Digging for the Truth about Canada’s Residential Schools Graves: Part Two
Part One of this three-part series considered the evidence supporting horrific claims made about the unmarked graves recently found at former Indian Residential Schools across Canada. Upon closer...
View ArticleThe Sins of Our Fathers
Canadians are apparently waiting distraught, wondering what crimes from the country’s history – true, exaggerated or unfounded – might soon be unearthed afresh. And what new social spasms such...
View ArticleThe Diversity Movement: The Good, the Bad and the Dangerous
We live in dangerous times. While an awareness of the diversity of the human being is important, we often forget that we are all human, with the same strengths and weaknesses. Ensuring that people of...
View ArticleEverybody’s Favourite Dead White Male: The Mysterious Resurrection and...
The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar For Canadians with an interest in honest history, Mark Antony’s funeral oration of...
View ArticleThe New Riel Rebellion: Who is Métis?
Canada has always been a country of mash-ups. Sometimes out of necessity, sometimes by choice, our history has been marked by the coming together of different groups, tribes, nations and races to...
View ArticleMy Life in Two Indian Residential Schools
The past several months have seen a slowly developing re-assessment of the numerous claims concerning the discovery of unmarked (or even “mass”) graves of missing children at former Indian Residential...
View ArticleWhat Really Caused the James Smith Cree Nation Stabbings?
The sun had yet to come up on Sunday, September 4 when the RCMP station in Melfort, Saskatchewan received the first of what would be numerous 911 calls about stabbings on the James Smith Cree Nation...
View ArticleJawbones, Gophers and Tainted Milk: What Do We Really Know About Missing...
Since November 2021 a search team using ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been scouring 55 acres of land surrounding the remains of the Lebret Indian Residential School in central Saskatchewan. Also...
View ArticleReckoning with Canada’s Colonial Past: In Conversation with Nigel Biggar
Technically, Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and director of the school’s McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life....
View ArticleGrave Error: Correcting the False Narrative of Canada’s “Missing Children”
The new book Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools) constitutes a response to the moral panic unleashed in Canada on May 27, 2021, when the Chief of the...
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