Toward a World that Works for Everyone
This is an example of the type of revelations we’re going to be hearing about soon. One of the Killam-sponsored awards is the Canada Council Grant. I’d be walking into a conflict of interest if I didn’t declare that I received one in around 1982 to study Sociology at UBC. I feel sick to hear […]
Rather than follow a lead that seems to be taking our reportage, prior to the election, into more and more extremes, I’d like to explore a different direction. That direction is into laying the foundations for Nova Earth. I’ve never done such a thing so every mile will be in uncharted waters. Somehow we have […]
Cathy Buckle, Letters from Zimbabwe, July 10th, 2020 http://cathybuckle.co.zw/zimbabwes-clock-ticking-towards-immense-crisis Dear Family and Friends, On these late winter mornings you don’t have to listen hard to hear Zimbabwe’s clock ticking towards an immense crisis. Civil servants at ground level: teachers, nurses, security personnel, clerical and office workers are barely surviving, earning a basic salary now worth […]
Two stories on Canada’s troubled history with racism and harassment. Racism goes back centuries. (1) Canada’s history with Indigenous people is cruel and unfair, but we need to own up to it Indigenous people have been damaged by generations of oppression, but we have not been broken Kerry Benjoe, CBC, July 1, 2020 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/point-of-view-kerry-benjoe-racism-george-floyd-canada-indigenous-1.5632918) On […]
By Colin Dwyer, NPR, June 30th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/30/885178095/belgian-king-conveys-deepest-regrets-for-brutal-colonial-past-in-congo The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” for a colonization […]
I had a conversation with a friend which, at one point, led to a discussion of lightworkers’ susceptibility to memes. I’d like to import some of that discussion here. Nothing bad. In my opinion, we lightworkers are as susceptible to disinformation and misinformation at every level as anyone else. We rely on our sources and, […]
Steve: It’s amazing to read something from even last year blowing the whistle on our lack of social bondedness and to compare it with our situation now. The deep state’s drive to divide and conquer us has resulted in a pandemic and lockdowns around the world. Broach this scenario a year ago and no one […]
In the 20th century, the U.S. and Canada carried out a quiet genocide against Indigenous women through coerced sterilization. In 2019, it’s still happening. By Ankita Rao, September 9, 2019 httpss://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9keaev/indigenous-women-in-canada-are-still-being-sterilized-without-their-consent Content Warning: This story contains sensitive details about reproductive violence. S.A.T.* wanted her daughter in the room. It was the second time she’d ever […]
Once a white supremacist, always a white supremacist? How an unlikely friendship between a Sikh man and a skinhead sparked a battle against racism CBC News, Apr 27, 2019 httpss://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/white-supremacist-sikh-friendship-fighting-hate-1.5107715 They never repaired the bullet hole. On Aug. 5, 2012, a white-supremacist gunman stormed into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and opened fire. Satwant Singh […]
