As Frontier readers know I am a member of a group of writers and researchers who came together following the May 27, 2021 announcement that the remains of 215 former students of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School had been found on the school grounds. Simply...
The new documentary Sugarcane uses extensive footage from the CBC documentary, The Eyes of Children, filmed in late 1962 at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The CBC film crew had access to the entire school and grounds for an extensive period of time,...
In July 2024 the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples issued an Interim Report entitled 'Missing Records, Missing Children'. The problem with that title? There are no missing Indian residential school children. Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray...
Earlier this year, a Canadian documentary, Sugarcane, became a smash hit at film festivals, winning prizes at Sundance, Golden Gate, and Full Frame. The movie purports to reveal a history of abuse and misconduct in the Indian Residential School system. It castigates...
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Canadian journalist Tanya Talaga has a new book coming out this summer called “The Knowing.” In this CBC report about it, Talaga is quoted as saying: “We have all heard of someone who didn't come home — this is The Knowing. It is Canada's shame. If every Indigenous...
In a Globe and Mail article on 5 May 2023 the National Centre For Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) finally publicly admitted that its Memorial Register is not a list of thousands of missing children buried in unmarked graves. It turns out the entire claim of thousands...
Brian Giesbrecht is a retired judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba, Nina Green is an independent researcher, and Tom Flanagan is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary. May 27, 2022 marked the one year anniversary of a...