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Follow the Money. A commitment to truth and justice marks the resistance of the less powerful against the exercise of institutional power. Again and again, that resistance collides with a familiar quid pro quo: the inscription of billionaire donors’ names on our most beloved cultural and educational institutions, and their
by Dorothy Agnes Lander For the past 25 years, I (Dorothy Agnes Lander) have been writing letters to Letitia Youmans (1822-1896), foremother in the Canadian Sunday School movement, which peaked in the 19th century continuing well into the 20th century. My letters all begin “Dear Letitia” and close with the
WATER IS LIFE A Settler Child Celebrates the Legal Personhood of Pemadeshkodeyong/Rice Lake by Dorothy Lander A landmark announcement during the “Giving Rights to Nature to Strengthen Climate Action” COP30[1] event at the Canada Pavilion on November 21, 2025 in Belem, Brazil on the doorstep of the Amazon, transported me
P. V. Rogagopal and VishwaMitra Yogesh leading the peace walkers from Dalhousie University to the Halifax waterfront, Sept. 21, 2024. www.walk4peace.ca On September 21, 2024, Dorothy and I commemorated the International Day of Peace by walking together with many others on a pilgrimage for peace on our earth (www.walk4peace.ca). We
In September 2024, Dorothy Lander joined Walk4Peace (www.walk4peace.ca) and was joyfully reminded that change makers and radical adult educators cannot be stopped in their tracks. Cannot be silenced. John Graham-Pole and Dorothy Lander joined the Walk For Peace in Antigonish from the Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) to
Sir Joseph and me, September 2024, Thinkers’ Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia In 2010, Dorothy and I were visiting our stepdaughter Cathy in Pugwash in Northern Nova Scotia, where she was living in the Sunset Community, a centre for people with disabilities. We came upon her pulling weeds outside the library
HARP The People’s Press is located in Canada’s Ocean Playground — Nova Scotia (www.tryhealingarts.ca). This slogan has been used on Nova Scotia’s license plates since 1972, coined by Alistair J. Campbell (1886-1960), who headed up Nova Scotia Tourist Association for over twenty years. In the last week of 2024, I
Another world is not only possible. She is on her way. On aquiet day I can hear her breathing. – Arundhati Roy There’s a good reason why “Think global, act local” is a popular idea: it’s the only possible way for us as individuals to counter our climate crisis. And
Cultural Burns by Koren Smoke, Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe Kwe, Alderville First Nation, Illustrator for ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar (2022) by Dorothy Lander https://tryhealingarts.ca/product/book-rereading-cpt/ Posted by Dorothy Lander, co-publisher HARP the People’s Press: H-ealing A-rts R-econciling P-eoples I listened to Sunday Magazine on CBC radio with host Piya
Follow the Money. A commitment to truth and justice marks the resistance of the less powerful against the exercise of institutional power. Again and again, that resistance collides with a familiar quid pro quo: the inscription of billionaire donors’ names on our most beloved cultural and educational institutions, and their
NOTE: This piece was researched and written by a very alive human (John Graham-Pole), not by ai robot. A year ago, we launched our local Death Café here in Antigonish, and we’ve been meeting every month ever since. Up to twenty of us come together, and recently we’ve been talking
Now is the Time of AI Monsters Posted by Dorothy Lander It was the best of AI, it was the worst of AI. * * * In the liminal space between 2025 holiday festivities—Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa—and Little Christmas (Epiphany) on January 6, 2026, coinciding with the return to work
by Maurice Switzer* In grade school I recall having to memorize poems by Duncan Campbell Scott, oblivious to the fact that the author was responsible for devising a network of residential schools that caused irrevocable damage to the lives of thousands of Indigenous kids like me. We were assigned to
by John Graham-Pole I’ve been reflecting on words I rarely heard during my fifty-plus years of medical practice. Words I was especially drawn to in later years, when making rounds, when writing chart notes, especially when listening and responding to my patients and their families. These are some of the
by Dorothy Agnes Lander For the past 25 years, I (Dorothy Agnes Lander) have been writing letters to Letitia Youmans (1822-1896), foremother in the Canadian Sunday School movement, which peaked in the 19th century continuing well into the 20th century. My letters all begin “Dear Letitia” and close with the
