Indigenous Treaties Need To Be Honoured

Dear free subscribers,

For over 20 years, I’ve been committed to informing Canadians about the REAL issues affecting indigenous people.

To move ahead with this mission, I need to reach a much larger audience than the 2,000-3,000 free and paid readers who now access these posts. This will cost lots of money.

Those who read my post showing that I had a net loss publishing this web site in 2022, surely know that I’m not here to make money.

Building my readership going forward will not be easy or cheap. Minimally, it will demand the services of a publicity consultant, my search for which is nearly complete.

So I ask you to help me convert a few thousand readers into tens of thousands, not just to assist me in spreading the truth about the Indian Residential Schools and other indigenous issues but as a way to expose how ordinary aboriginals are being exploited by their very own people and their greedy non-indigenous carpetbaggers masquerading as altruistic benefactors, cynically aided and abetted by our elected politicians representing all political parties.

To expedite gaining new paid subscribers, there will only be short previews for free subscribers starting now, though I will continue to occasionally post free pieces in their entirety. If this proves unsuccessful, no previews will be offered to free subscribers.

If that doesn’t work and I’m unable to gain the readership I think my efforts deserve and given my four score age, I may simply have to wave a white flag of surrender and move on to a less stressful and time consuming way to spend the rest of my life.

The choice to become a paid subscriber is entirely yours.

In the meantime, my goal will be to continue making this newsletter net revenue neutral, in the process ensuring that as little of my income as possible is used to feed the insatiable Indian Industry monster.

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The following piece written by yours truly and Peter Best first appeared in a respected Canadian journal on February 22, 2023.

It was first submitted by email to the formerly objective and prestigious Canadian journal Policy Options (where I have published in the past) on January 30, 2022 as follows:

On behalf of Peter Best and myself, I submit the attached 1,245-word MS Word opinion piece in response to a recent article you published written by Dr. Gina Starblanket, an Indigenous governance scholar at the University of Victoria.

Policy Options used to embrace debate on contentious issues, indigenous ones currently being among the most contentious in Canadian society. Our reply respectfully critiqued the contents of Professor Starblanket’s essay along with the contents of an opinion piece written by the Globe & Mail’s Tanya Talaga.

This was of no concern to Policy Options which now seems to consider any debate about indigenous policy issues beyond the pale. Accordingly, I received no reply to our submission.

A quick perusal of past publications in Policy Options using the keyword “indigenous” tells us why: all are exemplars of “woke” aboriginal grievances, real or alleged.