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The royal tea? Black women are never allowed to be part of the club
Feb 24, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—It’s possible that we’re starting to see the beginning of the end of the modern version of the British monarchy. Abolitionists are laughing in schadenfreude. Last week was a week from hell for the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas who are at the apex of British society and...
Black History Month has turned into HR blackface
Feb 17, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—Instead of organizations creating positive, inclusive environments to celebrate Black History Month with their employees, what has transpired is nothing less than an onslaught of microaggressions that would leave anyone disillusioned and depressed. Many...
Cross-country COVID response too easily swayed by political winds of change
Feb 10, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—The Weeknd walking deliriously through a candescent, mirrored hallway in his Superbowl halftime performance is a metaphor for Canada’s COVID response. The incompetence delivered as a train wreck is breathtaking and frankly, globally embarrassing, yet easy to...
Political platitudes do nothing for Black Canadians stuck at back of the bus
Feb 3, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—Malcolm X once said, “The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.” This has been the strategy of the Liberal government since their 2015 majority win, but they’re not the only performance in town....
Horrible bosses, too: women can perpetuate toxic masculinity when they get the power to do so
Jan 27, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—“We have an excellent Governor General right now,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in September 2020. There is never a good time to support an abuser, especially publicly. Last July, CBC broke the story of how the governor general, Julie Payette,...
If we’re going to dismantle white supremacy, let’s not whitewash it
Jan 20, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is finally being held to account for months of white supremacist dog whistles. On Jan. 18, he moved to kick Derek Sloan out of caucus—a.k.a. The Bare Minimum—after PressProgress revealed that Sloan, at the front of the “which...
Canadian conservatives content to keep courting the whitelash
Jan 13, 2021 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, will be a day that will live in infamy—the day armed domestic terrorists laid siege on Capitol Hill, the first time since we did it in the War of 1812. The year 2021 is already making 2020 feel as soothing as a Supermud Glam Glow mask...
Conservatives rushing for the back of the truth line
Dec 16, 2020 | The Hill Times
CALGARY—As we round out the end of this traumatic year and look forward to a depressing Christmas and New Year’s, we are reminded that the appearance of a COVID-19 vaccine has brought with it one of the most insidious villains of our time: disinformation. Jane...