Slavery Abolition

“The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy.”—Donald Trump, November 6, 2012 “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!”—Donald Trump, November 15, 2016 Every four years, Americans get a little lesson in constitutional law…

Rachel Zellars is an African-American academic, lawyer, and community organizer who has lived in Canada for more than a decade and a half, and in Halifax for the last couple of years. Wendie Wilson is an African Nova Scotian teacher, artist, writer, and community advocate whose family has been in…

Human trafficking has become an increasingly devastating problem worldwide. But in the United States, it doesn’t seem to garner as much attention as other issues despite the fact that the Trump administration has worked overtime to address the issue and to assist victims who survived trafficking.  Eliza Bleu, an advocate…

A rough sleeper in Oxford City councillors fear rough sleepers could become victims of modern slavery if tough new immigration rules are enforced following Brexit. Earlier this year the government provided local authorities including Oxford City Council with financial support to try to ensure that people would no longer sleep…

Does anyone recall the Reform Party of Canada's campaign starting in the late 1980s to impose on our country a "triple-e Senate" -- that is to say elected, effective, and, above all, "equal"? Pushed by the likes of Calgary-area farmer Bert Brown and would-be philosopher king Preston Manning, this call for…

The defining story of the 2020 election is, of course, Joe Biden’s apparent victory over Donald Trump. Though Democrats fell short of a once-in-a-generation landslide victory, they convinced a substantial majority of voters to reject an irredeemable racist. But voters across America, from reliably blue states in the Northeast to…

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Early Tuesday night, Fox News gave Democratic viewers rare cause for optimism. Exit polls, the network reported, had found that 70 percent of voters support increased government spending on green and renewable energy. Seventy-two percent were somewhat or very concerned about the effects of climate change. It tracked with polling…

Rev. Al Sharpton puts a stop to Trump's attempts at comparing himself to the United States' sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.Nov. 1, 2020 Read More