July 26, 2010 Hotel Bujumbura I felt a strange comfort crossing into Burundi yesterday. It caught me by surprise, and I couldn’t help but smile when I saw the first national flag painted on a small, rundown building. There’s been so much uncertainty leading to this point that part of what I fe...
July 24, 2010 Life in a Day of Kigali Still frame from student film Hollywood took their shot at tackling the Rwanda Genocide in the highly celebrated film Hotel Rwanda (2004). That portrayal, however, is still contentious among Rwandans. Most people appreciate the attention it brought, but say th...
July 23, 2010 Africa, as advertised At night if you didn’t know better, you’d think you were flying into Kigali upside down. Rwanda’s capital sparkles with thousands of individual lights that simulate the perfect celestial sky. There are no highways, skyscrapers or grid-like urban planning â€...
In 1847, the superintendent general for Indian affairs in Upper Canada asked Egerton Ryerson, to prepare a report that considers strategies for native education. In it, Ryerson suggested that the federal government educate “Indians” in separate schools that focused on religion and manual labour. To some, his report marked the beginning of the residential school system in Canada — a national calamity that natives and non-natives have considered a genocide.
The University of Toronto Chapter of Journalists for Human Rights is seeking submissions for the 2nd Annual Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
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