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Professors Milligan & Peace: A Reply
By C. P. Champion Dear Professors Milligan and Peace, Ian and Thomas (if I may), The Dorchester Review is indeed grateful for the notice you have taken of our participation in the Open Letter organized by Professor Dummitt in response to the CHA’s overreach in its ex cathedra definition of “genocide” as an infallible doctrine of Canadian History. Few causes could be more worthy of support, in our view, than resisting this evidence of a peculiar tendency to attempt to impose ideological conformity upon our profession as if the CHA Council were equivalent to the College of Cardinals at Vatican Council I. It should be...
Historians Rally vs. "Genocide" Myth
We write to express our grave disappointment with the Canadian Historical Association’s “Canada Day Statement” claiming that it is “abundantly clear” treatment of Indigenous peoples was genocidal. We demand the Council retract i and commit to its real mission of upholding viewpoint diversity and open scholarly debate.
The “Canada Is Back” Humbug
“Canada’s back.” It's what they all say, writes ADAM CHAPNICK. But Canada is not sufficiently critical to world politics to necessitate official announcements of its alleged coming and going.
The Myth Behind “Rhodes Must Fall”
By Marie Kawthar Daouda
NELSON MANDELA himself urged against cancelling memorials to Imperialist figures. Besides, it is condescending and very white-centered to think that Africa’s problematic past only revolves around European imperialism.
The Imbecile Attack on Egerton Ryerson
It is wrong to blame Egerton Ryerson for creating residential schools and too often ignored that Indigenous people themselves wanted government-funded schools. It was Chief Peter Jones, working with other prominent Methodists, who argued that the government should fund schools to educate Indigenous men ....