Reading Time: 5 minutes The phrase ‘you are now on treaty land’ is part of a slick marketing campaign with clear financial goals
Author: Brian Giesbrecht
Brian Giesbrecht was a Provincial Court Judge in Manitoba from 1976 to 2007. During that time he served as Acting Chief Judge, and Associate Chief Judge. He is now retired and lives in western Manitoba.
How do we play the mating game in the #MeToo era?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The workplace was once an acceptable place to find romance. Now it’s a place to court misunderstanding and perhaps disaster
Canada needs another Diefenbaker
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the hyper-sensitive world of modern politics, opposition politicians aren’t brave enough to talk about critical issues
Vasili Arkhipov kept his head and saved us from nuclear destruction
Reading Time: 4 minutes We owe so much to Vasili Arkhipov, yet he’s not well known. He kept his cool while those around him were losing it during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Indigenous children continue to pay a steep price
Reading Time: 5 minutes No amount of funding plans or reorganization can solve this problem as long as alcohol and drug abuse persists in First Nations communities
Canada falling into the anti-Trump trap
Reading Time: 4 minutes As Canadians try desperately to prove we’re not Trump’s America, we make grievous social and political errors
The real culprit in Tina Fontaine’s death
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s dysfunctional reserve system has produced far too many marginalized and vulnerable girls and women
The double standards of the Boushie/Stanley case
Reading Time: 4 minutes The PM seems committed to adding to the differences between Indigenous people and the mainstream, instead of trying to dismantle a divisive system
Indigenous middle class key to closing tragic cultural chasm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The large and growing Indigenous middle class has shown us the way, by successfully integrating without any loss of their Indigenous culture and identity
Trial by tweet: heads drop in the basket without trial
Reading Time: 3 minutes The #MeToo movement has ushered in a revolution that discards hard-won concepts like the presumption of innocence and due process