Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones offers a needed reminder that no matter how often it gets trotted out as a basis to ignore the ideological underpinnings…
Residential Schools
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katharine Hayhoe offers some suggestions as to how to reach people in talking about climate change. Karine Peloffy writes about the growing…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Stanford writes that the D-J Composites lockout should offer Canada a much-needed reminder as to the reality of labour conflict: Through 640…
New column day
Here, on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s unapologetic role in trying to minimize the harms of residential schools – to to mention otherwise undermining any attempt at truth and…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Evelyn Forget discusses the international outrage at the Ford PC’s cancellation of a basic income pilot. And Paul Waldeman writes about Republicans’ shock…
New column day
Here, on how Canada continues to tear Indigenous children away from their families due to the lingering effects of discriminatory policies. For further reading…– Katie Hyslop has been reporting on…
Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?
The recent decision by an all-white jury to acquit Gerald Stanley, the killer of Colten Boushie calls on us all to confront systematic racism and demand reforms to Canada’s justice…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Finn discusses how corporate giants exert far more influence than we generally know – or should be willing to accept. And…
The Week in Review: We know where the Wildrosers are, but where’s Jason?
ILLUSTRATIONS: Where’s Jason? If anyone spots PC Leader Jason Kenney, who doesn’t have to show up in the Legislature because he’s not an MLA, please let a responsible grownup know.…
Chanie Wenjack, Gord Downie, and the Secret Path
I never heard the story of Chanie Wenjack, an Ojibway boy who lived in Northern Ontario, until today.And although it made me feel terribly sad, I'm glad I did.Because it…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rachel West charts how higher wages and improved social supports can reduce crime rates and their resulting costs.- Lana Payne comments on the glass…
Apologise for what? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The Government of Canada never operated a single residential school for aboriginal people in Newfoundland and Labrador.Not one.That's why aboriginal people in this province weren't included in the settlement of…
Canada’s progress shows indigenous reconciliation is a long-term process
Australia, which is "being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population", can learn from Canada's emerging efforts at reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The BBC reports that even UK business groups are acknowledging that excessive executive pay is leading to public concern and distrust in the state…
A simple question about residential schools #nlpoli
According to one of the firms involved in the class action suit by residents of Newfoundland and Labrador about residential schools:Five separate actions were commenced alleging that former residents of…
Bishop Henry Pontificates on Gay Straight Alliances
On January 13, 2016 The Most Reverend Frederick Bernard Henry, the seventh Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Calgary well and truly lost it. Henry wrote a pastoral letter denouncing…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Patrick Flavin studies (PDF) the direct benefits that flow from giving people secure access to health care. And Daphne Bramham writes that the…
Recommendations from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Today, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its Final Report on the human rights violations perpetrated through the aboriginal residential school policy. Here are a few of the…
Rachel Notley offers a dignified argument for healing and acknowledgement of past wrongs against First Nations citizens
PHOTOS: The damage done by residential schools is part of every Canadian’s legacy and the sooner we acknowledge that, the better off we all will be. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel…