Palestinians have just commemorated Nakba, the day most of Palestine was annexed and the majority of Palestinians were displaced from their homeland 74 years ago. This comes on the heels of the murder of a prominent senior journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, who reported on the truth of the strife Palestinians…

It was 4:55 a.m. on Unit 2A in Fraser Regional Correctional Centre (FRCC) where the immigration detainees were held. All was quiet and everyone was asleep except for detainee Bobak, who spent the better part of the night throwing up because of a stomach illness. At 5:00 a.m., …

A maximum security prison is not a place for anyone to experience, let alone someone with disabilities and over immigration matters. But there he was, standing confused at the entrance of the immigration unit at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre. He had a friendly smile on his face, but I could…

The Chiaris* are young couple from Austria that came to live in British Columbia around early 2017, with the hope of beginning a fresh chapter in their lives and starting a family in the picturesque Okanagan Valley. Michael worked in the film production industry and wanted to continue his career…

Canada is a country that was built by immigrants with a majority of the population made up of people who left everything behind to find a better life on the other side of the pond. …

People gathered on the streets protesting discrimination by a regime that has violated every human right you could conjure in your mind. They held signs to stop government actions towards some of those who were in the protesting crowd. These actions would send people to prisons, where many before had…

We had just entered the jail’s exercise yard and the metal door slammed behind us. I always wished to spend my time in the yard alone and away from others, so I headed to the far end to start walking in a straight line bisecting the yard. Everyone else walked…

She said to me with a smile, “Having something to read is better than nothing at all.” We were gathered at a coffee shop on a sunny fall day in a rural town in British Columbia. …