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A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust
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Black sleeping car porters
By Travis Tomchuk
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Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?
By Karine Duhamel
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A Yiddish poem from the Holocaust
A single poem reminds us that even in the midst of atrocity, human dignity persists.

Black sleeping car porters
By Travis Tomchuk
Black men employed as sleeping car porters in Canada from the late nineteenth century until the mid‐1950s experienced racial discrimination and exploitation on the job.

Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?
By Karine Duhamel
In Why reconciliation? Why now? I talked about the idea of reconciliation as an invitation to a new and shared future and as a pathway towards a good life, both for Indigenous people and for other Canadians.

A Universal commitment
Discover the people of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
