Letters to the editor: The Governor-General s French-language kiss-off nowtoronto.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nowtoronto.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pitting the representation of historically marginalized groups on the Supreme Court against another constitutionally protected minority Canada's francophones is a misguided race to the bottom.
Canada’s Mohawk peoples view of Canada Day
Regaining Indigenous Rights – Play Against All Odds
Canada has this image internationally of a great defender of human rights violations, the protector of human rights throughout the world, but in its own backyard it’s violated the rights of the First Peoples indiscriminately for years and years. And the greatest human rights violation has been the imposition of the residential school experience.”
Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader
“The Tamil diaspora is not monolithic; it is differentiated by class, excludes certain castes and is gendered in its exploitation. The mobilisation of the diverse Tamil diaspora abroad and the rhetoric used have become the rationale for reinforcing the security establishment in Sri Lanka. A democratic Tamil leadership from within the country should challenge the larger Tamil diaspora to change course and work constructively towards building a plural and democratic society out of the ravages
What Do John Dewey s Century-Old Thoughts on Anti-Asian Bigotry Teach Us? Historians/History by Charles F. Howlett
Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus, Molloy College. He is the co-author of John Dewey: America’s Peace-minded Educator (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) and currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Peace History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
John Dewey with wife Alice Chipman Dewey and other Chinese educators, c. 1920.
Whether or not one agrees with Pulitzer-prize winning historian Richard Hofstadter’s observation that the famous philosopher John Dewey’s “style is suggestive of the cannonading of distant armies: one concludes that something portentous is going on at a remote and inaccessible distance, but one cannot determine just what it is” or the noted Harvard pragmatist, William James, who opined that his writings are “damnable; you might even say God-damnable,” it remains hard to ignore Dewey’s
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