Archive for March, 2012
Not a Fable
Even after microfilm came along, the secrets were stored in long manila file folders tucked randomly throughout the acres of shelves of at least four different departments of the government of Canada. It was reasoned that no-one would ever bother looking there, even if they did learn of the secrets, which was unlikely. Occasionally, a [...]
On Missing Women, Missing Children, and Missing Intelligence: Looking for Justice in All the Wrong Places
“It was the Mounties who were delivering the women to Pickton’s farm to be raped and killed on film. They told me so.” – Annie Parker, Pickton farm survivor, to the author, January 2006 “Ten years from now, nobody will care about any of these horrors you’ve uncovered. The feds will hold an expensive Royal [...]
The TRC Interim Report… The Truth That Failed
Reprinted from the Canadian Shield, by Bill Annett We’ve just spent half a day (perhaps too much) reading a 115-page tome, neither scholarly nor journalistic mais tous les deux, entitled “They Came For The Children.” It’s the interim report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that icon and crowning triumph of Stephen Harper’s Canadian majority [...]