"If we could model for the world what healing is, it would be a great thing,” said Gail Christopher, vice president for program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, at the national grantee conference, America Healing for Democracy, in New Orleans last month.

Canadian history is still handicapped by the way First Nations People have been treated since the arrival of the French and British colonizers. Deep wounds have been inflicted which are still today at the root of numerous social issues and difficult relationships within and between our communities.

Tom Chewning, former CF0 of Dominion, is known for championing the placement of a statue of Arthur Ashe on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue. The proposal to include the African American tennis great and humanitarian on an avenue reserved for Confederate generals provoked controversy. “I got death threats,” said Chewning. “But the city is at a different place now.”