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Book Review: Land Fit For The Vikings

Parliament for 90 years enforced a White Canada immigration policy intended to create an all-Caucasian society, literally a Great White North. It was built on crude and false assumptions of racial characteristics. Lawmakers and educators rarely speak of it today though the painful topic has inspired excellent academic research like White Settler Reserve, an exposé of attempts to create a Nordic master race on the Prairies. It was a “special experiment of immigrant colonization," newspapermen wrote in 1875. Cabinet subsidized Icelandic immigrants to colonize the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg on territorial lands of the Cree, Ojibwe and Métis. Among the 19th century settlers were the great-great-grandparents of Professor Ryan Eyford of the University of Winnipeg, who chronicles the experiment in a crisp narrative. READ MORE

NDPer Targets Jewish Charity

New Democrat leadership contender MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) yesterday had no comment after sponsoring a Commons petition targeting a Jewish charity co-founded by Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books. The petition also asked Parliament to screen all Canadians returning from Israel for complicity in alleged war crimes: "I have to feel in my heart that I’ve done what I can." READ MORE

Cuts Are Five Percent, Not 10

Federal agencies yesterday outlined payroll cuts that were half the 10 percent stated by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Budget Office had sought the figures for months: "There is a lack of detail." READ MORE

No Firing For Late Deliveries

A labour arbitrator has overturned Canada Post’s firing of a mail carrier who kept thousands of undelivered letters in his vehicle for months at a time. Inspectors found 6,000 pieces of mail including urgent notices: "This can only be seen as very abnormal behaviour." READ MORE

Industry’s Set Back 15 Years

Repeal of U.S. climate mandates set the industry back “at least 15 years,” says a Department of Environment briefing note. Cabinet to date has yet to report on its review of Canada’s electric auto mandate though it was due December 31: "Why the mandate?" READ MORE

It’s Weathermen v. Machines

A federal agency is shopping for artificial intelligence software to replace a "specialized team" of bilingual employees paid to translate weather bulletins. The proposal by the Meteorological Service of Canada is the first of its kind in the federal use of AI: 'It would rely solely on machine to machine communication.' READ MORE

Freeland Averts Ethics Probe

Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland (University-Rosedale, Ont.) will quit Parliament tomorrow in an abrupt departure that averts any Commons ethics committee questioning over conflicts of interest. Freeland’s announcement came only hours after the committee chair expressed outrage over her conduct: "When did we become a country where laws, ethics and morality don’t matter anymore?" READ MORE

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Guest Commentary

Irwin Cotler

A Hike In The Judean Hills

Terror affects families in different ways. Some remember their loved ones as sacrifices for peace; others say we can never have peace. There are very few families in Israel who have not in some way been pained by the experience of terror. I think pain and loss are seared in the consciousness of the Israeli public. Hagit Zabitsky was my niece. I remember her as a thoughtful 22-year old, shy and introspective. On the day she died Hagit was hiking with a friend in the hills when she was bludgeoned to death.