Letter to Honourable Michelle Thompson and Honourable Premier Tim Houston March 8, 2026
www.tryhealingarts.ca H-ealing A-rts R-econciling P-eoples March 8, 2026 Happy International Women’s Day, Honourable Michelle Thompson & Honourable Tim Houston: I write on behalf of HARP The People’s Press (www.tryhealingarts.ca), Nova Scotia’s independent multi-media publishing house and shareholder-owned Community Interest Company, dedicated to the healing arts for health equity. After the huge rallies across Nova Scotia […]
What does Nan Goldin’s Artwork have to do with GIVING VOICE to the Less Powerful of Harvard, StFX, and Palestine?
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 influence on policy. Sackler at […]
Speaking Truth to Power – Speaking Truth to History

Quaecumque sunt vera. St. Francis Xavier University is making history. For the first time in its history, the campus of “whatsoever things are true” and a leading edge interdisciplinary degree program — BASc in Climate and Environment—is naming a new building and a prestigious health research Institute in “honour” of a corruption accomplice, billionaire donor […]
The Idea of a University BRAND

Universities across the country are buzzing with the return to campus of professors, varsity teams and residence life staff preparing for the start of another academic year and welcoming first year students. Every university has a unique brand but this marketing language is relatively new. Branding the university coincides with the devastating underfunding of universities […]
Two Photos Mark a Century of Health Innovation, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

What a difference a century makes! Meet the two men at the centre of the two photos illustrating support for innovation in health: William S. Archibald, the official photographer for the 1924 Antigonish Highland Games fundraiser for St. Martha’s Hospital, which raised $8000 – alumnus of St. Francis Xavier University, engineer, star figure skater, yachtsman […]
Symbolic Ground Turning for the Dahdaleh Institute for Innovation in Health at StFX: A Visual Message of Priorities?

At the symbolic ground turning on July 5, 2024 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, benefactor Dr. Victor Dahdaleh said this building will be the proof of the power of collaboration, and soon, he hopes the start of breakthrough victories and life-changing discoveries that will impact the region and help create a […]