Canada talks a good game when it comes to promoting its feminist foreign policy on the world stage. However, when it really matters, the Trudeau government has demonstrated a disappointing timidity on human rights at the United Nations. This week marks the opening of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. And high profile members of Canada’s self-proclaimed feminist government, including heavy hitters Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Fore
Participants in the Edo project gather around a tractor during a training session in April 2018. Photo courtesy of the Santa Marta Group. “Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”— Crumbs from Your Table by U2 Last year, the Roman Catholic Church launched an innovative training programme in Nigeria’s economically impoverished but agriculturally fertile Edo State to generate farming careers for young people as a way to combat the hopelessness th
"I woke up this morning. I could barely breathe. Just an empty impression. In the bed where you used to be. I want a kiss from your lips. I want an eye for an eye. I woke up this morning to an empty sky." --Empty Sky by Bruce Springsteen September 11, 2001 will always be known as a dark day in history, the day that terrorists carried out devastating mass casualty attacks on an unprecedented scale, plunging the United States and its most faithful allies into a protracted war a
