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I’d rather the PM, any PM, stayed quiet on Canada Day.

Of course, it would be, Islam can do no wrong, and anything they do is just AOK - right, I got it.

I had my septic tank pumped out on Canada Day. Considering the sad state of our nation, getting rid of some shit seemed like a fitting thing to do. I'll celebrate the day again when this country gets back on track, boots the current government down the road and once again represents something to be proud of as right now it doesn't.

As long as only one half of prostitution is legal in Canada, the supply side, it will remain underground and women will be vulnerable, because Johns don’t want to get caught. Stop trying to assign the responsibility for the murders of women and girls to police, the country, and other actors with no direct causal link to such crime. Yes there is a colonial legacy, but the residential schools are gone, as well as the restrictions on voting and legal representation. It will take time to heal. Seven students died at the Indigenous-run high school in Thunder Bay. The students came from remote communities that are far too small to have high schools. The children left their families for an education much as they did to attend church-run residential schools. It’s true that in the past there were restrictions on using aboriginal languages and other cultural traits at such schools. It was wrong, but the intention was to help people adapt to mainstream society. Generally when people know better, they do better. People know better and residential schools are gone. The situation has changed, yet depression, substance abuse, and suicide persist. It’s tragic and most people want these problems fixed Your stats reinforce what we already know, that dysfunctional families and communities, as well as places with little economic opportunity or hope, put women and girls in vulnerable situations. In cases of CAS removing children from families, have there been situations where the children became more vulnerable in their new foster homes than they were prior to having this care? Yes, and it probably did happen with more frequency in the 60’s scoop, but I can say for certain that the decision today to remove a child from a family isn’t taken without good reasons. In some cases these kids never really had a recognizable home to begin with and rescue by the agency was a matter of survival. Why are children removed from homes? How much of it has to do with racism versus abuse and neglect? Most of the case workers I dealt with were from minority groups, were caring, thoughtful people, and hardly the picture of colonialism that you paint. I can think of situations when I thought children should have been removed due to neglect but CAS persisted in working with the families. Granted, these were non-Indigenous families. There have been problems with racism in policing. That’s why recruiting and training well is so important. The RCMP has had to be completely realigned and major leadership and policy changes have taken place, especially around sexism and racism. Continue to target that area. What about the men in these vulnerable women’s lives? What are they like? What kinds of attitudes are being cultivated and accepted? Who and where are they? What kinds of counseling and community pushes are there to change behaviour? Target that. When you slam mainstream Ontario as being out of touch with these problems, I’d agree and say that these problems lay outside the norm of mainstream Canadian society. We’re back to the problem of the unsustainable, unhealthy remote community that is propped up by Indian Status tax incentives and local pressure to stay on the reserve. I don’t know anyone who thinks this is a good or sustainable system, including governments. Some reserves do thrive, but others have become self-guarded prisons where the pressure to stay on the res and marry Indigenous comes from vested interests who benefit from this system. It isn’t government, because the costs of maintaining such places with a low tax base is enormous. Voters will only turn over so much income, especially if they know that the fix will only be temporary because the community has little economic self-sustainability. I do understand the importance of keeping families and communities together, but many communities from every culture have resettled elsewhere for a better life. Why is this harder for struggling Indigenous communities? Might it be the reserve system? Nevertheless, governments won’t take away the reserve system, Indian status, or funding because they would wear the fallout. The decisions about how to fix this broken system must come from Indigenous with at least existing government funding levels. I hope that the measures taken are realistic and clearly relate to the problems that need to be fixed. On abuse of women and girls in the North: https://globalnews.ca/news/5459763/violence-against-women-and-girls-north-triple/ On the impact of residential schools on neglect and children in care: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/study-links-trauma-from-residential-schools-to-overrepresentation-of-indigenous-youth-in-care-1.5199421

What makes you think the percentages of unsolved would be dramatically different? Anyway, the point is to try and prevent this from continuing. It does raise the question as to whether the situation would have been better or worse for Indigenous girls if CAS had more involvement or less involvement. The practice of the Children’s Aid Society removing children from the home is out of favour these days and the “60’s Scoop” is referenced. Now money has been set aside to create Indigenous led, on reserve versions of CAS. The bottom line is that children need protection from abuse and neglect. Women need protection from violence. Police forces should put vulnerable people first, including and especially Indigenous women and girls.

So by your own account, of solved crimes, most of the perpetrators were Indigenous. I’m not saying this to imply that Indigenous people are more murderous than non-Indigenous. In fact, I agree that there are additional stressors that make Indigenous women and girls more vulnerable. I don’t think that all of these problems can be laid at the feet of non-Indigenous people. We’ve talked a lot about the issues on some reserves, from substance abuse to poverty and substandard living conditions. We also know that some of those communities are extremely dependent on outside support for their survival, yet there is a kind of orthodoxy within some Indigenous circles to stay on the reserve, and in some cases to marry only Indigenous. The Indian Status and reserve tax breaks only incentivize this. As long as unsustainable communities exist and people rely primarily on outside support, they will be vulnerable. Indigenous interests are one of many interests for voters. For a slew of reasons, some difficult to parse out, many Indigenous have struggled to participate in and enjoy the fruits of the wider society. One would think that free land and not having to pay taxes would be advantages, but not if they tie you to a remote unsustainable community. Not having votes and other past injustices of the Indian Act put Indigenous people at a remove that will take time to mend. Yes the RCMP can do better and we need to end racism of all forms. Ultimately most of the solutions will have to come from Indigenous people. Only they can decide what they want. That’s what self-government is all about. I doubt there will be much more tax money flowing into reserves or Indigenous affairs because, again, voters have multiple concerns to address. Indigenous peoples are not babies to be taken care of. That idea is patronizing and racist. Indigenous people must address what they can for their own people and non-Indigenous should implement sensible recommendations from the inquiry that don’t remove personal responsibility from the perpetrators of rape, abuse, and murder. Canada has never permitted such behaviour and it doesn’t serve anyone to pretend that Canada is largely responsible for these tragedies.

Yet much of the mistreatment of Indigenous women and girls comes from Indigenous people. Unless a non-Indigenous person lives up north or in the prairies, he or she is unlikely to work with or meet many Indigenous people. For most Canadians, these seem like accounts of mistreatment from distant countries. It’s like hearing about inner city violence when you’ve lived your whole life in safe communities. It’s sad and everyone should live in safe communities, of course! So implement policies that end such mistreatment. Who doesn’t want that?

She walked up to Eugene Melnyk, the Ottawa Senators owner, at the Rolling Stones concert. She started swearing at him and calling him a loser, then stormed off. Bonus points for using "do you know who I am?" Is she a crack-head or something? https://www.narcity.com/news/ca/on/lisa-macleod-eugene-melnyk-confrontation-leads-to-a-letter-to-doug-ford-from-the-nhl-exec -k

Well-well, I am really and truly shocked. Where are all those Canadian leftist liberals and socialists wishing everyone here to have a Happy Canada Day? I thought that this was supposed to be one of the greatest countries on earth to live in? But no one here has said have a HCD? I guess there are not that many patriotic Canadians here after all just as I always thought. Of all the members here I thought that educated member would have been the first here to say so. But I guess at this time I was wrong as he appears to have decided to opt out from saying those three great Canadian words for now. I would like to say Happy Canada Day to all here but I cannot. To date Canada has only made me an unhappy Canadian camper. Maybe I will next year if king Trudeau is gone and Maxine Bernier is in. Although it is a little bit late now but are there any members here that are ready to say have a Happy Canada Day? Let's hear from all of you Canadian patriots out there. It's your move.

I’m well aware of the coverage of the police in Thunder Bay. There was a clip played on rotation showing a policewoman holding down an Indigenous woman. I’m very familiar with the multiple deaths down by the river. It’s all very sad. There was the case of the man who threw a tire iron out a window at an Indigenous woman. I would simply say that while racism exists among some police and that some crimes weren’t as thoroughly investigated because of stereotyping and assumptions about substance abuse leading to drowning, in some cases (most?) it was drowning due to substance abuse and in some cases (most?), the Thunder Bay police and RCMP did deploy resources much as they would to non-Indigenous crimes. You’re making assumptions about motives that depict police and non-Indigenous as racist. Police work can be very difficult. What happens when Indigenous students in an Indigenous school living with an Indigenous family engage in reckless behaviour that could result in death by substance abuse or drowning? Do we say, “Oh well they’re victims of the system?” Of course not. We try prevention to reduce suicide and substance abuse. You can’t blame it all on police and residential schools that no longer exist. The broken reserve system with its incentives to stay on the reserve for tax breaks and Indian Status continue to exist and many Indigenous want to keep this system. Again, as with self-government, I think it’s important that Indigenous have their own community policing as well as some form of Child and Family Services. While I’m sure some police and CFS case workers are blameworthy, I doubt it’s the majority. In the end, it’s best to turn over as much of this work to Indigenous within current funding levels as possible and for governments and police forces to implement sensible policies to root out racism. In terms of personal and legal responsibility, we are all responsible for what we do. Bad behaviour has to be rooted out no matter the race of the perpetrator. There is plenty of blame to go around, in and out of Indigenous communities. It’s what we do going forward that counts.

What sort of communists you do trust?

Or, alternately, let's talk about anything any individual Muslim on earth does... and imply that they are inhuman infections. That's kind of what this thread is, from what I can see.

We have that right just not a lot of credibility.

Islam is a primitive death cult. Sacrificing animals to their blood god. What else is there to say?

Let's celebrate Vancouver Canucks style . . . . go downtown and burn some cars! Smash windows, steal things, watch the cops insert their collective thumbs up their collective lazy asses. Celebrate the Sedin sisters retirement . . . burn some Volvos! Might need some gas to get the fires started . . . "what! no gas?" Oh yeah . . . .$1.749 per litre = $7.95 per Imperial gallon. Canucks . . . . chronic underachievers. Canuck fans . . . . stupid. A chicken has a higher IQ. Happy B-lated Canada Day.

Oh sure... The animal must be alive when its throat cut and be allowed to bleed out

Jacee you white washed the aboriginal policing issue, scapegoat the RCMP, offer know acknowledgment of new aboriginal policing practices being implemented and throw out the word genocide trivializing it. You are actually an excellent example of someone who whitewashes complex issues, reducing them to simplistic name calling offering NO suggestions. Clearly yoou have never been on a reserve, understand what domestic violence, incest, drug and alcohol addiction do to families. The RCMP is not in charge nor did it create the myriad of rules and jurisdictional conflicts it deals with. The RCMP has no control over Band Chieftains who divert money to their own pockets that should have gone to social services. The RCMP can not prevent all the problems you blame them for-they can only react. https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/new-expert-panel-report-provides-a-foundation-for-long-term-vision-of-policing-in-indigenous-communities-845983941.html

Pffffffffft. The fack outta here - to say these were white people pretending to be Muslims attacking this girl......WTF. Give your head a shake.

That's a lie of course. But Islam is known for making lies a virtue when told to the Kafir. The truth is that Islam engages in animal sacrifice to appease its bloodthirsty Moon deity. The animal is in terror when it is killed...as would you be if I was busy 'calming you' with a large knife.

Well I live and work in Ontario and have worked closely with CAS. In what jurisdiction have you worked closely with CAS?

I suggested that you look beyond your Ontario CAS experience with non-Indigenous kids. It isn't relevant. You're not well-informed but you have all the answers. Lol

I understand Gay Pride day is being extended into Gay Pride month. Pretty soon it will be Gay Pride year. Then every day will be called Gay Pride day, so no more need for parades!

Get back to me once you get out of your Ontario-centric headspace and look at the west, where up to 90% of kids in care are Indigenous, most of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women cases occur, and the RCMP polices almost everything outside the Cities and refuses to cooperate with other police jurisdictions. The RCMP have been enforcing Canada's genocide for 150 years. Chasing down 'escaping' Indigenous kids with dogs and guns is in the RCMP DNA. It just isn't as whitewashed as you want to make it seem. The RCMP have their own 'rules': Blame the 'Indians' is also in the RCMP DNA ... because our governments genocidal motives encouraged that. And they just did it again with their false reporting, 'blame the Aboriginal men', to cover-up their TOTAL FAILURE to solve more complex, cross-jurisdictional murder cases. TOTAL FAILURE to cooperate with other police forces. TOTAL FAILURE to pay ANY attention to the bodies dumped in their jurisdictions, except to count them ... maybe. Vancouver PD assigned someone to the missing women case after 17 were missing. But the RCMP refused to cooperate until 49 were dead. Years before, the RCMP had a search warrant for Pickton Farm that they never used. There needs to be a National Inquiry into the RCMP. Prostitution is legal in Canada. Johns and pimps are not. ________________________ I just can't give any credence to your poorly researched, poorly informed whitewashed excuses and questionable motives.

- US shot Russian submarine and cause the death of 14 Russian soldiers. - Pentagon gives red alert after the attack as a precaution for a possible counter attack to US bases in Syria.

I totally disagree on CAS. I have worked closely with them in my work and can tell you that removing children from family is always a last resort reserved for sexual or extreme physical abuse. In fact, CAS doesn’t respond to lack of school attendance as a criterion for neglect and often accepts what most people would consider bad parenting. I was told numerous times that bad parenting and abuse are not the same thing. It’s difficult to find decent and committed foster parents. Of course for kids with behaviour issues, there are few foster parents willing to take them. I ask the question as to whether more or less CAS involvement is necessary because both arguments can be made. Leaving children with parents struggling with addiction who neglect or abuse their kids in the name of respecting Indigenous ways is a position that no rational person can support. Abuse cannot and must not be accepted as cultural, or else we accept all sorts of abuse, such as honour killings and female genital removal. Honour killings do take place in Canada and have been prosecuted in our courts. In terms of your comments on police, while racism surely does exist and some murder cases may not have received as much attention as they should, I doubt it’s always for reasons of racism against Indigenous or attitudes towards down and out women such as prostitutes in the inner city, and has more to do with the difficulty in tracking people of no fixed address who have no official employment or identity trail. We could have bigger conversations about more radical ways of protecting such women, such as legalizing prostitution to keep organized crime and health concerns at bay, which I support for reasons of safety. In terms of racism against Indigenous and bias against transient people, it comes down to recruiting, training, firing, and monitoring. Don’t underestimate the importance of family counseling and policing, as well as economic opportunity, in reducing domestic abuse of women and girls on and off reserves. If we’re honest, that’s probably the most important work, as it is the root causes of abuse and unhealthy family life that often leave females in precarious positions and men thinking abuse is acceptable that must be addressed. Changing the twisted mind of a serial killer is no easy task as such acts are far outside of normative activity. Police forensics and investigations are put to work to solve crimes and prevent further killing because it’s extremely difficult to anticipate anyone committing such a crime for the first time before it happens. In general, attention, time, and money need to go where it will have the greatest impact. Some things are easier to prevent and solve than others. There’s much that can be done, but let’s not create straw men or red herrings that distract from the issue. Talking up colonialism and genocide accomplishes little because it doesn’t lay out specific fixes.

Don't you realize yet that the narrative from the Left is that whatever the problem is with 'brown' people, it's always ultimately the fault of white people? That's simply the way the Left thinks. Thus when natives kill each other its white people's fault, because we weren't nice to them back in the day. Never mind that when they moved into a territory and took it over they slaughtered all the inhabitants, or drove them off their territory entirely. No, that's not cruel at all. Nothing to criticize about that. White people are the cruel ones for not slaughtering them, not enslaving them, and instead providing for them and then trying to educate them.

An inane question and a morally and intellectually bankrupt statement side by side. Congratulations. Taking the position that all nations have human rights issues and so we cannot criticize is to equate the likes of Saudi Arabia and North Korea to Canada, and that is imbecilic beyond even the usual idiocy of the Left. The Left vastly exaggerates the 'human rights issues' of western countries like Canada because it can't bring itself to criticize 'brown' countries, and despises western capitalist nations. It's absurdly dishonest, but then, the Left lies to itself so I suppose it shouldn't have a problem lying to everyone else.

Canada reduced emissions just about everywhere but Alberta, which is the big dark cloud — of opportunity! We need pipelines ASAP: TransMountain and Energy East. Boost the resource sector and reduce the number of diesel trucks and trains carrying bitumen.

You should go and apprehend him, since you know exactly where he is. It's a $25 million dollar reward!

The identity of killers isn't the issue. The RCMP misrepresenting their data to focus only on family violence on reserves is the issue. I would feel more optimistic about prevention if police would admit their failures to cooperate in cross-jurisdictional murder cases. Without their acknowledgement and efforts to improve that, it's still 'open season' for anonymous predators taking women from City police jurisdictions and dumping their bodies in outlying RCMP jurisdictions. RCMP are clearly evading that issue, refuse to discuss it, reverting to inflated claims that focus on Indigenous men and family violence. That does not at all address anonymous predators, a significant source of murders: The Globe and Mail linked the deaths of 77 Indigenous women to serial predators in that same RCMP data, but the RCMP did not report on that at all, did not address cross-jurisdictional policing at all, which raises the likelihood that both systemic racism and cover-up are influencing both their policing and their public reporting. It isn't out of favour at all. There are more Indigenous children 'in care' now than ever before. It's a self-sustaining industry that, instead of providing support to families, puts obstacles in their way to justify keeping their children. The 'industry' can't sustain itself without apprehending children. There is no evidence at all of Police forces doing that. Instead, there is evidence of RCMP cover-up. Never forget ... that police, government and business customers were all seen at Piggy's Palace (Pickton's farm), a sex and snuff (kill) entertainment facility where the women were not left alive to be witnesses.

Who (of any intelligence) thinks only "solved" crimes merit mention? The majority of the 1181 cases (53%) are not accounted for by the RCMP's falsely inflated claim that 'mostly Indigenous men did it': "Mostly" Missing and Murdered Indigenous women's cases are Unsolved (33%), or the offenders were non-Indigenous men (20%). Over half of Indigenous people do not live on reserves (where murders are more easily solved). They live in towns and cities throughout the country. Why are police not solving those murders? ...the RCMP ... patrols only 20 per cent of the population in Canada. The rest of the country falls under the jurisdiction of provincial, municipal and First Nations police forces. The RCMP and other forces don't co-ordinate the questions on their missing persons forms. Nor do they share information or cooperate in investigations: "Why I failed to catch Canada's worst serial killer" https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38796464 ... but at the highest levels of both forces there was resistance to the idea and full co-operation did not begin for several years. ... until 49 women (at least 17 Indigenous) were dead and fed to the pigs. If police forces refuse to cooperate across jurisdictions, the serial killer's task becomes easy: Take women from City police jurisdictions and dispose of their bodies in outlying RCMP jurisdictions, like Willy Pickton did and serial killers in other cities (Edmonton, Winnipeg). But you don't learn about that from the biased RCMP report. The RCMP won't discuss Unsolved cases nor their very poor 'solve rate' for serial killers.

Nonsense. The RCMP selectively reported their 2014 data to draw that conclusion, only reporting the cases of murdered Indigenous women they've solved. Of the total 1181 Missing and Murdered women that RCMP identified: 554 (47%) were murdered by Indigenous offenders (not a majority, not "most") 53% were ... 238 (20%) murdered by 'other' offenders 77 (7%) likely murdered by serial killers 312 (26%) Unsolved murders or still Missing RCMP did not even mention the serial killers in their data, but the Globe and Mail did, accounting for another 77 women (DNA, localized killers). RCMP are not only covering up a pretty dismal rate of solving murders and disappearances (67%), but also intentionally implicating Indigenous men to a greater extent than is warranted by their own data. What does it say that RCMP selectively reported data to shine a light back on Indigenous communities? Bias much? And there are untold numbers of Missing women not reported to police, because police won't do anything and may find excuses to arrest any Indigenous person who bothers them about missing friends/relatives. MMIW's own data collection included over 4000 missing women, far more than the 1181 reported to police. It remains to be seen whether, as a result of the MMIW inquiry, police will start paying appropriate attention to reports of missing women. So far, the RCMP are just ducking responsibility and weaving lies, so it's not looking good. Sadly, many Indigenous women are taken from City police jurisdictions, murdered and their bodies are disposed of in outlying RCMP jurisdictions. If the RCMP won't cooperate, won't investigate, the trail ends with them. More nonsense. Nation-wide, over half of Indigenous people live off reserve in other Canadian communities, cities and towns. The RCMP may be only familiar with reserves as their jurisdictions are rural, and some uninformed people focus solely on reserve communities. But in Ontario, for example, only 37% of Indigenous people live on reserve. Indigenous people are everywhere across Canada, working in offices, hospitals, universities, construction and other trades, in day cares and counselling, arts and music, writers, journalists, etc.