Friday, February 19, 2021, The Globe and Mail “He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future,” wrote George Orwell in his iconic work, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Or, put differently, as I asked in my book, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History, who gets to decide what happened yesterday? […]
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Erna Paris
Erna Paris was the author of seven acclaimed books of literary non-fiction and the winner of twelve national and international writing awards. More » Order of Canada
Erna Paris was invested into the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston in September 2016.
Photo: MCpl Vincent Carbonneau, Rideau Hall ©OSGG, 2016.Remembering the Holocaust: Past, Present and Future
Erna Paris on CBC News
South African court orders arrest of Sudanese leader
CBC News
June 14, 2015
International Criminal Court expert Erna Paris says the detention of Omar al-Bashir in South Africa for alleged war crimes is unprecedented.Erna Paris on Metro Morning
Reconciliation South Africa
CBC Radio 1
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Erna Paris speaks with the CBC's Matt Galloway about Canadians coming to terms with a shameful legacy, this country's residential schools and their impact on First Nations communities.Erna Paris on IDEAS
From Tolerance to Tyranny
CBC Radio 1, 9:00 pm,
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together in relative harmony in medieval Spain. Then the Spanish Inquisition came along with its use of terror and racism, turning a pluralistic society into a police state. Writer Erna Paris first explored this history for IDEAS in 1995. In a new take, she calls what happened in Spain “a cautionary tale for today.”Excerpts from the Larkin-Stuart Lectures 2011
IdeaCity 2010
