Category: controversy
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25. Reconciliation from one Settler’s Viewpoint
Along with too many fellow British Columbians, I could not have accurately identified the acronym ‘DRIPA’ a year ago. I certainly did know that reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations people was a government priority. That was especially needed after abuses of native children in former residential schools came squalidly to light. I was also aware…
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19. Shock in the Mirror
In a recent rereading of Orwell’s ‘1984’, I found the most chilling passage to be the same one that had left me shivering at the age of sixteen. That is the description of Winston Smith’s first look at himself after prolonged torture. O’Brien, his confessor/torturer, orders him to remove his filthy clothes and step forward…
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 