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‘Lamartine rejects the red flag in front of the town hall,’ a painting by Henri Félix Philippoteaux (1815–1884), captures a seminal moment in the second French Revolution in Paris in 1848, when revolutionaries demanded human and civil rights. (Les Musées de la ville de Paris)

November 16, 2022

Note to Québec’s premier: French is the language of human rights, not xenophobia

Rayyan Dabbous, University of Toronto

French has historically been a language of human rights. That’s why the Québec government should promote it as a tool of a human rights-based civic education, not force it on newcomers.

IRCC should rethink how to protect our chosen families and value the interdependence inherent to couples as much as the independence cherished in friendship. (Joshua Sazon/Unsplash)

August 18, 2022

Canadian immigration: We sponsor spouses — why not friends?

Rayyan Dabbous, University of Toronto

Canada’s immigration system should accept our chosen families and unconventional forms of love, such as friends with deep bonds.

Chopin’s grave, Paris. Wikimedia Commons

May 10, 2021

If I could go anywhere: searching for music in the places where Chopin lived and died

Scott Davie, Australian National University

As a concert pianist, Scott Davie has been searching for the spirit of Chopin since his teens. It’s taken him to Paris and Majorca and channeled tantalising notes through time.

August 1, 2019

The original Love Island: how George Sand and Fryderyk Chopin put Mallorca on the romance map

Natalia Nowakowska, University of Oxford

180 years before Love Island, Chopin and Sands travelled to Mallorca to pursue their romance.

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