That’s how much money the Kamloops Band spent on…..exactly what we have no idea. If you remember, that indigenous band claimed that the people running the local residential school had, for unexplained reasons, secretly buried 215 of the students under their care. They...
Aboriginal Futures
No Accounts On ‘Truth’ Fund
The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations yesterday confirmed it spent millions to uncover the “heartbreaking truth” of unmarked Indian Residential School graves in Kamloops, B.C. No remains have been recovered to date and no accounting of what became of the $7.9...
Radio – Giesbrecht on Kamloops Unmarked Graves Claim
Brian Giesbrecht is interviewed on Richard Syrett’s Toronto radio show on… about the Kamloops unmarked graves claim. Listen: May 16, 2024. (12 minutes)
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...
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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...
Move Forward on an All-Season Road to Northern First Nations
Manitobans – including First Nations in some of our most remote communities – deserve much improved access to public infrastructure and opportunity. First Nation leaders in Northern Manitoba have a point about expanding all-season road access to some of the most...
How the New National Chief Can Restore the Legitimacy of the AFN
Newly elected Cindy Woodhouse faces significant challenges in restoring AFN credibility among First Nations
How False Graves Claim is Used to Change Canadian Law
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...
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...
Church Leaders Must Rebut False Residential School Claims—Not Just Repent
The German pastor, theologian, and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is reported to have said: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” From the middle of the 1930s, Bonhoeffer was trying to wake the German Lutheran...
Surprised that the TRC’s Calls to Action Aren’t Being implemented?
The Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University, has given up on monitoring the implementation of the 94 recommendations — Calls to Action — in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report. These recommendations are what...
Residential Schools Didn’t Hold Back The Marchand Family
Len Marchand Jr. was appointed BC Chief Justice in December last year. He is the first indigenous person to be appointed to that position in the history of British Columbia. His predecessor, Robert Bauman, stepped down in October.
Graves And School Murders? What Were We Thinking?
The year 2021 was the year of the Kamloops graves. It was the top news story of the year. It was reported by CBC and all mainstream media that ground penetrating radar had detected remains of 215 indigenous children who were found buried in the old apple orchard on...
A Separate Health Department is More Home-Grown Apartheid
A recent Winnipeg Free Press article – Citizens panel recommends Indigenous health department - by Katie May reports that a panel of thirty “randomly selected volunteers” is recommending a “dedicated Indigenous health department” in Manitoba, as an “undisputed...