Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is obviously not deterred by the warnings from economists of a global trade war that could usher in a new depression
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.
Freedom of religion disappearing in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes What we have in its place is a gospel of the secular, as interpreted by unelected judges and a feminist prime minister
Night hunting has no place in the modern world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why would a responsible government not immediately issue a total ban on something that’s so explicitly dangerous?
‘Happy’ New Zealand has a teenage suicide problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Indigenous teenagers around the world face problems they think are insurmountable. But there are solutions
Indigenous child welfare system remains dysfunctional
Reading Time: 3 minutes Decades after the ’60s Scoop, we’re no closer to a successful model to help children from troubled homes
Is Indigenous traditional knowledge science?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The notion of knowledge delivered through a magical or spiritual component disagrees with the accepted definition of science
Different rights for different groups of Canadians?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The assertion that we are on treaty land should not allow anyone to impose expectations or rights beyond the societal standard
Treaty land admission is just the thin edge of the wedge
Reading Time: 3 minutes The treaty land acknowledgment is part of a very sophisticated strategy to soften Canadians up for a new and radical campaign to rewrite treaties
Justice reform can’t just be knee-jerk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eliminating peremptory challenges during jury selection and restricting preliminary inquiries won’t necessarily improve the system
Manitoba Hydro’s ‘persuasion money’ symptom of a greater problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes It has become commonplace to seek large monetary settlements to allow resource development to proceed