Alvaro Sandoval is a Guatemalan who knows all too well what it is like to be attacked and criminalized for trying to defend his community from North American gold mining companies, and he has a message for Canadians and Americans: I would like to call on the people and politicians of Canada and the United […]
Spectacular failures: Nova Scotia’s wild-eyed megaproject schemes
Morning File, Monday, April 2, 2018
1. Reporting While White “I have never claimed to write ‘objectively,’” writes El Jones: That doesn’t mean I write things I believe to be untrue or that are factually wrong, but I am always openly writing from the standpoint of a Black woman. White people, however, believe and are taught that their practices are in […]
Peter Munk, Clairtone, and the Nova Scotia disconnection
“Everything I’ve been able to achieve," Peter Munk once said, "is because of Clairtone." So why did his benevolence bypass us?
When Peter Munk died last week at the age of 90, the paeans of praise from the national media were so effusive as to seem over the top. The Globe and Mail’s 3,300-word tribute appeared under the gushing headline: “The Extraordinary Life of a Business Legend, Philanthropist and National Champion.” In The Financial Post, he was...