Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.

Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

Talking With: Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an outspoken Turkish author, columnist, speaker and academic. Her writing blends East and West, feminism and tradition, and the local and the global, creating one of today's most unique voices in literature. Shafak spoke from London with VOA's Dilshad Aliyarli about art and politics in Turkey, the power of literature, the need for tolerance and coexistence, and the responsibilities of writers in society. The following are excerpts from their conversation. Dilshad...

Read complete article

~	Al Ahly and Esperance highlight the dominance of North Africa in club football. Lessons for other African teams

~	Sri Lanka: Fifteen years after the end of war, victims still await justice at Mullivaikkal

~	South African communities vs Shell: high court victories show that cultural beliefs and practices count in climate cases

~	Why the New Yorker blocked UK website readers from its Lucy Letby story – an expert explains

~	How a British military march became the distinctive sound of American graduations

~	UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to reveal fate of the disappeared

~	World Should Rally to Halt Unfolding Atrocities in Darfur

~	It’s a mistake to dismiss Bridgerton as fluffy period drama

~	How newborn chicks are helping to settle a centuries-old debate about cognition and our senses

~	Extreme heatwaves in south and south-east Asia are a sign of things to come