"Ça m'avait fortement marqué parce que je venais de lire comment on présentait les esclaves. Et je me dis : c'est marrant, c'est exactement de la même façon."
"Bumidom, des Français venus d'Outre-mer" à 22.40 sur @France5tv et dispo ici ►https://t.co/xExHVb6S0i
It was a great privilege to help welcome the Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal to the Supreme Court of Canada. What a historic moment. Justice Jamal is the first person of colour, and the first person of Bahá’í faith, to be appointed to the @SCC_eng.
~ Quand on demandait à ma grand-mère d'où elle venait, elle répondait, après un infime temps d'hésitation : Je viens du pays de mon enfance. ~ Jacques Salomé
📷 Oleg Andreev
@LucyvanOlden The constant blaming of customers for an unsafe and unreliable transit system seems to be a hollow way of eschewing responsibility and accountability. We can see through it. But blaming people who comment on the transit system as if this was causing LRT issues takes the 🎂.
´When we look at Auschwitz we see the end of the process...the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.’ @AuschwitzMuseum
Exclusive: @romeodallaire and Michael Enright meet again to discuss Rwanda. The “fastest genocide in recorded history," began 25 years ago today, in 1994. @GAERGRwanda @UN https://t.co/N7c0x94YkA
It's finally here the 'What does Irishness Look Like?' 😁 I'm so excited to share it with you all! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with it, really appreciate it ❤ The subject matter means a lot to me and many others https://t.co/1YKtiYBERu
"Today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful & powerless, free & fettered, privileged & humiliated. Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another." Kofi Annan, Nobel speech
Canada is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
Over the past 70 years, our summers (left) have warmed by ~1.5°C.
Our winters (right) have warmed more than twice as fast, by ~3.4°C.
The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal.
The brave woman who cared for and hid my 6 year-old aunt in an attic in Budapest was a criminal. She broke the law by sheltering Juden.
Legality is not a guide for morality.