A huge portion of Prince George owes its name to a man whose legacy is being reexamined in the wake of 215 bodies believed to belong to students of a residential school he once ran. Content warning: Rape, abuse, child death Note: A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide […]
The lives lost on flight PS752 is a national tragedy, but also many local ones.
This should not be up for debate.
“This era of western politics will be remembered for the widespread realization that many many things we thought were inviolable rules were just niceties from which we figured no one would ever deviate.”
Adjusting to the new normal.
It’s not a place, it’s a state of mind.
An interesting thing about climate change is that even though there’s lots data showing it’s causing extreme weather events, climate scientists are hesitant to attribute specific examples to climate change. Which brings me to the Canadian justice system.
He was no angel.
This is the Canada I grew up in: Across the street from my house there was a forest that I could (although wasn’t supposed to) walk through to get to my school, where I had kind teachers who looked out for my well being. I had friends of different backgrounds and origins and we bonded […]
For all the talk of Canada as a northern country it is actually a country primarily of people in large cities, the rest of us are outliers. And we are declining. What does that mean?
I first read this piece by Denise Balkisoon on what it means to be Canadian when it came out over a month ago, and I’ve come back to it multiple times.
Melissa Martin investigates the Manitoban accent and its roots in Indigenous languages and waves of settlers: “Manitobans don’t think about this much. Our accents aren’t famous or a point of civic pride. Unlike English speakers in New Yawk or Bawwston, we don’t often see our ways of speaking presented in pop culture media. “So we […]
An excellent piece of reporting by Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn in the New York Times following the experience of well-meaning Canadians and their Syrian sponsors as they move away from helping their charges through everything towards, hopefully, self-sufficiency. As expected, it’s complicated. “She and the other sponsors asked themselves: How could this be happening, […]
Is valuing diversity controversial?
They appeal to a nostalgia for a version of each country that was stronger, more respected, treated its people better. It’s a promise that things were better, once, and after this vote, they will be again- regardless of whether any of that is true.
Ad nauseam
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