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Musings

Two B.C. Labour Rebels – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Labour activists Robert Gosden and Albert “Ginger” Goodwin are the subject of two books I reviewed in BC Studies (#194, Summer 2017). Rebel Life and...
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Apologies to ronverzuh.ca guests

By Ron Verzuh

I had to migrate my site to a new host and server, so the site was temporarily interrupted. My apologies for any inconvenience to...
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Making America Hate Again – A Commentary

By Ron Verzuh

The other day someone read me an internet post that said eight of the sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justices had rejected President Donald J....
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“The World Should Shiver” with Anger – A Commentary

By Ron Verzuh

It took less than two months in office for Donald J. Trump to haul out the Tomahawk cruise missiles and start bombing Syria. Just days...
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Hail a Canadian Labour Hero – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Jon Bartlett and Rika Reubsaat, Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners’ Strike (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2016), 126 pp., $19 paper. Arthur “Slim” Evans has...
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Africa

Freedom Day on Robben Island

By Ron Verzuh

January 28, 2011

Robben Island. April 28, 2008. One day after Freedom Day. It fell on a Sunday this year, giving South Africans the Monday off. Getting to the island is harder than usual with the crowds of families flocking to the popular historical spot. They are enjoying a sunny annual national holiday that marks the day...
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