1.0 Introduction For years there have been constant references to the death of Aboriginal children. It has been said that the death rate in residential schools was much higher than the death rate on the reserves, and that the schools …
BOOK REVIEW: Seven Fallen Feathers: Indigenous Deaths and Avoided Hard Truths in a Northern City
” In November 2004 Canada’s Auditor General Sheila Fraser blasted INAC again for wasting money while producing no results…Fraser also pointed out that INAC was spending about $1 billion a year with few tangible results.” -from page 127.
The Death of Forgiveness
In 1961 John Profumo, Minister of War in the British government and a married man, conducted a brief, tawdry affair with teenage party girl Christine Keeler. Among Miss Keeler’s other lovers was Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet military attaché and intelligence …
The End of TV and the Death of the Cable Bundle
Two small pieces of news yesterday could make for a big headache for TV.
Health Insurance: Clear Diagnosis, Uncertain Remedy: Governments are increasingly turning to private insurance in order to widen access to health care and make it more efficient. Are they expecting too much?
“Governments want to spur private insurance in the hope of solving three big problems bedevilling their national systems of health care: inadequate access to care; soaring costs; and a paucity of innovation. They hope thus to improve their citizens’ health without tearing more holes in tattered public finances.”
Conrad Black: No Exaggeration Needed
Once again we are indebted to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and retired judge Brian Giesbrecht for their diligent research that has unearthed the proportions of some of the embellished claims about Canada’s past treatment of its Indigenous population …
GIGO Applies to Legal Opinions Too
Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is an expression often used in the computer world, but it can also apply to the legal world. Take, for example, the jaw-dropping legal opinion expressed by David Beatty, professor emeritus of the University of …
Are There Really Thousands of Missing Indigenous Children?
Canada has always been known throughout the world as a peaceful and thoroughly decent country. Not anymore. Our international reputation is now in tatters. Allegations that bodies of Indian Residential School (IRS) students have been discovered in secret graves have …
Comparing Lives to Lives
Sometimes I wonder what people will say 100 years from now about the unprecedented events of 2020—not just about the pandemic, but about the extraordinary legal and economic measures imposed by governments around the world, purportedly for the purpose of …