Photographer Tatiana Gomez takes a look back at the Reasonable Accommodation Commission's visit to Montreal (2007-12-13)

Decried as a freak show and farce, praised as a healthy and needed debate, the Reasonable Accommodation Commission hasn’t failed to stir up emotion among both its supporters and detractors. As the commission heads into its home-stretch in Montreal, scrutiny of the controversial hearings continues. (2007-11-27)

It’s 2:00 am in the Deheisha refugee camp outside Bethlehem and I hear a large, loud bang. Camp residents – most of whom are either refugees from the 1948 war or their descendents – say the Israeli army enters Deheisha anywhere between three and seven days a week... (2007-11-09)

On Oct. 13th, Montreal poet and musician Valerie Khayat is launching her first album, Resonance in blue. Siafu met up with 24-year-old Khayat at Café Shaika in NDG, where she has been carrying out an internship with the NDG community council. (2007-09-27)

Shortly after being sworn in to a high-profile cabinet position as Minister of Employment Social Solidarity, Sam Hamad found himself with his foot in his mouth, quoted across Quebec media saying that "Welfare recipients who aren’t on disability payments are not interested in going to work now," and that "they have everything; dental care, medications, daycare…" (2007-09-07)

A retired US Army officer makes an outlandish attempt to redraw borders in a volatile region. Frighteningly, there may be a method to his madness. (2007-08-29)

Progressives all over the planet have beef with the United States. But critics often overlook the country's large and diverse progressive community. (2007-08-24)

Although it might be tempting to be tanning on the Lachine canal shore, most of us need to work over the summer. Taking a part-time or seasonal job, you can expose yourself to cracks in labour standards. (2007-15-08)

Pesticide-limits are barriers to trade that must be eliminated. Integrated border security measures to secure our safety against terrorists. Closed door meetings between the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the US, advised only by panel of 30 top chief executive officers from each country. (2007-08-09)

Halifax may be the largest city in the Maritimes, but it's hardly a metropolis; home to Dalhousie University, and with a population of just 119,000 people, it feels more like a sleepy college town than a provincial capital. In the early afternoon on June 15, though, about 350 people gathered in a downtown park to wake the city up. (2007-08-08)