Demos
Armistice 100: Memory, Wonder
Remembrance Day is about remembering what has passed - but far more than that, it's a day to wonder: what will we each do to ensure we don't repeat that past?
Politics is what happens when two or more people discuss anything.
Remembrance Day is about remembering what has passed - but far more than that, it's a day to wonder: what will we each do to ensure we don't repeat that past?
In America Brett Kavanaugh would not be a top judge nor Donald Trump president, and in Britain Brexit would not be a thing, had they run in fair elections. Fairer elections are held in almost all first-world countries - except the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Westernmost Canada now has a chance to change.
Don't like that Ontario handed total power with minority support to a northern version of Trump? Fix Canada's toxic election system, and bring in democracy.
Had someone tortured my child as the nuns and priests and bigots tortured the children depicted in the film, had bigots treated anyone in my circles as Saul was treated by many people, I'd have fought them all to the death. Had I known, I'd have acted. Which, of course, is the point of a movie like Indian Horse.