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A Tragedy of Our Own

The Air India bombing and how we live with the past

Playing the Rights Card

A history of Canadian foreign policy as domestic theatre

Two Other Solitudes

The India-Canada relationship has taken a long time to develop

Andrew Woolford

Andrew Woolford is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America (Duke University Press, 2014) and is currently preparing a manuscript titled “‘This Benevolent Experiment’: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide and Redress in the U.S. and Canada.”

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Andrew Woolford

Ethnic Cleansing, Canadian Style

Many myths are cleared away in the sober historical analysis October 2013
This past summer, Ian Mosby published an article in Histoire Sociale/Social History in which he discussed some surprising documents he found while researching Canadian nutrition policy. The documents detailed government-sponsored bio­medical and nutritional experimentation on Indigenous children at six Canadian residential schools, as well as in Northern Manitoban Indigenous communities. Soon after CBC Radio reported on the…