What should reasonable people do when schoolchildren are told things that are untrue about Canadian history?
Rodney Clifton
What is Missing From the Missing Children’s Story at Indian Residential Schools?
From Truth Comes Reconciliation
1967 versus 2023
Symposium – Reviewing the 1867 Project (1 of 3)
What’s the Solution to the Cultural War in Schools?
The cultural war has been in full bloom in U.S. education for at least five years. Now it has spread to public schools in Canada. This war pits left-leaning liberal teachers, administrators, parents, and school board trustees against right-leaning conservatives. The...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Homeschooling is an Option
Many parents are frustrated by the limited educational choices their children have right now. For example, a recent article in the Calgary Herald (Ferguson, “Parents regretting in-person classes with no options to go online”), suggests that parents are concerned...
First They Came for the Statues. Will Museums Be Next?
First the radicals came for the statues, and some have already been taken down. That was easy because the statues represented dead white men. Now the radicals are coming for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Will it, too, be knocked down? Before the long...
‘Scholar Strike’ at Canadian Universities Stole Students’ Valuable Class Time
Canadian universities had been shut down since March because of the COVID-19 virus. Yet, during the first week of classes in September, university professors went on a two-day “Scholar Strike” to protest against “anti-black violence.” One wonders why this strike...
Drinking from a Water Fountain in Elementary School Provides a Model for Dealing with COVID-19
No doubt many senior citizens will remember drinking from school water fountains long before students carried water bottles. When the school day began, elementary students would rush to get a drink before class, and the other children would queue up in an orderly...
At the Time of a Pandemic, can Parent-Teachers do an Adequate job of Educating their Children?
Canadian students have been out of school for more than a month because of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) pandemic, and parents are taking on increased responsibilities in homeschooling. In many cases, parents are reluctant teachers asking themselves if they are...
The Marxists are Winning the Education War
For the last 60 years or so, a raging storm of controversy has hung over public education in Canada. It has also pitted some educators, often called “traditionalists,” against others, often called “progressives,” and it has been affecting the way children are educated...
Canada Has Weathered Other Epidemics, and Will Pull Through This One Too
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,...
Good Things Are Easily Destroyed, But Not Easily Created: Sir Roger Scruton
Scruton recognized the problem of enforcing regulations and being watchful for abuse even for conservatives. Human nature was an issue he became interested in as he grew older. He noted, for example, that modern communications, especially social media, has seriously...
An Uprising in Canada
Ten years ago, Douglas Bland, a retired lieutenant-colonel from the Canadian Forces and the Chair of Defense Studies at Queen’s University, wrote Uprising: A Novel. In this 500-page work of “fiction,” Bland outlines how militant Indigenous warriors and their allies...