Those who fought in and lived through the Second World War laid the foundation for the vibrant, inclusive country we enjoy today Too rarely do we thank our parents - or for that matter, the whole generation that included our parents. The Canadian baby boomers’ upbringing was strange alchemy: part Cold War paranoia, part [...]
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Finally, a Museum of Canadian History
on October 26th, 2012
The decision to rename the Museum of Civilization will help bind Canadians together by celebrating rather than ignoring their past
Dead Woman Pickney
on May 16th, 2011
Yvonne Shorter Brown’s Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica is not just an ordinary autobiography of a young rural ‘brown’ Jamaican girl who unendingly mourns the loss of her biological mother, the absence of whom opened her to physical, emotional and psychological abuse
Africa Underdevelopment Don’t Blame It On Diet!
on March 17th, 2010
The poverty of the diet of modern Africa’s diet can be linked to the advent of the slaver and colonialists and also our so called “cadre” or “mis-educated” elite who in my view aped the European and evolved a diet that is neither European nor African and resulting in our poor nutrition.
Historical Record: United Nations Vote on the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Unfinished Struggle: Human Rights, Memory, and Accountability” On 25 March 2025, within the chambers of the United Nations, the global community marked a defining moment in confronting one of the gravest crimes in human history: the Transatlantic slave trade. For more than four centuries, this barbaric system forcibly displaced millions of African men, women, [...]