OTTAWA—Imagine descending on the nation’s capital to protest being alive. In that respect, this Darwin Awards of a protest is one I can stand behind. Over the weekend, thousands of truck drivers drove to Ottawa from all over the country to protest COVID-19 vaccination...
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Ignoring economic violence
Jan 26, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The Republicans of the North have never met a point they didn’t bludgeon, nor a fact they didn’t massage into terror. It’s understandable that the Conservatives want to jump on the inflation bandwagon, since people are feeling the pinch of rising grocery...
Cowardly Canadian leaders point fingers at the unvaccinated
Jan 19, 2022 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—Imagine a Black woman who writes about, and advocates against, inequities, who rails against injustice, with an emphasis on the Black experience siding with the anti-vaxxers she cussed only a few months prior. But here we are. Politics makes for strange...
Trudeau, not Anand, should have delivered military misconduct apology
Dec 15, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Is there a rule that I don’t know about where women of colour are required to clean up messes that white men make? Is there a secret meeting of whiteness at hockey games? Is Tim Horton’s a sponsor? In another iteration of the ongoing saga that is sexual...
Why Mia Amor Mottley matters so much
Dec 8, 2021 | Articles
Originally published in the National Observer on December 8, 2021. It is the combination of power, defiance, intelligence and compassion that made the prime minister of the world’s newest republic, Mia Amor Mottley, a lightning rod that highlighted the...
A daily war is carried out on women in the name of prosperity
Dec 8, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Monday was Dec. 6, when we remember the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique 32 years ago. We are also well into the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an international movement that started on Nov. 25, the International Day for the...
Vaccine apartheid spreading the same strain of racism
Dec 1, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Tell me anti-blackness is global without telling me anti-blackness is global. On Nov. 26, researchers in South Africa detected a new addition to the coronavirus family, a variant named omicron (B.1.1.529). It was first detected in Botswana but identified by...
The continued mystery of the NDP’s existence
Nov 24, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—During the post-election lull between choosing cabinet and the Speech from the Throne, I ruminated on the political issues that have shaped the year. And increasingly—now perennially—one question always sticks in my mind and will continue to in the years to...
Cop out: climate pact a dereliction of global duty
Nov 17, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—“In a way, Boris Johnson was the perfect host for COP26. The British prime minister specializes in groundless optimism and empty pledges. The Glasgow climate summit produced plenty of both.” What an indictment of the fecklessness of the United Nations...