Changing a country’s name never raised any eyebrows when it involved third world colonies transitioning to sovereignty, as occurred when many in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere after World War II did so. But such transformations have been virtually non-existent when...
Listen to Senior Fellow Rodney Clifton discuss an emerging trend from CBC Radio and various other groups; of renaming,or referring to, Canada as 'Turtle Island', on SAUGA 960 AM (Toronto) with Richard Syrett. (8 minutes) March 19,2024 ...
Why do Conservatives go along with woke ideas, woke norms and above all woke people? One of these days we're going to be really sorry we didn't stand up to this nonsense, when the proverbial little boy calls out that the emperor has no clothes. Men can be women?...
A Review of: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic, Expanded Edition by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Genie (2 of 2)
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Leon Fontaine sits down with retired chief judge, Brian Giesbrecht, to discuss how political interference and a lack of investigative journalism has skewed the narrative on the unmarked graves at residential schools across Canada. Giesbrecht shares what his research...
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission was styled after the South African Commission which was the first commission ever established to sort through claims and counter-claims in an attempt to get at the Truth. The South African TRC was established in 1996 by...
As you read the title of this article, your mind probably flashes to a few negative media stories. Perhaps you think of a young Indigenous woman’s bad experience with a Winnipeg taxi driver. Or you think of Joyce Echaquan’s suffering and death in a Quebec hospital and...
“Leyland Cecco is a freelance journalist based in Toronto, Canada. His work has primarily been in the Middle East, South Asia and Canada, with a focus on water security.” - The Guardian website September 6 2021 Dear Mr. Cecco, Your article in today’s edition of The...
Was there a cultural genocide in Canada as claimed in the Truth and Reconciliation Report? Mass graves at residential schools? An interview with Professor Rodney Clifton, co-editor of “From Truth Comes Reconciliation: Assessing the Truth and Reconciliation...
Manitoba’s public education is about to undergo its biggest overhaul in more than 60 years. Bill 64, the Education Modernization Act, will see to that. Not surprisingly, this bill has attracted the ire of several unions, politicians and journalists. The Manitoba...
There is little doubt that the condition of Indigenous people is desperate in Canada, especially for those living in the 600 or so small isolated First Nations communities. Most Canadians know some facts about the quality of lives of the people in these communities,...
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 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...