While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Shree Paradkar.
Imagine pulling off hate as a fundraising stunt. Yet it seems that’s what Rebel “News” did this week after a truck it owns drove around the Greater Toronto Area, flashing blatant and disturbing Islamophobic messages and tapping white supremacist fears of a “Muslim takeover.” “Muslim takeover” is in scare quotes because it’s a conspiracy theory innocent of all evidence...
If there is one word to describe Ottawa’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza, it surely is: waffle. The Trudeau government’s politics of appeasement, rather than those of principle, have made its reactions to developments in the Middle East inauthentic to all sides of a divided populace. They have also thrown into doubt Canada’s commitment to an international human rights...
When Arizona’s Supreme Court reinstated an abortion ban this week, it yanked a cord that connected its decision to a law birthed in white supremacy and xenophobia. No surprise then that the topic of abortion rights is re-emerging when both those ideologies are making a resurgence. Now, as in the past, such laws disproportionately harm Black and Indigenous communities as...
On Wednesday, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper was in Jerusalem, shaking hands with the butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to his tweet, Harper witnessed "an Israel scarred by the unprovoked horrors of Oct. 7, but also united in its determination to end the threat of Hamas once and for all." "Unprovoked." "Ending the threat of...
I long believed that change was necessary and possible in the journalism industry, which operates frequently on constant deadlines and rushed decisions, emphasizes "going with your gut" and provides little time to interrogate assumptions and prejudices. Its very processes made it an effective litmus test for society; I believed if journalists could learn to pause at critical push-comes-to-shove moments, anyone...
It's a well-known and sad truth that a non-white person in position of seniority, particularly a Black person, is too often treated as being only as good as their first mistake — whether it be real or perceived, serious or trifling. Not for them the luxuries of institutional support, second chances or "failing up." Their perceived utility — of bolstering...
Freedom and rights. Life and death. As Israel leaves Gaza in blood-soaked dust and imperils the right to life there, the freedom to denounce it is becoming increasingly repressed in Canada. Under these circumstances, it’s not surprising that several Ontario doctors who are facing repercussions for supporting Palestinian rights were nervous speaking to me. Some said they feared reprisals, others...
I’ve been sick for a few days. Now I’m sick at heart. Sick in body and spirit. Like many in Canada, I’ve spent a sleepless night that’s reverberating with the sound of a clock a world away. Tick-tock, tick-tock. More than a million people given 24 hours to get out, or else.