Hymie Rubenstein

Hymie Rubenstein is editor of REAL Indigenous Report and a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba.

Opinion Polls Are Only as Reliable as Their Design

Commentary “Garbage in, garbage out” is a well-known adage that means the quality of the input determines the ...

Viewpoints August 27, 2025
Winnipeg Landfill: To Search or Not to Search, That Is the Question

Commentary Yes, the title is an affected rejigging of Shakespeare’s soliloquy from a tormented Hamlet, perhaps the most ...

Viewpoints August 24, 2023
‘Pretendian’: The Underpinnings of Falsely Assuming Indigenous Identity Should Be Exposed

Commentary Pretending to be indigenous—informally called “pretendianism”—for fame or fortune began long ago. The first Canadian exemplar of ...

Viewpoints August 14, 2023
Was Peter Bryce, the One Dead White Man Who Bucked the Demonization Trend, a Saint or a Sinner?

Commentary Many of Canada’s important historical figures have seen their statutes toppled and their names erased from buildings ...

Viewpoints October 21, 2022
There’s No Evidence Residential School Children Were Murdered and Tossed Into Unmarked Graves

Commentary Since the media release by the Kamloops Indian Band on May 27, 2021, about “the confirmation of the ...

Viewpoints September 18, 2022
Why the Pope Avoided Making His Apology at Kamloops

Commentary "I know of the gratitude that you yourselves, the Indian and Inuit peoples, have towards the missionaries ...

Viewpoints August 15, 2022
The Knowns and Unknowns of the Kamloops Burials

Commentary The announcement by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc indigenous band of Kamloops, B.C. on May 27, 2021, about finding ...

Viewpoints May 24, 2022

Hymie Rubenstein

Opinion Polls Are Only as Reliable as Their Design

Winnipeg Landfill: To Search or Not to Search, That Is the Question

‘Pretendian’: The Underpinnings of Falsely Assuming Indigenous Identity Should Be Exposed

Was Peter Bryce, the One Dead White Man Who Bucked the Demonization Trend, a Saint or a Sinner?

There’s No Evidence Residential School Children Were Murdered and Tossed Into Unmarked Graves

Why the Pope Avoided Making His Apology at Kamloops

The Knowns and Unknowns of the Kamloops Burials