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Second Thoughts about Residential Schools
We have reached a stage where residential schools are being held up as the primary cause of the social, cultural and economic distress in Aboriginal communities, and this has pulled attention away from many other elements.
Keep the 'British' in British Columbia
By C.P. Champion THE HAIDA at the height of their power were the terror of the West Coast, seizing booty of all kinds in seaborne raids: goods, captive labour, trophy-women and -children—and bearing aloft severed heads and limbs. Their own oral history records disturbingly recurrent scenes in which they “destroyed the people, burned their town completely” and “took them also for slaves.” But in 1862 the Haida were nearly wiped out by smallpox, which arrived by ship with gold diggers from San Francisco. Few would be so churlish as to judge the Haida of today on the basis of their marauding...
Canada's Celebrity Judges
Other countries have public intellectuals; Canada has Supreme Court judges, writes Y.Y. Zhu in the forthcoming issue of The Dorchester Review.
The Perils of Democracy
“THE DECLINE of Democracy.” “Democracy in Peril.” Such themes have been common in the higher journalism in recent years. The DR's John Pepall reviews two books. FROM THE ARCHIVES.
How Good Was Harper? (for Canada's Economy)
By William Robson. Measured against the statist, redistributive aspirations of many on the left, Harper’s record was bad. Measured against the aspirations of many on the right, it was better.