It’s been disconcerting to watch the state of police-community relations south of the border deteriorate into mass protests, violent confrontations, and the tragic abuses of police powers recorded on video for everyone to see. It’s easy to become a little smug given...
An infamous quote (“Screw the west, we’ll take the rest”) from then Liberal organizer Keith Davey during the 1980 election drove Albertans’ bumper stickers saying “let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark”. Pierre Trudeau and his notorious National Energy Program...
Back in 2018, the world watched as United States Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subjected to one those most politicized public trials in recent history. Many believed that sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford was manipulated for partisan...
It is now the official view in government, industry, and education that African Americans and certain other “people of color” perform poorly in schools and the workforce, but nonetheless must be treated as if they perform well. The statistically weak performance of...
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
Last fall, the Manitoba Premier threw cold water on any discussions over Western separation. During a CTV interview, the Premier informed a reporter that he had no time for that movement. Making a reference to marriage, he said good relationships are not built on...
General George S. Patton once proclaimed, “Fear kills more people than death!” That makes as much sense (or not) as something Yogi Berra said: “No one goes to that restaurant anymore; it’s too crowded.” These days no one goes to the restaurant because the government...
Canada has some of the best systems and services for addressing gender-based violence. Police services have become increasingly responsive to the challenges of investigating violence against women, and both government and non-government organizations are widely...
COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, and is causing panic across the country. Places like universities, libraries, schools, churches, restaurants, and pubs are closing. International flights are being redirected to just four airports with appropriate screening facilities,...
Finally on March 31, our Prime Minister announced that Canada will spend $2 billion to procure diagnostic test kits, ventilators, and the personal protective equipment (masks, face shields, gloves, gowns) that frontline healthcare workers require to carry out their...
They called it the Spanish Lady and it was a killer. In March 1918, in the fourth year of a war in which the Allies were in retreat from a German onslaught, a new and horrible disease landed on the shores of eastern North America. The killer was a new strain of...
Talking Points Treaty Annuities The talking points on modernizing treaty annuities are intended to provide an accessible means of conveying the key points to a general audience, with later translations into French and Cree (the largest Indigenous language group in...
Points de discussion _ la modernisation des annuités_ (Talking Points-FRENCH) Les points de discussion sur la modernisation des annuités visent à fournir un moyen de transmettre les points clés à un public général, plus tard avec les traductions en français et en crie...
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Talking Points: Modernizing Treaty Annuities [CREE both in roman orthography and cree syllabic] mâmiskôcikewin: anohch ekwa tipahamâtowi-sôniyâw ka ohtinamakehk wehcihôpayiw mâmiskôcikewin ayeseyenowak ka penâtohtahkwaw asici nêhiyawascikêwin ekwa itwêstamâkêwin...