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James Stairs

Journalist

  • International Reporting
    • A heavy weight – treating the mental trauma of war displaced
    • A war with many fronts: Congo conflict enters a new phase
    • DRC’s murky mining trade feels pinch of global pressures
    • Rwanda cattle-herd becomes symbol of recovery after genocide
    • Kenya’s Slums Isolated Amidst Daily Violence
    • UN peacekeepers walking tightrope of chaos in DR Congo
    • Fifteen years later, political wounds still deep over French role in Rwandan genocide
    • UN’s Ban hits out at sexual abuse in DR Congo
    • Repeating the cycle: Congolese children face new draft
    • Weathering the storm – Congo refugees live day by day
    • Rebels Balk at Joining Congolese Army
  • North American Reporting
    • Canada’s Haitian immigrants battle to repatriate families
    • Prison attack halts dramatic Rwanda genocide trial
    • CIA brainwashing victims seek Canada court action
    • Cost concerns prevented bag search on doomed Air India flight
    • Former prostitutes cover Canadian serial killer trial
    • Canada declares Quebec a ‘nation’ in divisive move
    • Canada-US oil sands deal alarms environmentalists
    • Dion shocks Canadian politics with upset win
    • Quebec Student Protests, 2012
  • Magazine
    • Profile: Richard Zereik MSF
    • Profile: National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Josh Thome
    • Finding the Voice of a Nation
    • Cholera
    • Picking Up the Pieces in Haiti
    • Solo in the Hotzone
    • First on the Ground in Haiti
    • Free Diver
    • From Abu Ghraib to Anti-War: An Interrogator’s Story
  • Video
    • Video
      • Video: Free Diver (Honduras)
      • Video: Reconstructing Haiti
      • Video: From Quebec to Bolivia
  • Bio
  • Current Location and Contact Information
  • Snapshots from the Road
  • Video: An Approach to Multi-Platform Journalism
  • Production kit
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  • Montreal, Black lives Matter, 2021
  • Montreal, A woman takes a picture of a police horse during protests against a law banning religious symbols in Quebec, 2020
  • O’Connell St, riots, Dublin, Ireland
  • Montreal
  • Montreal, Black Lives Matter, 2021
  • Montreal, Black Lives Matter, 2021
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016. Protests against the impeachment trial of president Dilma Rousseff.
  • Outside Eldoret, Kenya, 2007. A child playfully brandishes a machete during the country’s post-election violence.
  • Jacmel, Haiti, 2010. A Red Cross worker surveys a house after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
  • Goma, DRC, 2009. Rwandan troops march through the North Kivu capital during the war.
  • Police guard the Metropolis theatre in Montreal after a gunman shot two theatre employees as he tried to enter and shoot Quebec premier Pauline Marois on election night 2012.
  • George Square, Glasgow, 2014. The morning after the Scottish referendum.
  • Kibati refugee camp, 2009 North Kivu DRC. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese citizens fleMontrd to refugee camps during the war.
  • A student protester tries to kick a police officer during the tuition protests the engulfed Quebec in 2011.
  • Zimbabwean opposition protests in Pretoria, South Africa, 2008.
  • Montreal student protests, 2012
  • The aftermath of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake in the Delmas 19 district of Port au Prince.
  • Kenya/Somalia border, 2010
  • Montreal student protests, 2012
  • Montreal, 2020
  • Graffiti in Bogota, Colombia, 2016.
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Haiti, 2015
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Montreal students protests, 2012
  • Cattle show, Kentucky State Fair, 2019
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Funeral of hockey icon Jean Beliveau, Montreal, 2014
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Closing show at Montreal Jazz festival, 2010
  • Montreal, 2021
  • A “Remain” supporter makes his case in Glasgow during the Scottish referendum, 2014.
  • Utila, Honduras, 2015
  • Montreal student protests 2012
  • Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2007. July 12th marks a contentious day in the Northern Irish city as protestants march through catholic enclaves.
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Montreal, 2012
  • Montreal, anti-Asian hate rally to protest narratives surrounding the Coivd 19 pandemic.
  • A woman sits in a refugee camp on the Congo Uganda border, 2010.
  • Montreal, 2012.
  • UN peacekeepers in Goma DRC, 2009.
  • Montreal, 2012.
  • Cholera tent, Northern Kenya, 2011.
  • Kenya/Somalia border, 2010
  • Montreal, 2021
  • UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon speaks with refugees
    in Goma, DRC, 2010.
  • Daredevils, Kentucky, USA, 2019
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Emerging from Covid 19 curfews in Montreal, 2022.
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Central South African township from a train window, 2009
  • Montreal, 2021
  • Montreal Old Port, 2020
  • Rwanadan soldiers in DRC, 2009
  • Shooting vigil in Montreal, 2015
  • Palestinian protests, Montreal, 2022
  • A Scottish veteran campaigns to leave the United Kingdom in George Square, Glasgow on referendum night, 2014.
  • Kibati Refugee camp, North Kivu, DRC, 2010
  • Downtown Port au Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
  • George Square, Glasgow 2014
  • Wajir, Kenya. Somali herders travel huge distances to find water amidst the ongoing drought in East Africa.
  • Goma, DRC airport, 2010. Plane carcasses line the runway of the Congolese airport.
  • Champ de Mars, Port au Prince, Haiti, 2010. The ground of the collapsed presidential palace became a refugee camp in the days following the 2010 earthquake.
  • Congolese soldiers, Rumangabo, North Kivu, DRC, 2010
  • Montreal, 2015
  • Montreal, 2011
  • A man shows his voter card after casting a ballot in the presidential elections in Cite Soleil slum in Port au Prince
    Haiti, 2011
  • Montreal, 2022
  • A Red Cross worker shows a new house to a family in
    Leogane, Haiti in 2011.
    The city was largely destroyed in the earthquake.
  • Afternoon light, La Paz, Bolivia, 2014.
  • Montreal, BLM, 2021
  • Anti-asian hate protest, Montreal, 2021
  • Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015
  • Montreal, BLM, 2021
  • Montreal, 2022
  • Zimbabwean opposition protests Robert Mugabe in Pretoria, South Africa, 2008.
  • Montreal, BLM, 2021
  • Montreal, 2020
  • Palestinian diaspora protest, Montreal, 2022
  • George Square, Glasgow, 2014
  • BLM Montreal, 2021
  • Wajir, Kenya, 2011
  • Anti-Asian hate protest, Montreal, 2022
  • The day after the Scottish referendum in Glasgow, 2014
  • A woman walks to a protest in Montreal, 2022
  • George Square in Glasgow was the public meeting place for the “Leave” campaign in the 2014 Scottish referendum.
  • Montreal, 2022
  • Montreal protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022.
  • Kids takes a break from the sun on Rapid Lake native reserve in Western Quebec.
  • Michel “Sweet Mickey” Martelly in Port au Prince, Haiti on the day of his shock election victory, 2011.
  • Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Montreal, 2022.
  • BLM, Montreal, 2021
  • A man crowd-surfs in Glasgow the night before the Scottish referendum in 2014.
  • Anti-Asian hate protest, Montreal, 2021.
  • Police clear an anti-lockdown protest on Montreal’s Mount Royal, 2022.
  • Anti-lockdown protest, Montreal, 2022
  • Palestinians protesting in Montreal, 2022.
  • After Covid-19 curfew time, Montreal, 2021. Empty streets across the city after 8pm was the rule for months.
  • BLM, Montreal, 2021
  • Rapid Lake native reserve, 2022.
  • BLM, Montreal, 2021
  • Jeanne Mance park, Montreal, 2021
  • Supporters of Bill 96, a Quebec law limiting the use of English, march in Montreal, 2022.
  • A man prepares a speech in support of Bill 96, Montreal, 2022
  • Tensions boiled over as Quebec’s language laws returned to the forefront in post-pandemic Montreal, 2022.
  • Supporters of Bill 96 march in Montreal, 2022
  • Bystanders watch Quebec nationalists walk through Montreal in 2022.
  • Pro-Bill 96 activist, Montreal, 2022.
  • Pro-Bill 96 activist, Montreal, 2022.

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