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Reign of immigration raids in Southern Ontario continues

In the early morning of Wednesday, May 27, Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) agents raided Lakeside Greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario and arrested nine female migrant workers. One of the women arrested and detained is pregnant.

Sotomayor nomination: Is it about ethnicity?

Sonia Sotomayor could be the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. And as we learn more about her, the more questions centered on her ethnic background abound. Was she chosen partly because of her Hispanic origins? Does she consider race in her rulings? Are we focusing too much on her ethnicity and not enough on her judicial history?

Warning: Reading can be dangerous - Soldiers try to shutdown literature festival

The Israeli government sent in troops on May 23 to try to break up the opening of the second annual Palestine Festival of Literature in East Jerusalem.

Boom time for GTA’s ethnic enclaves

The number of ethnic neighbourhoods in Greater Toronto skyrocketed 55 per cent to 371 from 239 in the latest census, and many of these communities have expanded into suburbs, a new study has found.

Ronald T. Takaki dies at 70; pioneer in the field of ethnic studies

Ronald T. Takaki, a prolific and controversial scholar who helped pioneer the field of ethnic studies and wrote animated histories about blacks, Asians, Latinos and other marginalized Americans during four decades on the UC Berkeley faculty, has died.

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