The U.S.A. is not ‘the shining city on the hill’

While many Canadians admire the achievements of our American cousins, we should never want to emulate their dysfunctional society.

A member of the pro-Trump mob that stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. is pictured on Jan. 6. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was supposed to be a landmark moment. But rather than embracing a Black man in the White House, white America was quick to question his birthright and undermine his achievements, writes Andrew Caddell.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Brett Davis

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

April 28, 2021

MONTREAL—In the moments following the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in a Minnesota courtroom, a Montreal radio host put up a note on Facebook: “Guilty on all counts. Did you cry?” My knee-jerk reaction was to respond: “Get a grip. This took place in a foreign co...

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