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It's standard that the passing of Colin Powell, a war hero and Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration - has resulted in a deluge of maudlin tributes from dignitaries through the developed world, but not the entire world, because he had the blood of hundreds of thousands of civilians on his hands. Does this sound like a war hero or a war criminal?
In the title of his new book How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason, Lee McIntyre, science historian at Boston University, is suggesting that the official narrative on any given topic is the truthful one and anyone doubting it is a denier who needs to be "corrected".
Open Letter from Ruth Grummett Crying for Justice
Open Letter to the Canadian Nation and the World:
In late November last year, when General Motors (GM) announced it was closing it's Oshawa, Ontario plant at the end of 2019, thus putting more than 2,500 employees out of work, Jerry Dias, the head of Unifor - the union representing workers at General Motors in Oshawa - argued the company's decision could lead to the collapse of the auto-parts industry in Canada and demanded a sharp response from the Trudeau government.
Canada is going through the worst cultural crisis in the postwar period and if the government doesn't come to the rescue of failing, television and newspaper and film companies we may, in the not too distant future, be a country without Canadian news or films, according to Richard Stursberg, author of Tangled Green: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age.
As of 2017 China had 164 Unicorns - privately owned start ups valued at more than a billion dollars, for a total of $628 billion. The U.S. by comparison had 132 billion dollars plus start ups valued as $700 billion.
Most North Americans probably don't know - or care for that matter - that the two million people in Gaza - a strip of land 20 miles long and three or four miles wide - live in what Jonathan Kuttab, a leading human rights lawyer in Israel and Palestine characterized as an open-air prison.
Alcohol is the cause of as much as half the deaths in Northern Saskatchewan Treaty 6 territory, according to Harold R. Johnson, author of the highly acclaimed book Fire Water: How Alcohol is Killing My People (And Yours).
Three men - who disappeared between 2010 and 2012 - are recently - and only recently - being identified as victims of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur. Abdulbasir "Basir" Faizi, 44, and Majeed Kayhan were both from Afghanistan, and Skandaraj "Skanda" Navaratnam, was a 40-year-old Sri Lankan refugee. All three were immigrants, known to frequent the gay village, east of downtown Toronto. Is there a common denominator here that eluded police investigators?