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Writer & Historian

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Musings

My Covid-19 Heroine – An Appreciation

By Ron Verzuh

The Covid-19 crisis created a new heroine in my eyes: my dear partner and spouse, Leola Olive Jewett-Verzuh. When the virus hit, she pondered...
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Golden City Yarns – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Ron Shearer, Chicanery, Civility & Celebrations: Tales of Early Rossland (Rossland: Rossland Heritage Commission, 2019), 170 pages, $24.95 (paper). Kootenay history buffs have long...
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Follow the Black Cat – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Graphic History Collective, Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019), large format, 60...
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Stop subsidizing private health care insurance – A Comment

By Ron Verzuh

Recently, a friend blasted the skeptics who have been poo-pooing Medicare for All as proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren....
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Codename P9 is official selection in New York

By Ron Verzuh

Codename Project 9, my short documentary film on the role of the Trail, B.C., smelter in making the atomic bomb, was judged an “official...
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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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