http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=8&L=en Ideas Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:45:15 -0500 2010 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=381&L=en ‘Cosmopolitan study’ is that Kantian anthropology of humanity which considers ‘the human’ to exist as a complex singularity over and above proximal categorizations and identifications of nation, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, locale, and so on. Professor Nigel Rapport, Founding Director of Concordia’s Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Globalisation, Citizenship and Justice, examines the concept of cosmopolitanism for Tolerance.ca ®. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Ideas Nigel Rapport http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=68&L=en Surely the time has come for us to stop hiding from the truth. It is that, like the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish in Britain, like the Spanish, Basques and Catalans in Spain, like the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium, like the Jews and Arabs in Israel, and like the Québécois and First Nations in Canada, we English Canadians form a nation. Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0500 Ideas Charles Blattberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=63&L=en Algerian-born Albert Camus once said that his homeland was the French language:« Ma patrie, c’est la langue française ». In a certain way, we belong to a language more than we do to a country. While writing La Lente Découverte de l’étrangeté, I realized how the languages of my home-town, Alexandria, were deeply rooted in me. I discovered I belonged to the languages, idioms, idiosyncrasies, that were part of that city at a certain period in time. Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0500 Ideas Victor Teboul