A fair-minded review of Macdonald's contributions to our country, as both a Father of Confederation and as a strong advocate for its Indigenous peoples, suggests that he is one that we need to keep;
It raises the question of whether economic integration with the US will lead inevitably to political integration as Sir John A. Macdonald feared? Only time will tell but one way or the other, the shift has begun
Assuming that Tagala’s emotion-logged diatribe is well-intentioned, it is still coming from an activist with little indigenous ancestry and even less enculturation to indigenous lifeways;
The government is up to its eyeballs in debt and is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars bailing out its current train company, the last thing taxpayers need is to pay higher debt interest charges for a new government train boondoggle;
“This is a good day for the rule of law in BC. The Court of Appeal has confirmed that, like laws, court orders should be clear enough that we know how to comply with them.”
“It’s doesn’t matter what lipstick politicians put on their carbon tax pig, all carbon taxes make life more expensive, hurt our economy and don’t work.”
What Mehanna’s “Christmas in Palestine” display does is transform a Christian celebration into land claims and grievances about the war between Hamas and Israel;
We need to have the courage to confront the truth. We need to hear the voices of all Canadian, not just those aligned with a political or corporate agenda
“A museum dedicated to addressing contested histories, even when they are controversial, betrays Palestinians, Jews, truth and their own expressed mandate. That is the real Nakba.”
But the transition will not be without pain. Among the oxen to be gored would be supply management, energy regulations, cultural (CanCon) rules, banking and financial regulations, shipping regulations, and interprovincial trade barriers;
Mr. Anisimov’s experience parallels that of many students and employees who faced deregistration or discipline for declining the Covid vaccines on religious grounds across Canada;