I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed …
A Narrative Reversal Like No Other
Punching Holes In A Story That Doesn’t Hold Water Although many Canadians are finally beginning to doubt the narrative fed to them over the course of a year of grim media reportage of “unmarked graves” and missing and murdered Indigenous …
The Never-Ending, Debilitating, Civic Childhood of Canada’s Aboriginal People
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. -Corinthians 1 It is the right of all capable, …
Determination, Good Will, and Fair Principles Brought Treaty Land Entitlements
Are there any successes in negotiations for land by Indigenous bands? Yes, one bright spot in the long history of resolving Indigenous land claims came 30 years ago in Saskatchewan. The framework for Treaty Land Entitlement enacted then was the …
We Have Found Death Certificates for the Missing Children
1.0 Introduction For years there have been constant references to the death of Aboriginal children. It has been said that the death rate in residential schools was much higher than the death rate on the reserves, and that the schools …
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