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 […]
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 and school, our use of […]
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 sign off “Your sister in […]
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. […]
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) […]
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 […]
