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...
Readers trying to understand the many claims made about the number of children who died at residential schools can be forgiven for being confused about what they are being told. Various numbers, such as 3,201, 4,000, 6,000, and even 50,000, have been advanced...
Barack Obama recently tweeted his movie picks and they include the Canadian documentary “Sugarcane,” now streaming on Hulu. The documentary is an Oscar nominee finalist, and the film was picked up for distribution by National Geographic. What a prestigious...
Is Kimberly Murray responsible for the false claim that there are thousands of missing Indian residential school children? By her own admission, she is. On 31 August 2022 in support of her request for intervenor status in the Mohawk Mothers' lawsuit in the...
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...
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...
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...
Retired judge and Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre for Public Policy discuss claims of mass graves with Toronto SAUGA 960 AM radio host Richard Syrett. (12 minutes) November 14, 2024.
No. One outrageous lie was quickly discounted, yet another lives on, to the detriment of everybody involved. "My brother Rufus saw them take all those children and stand them up next to a big ditch, and then the soldiers shot them all and they all fell into...
Will the nightmare ever end? Indigenous families across Canada have been lied to about their history for a long time. Some of their leaders have been exploiting their grief and feeding it with new allegations of cruelty to extract billions from taxpayers. For...
Even the Kamloops band is backing away from its most extreme claim, that 'bodies were found' The price we are being told that we must pay to achieve “reconciliation” is becoming clear. We must pretend to believe a lie. The lie is that 215, and then thousands, of...
U of C Professor Tom Flanagan edited 'Grave Error,' the best-selling book that exposed the mendacity underlying so much of Canada's unmarked indigenous residential schools graves narrative. In the article below, one of the book's contributing authors, retired judge...
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...
Orange Shirt Day arose from the experience of a 6-year-old orphan named Phyllis Webstad in a hostel in Williams Lake, B.C. In 2018, she published the eponymous book The Orange Shirt Story, which is now in school libraries across Canada. The plot is of a young...
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,...