Category: English
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Five truths about Haiti
As we approach the 10th anniversary of Goudougoudou, the 7.0 earthquake that caused over 300,000 deaths in Haiti on January 12, 2010, I invite you to ponder 5 key facts I consider to be essential knowledge for anyone who truly wants to understand why, though tens of billions of dollars were collected worldwide for their…
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What ought to be Canada’s policy towards Haiti?
This year, as Canadians head to the polls, a Montreal-based group known as Québec-Haiti Solidarity: Petro Challenge 2019 undertook several actions to alert Canadians that something is horribly wrong with Canadian policy towards Haiti. During my speech delivered at their October 12th demonstration, I emphasized an often-neglected aspect of that policy which is most disturbing:…
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Can Haitians help make Canada better!?
This year, an unprecedented event took place on Canada Day, in Ottawa. A group of Canadians answered a fellow citizen’s challenge to host the first ever “Make Canada Better – Speaker’s Corner”. The challenge went up on Facebook and Twitter, on June 16, 2019. It called for speakers to come to Ottawa on July 1st…
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Napoleon was no Toussaint Louverture
Mr. ADAM HOCHSCHILD – New York Times Your article titled: “The Black Napoleon” attracted my attention because, as a son of Haiti, I find comparing Toussaint Louverture to Napoleon Bonaparte, beyond the fact that it is misleading, to be indeed a grave insult. Shall one dub a leader of Resistance to the Nazi: “The Jewish Hitler”? In his…