Debating the Pipeline: On the west coast, the Kinder Morgan – Trans Mountain pipeline project has been a growing controversy for several years. Yesterday, the Canadian government announced its intention to buy the troubled project, and start construction this summer. Personally,
Indigenous Perspectives Over the past two years the Province of British Columbia has started to implement a new curriculum for students in Kindergarten to Grade 9. Over the next two years the new curriculum will be implemented for students in high school. This overhaul represents chan
Language within a language When I lived in Turkey, I began to learn some political language in Turkish, by capturing vocabulary from conversations, photographing and analyzing election billboards, and talking about political resistance with friends. Now I often wonder what it’s like f
The language of Genghis Khan I have been reading and loving a biography of Genghis Khan that came out in 2015 by Frank McLynn. Did you know that Mongols tamed snow leopards and used them for hunting? And that they fetishized small noses? And that Genghis Khan, when he was about thirte
How language sparked a revolution Last month I visited South Africa where my parents and grandparents were born, and many family members still live. My parents left South Africa in the early 1970s because they didn’t want to raise children in an apartheid state. In 1948, the Sou
A Revitalization Success Story Shana Tova! Happy Jewish New Year! As I prepare to sing prayers and songs with my family in Hebrew tonight, I am reminded of the impressive revitalization story of the Hebrew language. Today Hebrew (called עברית or “Ivrit” in Hebrew) is spoke
One of many languages in the Sandcastle Girls My mom recently passed on to me the Sandcastle Girls, a novel set during the Armenian Genocide around 1915, when Armenians were deported en masse from the Ottoman Empire and over a million people were killed or died of diseases, starvation
A origem dos indígenas Para os dicionários da língua portuguesa, índio ou indígena significa nativo, natural de um lugar. É também o nome dado aos primeiros habitantes (habitantes nativos) do continente americano. Mas essa denominação foi consequência de um equívoco por parte de Crist
La educación en el Perú En el Perú, se habla de una necesidad de reformar la educación desde el siglo XIX, poco después del nacimiento de la república. Mientras que la moderna noción de ciudadano, extraída de los principios que motivaron la Revolución Francesa, era aplicada a la joven
