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Article content OTTAWA — The discovery of an unmarked burial site at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school has sent shock waves across the world, which experts say will have a lasting negative impact on Canada’s reputation as a leading human rights defender. William Schabas, a professor at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, said Canada likes to champion itself as a human rights supporter, but the discovery will hurt its reputation and make many people look at its activism with an amount of cynicism. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or U...

Reza Eshaghian has worked in harsh places in the past, including refugee camps. But the Vancouver doctor was shocked by the suffering he saw in northern Syria, where several Canadians, including 24 children, have been detained. Eshaghian, who works as a family and emergency room doctor in B.C., recently returned from a four-month assignment with Doctors Without Borders, where he worked as the humanitarian group’s medical team leader in al-Hol, a...

On a recent assignment with Doctors Without Borders, Reza Eshaghian said he felt like "most of what I did was witness suffering."

Canada’s blackout of Israel’s crimes against humanity Andrew Mitrovica © Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seen at a comme... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seen at a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, at the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, France, November 11, 2018 [File: Francois Mori/Reuters] Sometimes, it requires a little patience to reveal the truth. Here is the truth: Canada’s political and media establishment employs an ingrained modus operandi not only t...

Sometimes, it requires a little patience to reveal the truth. Here is the truth: Canada’s political and media establishment employs an ingrained modus operandi not only to shield their coddled confederate in the Middle East, Israel, from the censure it has so blatantly earned, but to allow powerful politicians and news organisations to lie about who and what Israel is to Canadians. Let me explain. Warning: this is going to take a while. Late last month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) became the latest independent agency to find belatedly that Israel has, for decades, wantonly and with impunity co...