Monsef was in a parliamentary session via video conference when she — her microphone very much on — began musing about how much she makes General wisdom says the silly, soft ministry of status of ...

The MP’s birthplace does not matter. Her mother made a brave choice, sparing her daughters from a brutal and ruthless past After all the headlines, the chat show uproars, the demands for Maryam Monsef ...

Monsef’s ’math is hard’ moment is an odd position for a cabinet minister in a proud science-friendly, evidence-based party to be taking Monsef has since walked back some of her remarks, saying that ...

Maryam Monsef was born in Iran, not Afghanistan as she once claimed. Most Canadians have now heard about this story, and most fall into two broad categories. Either they are sympathetic to Monsef’s ...

Maryam Monsef is Canada's first Afghan Member of Parliament. Of that there can be no doubt. The MP from Peterborough, Ont., and Minister of Democratic Institutions came to Canada from Afghanistan in ...

OTTAWA — Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef has a problem with confusion. She seems afflicted by it. She was confused as to where she was born. Was it Iran or was it Afghanistan? At the ...

Marie Bountrogianni is dean of the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University and a former Ontario cabinet minister Canadians deserve a referendum on electoral reform – but ...

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Federal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef says she has experienced “a range of emotions” since discovering earlier this week that she was not born in Afghanistan, as she has always believed, but in Iran.

When the Globe and Mail published a story last week that said federal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef was born in Iran, and not Afghanistan as originally thought, the reaction was mixed. Some observers ...

It’s International Women’s Day (March 8, 2018), and Maryam Monsef, minister of status of women in Canada, wants Canadians to celebrate the day by sharing what feminism means to you (#MyFeminism). For ...