The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — UNDRIP — became law in Canada on June 21 2021 under false pretences. The widespread hysteria and guilt following the news on May 27 2021 that graves containing the remains of 215 children had been...
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Indian Industry Cronyism
Former Justice Minister David Lametti’s departure from government and immediate acceptance into an expensive law firm that makes millions from indigenous issues is a recent example of what has long been called “The Indian Industry” at work. The fact that a member of...
The Nunavut Devolution – Good Idea?
“The best laid plans of mice men often go awry” – Robbie Burns
What Government Reaction to Church Fires?
Brian Giesbrecht, retired judge and Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy discusses the 90 church arson fires (over the last thirty months) across Canada and the Canadian Government lacklustre response to these deliberate acts with SAUGA960...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Remembrance Day: Rebuilding Canada’s Military
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, ………..If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. This is the iconic poem written by John McCrae while World War 1 raged, shortly before he too became...
Did Brandon, Manitoba Commit Genocide?
When Parliament unanimously passed its motion declaring that residential schools were genocide, it was probably inevitable that municipal and provincial elected bodies would follow. City councillors in Brandon, Man. are currently debating the following motion: “The...
Reconciliation Day – A Day of Celebration
September 30th will be National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This year it should be a day of celebration. Parliament declared September 30 a holiday soon after the nation was convulsed by the shocking claim that 215 residential students had been somehow killed...
Election Good Time to Propose Review of Bishop Grandin Decision
Winnipeg is saying goodbye to Bishop Grandin. His name is about to be erased from street signs, and soon he will be effectively erased from Manitoba’s history. His crime was being associated with residential schools. For reasons that are purely Canadian any public...
What NB’s Premier Is Saying With His Motion On Land Claims
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is essentially saying “We don’t trust you” in the motion he introduced to protect New Brunswick property owners from a massive indigenous land claim. He is saying it to the indigenous politicians who are bringing the claim, to the...
Why Do People Want To Believe The Worst?
“Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by...
Politicizing the Judiciary
Israel is currently locked in an intense struggle between conservatives and progressives over the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plans. As it now stands, the top court can strike down any law that it considers to be “unreasonable”. Those judges are all...
Our Children Are Being Misinformed
I regularly drive by an elementary school. Like many Canadian schools its fence is festooned with 215 orange plastic ribbons, signifying the 215 Kamloops residential school students who are alleged to have met their death by foul means, and were then secretly buried...
Academia Buying Into Indigenous Genocide Claim
Winnipeg's Canadian Museum of Human Rights. A comparable residential-school institute is planned on University of Manitoba grounds. Courtesy of Canadian Museum of Human Rights The Canadian Museum For Human Rights (CMHR) is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Built...