<description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.maharaj.org/blog.shtml" title="Akaash's Blog"&gt; &lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/maharajblog.png" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;A live-audio conversation with Canada's federal leaders against antisemitism and islamophobia, Irwin Cotler and Amira Elghawaby&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Canada's Leaders Against Antisemitism and Islamophobia

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.maharaj.org/publications.shtml" title="Akaash's Published Articles"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/maharajblog.png" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Whoever coined the adage "Never meet your heroes" could not have met Archbishop Desmond Tutu.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Globe and Mail: Desmond Tutu, Truth, and Reconciliation

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.maharaj.org/advisories.shtml" title="Akaash's Media Advisories"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/maharajblog.png" alt="Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The hard reality is that Canadian horses and horsepeople suffer when our voice goes unheard in the corridors of power.  The Guelph Equine Public Policy Group will ensure that Canada's governments understand how they can - and why they must - serve the equine community public interest.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Advisory: Launch of the Guelph Equine Public Policy Group

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.maharaj.org/television.shtml" title="Akaash's TV Broadcasts"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/maharajblog.png" alt="Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/akaash-maharaj-practical-idealism/id120442564" title="Akaash's iTunes Podcast &amp; Videocast"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/itunesbadge.gif" alt="Akaash Maharaj - iTunes" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The courts have ruled that the Ontario SPCA's police powers are unconstitutional. What is the future for animal welfare enforcement in Canada's largest province? Who can or will protect creatures who can not cry out for mercy?&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Who can or will enforce anti-cruelty laws now?

The court ruling that police powers must be subject to public accountability is a victory for democracy, but the devil will lurk in the details of the government response.

TVO's The Agenda: Animal Welfare at a Crossroads - Videocast

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.maharaj.org/blog/2018_12_20.shtml" title="Akaash's Blog"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/maharajblog.png" alt="Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/akaash-maharaj-practical-idealism/id120442564" title="Akaash's iTunes Podcast &amp; Videocast"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.maharaj.org/images/itunesbadge.gif" alt="Akaash Maharaj - iTunes" width="80" height="15" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All of us can wield a power that those who would divide us will never know: an ability to make common cause out of our common humanity and our common dignity, and a determination to join hands across the divisions that beset the human condition, to create a better world in the image of the better angels of our natures.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

My inaugural address as CEO of the Mosaic Institute

I emphasised that while the arc of history may bend towards justice, there is nothing inevitable about progress. Societies can and do regress, as well as progress.

The Arc of History - Podcast

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