Senior Fellow Rodney Clifton calls for renewed scientific scrutiny of two major Canadian narratives: COVID-19 policies and the Kamloops residential school claims. He argues that both bypassed rigorous, evidence-based evaluation, favouring politicized consensus. Critics of pandemic measures, like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, were wrongly dismissed despite valid concerns. Similarly, the unverified mass grave claims in Kamloops were accepted without forensic proof. Clifton urges a return to the scientific principle of “trust but verify” to safeguard truth, public policy, and democracy.
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Returning to Reciprocity Is the Only Way Forward for Canada
What is the difference between the treaties that indigenous people signed and the Calls to Action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report? In a single word: “reciprocity.” The treaties assumed that reciprocity is necessary in any agreement, while the...
Murray Sinclair’s Legacy
After Murray Sinclair died in Winnipeg on November 4, 2024, many Canadians learned a good deal about the life and work of the former Senator, Judge, and Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). But given how glowing the...
Improving the Prosperity of First Nations: Lessons From Two Nobel Laureates in Economics
Here is a question that many Western Canadians, especially those living in rural areas, could answer. “If you were blindfolded and dropped off on a First Nation or a Hutterite colony, would you know where you were if you did not see any people?” Of course, both...
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
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...
Frontier Live on X – From Truth Comes Reconciliation Book Launch
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Invitation To a Virtual Book Launch
NEW BOOK From Truth Comes Reconciliation: An Assessment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2nd Edition)Edited by Rodney A. Clifton and Mark DeWolf Published and distributed by Sutherland House Press, 2024. Order your copies now available from...
They Are CENSORING True North Content As “Hate Speech”
Last week, a True North interview that challenged the Residential School narrative was censored by Spotify and removed from the platform because it violated community guidelines and was labeled "hate speech". NDP MPs began publicly celebrating the censorship of...
Has The TRC Report Pushed Canada Into A Post-Truth Nose-Dive?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) Report was published a decade ago. Since then, surprisingly few people have provided a critical but fair assessment of this 3,500-page, 7-volume mammoth. Most academics and journalists—those we expect to...
UBCIC Chiefs Commit A Grave Error In Labelling Authors As Racist Deniers
UBCIC Chiefs attempt to suppress open debate on residential schools.
A Letter To Five Canadian Churches
Two years ago, Eric Metaxas, the conservative Christian American author wrote a short, but important, book addressing the American Church. He was concerned the churches were forsaking their Christian principles in not speaking out against the anti-Christian ideologies...
They Would Call Me a “Denier” – Let Me Explain what I Believe about Residential Schools in Canada
In our largely “post-truth” society, the validity of a given statement is increasingly assessed based on who is making it. There are even those who believe that only some should be allowed to say certain things – while others should be scorned or even imprisoned for...
The Care Home Dilemma
Canada’s rapidly changing demography is daunting. The number of people over 65 increased from 3,888,550 in 2001 to 7,021,430 in 2021, an increase of 81 percent. Over the same 20-year period, the Canadian population increased by 23 percent — from 30,007,090 to...
Residential School Recrimination and Reality
Allegations of widespread abuse against the children who attended Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRSs) began their slow but steady promotion three decades ago. Since that time, Indigenous activists increasingly began pushing more scurrilous assertions about the...