Commemoration on eve of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
On the evening of Sept. 29, 2021, ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, people gathered to hear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and residential school survivors speak at a commemoration on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia Stuffed animals and children shoes laid at Centennial Flame to honour the children […]
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After the vote: what Indigenous leaders said about Election 44
Monica Ell-Kanayuk, ICC Canada president: “We view the results positively for the issues that we speak out on at the international level for Inuit. “We will continue to work with this government, and engage with the other parties, to ensure that the issues we speak on behalf of Inuit are understood, at the United Nations, […]
Heeding the calls to action
The Sept. 30 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation fulfills one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action as laid out in 2015. Call to Action No. 80 called on “the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to establish, as a statutory holiday, a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to […]
‘We have drive’: Indigenous MPs on their election and their future
Another election has come and gone and there was a record number of Indigenous candidates put forward this time, at least 77 people, with the end results showing that the actual count of Indigenous MPs who will sit in the House has also gone up, to 12 from the 10 elected after the 2019 campaign. […]
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de Adder’s Take: 09-27-2021
Deibert hopes his book Reset triggers a pause
The Hill Times caught up with Ronald J. Deibert, author of Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civilized Society, and winner of this year’s prestigious $25,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, while camping his way home from British Colombia to Ontario. Mr. Deibert, who won the award on Sept. 22, is […]
Wells takes a look back at a handful of women who pushed for safer access to abortion
Karin Wells, author of The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose, published by Second Story Press, talked about her first book and recent nomination for the prestigious Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. “The Abortion Caravan is a vibrant tale of a seminal but forgotten time […]
Whipped takes a deep dive into political party culture and, yes, Marland thinks parties need whips
Alex Marland, the award-winning author and Memorial University political science professor, who has carved out a niche as an expert in political communications, political marketing, election campaigning, and Canadian political parties, dishes up another delightful read in Whipped: Party Discipline in Canada, published by UBC Press. In it, he delves into the world of political party […]
