Why is it so hard to have a conversation about asylum seekers?
23 April 2024

Check out Toula's conversation on Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel about why it is so hard to have a conversation about asylum seekers. Listen here

Seeking Asylum: Building a Shareable World

Toula Drimonis

March 2024

$21.95 | ISBN: 9781773901527

 

The author of the 2022 bestseller We, the Others, Toula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist, writer and news producer. A former news director for TC Media, she has reported and written on politics, social justice, and women's issues for national and international publications. She has worked in television, radio, and print in all three of her languages, and has appeared on TV as both panelist and contributor to English and French-language current-affairs and cultural news shows.

[Photo: John Kenney]

 

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