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Canada Is Finding Out What Reconciliation Really Means
Quesnel, Quesnel, Quesnel! My goodness, what in the world are you smoking? I mean, it’s all so great…for so many reasons! And, I fully encourage you to continue on this path. But only because the ongoing grotesque displays of illiberalism, sexism, racism, and general...
The Kamloops Guilt Trip, Three Years On
The third anniversary of the Kamloops claim — that 215 indigenous students died under sinister circumstances, and were buried in secrecy on the grounds of the local residential school — is fast approaching. No excavations have taken place to date. It is becoming...
Ottawa’s Capital Gains Tax Raise Guarantees More Stagnation
Canadians have been treated to the latest growth-strangling budget of our mushrooming federal government. Aside from the usual profligate Ottawa spending plans, one move has caused justifiable consternation: the capital gains inclusion rate is to be raised from one...
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Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Foreign Influence in Canadian Economy?
Foreign influence or interference has become a mediatic topic. The fear and suspicion of interference in the elections and democratic process have been in news headlines. For the western countries, the suspicion bears on Russia and China. Revisionist powers have a...
Frontier Live on X – 2023 Wrap Up – With Lee Harding
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There Was Not One, But Three Pandemics
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 3 of 3
COVID-19 Policies Undermined Trust in Key Institutions
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 2 of 3
A Canary In A Coal Mine Is A Warning Sign
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 1 of 3
It’s Not Too Early to Name the Decade
The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene. Try as I might, I cannot understand the last one. Regardless,...
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...
There are no Indian Residential School Denialists, so Why Criminalize Them?
In a recent Canadian Press story, Kimberly Murray, the government’s special interlocutor on unmarked graves of missing Indigenous children from residential schools, is reported as saying: “We could … make it an offense to incite hate and promote hate against...
Does Academic Freedom Protect Genocidal Anti-Semitism?
American and Canadian university campuses rang for weeks on end with celebrations of Hamas’s “great victory” of Oct. 7. The murder of civilians, the burning alive of families, the gang rape of women to death, the roasting of children in ovens, and the beheading of...
A Cultural History of Education Part 2
Part 2 of 6 : A Deist Schism in the Age of Reason.