Governments sometimes offer apologies with more caution. When offering the Liberal government’s 2001 regret for the execution of the 23 soldiers during the Great War, Jean Chretien’s government deliberately did not also pardon the soldiers.
Read MoreA recent poll conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that 36% of millennials surveyed look at it favourably.
Read MoreNo matter how well-intentioned, Serenity’s placement back on or near the reserve was exactly what advocates of the notion of a purer culture wanted for aboriginal children: collective power over individuals based on a bloodline.
Read MoreThe attacks on John A. MacDonald and Christopher Columbus and what they represent—the arrival of the British and Europeans—are surface examples of a now-familiar trend: the claim of victimhood due to a real or assumed historical wrong.
Read MoreThe privilege theory is analytically weak, based as it is in assumed correlation–causation links now confounded by massive wealth creation and immigration that has washed previous effects of privilege out to sea.
Read MoreIt is often excellent politics, at least in the short term. It also leads to hollowed-out, incomplete history, and a simplistic caricature of events. It is the “Disneyfication” of often difficult decisions from another era.
Read MoreThe 2019 inquiry, media, and politicians overlooked a major issue on reserves and thus ignored the nearly 250,000 indigenous women who live in such communities.
Read MoreThe co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been clear he wants to ‘suspend’ liberal democracy, remake modern society – and in his belief that the Holocaust was not unique.
Read More6,000 new Alberta bureaucrats and half-a-billion dollars annually to collect income tax? Most of the firewall ideas only make sense if you’re a separatist.
Read MoreDespite flourishing conditions for many, the rise of grievances and constellations of people that obsess over them — victim cults — has proceeded apace. Examples can be found that range from the mild to the murderous.
Read MoreA century of data suggests that climate deaths are actually declining.
Read MoreEven the BBC headlined a news report with the question, “Does Justin Trudeau apologise too much?”
Read MoreThe best way for liberalization to happen is for a province or territory to act unilaterally to end its own barriers. The Alberta government has already moved ahead in just this fashion.
Read MoreWestern voters were not insane in the 1980s and they’re not insane today
Read MoreYes, Albertans are angry. It would be remarkable if they had any other reaction.
Read MoreEast Asian Americans never waited for long-deserved equality in American laws and institutions before carving out their future and their children’s opportunities whenever possible—in this case, via education
Read MoreThe point of the numerous mea culpas is to morally preen and take issue with the dead who cannot argue back.
Read MoreThe Cain and Abel story may be the first in the Western canon where the temptation to burrow in self-pity appears, where a man who spills blood thinks himself the victim.
Read MoreRising incomes in Canada have been closely tied to one economic sector. Naturally, it’s the one experiencing implacable opposition.
Read MoreWhen Christopher Hitchens described George Orwell as “sensitive to intellectual hypocrisy and well-tuned to pick up the invariably creepy noises which it gives off,” the same lucidity applied in exact measure to Hitchens.
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