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COMMENTARY:

The real abusers of Chanie Wenjack

By: Robert MacBain
Posted: October 2, 2017
Canadian self-described (but disputed) Aboriginal author Joseph Boyden and Tragic Hipster Gord Downie took the sad story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Ojibway boy who froze to death in northern Ontario in 1966, and turned it into a book, songs and videos that grotesquely distort the truth in order to demonize the history of the Canadian Indian residential schools system. Now it’s being taught to children in schools across Canada. Robert MacBain reports.
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COMMENTARY:

Remedial reading for Ontario teachers

By: Robert MacBain
Posted: September 2, 2017
An Ontario teachers’ union wants to expel founding Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald’s name from public schools as punishment for being the “architect” of the Indian residential schools “genocide”. In hope of preventing the teachers from inflicting their breathtaking ignorance on their students and Macdonald’s reputation, C2C Journal offers a remedial history lesson by veteran Aboriginal Affairs consultant, news reporter and author Robert MacBain.
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August 25, 2017 Robert MacBain discusses demands to remove former Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald’s name from elementary schools with Brian Lilley on Ottawa radio station CFRA.
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ETFO rules that Ontario schools need to rethink using Sir John A. Macdonald’s name …

COMMENTARY:

Trudeau vs Trudeau on racial segregation

By: Robert MacBain
Posted: August 17, 2017
Pierre Trudeau despised ethnic nationalism. He was contemptuous of its expression in Quebec’s separatist movement. And when the Aboriginal political leaders of his time demanded racially-segregated self-government, as prime minister he told them Canada would not let them have it without a serious – and perhaps bloody – fight. His son, current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, holds very different views. His government is promising “nation-to-nation” negotiations to formalize race-based Aboriginal self-government. On this issue, writes Robert MacBain, the apple has fallen a long way from the tree.
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May 16, 2017 – Robert MacBain discusses “cultural appropriation” on Kamloops radio station CHNL-AM.
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Robert MacBain challenges those who want to rename the building that houses the offices of the Prime Minister of Canada

February 27, 2017 - Removing Sir Hector-Louis Langevin’s name from the building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office makes as much sense as renaming the Lord Elgin Hotel around the corner on Elgin Street.

In a recent letter to Public Services Minister Judy Foote, three aboriginal MPs and the Liberal indigenous caucus said: “Surely you can see the incongruity of naming a building after the architect of this (residential school) system.”

In fact, Langevin — a French nationalist who favoured uniting the British colonies rather than joining the Americans — was not “the architect” of residential schools.

Day schools and residential schools for aboriginal children were in place decades before Confederation.
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March 3, 2017 - Robert MacBain was on the top-rated John Gormley Show on Saskatoon’s 650 CKOM, challenging those who want to remove the name of Sir Hector-Louis Langevin from the building that houses the offices of the Prime Minister of Canada.
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June 13, 2016 - Analysis:
TRC’s own report contradicts claim of ‘an act of genocide’.

Robert MacBain’s 1984 encounter with now embattled Senator Mike Duffy

October 29, 2013 - Watching Senator Mike Duffy taking centre stage in the scandal dominating media coverage of Ottawa reminded me of an encounter I had with him almost three decades ago — during the 1984 Liberal leadership race.
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Summer 2013 - The 48th Highlanders promote Robert MacBain’s first novel.
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From lifting neeps to dodging bullets

Inverness Courier, Scotland | Friday, March 8, 2013 - After a career in journalism and public relations that has taken him from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the highest echelons of Canadian politics, Inverness-born Robert MacBain has turned to fiction.

Although MacBain left the Highland Capital to live in Canada shortly after World War II, his Scottish background plays an important part in his debut novel, "Two Lives Crossing".
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July 19, 2016 - Robert MacBain discusses Their Home and Native Land and the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on Kamloops radio station CHNL-AM.

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Canadian author – The Western Light, What Casanova Told Me and The Wives of Bath, interviews Robert MacBain about his first novel.
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