The two solitudes of Saskatchewan, the reserve and the farm, remain as estranged as ever, and Indigenous people everywhere hold their breath in anticipation of a trial they don’t dare allow themselves to believe will be fair and impartial.
Category: Current Events
Essays on topical issues in the news, from around the world, by Wayne K. Spear
The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.
Last Summer, Garnet Angeconeb met with Senator Lynn Beyak to reconcile. Now he says she should resign.
For the first time in Canada’s history, a federal government has a plan for Indigenous people that is going to be great for them
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Is the Indian Affairs education system and philosophy right? Do the deaths of Indigenous children justify a change in the policy of this Department? As the years go on, it seems more and more likely that Duncan Campbell Scott spoke for Canada and Canadians.
Here we are in a world of particle accelerators and nanorobotics, with our reptilian brains primed for a flight or a fight.
An honest telling of Canada’s story will make Canadians uncomfortable, but in the long-run Canada will be better for it.
A lot of people fell for the Trudeau pitch, but the shrink wrap has been off a while now and buyers’ remorse has set in.
Liberal Hollywood? Nothing is more conservative than an industry built by powerful old men to…
Gone are the days when a political party might actually have something to fight for or about, such as proletariat revolution or tooth-and-claw capitalism. It’s three parties for the middle class, comrade. So who do you think has the nicest suit?
In Trump’s America everything depends on the manner in which Republican factionalism is resolved. In…
We have all heard the President say that the news is fake, and we have…
