Truth and Reconciliation – Canada’s obligation

 by Marc Kealey Imagine living through the stress of being taken from your parents because government policy formalized state sanctioned welfare as better than what you had at your home? Imagine being taken away from the refuge of your own home and the people you love, whose DNA courses through

Celebrating the great Scottish bard – Robbie Burns Day 2021

 ABOVE: Royal Canadian Military Institute, 2018  (PHOTO: ERIC MORSE) Every January 25th, the world focuses its attention, at least for a dinner, on things Scottish — particularly haggis and its great poet Robbie Burns. This year, 2021, is the two hundred and sixty second year of his birth. In 1759, Robbie Burns was born

Love and hope in a time of COVID

 By Marc Kealey Last year, 2020,  there was much written and reported about how we ought to comport ourselves during the pandemic. In short, we were advised to be compliant, socially distant, wary of exaggerated or factually incorrect media and social media posts and, for the most part, encouraged to