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Our 29th edition, Vol. 14, No. 3, is now at the printers! Order now to make sure you get your copy of the new issue with "The First Conservative", classic animal stories, Jesuit Martyrs, Conrad Black's ancient history, the Great Plague, Normandy at 80, Poilievre vs. Trudeau, and
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"A toxic idea has infatuated academics" everywhere: decolonization, which classifies people into only two groups: settler and indigenous. Anyone deemed indigenous is entitled to claimed lands, and has moral authority to resist so-called occupation. Settlers ("illegitimate
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Have you ever wondered why the residential school story has been told only by those who attended during the final years? Do no documents survive from the century before? Yes, there are thousands — and they tell a fascinating story. Start your journey here:
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Field trip to Mexico for the students of Kamloops Indian Residential School, 1964:
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There are no unmarked missing children's graves anywhere in Canada associated with residential schools — not one — other than neglected cemeteries on or adjacent to reserve land. That is incontrovertible fact, unless proven otherwise with forensic evidence.
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"We do find that 69.7% of those who did attend residential school can speak one or more First Nations languages, versus 37.4% who did not attend residential schools. A similar pattern exists for those understanding one or more First Nations languages: 74.8% of those who ... 1/3
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Canada needs larger and more influential Army Reserve units in each of our cities and towns to rebuild social capital, youth engagement opportunities, leadership experience & civil society. We must better recruit, train, retain and equip our armed forces.
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@cosminDZS
@TrueNorthCentre
This type of behaviour in a commander usually indicates ambition for promotion and favour from higher and a lack of connectedness with the rank and file.
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It is very odd, perverse really, that
@CBCFifth
is going after Buffy Sainte-Marie's claim to be Cree, but does not show the slightest curiosity about the false claim that there are 200 IRS students buried in an apple orchard on the
@CBCKamloops
Kamloops Reserve that is actually a
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Don't let liars, cowards, and rent-seekers get away with the biggest fraud in history. Stand up for Canada!
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"The Smiling Slave" in the British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, B.C. Did you know slavery was common practice among First Peoples on the West Coast, until abolition occurred as indigenous peoples learned and embraced Christianity?
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It is false that indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools. Even when compulsory attendance was introduced in 1920, parents had a choice of day school or boarding. Lots of false narratives are going unchallenged by non-objective media.
@NCTR_UM
@CBCIndigenous
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"The Kamloops ‘Discovery’: A Fact-Check Two Years Later"
What do we now know about the alleged ‘discovery’ of ‘the remains of 215 children’?
By Nina Green. New exclusive to The Dorchester Review:
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From a reader: "the DR is highly informative with a tone, character, & outlook that is quite congenial. It has an admirably broad compass in providing thoughtful articles on historical controversies, ... 1/2
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Some Mohawks claimed that there are children's remains under Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. So three archaeologists made a physical excavation last month. They found nothing but an old shoe, evidence of nothing at all. "Mohawk mothers" now propose ground-penetrating radar
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Despite Murray Sinclair’s claim that 2800 "children died in residential schools," and "maybe 20,000," in fact B.C. death certificates in the NCTR’s possession show that (to name but a few) one child on the Memorial Register died when hit by a CPR train on his home reserve... 1/4
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On 15 July 2021, the lawyer for the Kamloops Band, Don Worme, said: "it’s undeniable that those are graves. There’s no question that there have been children gone missing. Our Knowledge Keepers from this community have told us so. We believe them."
But is it really
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Canada's Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, believed Adolf Hitler 'truly loves his fellow men.' And yet in policy, Mr. King was a supreme realist — writes Patrice Dutil. From our archives:
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Some faces of Indian Residential Schools. No one denies that the schools were imperfect, even deeply flawed. But they were the fruit of a progressive wish to educate rather than destroy or neglect indigenous people, who wanted education and had a right to it in their treaties.
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Fascinating new research on First Nations
#slavery
and
#SlaveTrade
on the West Coast. Slaves held by Indigenous chiefs and nobles were trophies of war, held as chattel, and sometimes ceremonially executed at the Potlatch. These abhorrent First Nations practices continued into the
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Today is a federal stat holiday to mourn the harm done by Residential Schools, even though they probably, on balance, did more good than harm. Why? Because they provided a decent education to one-third of Indigenous children, whose parents applied for full-time education. Another
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The world is waking up to the unmarked graves hoax. Here's the widely-read UK Daily Mail:
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@theToddHirsch
@CBC
Understandable. It is a quasi-religious organization for those inside the bubble.
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Learn why public discussion is now flooded with totally false or grossly exaggerated assertions. Grave Error is available for order today.
Dorchester Books:
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Fired high school teacher
@James_Walter01
Ph.D. tells the story of his cancellation, over a matter of historical evidence that should rightly be in dispute, in this exclusive for The Dorchester Review: "I don’t wish to retraumatize former students at
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The man understands history.
Javier Milei knows how to deal with socialists. This is the perfect response.
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GRAVE ERROR remains the
#1
Best Seller in Amazon's Canadian category. Kindle of the same sits at
#7
. It's also "Most Wished For" and 2nd "Most Gifted." Take that, all you poseurs and purveyors of false history! Thanks
@TrueNorthCentre
for our excellent
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Statues of Sir John A. Macdonald should be left in place or put back up — because he is simply the greatest and most admirable political figure in Canada's history and nothing he did, or said, was so wicked as to warrant his Soviet/Nazi-style removal from
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The Government of Canada should move to make the Canadian Red Ensign an official heritage flag and fly it on all war memorials and second flag poles next to the national flag, and on the East Block.
@JeanCharest_
@PierrePoilievre
@CandiceBergenMP
@theJagmeetSingh
@JustinTrudeau
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Very important development:MEDIA RELEASE
SAT, JUN 10, 2023
MCCRAE CHALLENGES SINCLAIR ON RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS NARRATIVE
Former Manitoba attorney general Jim McCrae today challenged former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair to explain statements Sinclair made1/9
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When they executed the King on Jan 30, 1649, and abolished the House of Lords on Mar 19, England's new leaders looked forward to a golden age, a just republic of virtuous men with fairness for all. Of course it did not work out. Utopian dreams, imposed only by violence, never do.
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Delighted to have Brian Busby review Staines' History of Canadian Fiction in our 23rd edition: Order your copy now!
@reviewcanada
@malahatreview
@ACCheng
@CNandQ
@VehiculePress
@McGillQueensUP
@alllitupcanada
@canadianlit
@ThrillDetective
@Pulpcurry
@CUP_LitPerform
@TFCLeafnation
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At
@cityoftoronto
Toronto City Council
@TorontoCouncil
the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Most of the history cited by Mayor Chow is false and easily shown to be completely fabricated. The facts are laid out here:
But the extreme left manifestly
I feel like I just witnessed a lynching.
Toronto City Council decided tonight to remove Henry Dundas's name from four locations in the city, starting with Yonge Dundas Square. Two subway stations with the name Dundas and a library will soon follow. Renaming all of Dundas Street
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Highly recommended documentary video from the formidable Canadian media phenomenon, Lauren Southern. Deserves to be widely reposted and seen.
Mass graves in Canada: tragedy or hoax?
@Lauren_Southern
investigates the supposed dark chapter in Canadian history.
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Our 23rd edition is now at the printers'. Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring-Summer 2022, ships in three weeks. Sign up to receive your 104-page issue of the best, bravest, and most pleasant summer reading available in this country today:
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"Sir Henry Dundas was a man who opposed slavery and led a navy that went on to fight slavery. Unlike 'Sankofa', that is an important part of our real history." Read on:
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Application for Admission to Kuper Island Residential School for David Joseph Reid Thomas, 13 years old, signed by his father, George Reid Thomas, August 13, 1935, LAC School Files Series, RG 10, Vol 6457, file 885-10, part 6. Religion: already Catholic when applied.
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Many of the estimable James W. J. Bowden's writings in The Dorchester Review are on
@academia
and can be sampled here:
including:
*The Fight for Labrador
*Thomas D'Arcy McGee & the Kingdom of Canada
*Sir Sandford Fleming and Electoral Reform in 1892
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A pained CBC grudgingly admits: "Throngs of Canadians flood [London] streets, wave flags to witness Charles's coronation, ... largest contingent [from] outside the U.K." "There were just a ton of Canadian flags out there."
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Perhaps proud new Canadians will save demoralized legacy Canadians from the dark night of the soul that they have imposed on themselves since the 1960s
Immigrants, people of colour are biggest fans of the monarchy in Canada: poll
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Video: "Sir John A. Macdonald saved more indigenous lives than any other prime minister" — Greg Piasetzki
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"There has been an irritating, shallow and divisive genre of Indigenous rights books prevalent in Canada over the past 10 years, characterized by virtue-proclaiming indignation, anger and harsh accusations against 'white' Canadians, past and present, over our allegedly
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Fascinating glimpse from the 1872-73 Report of the Dept of Indian Affairs. How accurate it is, it's hard to say, but it's far from the caricature today's activists have foisted on us about Victorian Canada.
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Serious scholar (left) meets misdirected, possibly uneducable student. A telling scene from the now-absurd
@ulethbridge
campus, where Dr. Widdowson
@FrancesWiddows1
was an invited, and then disinvited, guest speaker. Shouted down by rent-a-mob last week.
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"I am of French descent, of French appearance, and my language is French. But, gentlemen, I am like you in one respect — proud that I am a British subject, and in my heart glad that I am an Englishman, under the free rule of our Sovereign." — Colonel Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
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Grave Error: Correcting the False Narrative of Canada’s “Missing Children” by Tom Flanagan
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A great and insightful magazine, right to the last: this cover story from Jan. 1998.
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Are you proud of Canada, with good reason? Are you sceptical of the bizarre and unsubstantiated claims being made about our history? Yes and yes! Then you will assuredly enjoy our 100-page print edition with a cold beverage on your verandah!
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Great to see the myths challenged by our book, Grave Error, make it all the way into The Australian newspaper down under.
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Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) back in the day when we took ourselves seriously and had a proper fleet.
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Dr. Frances Widdowson is on her way to Quesnel today to explain why there is no evidence of bodies in Kamloops; why it is wrong to ban a legitimate book; and to defend our right to say that. In the post below, she reveals a minor Manitoba professor as a major clown. Example: he
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She is one of the biggest frauds of Canadian history. There is no evidence of one murdered child from a residential school. Not a single one.
Assembly of First Nations Chief RoseAnne Archibald says she was conflicted on attending Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral because of the “long history that covers a period of colonization and genocide” and “we have survived genocide.”
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The world is waking up to the residential schools graves hoax and the neo-anti-catholicism that probably underlies the fraudulent claims.
This was one of the beautiful churches burned down in Canada following the accusation of leftist Justin Trudeau and media that Catholic Church committed Mass murder of indigenous children a century ago. Now the excavation at the alleged burial sites has proved that the accusation
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The excellent new book, a collection of essays on a variety of topics, "The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Canceled," just hit
#1
on Amazon’s Top 100 books list. Rather fitting for July 1/Canada Day/Dominion Day. Thanks to all 19 authors! Buy the print version
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More on China's part in corrupting Canada's government and media. "Talking to an Investigative Reporter Who Exposed Chinese Influence."
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Yes, it is a scam and has been a scam all along.
The pink flags indicate the possible graves "discovered" by the GPR survey done by the English River First Nations.
Yes. They found possible graves in the middle of a cemetery.
This is entering scam territory folks.
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"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land." Magna Carta (13th century) Clause 39
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Number 1 and Number 2 on the best seller (Canada) list.
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More findings on First Nations traditional languages: 83.7% of First Nations adults who reported that they had attended residential school also reported that they could understand or speak a First Nations language, compared to 66.0% of First Nations adults who had not attended
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This is the fruit of "decolonization" ideology erroneously, recklessly, and indeed criminally put before students at school and in universities. It is not only historically wrong and politically tainted, but done with little sense of, or responsibility for, its consequences in
Student group at
@LincAlexLawTMU
law school (Ryerson U) declares "unequivocal" solidarity with Hamas
(“‘Israel’ is not a country, it is the brand of a settler colony.” So-called Israel has been illegally occupying & ethnically cleansing Palestine...")
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Still striving to punish the man for giving context in class that is 100% true.
UPDATE on my case. I was fired by Abbotsford School District for saying disease and not teachers killed 215 students. My regulatory body (TRB) now threatens a lifetime teaching ban for “minimizing harms,” telling students I was leaving, and talking to
@RebelNewsOnline
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"Instead of looking to a gag law, First Nations and the federal government must look to establish a team of independent, experienced and qualified investigators to produce a definitive report with clear and yes-or-no findings."—reporter Paul Walton
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Not so long ago Labor activists, Liberals, and Tories all shared a belief in the advantages of Canada's Burkean inheritance, French and British heritage, a benign limited state, and ordered liberty, as did Eugene Forsey — writes Prof. Christopher Dummitt
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British History is Canadian History. It is a sine qua non of understanding our history and who we are as Canadians.
Share if you think British History should be taught as Canadian History in schools again!
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“I come to you, then, like so many missionaries before me who have proclaimed the name of Jesus among the native peoples of Canada — the Indians, Inuit and Metis — and have learned to love you and the spiritual and cultural treasures of your way of life. The missionaries ... have
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"Grave Error" is the # 1 Best Seller in the Amazon category of Native Canadian Literature. Woot Woot!
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After the announcement by T'kemlups First Nation of the “discovery” of unmarked graves, many politicians, Indigenous leaders, and media have cast aside balance, restraint, and caution, turning truth into a casualty. Public discussion is now filled with totally false or grossly
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@David_Mulroney
More than the number, the problem is the abandonment of quality control, because officials cannot keep up. That increases risk factors exponentially.
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@MaximeBernier
The oath to the King is the oath to Canada, since His Majesty is the personification of the Canadian State. To change or remove it would be to capitulate to the Left's campaign to destroy traditions, without regard for the long-term consequences. That much seems dead obvious to
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Why are there 138 Generals and Admirals in the Canadian Armed Forces, double the number in 2012? Why do we have 3 generals posted to Alaska right now? Why are so many RegF (full time) troops unfit to deploy? Why do Canadian soldiers so resemble pirates that Allies now refuse to
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So far, permitting long hair, shaggy beards, green hair, and visible tattoos has "surprisingly" not improved the CAF's recruiting and training problems. Who would have guessed it?
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@nationalpost
Henry Dundas was actually a hero of the Anti-Slavery Movement, writes Professor Patrice Dutil in
@DorchesterRev
. The City of Toronto must reverse its stupid plan to change the name of Dundas Street.
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"Montreal's Sir John A. Macdonald statue should be put back up" — Dr. Patrice Dutil in the Gazette
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Well, exactly. The world knows it, and yet most Canadians (we suspect) still believe in the black legend of murdered children.
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In 2002, the Simon Fraser University Archaeology Field School undertook a significant excavation in the orchard. 15 shovel test pits were dug, followed by an excavation of 20' wide x 50' long and 6' deep. An additional area of 7' square by 5' deep was excavated to the SW.
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Chief Dan George says residential schools protected children better than more modern public schools. He laments the closing of "reserve schools" — yet another defence of the advantages of Residential Schooling by a well-informed Indigenous leader.
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Some nice endorsements from
@epkaufm
@JeffFynnPaul
John Fraser of
@CANmediacouncil
(bio here: ), and the Rt. Hon.
@stephenharper
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Sir George Cartier "got it." That was the founding vision of the Confederation-era Tories of the Maritime Provinces and of the upper and lower halves of the Province of Canada. The idea of a federation dated back much further, to the 18th century.
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It is even worse when a country falsifies its past by making up a fanciful genocide and rewarding wildly exaggerated claims about a (flawed) school system that graduated so many successful alumni.
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so that well-informed Canadians can believe anything else they say? 4/4 4/4 4 . .
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Excellent news, as a smart new front opens in the battle against the left-wing-cultic approach to Canadian history permeated with unhealthy white liberal guilt: The Canadian Institute for Historical Education chaired by the distinguished Gord Walker: En
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This is history, the real deal.
“…Bad men and whiskey were killing us so fast that very few of us would have been alive today. The NWMP have protected us as the feathers of the bird protect it from the frosts of winter. I wish them all good, and I trust that all our hearts will increase…”
Isapo-muxika (1877)
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Grave Error review appears in U.S. Catholic World Report. Word is getting out!
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"What Happened to Canada's 'Mass Graves' ?" Spiked-online
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Gotta love Canadians' pathetic attitude toward their own military. "Canada buys Ukraine $400M air-defence system that Canadian Army has been waiting for since 2012". It's a reflection of the Canadian people, alas.
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@mindingottawa
@jody_thomas
@Cooper4SAE
Her senior staff did not flag it to her immediately upon her return?
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Remember: Two-thirds of indigenous children never attended a residential school. So why did Murray Sinclair tell the UN that Canada "forced" 100% to attend? Seems bizarre and, to be blunt, untruthful.
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Evocative photographs from Cecilia Jeffrey School, run by the Presbyterian Church of Canada as a boarding school. It was remote and required a long trip to and from. But it looks as if the dedicated staff did quite a good job of making the best of it. Clockwise from top left:
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Open Letter from dissident historians: Standing up for viewpoint diversity & scholarly debate vs. the conformity presumed by the Canadian Historical Association "Canada Day Statement," which arrogantly claims there is "consensus" around "Canada's Genocide"
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The Arabs *are* the colonizers. Check out the "early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests more commonly known as the Arab conquests" on the ol' wiki:
Rich Lowry: "Why Aren’t the Arabs the ‘Colonizers’?" I would argue the Left is not merely ignorant of history; they are anti-history. They loathe any connection to another time lest it upset their aim of moving history forward according to favored story.
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Good morning. "At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them."
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The only true genocide that ever took place on Canadian soil was the destruction of Huronia by the Haudenosanee (Iroquois) in 1648-49, killing or forcibly assimilating almost all the Huron-Wyandot people.
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Still at Number 1 on Amazon, and still ahead of all the books that peddle lies and distortions about Indian residential school history in Canada. Get your copy today! Make a New Year's Resolution not to let liars and cowards hold the upper hand forever. The tide will turn, though
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What's the truth about Tuberculosis in Indian Residential Schools? "Not only have the media failed to inform the public about the active measures taken by the federal government to combat TB, it has also failed to explain to Canadians why TB in the Residential Schools was such a
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The evidence continues to accumulate. "Those who attended residential school were more likely to understand and speak First Nations languages" than children who did not. (One-third of indigenous kids ever attended res schools.) Source: First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health
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In reality, there is little evidence that the Conservative Party is "better" for Canada's defence. If Tories want us to think they are, they have to prove it next time. They can start with a proper, well-informed plan. Meanwhile, an expert writes: "The Conservatives... will
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