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Rabat’s Visa for Music festival again reveals hidden jewels
The Visa for Music gathering, now in its third year in Rabat, Morocco, brings music professionals together from Africa and the Middle East with market development in mind. The event includes professional training and music production,...
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Royal visit
Bessma Momani, senior fellow, Centre for Intl Governance Innovation, on the visit of King Abdullah of Jordan to Canada
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Civil cases facing delays in Canada’s courts
Canada's courts are struggling with massive delays, due in part to a Supreme Court decision to put hard limits on how long prosecutors have to try criminal cases. The 2016 Jordan decision was about criminal cases - but it’s had real...
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UK selects Iranian horror movie as Oscar entry
Set in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, horror movie ‘Under the Shadow’ is the feature debut of Iranian director Babak Anvari. Iranian-German actress Narges Rashidi stars as a mother, who struggles with her daughter to cope with the...
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Shoeless GG plays soccer with Syrian refugees in Jordan
David Johnston takes his shoes off before kicking around the ball for a few minutes at the Zaatari refugee camp
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3-parent baby
A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a controversial technique involving DNA from three individuals
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Makeshift graveyard echoes plight of refugees at Syria-Jordan border
75,000 trapped in no-man's land between countries
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Creed stars rub shoulders with Toronto kids
Queen Alexandra Middle School gets a taste of the Hollywood spotlight with a visit from Creed's Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler
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Meet the 12-year-old Waterloo freshman
Indonesian 12-year-old will start taking economics, chemistry, and math at the University of Waterloo
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'Hillary Clinton isn't afraid to say Black Lives Matter'
Lucia McBath, whose son was fatally shot, gives impassioned speech at DNC
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Is Jordan Peterson dangerous?
Jordan Peterson is a bestselling author, YouTube star, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His strongest supporter was once U of T professor emeritus of psychology Bernard Schiff, but now Schiff says he thinks...
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Turkey misses deadline for visa-free travel in EU
Turkey has missed a deadline set by the EU to meet 72 conditions in order to get visa-free travel for its citizens. EU commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said that although there had been some progress, Turkey had failed...
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Where did Mira go?
Mira Akram Al Jawabreh went missing after her family attempted to cross to Italy from Libya in an overcrowded boat carrying hundreds of refugees. The rest of her family died in the attempt
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Restaurants in private homes
Some home cooks are turning their kitchens into a private restaurant. We look at what the sharing economy is serving up to Canadians now.
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‘Dégradé’: Black comedy offers fresh take on Middle Eastern conflict
‘Dégradé’ is a black comedy by Palestinian twin brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser. Just like its authors, the film is banned in Gaza, and was shot in neighbouring Jordan. It takes place in a beauty salon in Gaza, where thirteen women find...
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'Others knew what was happening': One woman's allegations of sexual abuse by Quebec police
Lise Jourdain says she was abused by SQ officers more than 25 years ago
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Meet the two young Jordanians running world’s largest Arabic website
The website Mawdoo3.com has had a meteoric rise, but many outside the Arabic-speaking world have not yet heard of it. Some 17.1 million people visited the site in January, according to Effective Measure, a firm that measures Internet...
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The Syrian conflict's impact on families
Five years after the conflict began, families wait for peace, as the CBC's Derek Stoffel reports from Jordan
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Syrians dare to hope after 5 years of civil war
Protests against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began on March 15, 2011, after the Arab Spring roiled Tunisia, Egypt and Libya
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David Johnston on Middle East security, refugee resettlement, and development issues
Canada's Governor General will visit Jordan, Israel and Palestine, on his 8-day trip to the region
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Canadian aid to Syria
International Development Minister Marie Claude Bibeau is getting a first-hand look at the impact Canadian aid efforts are having in the region
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‘Theeb’ a story of survival in the Jordanian desert
The first feature film by Naji Abu Nowar is an adventure film. It is a story of revenge and survival in the Jordanian desert. The action revolves around a child betrayed by his own curiosity who is suddenly plunged into the world of...
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RAW: Soldiers return to Gagetown
Watch Canadian soldiers and their families reflect on their mission to Lebanon and Jordan to help Syrian refugees
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Canada misses Syrian refugee deadline
CBC's Derek Stoffel explains why Canada has been unable to meet its goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year