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Month: April 2023

Changing the world

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Pamela Cross — No Comments ↓
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Keira Kagan’s favourite t-shirt was emblazoned with the words “I can change the world.” Tragically, she had little time to do that: on February 9, 2020, four-year-old Keira died while in her father’s care in a manner that Ontario’s Domestic Continue reading Changing the world→

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Wedded or not

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Pamela Cross — No Comments ↓

Many years ago, my partner and I went to a weekend gathering at a rural community of political activists whose work was deeply rooted in their Christian beliefs. When we arrived, we were assigned sleeping quarters for the weekend. Much Continue reading Wedded or not→

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Screaming into the void

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Pamela Cross — No Comments ↓

In Miriam Toew’s remarkable book, “Women Talking,” the women members of an isolated religious sect come together to talk about what they should do in response to the realization that, over many years, most of them, as well as many Continue reading Screaming into the void→

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Declaring hard truths

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Pamela Cross — No Comments ↓

Last week, the final report of the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission, entitled Turning the Tide Together, was released. The Commission was an independent public inquiry convened by the federal government and the government of Nova Scotia in October 2020 Continue reading Declaring hard truths→

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