Reading Time: 3 minutes Even in the depths of suffering, there is still reason to hope for the future. Even if we are in despair today, we can embrace the joys of the past
Tag: Holocaust
Embrace the moment, regardless of the circumstances
Reading Time: 3 minutes By living lives of integrity, by doing our best despite our imperfections, we find a way to move forward
The double standards of social justice ideology
Reading Time: 4 minutes Allocating and denying benefits on the basis of race undermines the integrity and the autonomy of individuals
The lessons of Rwanda seem lost on Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes We funded, educated and then sheltered the man who gave the Rwandan genocide its intellectual impetus. Will we make the same mistakes in Mali?
Stepping beyond stereotypes to right wrongs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The key is to focus on acceptable and unacceptable actions, not the ethnicity or gender of the actor
A neo-Nazi taunts Jews in Nova Scotia, with government help
Reading Time: 4 minutes Notorious art thief John Mark Tillmann managed to get two levels of government to rename a waterway just to torment Jewish neighbours
Bring out the best in others by bringing out the best in yourself
Reading Time: 3 minutes The desire to love and serve others is innate in the human spirit. And those traits can help us accomplish great things as a society
Raphael Lemkin: the man who coined the word genocide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lemkin lobbied tirelessly for the United Nations to adopt a definition of the word genocide
Truth will triumph – but not without our help
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we embrace the truth of humanity’s most horrific actions, hateful lies lose their power, we become enlightened and the path to a better world becomes clear
Standing firm against a rising tide of anti-Semitism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The way to combat these racist abominations is to speak truth, and to speak it persistently in a loud and unified voice