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…
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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About 1,700 Canadian volunteers fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, and more than 400 of them died. Many more were wounded and scarred. Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by Michael Petrou, is only the second scholarly account of who these men were, why they…