Brian Giesbrecht - Calgary's Business

The soft racism of low expectations

Posted by Brian Giesbrecht | Feb 4, 2018

You take away people’s independence and their pride by placing them in a different category than everyone else

Posted by Brian Giesbrecht | Jan 21, 2018

If governments hadn’t protected Indigenous children, they would have faced lawsuits for failure to honour their commitments to those children

Posted by Brian Giesbrecht | Jan 10, 2018

The bad experiences at residential schools have been well documented. But we can’t forget that there were good experiences as well

Posted by Brian Giesbrecht | Jan 7, 2018

We’re rather smug in our belief that our modern take on things reflects a perfect and compassionate view for all time

Posted by Brian Giesbrecht | Nov 29, 2017

In his important book Firewater, Harold Johnson talks about the enormous problem of alcohol abuse that plagues so many Indigenous communities