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Rediscovering the Good Life
The modern liberal vision of successful parenting and education is irretrievably flawed because it fails even to consider the most important questions about human life, writes Dr. Michael Bonner.
Is Indigenous knowledge infallible? Yes, says Marc Miller
"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...
Myths of Ireland's Easter Rising
The belief that the 1916 Easter insurrection in Ireland was in resistance to British oppression is completely inaccurate, writes Kevin Myers
A Reply to Minister Marc Miller
We can accept Miller’s warning to accept whatever claim is made by an Indigenous community. Or we can ask questions. Sorry, Mr. Miller, but we choose the latter course.
Napoleon and the French Canadians
By Serge Joyal. All countries create myths to adumbrate their aspirations and to reflect an image of their national identity. Such was the myth of Napoleon in France and, as we shall see, even in French Canada.