Book Review: Uprising, “white” Indians, and a crack shot
Barry Cooper reviews a new book from Douglas Bland
View ArticleThe trouble with apologies
Let’s get over the collective apology thing; it’s not all that helpful….
View ArticleBook Review: Uprising, “white” Indians, and a crack shot
For 30 years, Doug Bland served in the Canadian Forces, emerging as a widely respected lieutenant colonel. As a young captain he took part in an air assault on downtown Ottawa on Thanksgiving weekend,...
View ArticleThe trouble with apologies
We live in an age of apologies where politicians and priests routinely profess regret for predecessors long dead and actions long since expired. On one level, it can be seen as a laudable feature of...
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A Plea to End Canadian Apartheid
“Look at these children that are sitting around here and also at the tents, who are just the image of my kindness. There are different kinds of grass growing here that is just like those sitting...
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Who Pressured Whom?
Jody Wilson-Raybould emerged from her long afternoon of questioning before the House of Commons Justice Committee on February 27, 2019 as the saviour of the rule of law in Canada. Her riveting...
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The New Hatemongers
The misreporting and overreaction to the bizarre confrontation on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in mid-January, an event labelled the Covington Affair, may be the worst example...
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Adam Smith Meets Big Bear
Watching the United States government’s bloody and disastrous native policy unfold during the 18th and 19th centuries provided Canada with plenty of salutary lessons when the time came to make its own...
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Does Cortés’ Conquest of Mexico Require an Apology, Or a Thank-You?
In March, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador demanded Spain and the Vatican apologize to his country’s natives for centuries of colonialism and conquest. “I have sent a letter to the...
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The Elusive Search for a Canadian Greatness
“This is the destiny, and the vocation, Canada could have, not in the next century, but in the next five years of imaginative government. For over four hundred years Canada has toiled, in the shadows...
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Where’s the Veto for Common Sense?
In 2014 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a stunning decision with profound impacts on the future development of our country. For more than a century, Aboriginal title had been limited to the...
View ArticleDigging for the Truth about Canada’s Residential School Graves: Part One
“To me, mass graves indicate genocide. It’s much more than cultural genocide. It’s actually genocide. Indian children were killed. Indian children went missing. All of that truth will be revealed” —...
View ArticleDigging 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...
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