honour killings

How an old family photo could derail Hamed Shafia’s last-ditch appeal

‘Charitably put, the evidence of guilt was overwhelming,’ reads an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling

From the archives: Michael Friscolanti’s longread tells the whole story of the Shafia “honour killings”

The roots of a tortured clan

I am out of Ottawa for a few days and mostly without proper Internet access so I missed the Contretemps Trudeau and don’t now have time now to sufficiently sort through the ensuing panic and scorn. Here though is Justin Trudeau’s Twitter feed. Make of it what you will.

Twenty years before Aqsa Parvez defied her family, I did the same to mine. Why did only one of us survive?

In the middle of an article that notes, in part, the superfluousness of changing the Criminal Code to cover “honour killings,” this explanation for Rona Ambrose’s comments.

Rona Ambrose misspeaks.