Food and Genocide
by Dorothy Lander One hundred and seventy civilians, mostly schoolchildren, in southern Iran will never eat another morsel of food. The deadly bombing of a primary school in Minab in southern Iran by the United States Military Tomahawk missiles—twice so no accident— on February 28, 2026, swept me back to our Antigonish-based book launch this […]
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 […]
Walking Together for Peace
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 walked with peace activists P. […]
We MAKE the Road by Walking
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 Bethany (Sisters of St. Martha) […]
What I Did and Didn’t Learn from Sir Joseph Rotblat, Nobel Laureate for Peace
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 and we ventured inside. My […]
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 […]
Elderhood
Posted by John Graham-Pole I don’t know when Dorothy and I became elders, but I’ll date it from our simultaneous retirement almost eighteen years ago. We’d first met in July, 2005, corresponded by email with growing frequency, then started phoning between Gainesville, Florida, and Antigonish, Nova Scotia, even more often. We used my work phone […]
