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I have long been pondering how to approach the writing of a post about my late father’s 1936 Berlin Olympics photo album. The photo on the right was taken in Tartu, Estonia in 1936 or earlier. The photo, which is available online and is also featured in my father’s 1936 Berlin Olympics photo album, is of […]
A CBC Radio Twitter message dated Sept. 28, 2017 features the following message: Ai Weiwei on his new documentary, Human Flow: Artist and activist Ai Weiwei traveled to 23 countries to chronicle the global refugee crisis in the documentary, Human Flow. It’s not an easy film to watch but he says it’s meant to feel alarming […]
I have discussed Myanmar and related topics at a page entitled: Mindfulness meditation. A more recent post is entitled: Ongoing Rohingya crisis: Updates. The following two articles are of interest for me, because they explore a topic of particular interest to me, namely the connection between story and frame. A related topic concerns story management, […]
At a previous post, dealing with mindfulness meditation, I have highlighted previous news stories related to Rohingya refugees in Burma (Myanmar). The point of the above-noted post, among other things, is that even adherents of Buddhisms, frequently portrayed as devoted to concepts and aspirations of non-violence, are like many other religions fully capable of extremes […]
I’m just catching up with posting of a message from Graeme Decarie. Graeme Decarie was a history teacher at Malcolm Campbell High School in Montreal. I didn’t have a history class with him but he was an advisor to the student council, of which I was a member. In the fall of 1963 (if I […]
A May 3, 2017 Coral Project article is entitled: “De Correspondent: A New Kind of Journalism.” An excerpt reads: During the six month duration of our New to the Netherlands project, 279 members of De Correspondent each chose to meet with a newly-arrived refugee, once a month for five months. Each time they met, the […]
Click here for previous posts regarding Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn > [The following message is from MPP Peter Milczyn’s Constituency Office. I have not posted the images that are included with the message except for a few. However, a majority of the links are included; the ones not included can be found through a browser […]
I’ve added several Comments to a previous post about a 1993 documentary about English Montreal. By way of bringing attention to the Comments, I’ve created a new blog post featuring one of the Comments: Fascism and the Italians of Montreal: An Oral History: 1922-1945 (1998) I’ve also been reading Fascism and the Italians of Montreal: […]