Reading Time: 3 minutes The ruinously expensive spring lockdown just delayed the inevitable, yet leaders are ‘locked’ into a lockdown model that does more harm than good
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.
Time to come to terms with Canada’s original sin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Separating one racial group of people from the rest of the nation and expecting a good result was madness then and is madness now
It’s not too late to adopt Sweden’s approach to COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes It didn’t spend billions to pay people to stay home – as we have done – compromising our children’s futures for generations
Canada is not a racist country, nor are its institutions
Reading Time: 3 minutes People want to live here because Canada is a welcoming country where all races and creeds live together without persecution
Let people make their own risk assessments
Reading Time: 3 minutes We should all take valuable lessons from the way Sweden has handled the COVID-19 crisis
Canada’s panic response to Covid-19 came with a heavy price
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our children and their children will be paying for the bad decisions made by our senior medical science and political leaders for decades to come
We can’t obliterate history, no matter how hard we try
Reading Time: 3 minutes If historical figures with 2020 attitudes could be found, renaming familiar streets and place names wouldn’t be so daunting
We can’t continue to live in suspended animation
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no evidence that draconian anti-COVID-19 measures were necessary. In the meantime, our economy is wilting
Wet’suwet’en protests throw us all into chaos
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the project is a win for the province, the country, the environment and B.C.’s First Nations, these hereditary chiefs don’t see it that way
UNDRIP is the slow drip eroding Canadians’ rights
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are good reasons why other countries and previous Canadian governments have consistently refused to fully implement the UN declaration on Indigenous rights