[**Correction, March 24, 2010: contrary to what was reported in this article, the Africville descendants have not filed an injunction, but rather have discussed doing so.] Not everyone was satisfied with mayor Peter Kelly’s apology to residents for the loss of Africville. “He said we lost everything,” says Denise Allen, organizer of an injunction to […]
Irvine Carvery
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Photos: An Apology for Africville
This morning, as I walked over to the Gottingen Street YMCA with the Halifax North Memorial Library women’s group and MP Megan Leslie, I was thinking about Halifax artist Cathy Busby’s project Sorry. Her exhibition of public apology photographs and text—from Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction to Stephen Harper’s apology to First Nations Canadians—has shown around the world. We live in a media-saturated society where there is a formula for public atonement: Tiger Woods needs practice, I’m afraid. Peter Kelly didn’t even deliver the only apology today—Yoshimi Inaba, CEO of Toyota, announced that he is “deeply sorry” for his company’s malfunctioning