Originally posted in the Media Co-op (November 11, 2019). It’s Remembrance Day in Canada, and so rather than talk about how ignorant and racist Don Cherry is, or how the day is typically used by disingenuous politicians and pundits who don’t give a damn about veterans beyond photo ops and lofty rhetoric, and who would rather criminalize the civil disobedience of peace activists than the sale of weapons to rogue states, dictatorships and human rights violators — instead I’d like …
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Originally published in The Uniter (October 3, 2012) This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Red River Settlement, an agricultural colony founded by a Scottish “noble” named Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk. Familiar Winnipeg …