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‘Rebuilding The Tower of Babel’


The greatest barrier between people is language and the Government of Canada isn’t doing anyone any favours – particularly aboriginals – by erecting more barriers, none of which will help aboriginal youth find success in the modern world:

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will introduce an ‘Indigenous’ {‘Siberian settler’} Languages Act’ in hopes of preserving and revitalizing ‘First Nations’, ‘Metis’ and Inuit languages in Canada.”  
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/12/06/trudeau-afn-indigenous-languages-act_n_13465144.html

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Cornelis Anthonisz (1547): ‘Fall of the Tower’

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