Pierre Poilievre recently made headlines when he criticized The Indian Act - calling it racist and archaic. In fact, his remarks were not even controversial, because many indigenous leaders have said the same thing for more than half a century. The Indian Act is...
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New Directions for Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
In December of last year, the Assembly of First Nations’ (AFN) national chief announced he would not be seeking re-election. Coming up on the next leadership race, it may be important to have a conversation about what the AFN wants to be and where it wants to go. Here...
Reconciliation? Remove Income Tax Exemption
Canada’s Indigenous policy has officially been one of “reconciliation” between Indigenous Canadians and non-Indigenous Canadians since the Liberals came to power in 2015. Too many Indigenous remain on the margins and billions have been spent to remove obstacles to...
Defund the Police? How About We Defund the Universities.
Our universities have nurtured and foisted on America and Canada an extreme radicalism that vilifies American and Canadian history, society, and culture. This radicalism stems in the first instance from identity grievance studies programs, such as feminist and gender...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
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...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
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...
Metis Should Avoid ‘Self-Government’
The federal government has signed “self-government” agreements with “Métis nations” of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan. More agreements are in the works. Until Métis requests for “self-government”, the term has been used in relation to First Nations (reserves)....
Are Educators Enemies of the People?
Our educators, based and trained in our universities, have adopted an ideology, a faith, contrary to the values and will of the general public, the citizens who pay their salaries and give jobs to their graduates. This ideology shapes the thoughts of everyone who...
Myth versus Evidence: Your Choice
There is nothing simple about the story of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. For one thing, what we think of as the Indian residential schools underwent considerable change during their 126-year history, with fluctuations in size, focus, and influence. Beginning as...
Prairie First Nations Tired of Unaccountable Band Governments
It is quite distressing to hear that Indigenous activist Harrison Thunderchild of Thunderchild First Nation in Saskatchewan has launched a court application with the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench to demand transparency from his own First Nation’s leaders....
It is Time to Change the “Status” in Status Quo
In recent years, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of Canadians who are entitled to claim and receive benefits that go along with holding “Indian status”. All indications are that this trend will continue—and probably accelerate—in the next few years....
There are Boarding Schools and there are Boarding Schools
Stuffed between the sections of the Globe and Mail last week was a fairly thick, glossy publication entitled Our Kids: Canada’s Private School Guide, an annual digest that I’ve browsed through occasionally, primarily out of an educator’s interest in the schools that...
Departmental Change at INAC
Recent changes at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) are causing consternation across Indigenous communities, as well as with other Canadians. The decision to split the department into two parts, one overseeing Crown-Indigenous relations and the other...
First Nations Should Welcome New Transparency Law: Troubling minority mention lack of transparency
First Nations governments across the Prairies should support a new financial transparency law because the evidence shows that the best governed bands are the most transparent. They should also support the law because Frontier Centre data shows that most Prairie band members support financial transparency.
Response to native financial transparency law shouldn’t be to change the channel
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) responded to Bill C-27, the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, by pointing out how other jurisdictions do not have similar disclosure standards. Well, this is not an adequate response. Full stop. It does not address the issue...