Tag: Canadas

“My Body, My Choice! Unless You’re Trans” Say Canada’s Conservatives

In his 1859 seminal work On Liberty, the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that people should be free to act in any manner they choose unless their actions cause harm to others. This became known as the Harm Principle, whereby the autonomy of the individual is supreme and is only to ...

Canada’s Journey with Indigenous Reconciliation

The fraught history between Indigenous communities and Canada’s colonial past is interwoven with complex narratives, traumas, and political intrigues. At the heart of this intricate web lies the contentious issue of residential schools. This topic has recently found itself back in the limel...

Learning a language? Check this out — Encore: TEF Canada

It has been three days since I “passed” the TEF Canada, as they say in French. For the second time in about 7 months, I was reintroduced to the shock that your body gets when you have to speak French in front of actual people. While I wait anxiously for my results, I have realized that a...