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The Cancellation of a High School Teacher
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"I don’t wish to retraumatize the many former students at residential schools who suffered from abuse or neglect," writes fired high school teacher Dr. Jim McMurtry, "I simply wish to tell my story."
'Je me souviens, too'—Eugene Forsey and the British Fact
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Eugene Forsey believed French and British glory were Canada’s glory, writes Christopher Dummitt, with a Burkean anti-revolutionary idea of history and an abiding faith in the impartial and benevolent state. Originally published in The Dorchester Review print edition, Vol. 4, No. 2, Autumn-Winter 2014, pp. 9-12. THERE WAS A TIME, not so long ago, when those who were proud of Canada’s British traditions weren’t only conservatives. Labour activists and socialists, Liberals east and west, once spoke naturally of Canada’s place in the British Empire and Commonwealth. No longer. In 2014 the Harper government was accused of creating a new nationalism by harkening back...
Update on the Ryerson Fiasco
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In The Ryerson Affair: An Update, Professor Ronald Stagg judges the judges and finds them wanting. The reports that informed the decision-makers were feeble work, he concludes.
"Our Dear Children": Sisters' Chronicles of Indian Residential School
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Sisters' Chronicles reveal the warmth, kindness and dedication of the women who nursed, taught and cared for children at Indian Residential Schools
Is Indigenous knowledge infallible? Yes, says Marc Miller
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"Mr. Miller ignores the well-known fallibility and embellishment of oral accounts, called 'tall tales' when they are known to be exaggerated, and suggests that evidentiary concerns don’t apply" By Hymie Rubenstein Corpses of SS victims in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. After years of searching based on phantasmagoric rumours, no remotely comparable evidence has ever been found at a residential school in Canada. THE 16 Tweets simultaneously posted by the Hon. Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, on Jan. 27, 2022, were not independent tweets. Instead, they form a single 580-word opinion piece (that can...