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Podcast Episode 84 It is self-evident that nuns physically abusing school kids the way priests sexually abuse altar boys means none of them can believe God exists. Because they know no God would allow them to abuse innocent children in his name the way it seems they’ve always done. Even so, I commend Pope Francis… Listen.
Canada’s aboriginal sin America has been reckoning with the legacy of its “original sin” for centuries. This reckoning has been notorious – and often deadly. But it might surprise many to learn that Canada has been reckoning with the legacy of its “aboriginal sin” for just as long. This reckoning, however, has been tame and relatively suppressed. Indeed, it’s easy to… Read more.
Like America, Canada has mistreated indigenous peoples. The difference is that we know little about Canada’s aboriginal shame. But its indigenous peoples are now forcing a public reckoning. Canada’s indigenous peoples The BBC aired a documentary yesterday on Canada’s (mis)treatment of Canadian Indians. It was heartrending. Poverty and unemployment remain disproportionately high among First Nations… Read more.
Not surprisingly, Trumped-up Republicans reacted by calling for a wall between the United States and Canada too. Just kidding. [Emulating Obama] Justin Trudeau got help from youth, new voters, social media in election win… Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau outpaced his competition on Twitter on Election Day as well; there were more than 150,000 tweets to… Read more.
The media have provided saturation coverage over the past few weeks of the endemic corruption that has attended the selection process for the FIFA Men’s World Cup. Media executives would probably cite – without a hint of irony – the reputational damage this coverage caused as their reason for providing such scant coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which… Read more.
White Canadians often speak of the legacy of White supremacy in America with such self-righteousness, you’d never know they treated Native Canadians the way White Americans treated Native Americans. Here, for example, is an excerpt from “Delusions on Matters of Race Are Coming Home to Roost in Canada,” October 3, 2006, in which I cited… Read more.
The heart of the Canadian capital was traumatized and placed in emergency police lockdown on Wednesday after a gunman fatally wounded a soldier guarding the National War Memorial, entered the nearby Parliament building and fired multiple times before he was shot and killed. It was the second deadly assault on a uniformed member of Canada’s… Read more.
