Indigenous peoples
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Book ReviewsInnocent Heroes: Stories of animals in the First World War
by Sigmund Brouwer 2017 / 186 pages RATING: Gift Animals had a way bigger role in WWI than you probably ever realized. Sigmund Brouwer’s fantastic…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Jan. 10, 2026
The Mutation Myth: what Evolution doesn’t want you to know (8 minutes) We’re told random mutations drive evolution– mutations are supposed to be “the engine…
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NewsBC private property rights in question after court ruling
The City of Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, sent out a letter in October to some of its residents, informing them of a recent BC…
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NewsWere the 215 soil abnormalities actually graves? 37% of Canadians think we should just presume so.
Allegations of mass graves outside of Canadian residential schools was one of the top news stories in the world in 2021. Ground-penetrating radar was said…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 5, 2025
On boys, and not failing to launch As singer Brian Sauvé wrote of his song Old Neptune, He’s Roaring, “I wrote this… for my boys:…
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Indigenous peoples112 Canadian churches vandalized and burned
Since the allegations of “mass graves” on Canadian residential school grounds began in 2021, more than a hundred of the country’s churches have been burned…
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NewsMillions spent and still no graves
According to a report from the Western Standard, the federal government has confirmed that it had given $7.9 million dollars to uncover the “heartbreaking truth”…
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Indigenous peoplesResidential schools: the lesson that’s being lost
As history teachers never fail to remind us, “those who don’t learn their history are doomed to repeat it.” The double meaning is most often…
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Indigenous peoplesA call to action: loving our Indigenous neighbors
Many Canadians, Christians included, are unfamiliar with the painful history of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Chief Dan George, born in North Vancouver and former leader…
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Indigenous peoplesThe Truth matters: analyzing the facts beneath “mass burials” at residential schools
“Searches for unmarked graves at the site of a former northern Ontario residential school have uncovered 171 ‘plausible burials’…” That’s what The Globe and Mail…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 29, 2023
The scaremongers are wrong (7 min) While no one in this video is professedly Christian, the battle is over whether we’re going to understand Man…
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Indigenous peoplesTruth & reconciliation is possible, but not as it is being popularized
Until recent decades, “victimhood” was definitely not a status that people would deliberately embrace. In fact, many who were actual victims would do their very…
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AssortedTragedy, resistance, and change: Glimpses into the Lejac Residential School near Fraser Lake, BC
The following is based on numerous original letters, reports and other primary source correspondence that is available online. It attempts to provide some insights and…
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MagazineMar/Apr 2023 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: A Call to Action: Loving our Indigenous Neighbors / Tragedy, resistance, and change: Glimpses into the Lejac Residential School near Fraser Lake, BC…
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NewsBC teacher fired for not backing down on causes of residential school deaths
After four decades as a teacher, Jim McMurtry was fired February 21st by the Abbotsford School District. McMurtry shared in a tweet that he was…
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HistoryResidential schools: what worldview is to blame?
We’ve seen at least ten Canadian churches burnt down and others damaged by fire since unmarked graves at two former residential schools became front page…
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HistoryResidential schools and the devastation of State-perpetrated family breakup
For the past several months, Canada has been convulsed by the heartbreaking rediscovery of hundreds—and likely thousands—of child graves outside residential schools where Indigenous children…
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Christian educationNo other gods
The Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #64 is a challenge to Christian churches and schools… and the First Commandment **** Last year Canada’s…
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Indigenous peoplesLooking at two more of the TRC’s Calls to Action
The goal of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools – which were run by churches along with the government – was to educate, but also convert and…