Carol Off, former CBC broadcaster, returns to the CBC As It Happens studio in Toronto to discuss her new book, At a Loss For Words.
When Carol Off started writing a book calling on people to reclaim the word “freedom” from the far right, she thought she would be dismissed as naive. Then Kamala Harris began her run to become U.S. president.Former CBC broadcaster Carol Off recently returned to the CBC As It Happens studio in Toronto to discuss her new book, At a Loss For Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage.
And freedom — a word she once associated with liberation from the Nazis, or the rise of the civil rights movement — "became a word about doing whatever you want." Vice-President Harris and her running mate for VP, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have repeatedly used the word freedom during their rallies, and Harris enters and leaves the stage to Beyoncé's 2016 anthem,U.S. Vice-President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, left in blue, facing the audience, speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Aug. 20.
A protester waves a Canadian flag in front of parked vehicles on Rideau Street in Ottawa on Feb. 11, 2022, on the 15th day of a protest against COVID-19 measures that grew into a broader anti-government protest. "A defining thing in my development as a woman, and my development as a person, was to see what it was to come from what my mother had, so limited in her choices, and to be where I am now, where I'm with women who have so many choices, and now to see those choices threatened," she said.
And without a shared language, it becomes more difficult to talk to each other and bridge those divides, Off said.
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