Andray Domise: Despite headlines constantly blaring that our standard of living is ever increasing, social stressors gnaw away at the foundations of our collective psyche
Andray Domise: It wasn’t last week’s Trump/Biden debacle, but the surreal VP debate reflected almost nothing of the world outside the debate hall
Andray Domise: Trump showed up as a wrestling match villain, while Biden’s unwillingness, or perhaps inability, to dial into anti-establishment anger left him hopelessly outmatched.
Andray Domise: This structure not only eroded the modes that Africans had long thrived on and carried out in their tradition, it drove the production of social and environmental ruin
Andray Domise: Harris’s status as running mate to Joe Biden is indeed historic. But representation does not imply loyalty or any degree of respect to Black and brown communities beyond the superficial.
Andray Domise: ‘To my brothers and sisters in America,’ you may be unaware that Canada aligned itself against your lives when it mattered
Andray Domise: The forced use of digital technologies—Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom—to mediate our relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to provide a boon to companies who have been known to never let a good crisis go to waste
Andray Domise: The myth of this country’s ‘peacekeeping’ nature lets it get away with destabilizing and taking advantage of less powerful nations
Andray Domise: A belief in African and South Asian countries over-breeding the earth into catastrophe has a lengthy history steeped in scientific racism, imperialist arrogance and western paternalism
Andray Domise: People who hold left-leaning ideals have to quit kidding themselves by believing that capitalism exists as a benevolent or even neutral social arrangement
Andray Domise: The response from Canada has been empty platitudes about ‘fair and transparent’ elections and ‘standing with the democratic will’
Andray Domise: The federal leaders debate had other options—to include the voices of the underrepresented and to ostracize the movements that spread hate. What we got isn’t good enough.