The origin of a potentially groundbreaking step towards meaningful reconciliation between Canada’s first people and settlers can be laid at the feet of Métis leader Louis Riel. Literally. In 1994, Métis activist Jean Allard had lots of time to think …
New Book Coming Soon … Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation
– New Book Release July 2019 – Since Indigenous Affairs (IA) became a stand-alone Canadian government department in 1966, it has mushroomed into a federal department unlike any other. IA has jurisdictional reach over 90 percent of Canada’s land mass, authorities …
Coming Soon … Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation
Sheilla Jones is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, leading the Treaty Annuity/Individual Empowerment Initiative. She is an award-winning Canadian journalist, former CBC news editor, and author of several books on cosmology and quantum physics, her …
Treaty Annuities as a Revolutionary Path to Reconciliation
An Ontario Superior Court ruling, delivered December 2018, has lit the fuse for a political, cultural and economic time-bomb that will impact Canadians across the country, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Ruling on a claim by the chiefs of 21 First …
Taking a Revolutionary Path to Reconciliation
An Ontario Superior Court ruling, delivered December 2018, has lit the fuse for a political, cultural and economic time-bomb that will impact Canadians across the country, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Ruling on a claim by the chiefs of 21 First …
Reconciliation – Trudeau’s Vision
Reconciliation between Canada’s Indigenous people and mainstream society is a goal all thoughtful Canadians seek. It is obvious that too many Indigenous Canadians lag far behind other Canadians by most economic and health indicators, and we must find ways to …
Putting truth into Truth and Reconciliation
Fifty-one years ago, he was a young boy who came to a tragic end. Today he’s a symbol for all that was wrong with this country’s treatment of Indigenous people. So why is the story of Chanie Wenjack so full …
What Was Missing In the Truth and Reconciliation Report
Graham Lane In an op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press (September 26th), Gerry Chidiac accepted without reservation the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) findings, which uncritically condemned past residential schools. The TRC Report (on the History of Indian Residential Schools) …
Exposing Media Disinformation – 2 Podcasts from The Great Canadian Talk Show
The Frontier Centre reposts two recent podcasts by Marty Gold, Winnipeg’s most prominent community journalist dissecting the flawed “mainstream media” reporting of the Centre’s most recent Lunch on the Frontier event in Winnipeg on January 13th 2023. Marty Gold’s program …