Tag: Ottawa Initiative on Haiti
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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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Why a Haitian flag at Ottawa’s pro-Maduro March?
Among the Canadians who braved the winter cold, this Monday February 4, 2019, marching from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Office, across from Ottawa’s Parliament, to the U.S. Embassy and onward over Sussex Drive to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the Lima Group was meeting to formulate their strategy against their foe, embattled Venezuelan President…
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Who Runs the New Dictatorship in Haiti?
HAITI’S NEW DICTATORSHIP: The Coup, the Earthquake, and the UN Occupation by Justin Podur *** ABOUT THE BOOK Haiti’s New Dictatorship charts the country’s recent history, from the 2004 coup against President Aristide to the devastating 2010 earthquake, revealing a shocking story of abuse and indifference by international forces. Justin Podur unmasks the grim reality…
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What is Canada Doing in Haiti?
The “Ottawa Initiative on Haiti”: Humanist Peacekeeping or…? On Sussex Drive in Ottawa, just a few steps away from the enormous US embassy, stands the Peacekeeping Monument. The structure titled “Reconciliation” was erected to honour the more than 125,000 Canadians who have served in United Nations peacekeeping forces since 1947. The current article documents one…