Reading Time: 4 minutes James Dempsey played a key role in the U of A’s early ethics discussions around Indigenous engagement
Tag: Colonialism
Irish lead the way in the push to decolonize
Reading Time: 3 minutes Language and culture played a big role in helping the Irish survive and fueled their cultural renaissance
A love letter from Canadian LGBQT artist to the Queen
Reading Time: 3 minutes She led me to the intersection of the many roads I could walk, in a bigger world with room for us all
Does the Pope’s apology really mean reconciliation is coming?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Catholic church doctrine was used to justify colonization, subjugation and exploitation worldwide
The year the world finally said, ‘Enough is enough!’
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s difficult to call colonization and the theories that perpetuate and justify it to this day anything but the sinful antithesis of love
Shaking off colonial shackles no easy task
Reading Time: 3 minutes Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo, may have been an idealist but he clearly understood the pain of colonialism
Time to come to terms with Canada’s original sin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Separating one racial group of people from the rest of the nation and expecting a good result was madness then and is madness now
The Congo’s great liberation turned into abject failure
Reading Time: 4 minutes How great plans quickly descended into decades of dictatorship, corruption, kleptocracy and violence