As I continue to work on my book on the British anti-slavery West Africa Squadron, and the role of my fourth great grandfather William Pennell, who spied on the Portuguese and Brazilian slave trade. Inspired by the indigenous people of Canada, I wrote a draft chapter about the Doctrine of Discovery, which authorized European colonialism […]
So who is this Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News? She was a critic of cancel culture who is now a leading advocate of cancel culture from the right. In one of her founding columns in her Free Press blog, “The New Founders America Needs” from a 2022 address at the “conservative” University […]
(Long Read) It was the late spring of 1957. I was six, just about to turn seven. One afternoon, I was walking home from school when I suddenly began to feel pain in my legs and shoulder. Our house in the temporary Smeltersite settlement in the new town of Kitimat, British Columbia was uphill […]
“There’s something familiar about this place.” I was on a bus tour of Kitimat’s giant $40 billion LNG Canada facility on Saturday, July 8. I’ve never been on site, but had this strange feeling I had seen it before. The LNG Canada Liguified Natural Gas project, is the largest industrial construction project in Canadian historythe […]
Masthead for Field in March 1908 In May, 1908, 114 years ago, two presumably rich, presumably British, hunters came to Kitamaat Village, hired two Haisla guides named “Frank” and “David” and went bear hunting in the Kitlope, Giltoyees and up the Kemano River. One of the two hunters, named John H. Wrigley, would later write […]
Fifty years ago, in 1970, two books, one written and edited in the United States, the second in Canada, both gathered prominent writers to predict what the year 2020 would be like. As one might expect, no one got it entirely right. There were hints of things to come. Now it’s 2020. The world is […]