Racism

EDITORIAL – Police body cams won’t fix everything but they’ll be a start

June 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT LOOKS VERY MUCH as though all front-line police in Canada will be wearing body cameras in the future and it’s about time. Prime [Continue]

PETERS – Organizers of protest succeeded in spite of themselves

June 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

THURSDAY’S PROTEST AND MARCH through downtown Kamloops may have been one of the most successful cancelled events ever. Just over an hour before the Black Lives Matter [Continue]

KNOX – There’s a bunch of stuff white Canadians don’t have to put up with

June 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

OUR JOKE IS that Lindsay Wong and I are doppelgangers, because we aren’t. She’s young, female, stylish, Asian, Ivy League-educated and a bunch of other things I am not. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: We need to allow ourselves to be proud of Canada as we fight racism

June 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE DEFINITION OF SYSTEMIC is something that “relates to or affects an entire system.” That’s the Meriam-Webster entry. Different dictionaries have somewhat different [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Every one of us should take the #DifferentTogether Pledge

June 2, 2020 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE NEED SOMETHING right now to reassure ourselves that the human race is capable of getting along. Something symbolic but meaningful, a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – What we need in this country is a special racism court

November 30, 2019 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER PERSONALITY LOST his job Friday over racist remarks. The latest offender is Calgary Flames head coach Bill Peters, who resigned after revelations he used racist slurs [Continue]