Today is Labour Day, the last gasp of summer, and parents all over North America are finalizing back-to-school details while their kids pack their brand new backpacks, test out their pencil crayons, and pose in front of their mirrors modelling their new clothes. This morning before the heat of the day set in, I went on […]
I recently read Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a novel about slavery in the U.S. It was first published in 1852, and within the first year sold 300,000 copies in the U.S. and over a million copies in Britain. This made it the best-selling novel of the 19th century. The book helped Americans see […]
I recently listened to a CBC Radio interview about Rosewater, a movie about a journalist who is detained and brutally interrogated in an Iranian prison for more than 100 days. The film, based on a true story, is John Stewart’s directorial debut, requiring him to take a 3 month leave from The Daily Show to make it […]
I am reading a really good book. It’s called Man’s Search for Meaning, written by holocaust survivor Victor Frankl. Whenever I’ve studied the holocaust or the trans-Atlantic slave trade, I’ve assumed that being freed from such horrific bondage would be the best feeling in the world. And momentarily, it probably is. But as Frankl points out […]
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ~ Robert Frank All you photographers, aspiring photographers, and creative people, here it your chance to take part in Hope […]
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Free-them put together a FANTASTIC walk to raise money and awareness to fight human trafficking in Toronto! It was great to meet some of you who follow this blog in person, and to join together to do something that really matters. Here are some pictures from the event. Enjoy! “Never doubt that a small […]
“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.” –Abraham Lincoln “For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.” -Lillian Hellman “As long as the […]
“But I have discovered that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for […]
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