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India must get rid of its hatred for the Raj
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India must get rid of its hatred for the Raj. It’s very much part of our history, writes author and Mumbai businessman Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao.
L’Affaire Dundas in Toronto: Falling for a Hoax
1619 Project Canada Colonial Era Corrective History Egerton Ryerson History Debates History Wars Patrice Dutil Slavery Statue-Toppling Woke Hypocrisy
Henry Dundas was actually a hero of the Anti-Slavery Movement, writes Dr. Patrice Dutil. The City of Toronto must reverse its stupid plan to change the name of Dundas Street.
In Kamloops, Not One Body Has Been Found
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At the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, so far not a single body has been found, writes Professor Jacques Rouillard. Nearby, the existing cemetery is located on the Indian Reserve itself ...
The Myth Behind “Rhodes Must Fall”
Biography Cancel Culture Cecil Rhodes Colonial Era Corrective History Double Standards Education History Wars Men and Ideas Oxford University Statue-Toppling Woke Hypocrisy
By Marie Kawthar Daouda
NELSON MANDELA himself urged against cancelling memorials to Imperialist figures. Besides, it is condescending and very white-centered to think that Africa’s problematic past only revolves around European imperialism.
Keep the 'British' in British Columbia
British Columbia C.P. Champion Canada Cancel Culture Chris Champion Colonial Era Contentions Corrective History Double Standards First Nations History Debates History Wars Indigenous Men and Ideas Statue-Toppling
By C.P. Champion THE HAIDA at the height of their power were the terror of the West Coast, seizing booty of all kinds in seaborne raids: goods, captive labour, trophy-women and -children—and bearing aloft severed heads and limbs. Their own oral history records disturbingly recurrent scenes in which they “destroyed the people, burned their town completely” and “took them also for slaves.” But in 1862 the Haida were nearly wiped out by smallpox, which arrived by ship with gold diggers from San Francisco. Few would be so churlish as to judge the Haida of today on the basis of their marauding...