On taking office as President of the EU Commission in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to create a ‘geopolitical Commission’: “We have enormous
Border Crossings is a cultural magazine edited and published in Winnipeg. A local, international magazine, it is now in its 35th year of continuous publication. Edited by Meeka Walsh, it investigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of photographs and drawings.
In 1971, a group of women in Vancouver who became known as the Militant Mothers of Raymur, stared down trains and authorities to force construction of a long promised overpass so their children could get to school safely.
Scared for their the safety of their kids, a group of women blockaded the railway tracks in Strathcona to get the city to build an overpass over the tracks