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Letters to the editor: July/August 2026

Michelle Shephard’s “Silence over Sudan” (May) could well have been titled “Silence over Africa.” As recently as this March, at the United Nations, the United States voted against recognizing the trafficking of enslaved Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity.” This indifferent attitude is just a small example of how Africa has been ignored in epidemics, famines, and genocides, to name a few of the atrocities and humanitarian crises during the past century. In 2024, there were over 45 million Africans displaced because of conflict; more than half of all global conflict deaths since 1989 occurred in Africa. This is not just silence. This is a public, systemic, and violent subjugation of African people all but ignored by the rest of the world.

Matthew Marosszeky Aurora, ON

I sympathize with the reaction of Greenlanders to Donald Trump’s clumsy attempts to take over Greenland—and with writer Brett Popplewell’s anti-colonial attitude in his cover story “I Went to Greenland and Saw a Warning for Canada” (June). But the 1951 agreement between Denmark and the United States allowing Americans to create or operate military bases as needed was about the defence of NATO member states. I worked at Thule Air Base (now Pituffik Space Base)........

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