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When Terror Came to Canada

The response to the FLQ crisis remains controversial five decades later

A Neglected Pledge

Moving beyond apologies

The Nobel of Numbers

How a Hamilton native played mathematical peacemaker after World War One

Bob Rae

Bob Rae was Ontario’s 21st premier and served as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Now a lawyer and distinguished professor at the University of Toronto, he wrote the 2005 report on the Air India bombing called “Lessons to Be Learned.”

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Bob Rae

A Tragedy of Our Own

The Air India bombing and how we live with the past June 2017
Over a period of many years, the deep conflict between Sikh nationalists and the Indian government had a reverberating impact on the Sikh diaspora, notably in Canada. Sikh immigration, first to British Columbia and then to many Canadian cities, predates the First World War. The hostility to the arrival of these newcomers was spread throughout the political…