Posts from the ‘history’ category

The Story of Obedience | Serbulent Turan | TEDxTerryTalks

In this TEDx talk, Serbulent Turan tries to formulate an answer to the age-old question “why do we obey?” using the hybridity between political science and…

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How Canadian Spies “Stack the Deck” Against the Left

Listen to historians Reg Whitaker and Greg Kealey (authors of the book Secret Service) tell stories from Canada’s sordid history of political policing: In 1920–in the…

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The Terry Project on CiTR #37: The Sisters of Saint Ann

The Sisters of Saint Ann taught at Indian Residential Schools in BC until 1985. Now they are downplaying the abuse that took place in these auspicious…

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Notes on Being Metis

– – – Growing up, I knew I was mixed. I knew my mother and my father came from different backgrounds; my mother looked different than…

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The Silent Genocide: Aboriginal Language Loss FAQ

– – – What Is The Issue? – – – What is language death? Language death is a process by which the fluency of a language…

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Karla Homolka: From Convicted Killer to Anonymous Mother

Shadlee Rahman is a research assistant for the Terry Project Podcast–the theme of rebranding raised brought back some history. Very few crimes, if any, are as…

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The Terry Project Podcast #12: UBC Stories

This week, a back-to-school special. We stay local, bringing you stories from the University of British Columbia. We look at engineering pranks, the pettiness of campus…

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Oh, Mister Plumber, do you know Where naughty, careless, tradesman go?

Oh, Mister Plumber, do you know Where naughty, careless, tradesman go? You come to set the water right– To make the taps all safe and tight.…

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I’ll have a small coffee in a large cup of Vaclav Havel

In high school, I used to ditch my homework while I hid in coffee shops and read about communism. I really do inhabit a system in…

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