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Last Friday in the House of Assembly, Curtis Dickinson, the Progressive Labour Party’s newish finance minister, and I marked our mutual anniversary. Friday was exactly one year since we were both elected to Parliament in by-elections held on June 7, ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2019
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Scott Pearman
In the United States, we do not have a justice system, we have a legal system.
That system has been designed to follow the letter of the law, not the spirit of fairness. Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us serves as a powerful reminder of this fact. The ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2019
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The following is a first-person account from a young man who tells how he was let down by the Department of Child and Family Services and a foster care system that left him to fend for himself. Given the troubling nature of these revelations, the man...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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The marble-lined, three-tiered atrium at the United States Institute of Peace was abuzz. It was about 9 the night before the White House correspondents’ dinner in April, and I was at one of the pre-parties taking place around Washington.
There were ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2019
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The internet has enabled the flourishing of countless subcultures, from the harmless to the less so. Lately, one of the latter group has begun to break into the mainstream: the “incels”.
Incel is short for “involuntary celibate” and, as their self-im...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019
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“Our cultural base is the tie that binds. It is the source of our unity and power.” — Wade Nobles, PhD
On May 22, I attended an assembly at Elliot Primary School. Sherrie-Lynn Lilley and her team were the presenters at this assembly. It was very em...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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Snoopy, who first appeared in the Peanuts comic strip in 1950, has been everywhere at this point: summer camp, college, the desert to visit his hapless brother, Spike. He has been to the airfields of the First World War in his unceasing fight with th...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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June is a very reflective month for me as a healthcare professional, a woman and a Member of Parliament. Each day, I fight for the needs of the people of this country, specifically women. I am passionate about improving lives and doing so through leg...
DATE: Jun 06, 2019
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Tinée Furbert
Part of the human condition is to believe in a more perfect place called the past. We are nostalgic creatures, convinced the world was a safer place in the 1960s, even though the statistics argue otherwise. We’re sure people were more civil, despite ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2019
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Donald Trump long ago turned the presidency into a mechanism for feeding his ego and stuffing his wallet. It has been observed that his presidency resembles that of a corrupt Third World regime, complete with nepotism and attacks on objective sources...
DATE: Jun 04, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jennifer Rubin
