VoC interviewed for journalism school project

UPDATED 1700 EST Dec 05/07

In my last article, I talked about our invitation to speak at the University of Waterloo. At about the same time we received the U of W invitation to speak, I was contacted by a journalism student at another university who was working on a senior year project. She wanted to interview me about my views on how the media has covered Caledonia, a subject that is very near and dear to my heart.

VoC, CWUC speak at University of Waterloo

UPDATED 1224 EST Nov 14/07 

I am very pleased to report that Gary McHale and I were honoured by an invitation by Dr. Andrew Houston, to speak to a Drama class at the University of Waterloo on Nov 01/07 in order to present our perspective on the effects the Caledonia occupation is having on its residents. The class is conducting extensive research into the issue as preparation for a production scheduled to take place in mid-February 2008.

Fantino – delusional or desperate?

Bad as Fantino’s recent comments about Gary McHale and his ‘interlopers’ were in Susan Clairmont’s Nov 08/07 Hamilton Spectator article called Fantino Takes Aim [reprint], they pale in comparison to other remarks attributed to Fantino in a Nov 09/07 Spectator transcript of the entire interview [PDF].

Let’s remember Jack tomorrow

Holocaust Education Week is almost over and Remembrance Day is upon us. It seems sad, yet telling that OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino chose this week – of all weeks – to once again publicly disparage Gary McHale for exposing and opposing the many injustices suffered by innocent people in Caledonia.

History comes to Hamilton: “No one was left to speak for me.”

UPDATED 1107 EST Nov 11/07

Last night I had the absolute honour to meet and listen to the words of Sibylle Sarah Niemoller von Sell at a Holocaust Education Week event hosted by Christ’s Church Cathedral on James Street in Hamilton. According to the event’s program, Ms. Niemoller von Sell, or ‘Sarah’ – the name she took upon conversion to Judaism – and her family were active participants in an underground railroad that aided Jews and were heavily involved in the attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944.