February is Black History Month and it seems an appropriate time to look at the civil rights struggles and Montreal particularly after a year when Black Lives Matter came to the fore and a greater focus on inequities relating to black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) have come into more acute focus. In the tangled urgency of the moment, the American civil rights movement is being harkened back to. Only a few are aware of Montrealâs major links with the civil rights movement.
There were occasions when Montreal played host to major figures in the American civil rights movement. By invitation of Rabbi Harry Joshua Stern, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Temple Emanu-El (renamed Temple Emanu-El â Beth Sholom) in March 1962. More than a thousand people attended the Templeâs sanctuary to hear King speak about a âdemocracy devoid of segregationâ. Eulogizing Reverend King, six years later, Rabbi Stern at a Temple Sabbath service, Rabbi Stern said
Trump Chaos Will Return: GOP Lawmaker Adam Kinzinger Pens Op-Ed Urging Conviction
On 2/9/21 at 1:10 PM EST
Illinois GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a self-described lifelong Republican, urged his party peers to convict former President Donald Trump as a historical precedent for accountability.
Kinzinger said this week s impeachment trial in the Senate provides Congress and the American people with a chance to say enough is enough and to dissuade future presidents from inciting violence like that seen on January 6. Kinzinger said Trump stirred up four-plus years of anger, outrage and outright lies leading up to the U.S. Capitol riots and this fury led to the murder of a Capitol Police officer and the deaths of four other Americans. Kinzinger blasted many fellow Republican Party members and ardent Trump supporters for calling the trial a waste of time in a Monday
From the OECD to the International Monetary Fund, global organizations that traditionally supported fiscal restraint have become much more relaxed about
As we finally begin to contemplate life without COVID-19, we should also be planning for the end of these programs with a thoughtful, orderly wind-down.