as well as wild birds. The H5N1 strain has been identified in Canada.
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Entrepreneurs face many obstacles that threaten their survival, including financial insecurity and market uncertainties.
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Kyle Brykman, University of Windsor; Alex Newman, Deakin University; Julia Backmann, University College Dublin; Robert J. Pidduck, Old Dominion University; Silja Hartmann, Freie Universität Berlin
By investing in learning, believing in your capabilities and vision, harnessing failure as fuel for growth and leaning on social support, anyone can become a psychologically resilient entrepreneur.
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La Conversation Canada
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«Lire avec fiston» est un projet de littératie familiale simple et efficace qui pourrait être reproduit dans différents pays et différentes langues.
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Isabelle Carignan, Université TÉLUQ ; Annie Roy-Charland, Université de Moncton; France Beauregard, Université de Sherbrooke ; Joanie Viau, Université TÉLUQ ; Marie-Christine Beaudry, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Lire avec fiston est un projet de littératie familiale simple et efficace qui pourrait être reproduit dans différents pays et différentes langues pour développer l’envie de lire chez les garçons.
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Ukraine Invasion
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Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Meridith LaVelle, University of Georgia
Corporate pressure campaigns usually work best in partnership with local institutions. While Russia’s civic organizations are generally weak, there are some signs of growing defiance.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham; Tatyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy
Food prices are not the only issue to worry about as the world starts to feel the economic fallout from the Ukraine war.
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Arts
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Alison Garden, Queen's University Belfast
Society still tends to sideline girls, so a comedy concentrating on the lives of four young women during the Troubles remains groundbreaking TV.
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Health
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Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford; Brendan Delaney, Imperial College London; Manoj Sivan, University of Leeds
A study of more than 28,000 UK adults has found that vaccination after having COVID is linked to a decrease in long COVID symptoms.
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Politics
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Matt Williams, The Conversation
A school shooting in a small Texas town was almost as deadly as the worst such event in US history. Such shootings have increased in frequency over the last few years.
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James Densley, Metropolitan State University ; Jillian Peterson, Hamline University
Of the 13 mass school shootings that have taken place in the US, the three most deadly occurred in the last decade. Data from these attacks helped criminologists build a profile of the gunmen.
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Science + Tech
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Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Dennis Mücher, University of Guelph
Nuclear isomers are rare versions of elements with properties that mystified physicists when first discovered. Isomers are now used in medicine and astronomy, and researchers are set to discover thousands more of them.
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