3 Ways to Advance Reconciliation in British Columbia

Tell the truth. Hold conferences in good faith. Exonerate "The Chilcotin Chiefs."

A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes

After 150 years, are Canadians any more ready to begin accepting the true issues behind the 1862 - 1865 violence in Tsilhqot'in Territory, including The...

A colonial fog leads The Globe and Mail astray on the Chilcotin War.

I am writing to correct some factual errors and misleading inferences contained in a Dec. 20th Globe and Mail article, “Chief executed in 1864 grouped in...

The Tsilhqot’in were “…all finely painted for the occasion.”

During the recent Prosperity Mine hearings in British Columbia, an indigenous spiritual leader, Cecil Grinder, appeared with a painted face. What should one...

An Eagle Feather and an Historic Cross-Roads at Canada’s Supreme Court

During the Oct. 26 Lhatsassin Memorial Day ceremonies at Puntzi Lake, Chief Byron Louis of the Okanagan First Nation presented the Tsilhqot'in with a golden...

Puntzi Lake and the Martyrdom of “The Chilcotin Chiefs”

In October 1864 the Colony of British Columbia martyred five “Chilcotin Chiefs.” One hour before sunrise on Oct. 26, with a crowd of 250 gathered to pay...

The Shining: One of many reasons why this Stanley Kubrick movie is more interesting than you may think.

Stanley Kubrick ends “The Shining” with a puzzle. After Jack Torrance, its central character, dies, the audience sees a photograph of him at the Overlook...

The Lingering Moral Taint in Canada’s Claim to Sovereignty and Licensing the Prosperity Mine.

Since the Tsilhqot’in People have never surrendered their sovereign control to Canada through some constitutional means, Canada can again only pretend to the...

Five things “The Lone Ranger” can teach us.

Great movies deal with great themes. Audiences instinctively expect the greater theme to have the greatest dramatic weight. When the greater theme is not given...