Thousands of Indigenous Manitoba students will return to better-funded schools next fall with the creation of a new First Nations school board that will serve as an "inspiration" throughout Canada, according to the federal Minister of Indigenous Affairs Carolyn Bennett ( Read more... )

Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man's hair is reddish brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a ginger beard. When he lived three thousand years ago, he stood six feet tall, and was buried wearing a red twill tunic and tartan leggings. He looks like a Bronze Age European. In fact, he's every inch ( Read more... )

Nowadays, you can traffic someone any distance, and at minimal cost, inside a day - generating thousands, tens of thousands - or, in the case of sex-trafficking, hundreds of thousands - of dollars a year for each slave ( Read more... )

“People expect too much of writers,” Albert Camus lamented in the late 1950s. At the time Camus was writing, the Algerian rebellion had grown into a full-scale guerrilla war for independence, and while his initial sympathy for the uprising led the French Right and the French Algerian settlers to denounce him as a traitor, he also came in for ( Read more... )

"In May of 1951, at the age of twenty, Jacques Derrida took the entrance exams for the prestigious École Normale Supérieure a second time, having failed, as many students do, in his first attempt the previous year. Fueled by amphetamines after a sleepless week, he choked on the written portion and turned in a blank sheet of paper. The same month, ( Read more... )

(Sent a few moment ago to the GG's office ( Read more... )

It's rather amazing how few commentators (if any) are sensitive to or aware of the religious dimension to the "Idle No More" movement, and Chief Theresa Spence's fast. Judging by the PMO's slow response, it's equally blind to what it's dealing with, likely treating it as another instance of "issuism" stemming from an interest group expressing a ( Read more... )

(Original column by George Monbiot at The Guardian...)

"There is one thing you can say for the Holocaust deniers: at least they know what they are denying. In order to sustain the lies they tell, they must engage in strenuous falsification. To dismiss Britain's colonial atrocities, no such effort is required. Most people appear to be unaware that ( Read more... )

(Original report by Ian Cobain, Owen Bowcott and Richard Norton-Taylor, at The Guardian...)

"Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has ( Read more... )

(Original story by Richard Wolin at The Los Angeles Review of Books...)

"My Nanjing audience regards my presentation with an admixture of bemusement and national pride. On the one hand, they are well aware of Mao’s penchant for political overreach and the resultant landmark policy disasters. How quaint that political zealots in the West would ( Read more... )