Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau is wrong – it’s not just diversity that makes us strong, it’s how our diverse parts find so much in common
Tag: Canadian history
Reconciliation and healing require forward perspectives
Reading Time: 3 minutes We must embrace who we are as Canadians, the values that set us apart from the rest of the world
Jean Chretien tried to end Canada’s apartheid system
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, his bold plan would have improved the lives of Indigenous Canadians. It was doomed
America’s plan to wage war on Canada in the 1930s
Reading Time: 7 minutes U.S. tactics included troop invasions, use of poison gas and aerial bombings of major Canadian cities
Lining up for another government payout
Reading Time: 4 minutes Should every Indigenous person who was required to attend day school be compensated?
Whitewashing history fails to serve the common good
Reading Time: 3 minutes Beware the arrogance of the new age. Attempting to cleanse history is a fool’s or, worse, a tyrant’s errand
The debt all Canadians owe to settlers
Reading Time: 3 minutes It was the settlers, with their hard work and the values they carried, who made Canada the wonderful country it is today
Rewriting our history won’t make it go away
Reading Time: 3 minutes Historical revisionists want to rename buildings, pull down statues and rename paintings. Leave our history alone, warts and all
Let’s get past the need for apologies about the past
Reading Time: 5 minutes If apologies must flow if reconciliation is to be achieved in Canada, native groups should also issue regrets for their bygone evils
Where is the wisdom and conciliation from Indigenous leaders?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Creating a greater divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians is not likely to benefit people in the long run