Dead Wrong is Dead Right About Residential Schools A review of Dead Wrong: How Canada Got the Residential Schools Story So Wrong, edited by C. P. Champion and Tom Flanagan (True North and Dorchester Books, 2025). —————————————————————————— Canada’s Supreme […]
Peter Best
Canada’s Judiciary Ignores the Charter of Rights by Favouring Aboriginal Religion Over Other Religions
It’s trite that in a liberal democracy there should be the separation of church and state. But there isn’t such a separation in the case of Aboriginal religious beliefs, which the Canadian state, through its judiciary, treats preferentially over other […]
Aboriginal Leaders Reject Canada’s Judaeo-Christian Heritage – The Heritage Which Saved Their Peoples
Western Christianity was and remains the main constituent element in European thought – including rationalist thought, which although it attacked Christianity, was also derivative from it. Throughout the history of the West, Christianity has been at the heart of the […]
Immovable Constitutional Duties Owed to Aboriginal Peoples Emasculate Canada’s Ability to Defend Itself Against Donald Trump’s Threats and Attacks A government’s most basic function is the protection of its sovereignty. -Simon Schama[i] States are not structures to be taken for […]
Letter by Robert MacBain sent October 22, 2024 to the Chanie Wenjack Fund charity pointing out numerous falsehoods told to Canadians about “Chanie” Wenjack by this registered charity. The tragically unfortunate boy was NOT a victim of residential schools.
DATE: October 22, 2024 MEMO TO: Sarah Midanik CEO Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund FROM: Robert MacBain SUBJECT: Misinformation in our classrooms COPY TO: David Akin Jorge Barrera Conrad Black Chris Champion Robert Fife […]
Two Competing Versions of “Indigenous Difference” Square Off at the Supreme Court of Canada
Cindy Dickson is a member of the Yukon Vuntut Gwitchen First Nation, (VGFN). It has about 560 members, of which about 260 reside in the village of Old Crow, with the remaining members living away. Ms. Dickson lives in Whitehorse, […]
The Federal Government’s Heedless and Unprincipled Giveaway of Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Legally Undeserving Aboriginal Litigation Claimants
It’s rare and difficult for a Canadian citizen to be able to successfully sue the government for negative consequences befalling him or her, or befalling society in general, as the result of the ordinary operation of government laws. As the […]
Canada’s New Destructive Ism: “Reconciliationism”: The movement to reverse history, divide Canadians and destroy Canada. True Reconciliation-How to Be a Force for Change
In May 1633, when Champlain came back to his settlement at Quebec…a large party of Montagnais arrived in their canoes to see him. Champlain gestured at the building works, including the fort, and said, “When that great house is built, […]
Namwayat – “Those With Whom You Are One”
The laudable goal of reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians means different things to different people and groups. According to the federal government, as formally set out in its reconciliation Principles, reconciliation requires creating a third order of constitutional sovereignty […]
How the Wisdom in the Writings of the Novelist George Eliot Can Inform Views of the Indigenous Situation in Canada
Why write, why read, if not to offer, to find, a larger image of life, an image of man as deep as the problems that make up his greatness? -Victor Serge[1] We’re one planet, one humanity, and everything is connected. […]