Q&A: Nav Bains on the kirpan controversy
Liberal MP Navdeep Bains is one of the most promient Sikh politicians in Canada, instantly recognizable for his red turban. But it’s a less visible symbol of his faith—the dagger-like kirpan he wears...
View ArticleThat non-weapon sure is pointy
I am unpleasantly surprised to find Colleague Geddes sowing nonsense in the Quebec National Assembly kirpan debate—a conversation that has quite enough of it already. In his introduction to a Q&A...
View ArticleJagmeet Singh and the rise of a new brand of Sikh politics
Arshy Mann is a reporter at Xtra. “Kiddha, kive ho dosto!” It was one of the first phrases out of newly elected NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s mouth when he mounted the stage to accept the NDP leadership...
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A reader’s guide to the Air India bombing and the bloody conflict that...
Naval personnel search for bodies from Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland on June 23th, 1985 (Photo by Jean-Jacques Bernier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) The debate about NDP leader Jagmeet...
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The complex history of Sikh trauma will make or break Jagmeet Singh
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks during the federal NDP Convention in Ottawa on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. (Justin Tang/CP) Arshy Mann is a reporter at Xtra. Hours after Indira Gandhi, the prime minister...
View Article‘A sadness you can’t describe’: The high price of Quebec’s Bill 21
On June 16, after Amrit Kaur attended her graduation ceremony in Ottawa, she drove with her parents and brother back to the family home in Vaudreuil, a suburb of Montreal, and, still in her graduation...
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