Canada's Leaders Against Antisemitism and Islamophobia
A live-audio conversation with Canada's federal leaders against antisemitism and islamophobia, Irwin Cotler and Amira Elghawaby
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Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism
Akaash Maharaj's projects, articles, broadcasts, and blog serving the public good and advancing the national interest. On politics, public policy, liberalism, foreign affairs, and equestrian...
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20 of 27 episodesGlobe and Mail: Desmond Tutu, Truth, and Reconciliation
Whoever coined the adage "Never meet your heroes" could not have met Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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Advisory: Launch of the Guelph Equine Public Policy Group
The hard reality is that Canadian horses and horsepeople suffer when our voice goes unheard in the corridors of power. The Guelph Equine Pub...
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TVO's The Agenda: Animal Welfare at a Crossroads - Videocast
The courts have ruled that the Ontario SPCA's police powers are unconstitutional. What is the future for animal welfare enforcement in Canad...
The Arc of History - Podcast
All of us can wield a power that those who would divide us will never know: an ability to make common cause out of our common humanity and o...
Addressing the United Nations - Podcast
Addressing the United Nations was one of the more intimidating experiences of my life. I spoke on behalf of GOPAC's global alliance of parli...
Akaash Maharaj - News: Corruption Declared a Crime Against Humanity
Reuters reports on our efforts at the United Nations: There are some forms of corruption so grave, whose effects on human life, human rights...
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TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism - Videocast
There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person w...
TVO's The Agenda: Forgiving the Unforgivable - Videocast
Our capacity to do violence to one another is the worst tragedy of the human condition, but it makes our still greater capacity to forgive o...
TVO's The Agenda: The Raj, the Reich, and the Good Fight - Videocast
Gandhi and Bose were brothers in the hunger for justice, and both had followers who were willing to die for freedom rather than live as slav...
TVO's The Agenda: A Meritocracy Worth Fighting For - Videocast
Throughout our history, Canada has grown through the toil of generations of Canadians who were inspired by the belief that our country is fr...
TVO's The Agenda: Resistance is Not Futile - Videocast
In any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws... but there...
TVO's The Agenda: Hope for the Holidays - Videocast
We will be able to hold our heads high before the judgement of history if we can reply that in our season, we held on to hope, we put aside...
TVO's The Agenda: To Lead or to Serve - Videocast
Over the past quarter century, political parties have too often lurched away from being mass movements of individual Canadians sharing a com...
TVO's The Agenda: Liberalism of Conviction and of Convenience - Videocast
The 20th century began as the age of the dictator. It ended with liberalism having come of age as the ascendant political philosophy across...
TVO's The Agenda: Faith in Secularism - Videocast
Speaking on TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I make the case that separation of church and state is as much in the interests of the...
TVO's The Agenda: The Arab Spring - Videocast
In my broadcast essay for TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that despite our sometimes chequered history in the region, West...
TVO's The Agenda: Truth, Casualties, and War - Videocast
Videocast of my televised essay for TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on Canada's role in Afghanistan: Our ability to successfully c...
TVO's The Agenda: An Injection of Moralism - Videocast
In this, my second broadcast essay for TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that the efforts by the federal government to place...
TVO's The Agenda: The Rights of Vulgar Little Cowards - Videocast
In this, my maiden broadcast essay for TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that freedom of expression is too fundamental a rig...