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Palestine

Arnie is back again, Antonio portrays his director and Adolf does comedy (huh)?

Also an Israeli-Palestinian comedy, a superb movie about Vancouver, a standard biopic about an anti-slavery activist in the US and an English king’s story that Shakespeare already told us

Captain America Takes on Robert Redford; Donald Rumsfeld doesn’t give an inch and Jason Priestley makes a movie

Comic book fantasy mixes with real-world politics at the movies this week.

Pacific Permaculture's Jesse Lemieux speaks at The Hive about sustainable agriculture

Canada's foremost authority on permaculture comes to speak in Vancouver about fighting climate change and conflict through sustainable agriculture.

CODEPINK’s Rae Abileah discusses next steps at World Peace Forum

Rae Abileah, a leading member of the women-led activist group CODEPINK, addressed war-related social and economic issues at this weekend's World Peace Forum.

Peace in the holy land

Tapping into the power of federalism to bring peace to the holy land

Canada's new foreign minister hazy on history of Israeli Palestinian conflict

OTTAWA -- John Baird is acknowledging he's got some homework to do on the Conservative government's signature foreign policy in the Middle East. Baird, named foreign affairs minister by Prime...

No Harper Netanyahu G8 talks: spokesman says amid glowing Israeli reports

Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not discuss the G8 summit with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, a Harper spokesman says. The statement by Dimitri Soudas, Harper's communications director...

Netanyahu appeals for Harper to go to bat for Israel at G8: reports say

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper to prevent G8 leaders from expressing support for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, an Israeli newspaper reported...

Mission in Afghanistan is "doomed" and a "waste," says George Galloway

A capacity crowd of over 1000 people filled St. Andrew's-Wesley church last night as former British M.P George Galloway berated the Canadian government for barring his entry into Canada and...