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Knowledgeable commentary. You’re right that title needs to be established where continuous sole habitation can be established by the courts. With that should come the right to form partnerships with industry and receive the proceeds, but with taxation. All Indigenous communities in Canada should provide private land title directly to residents. Let the band members vote on whether the land should be available for purchase to non-Indigenous on the open market or only to other band members. However, if outsiders are providing health, education, infrastructure, law enforcement, essentially the services of a municipality, province, region, and/or federal government, they should be paying taxes or providing these services for themselves, which is real independence. If a band can be prosperous, within or independent of Canada, good for them. If at that point the community can’t sustain itself, that’s a choice of the band members to accept low living standards. I would support funding aid to help poor, remote communities that choose to close up shop, to resettle. I also think the Indian Act should be scrapped and status cards grandfathered out. I really believe these measures would end the systemic segregation and empower Indigenous to the fullest extent of true self-determination.

Killing is part of nature, it within all of us, men and women, we have been killing each other for objects, or resources since we climbed down for the trees. In todays world or say within the last 2 to 300 years we have had to train people to kill, not just training to kill but training the mind to except it as normal.... because the act is not socially accepted, we have laws that prevent it...we are taught it is bad...Our brains are not conditioned to see bodies ripped open or torn apart. The militaries around the world spend bils trying to find better ways to condition their soldiers minds, to little avail, hence the massive amount PTSD cases. And yet the Soviets have come the closest through constant exposure to combat, training with live munitions such as real chemical agents, or next to real combat exercises... but pay for that in real life deaths of many soldiers.... Todays Modern warfare there are millions of ways to die, or to kill without getting close to ones enemies...the closer you get the greater the chance of not being able to mentally comprehend what is being done, it overwhelms your brain...it's your brains way of dealing with trauma from seeing the carnage or war. Back in the day there was no trauma it was a normal practice one becomes adjusted, the behavior becomes normal, ........and yet it was second nature to say Vikings, Romans, etc....were killing was more common and the distance the killing was done was close range, so it is bloody....as that distance increases it becomes easier to kill , ask any pilot if he sees the effects of his actions... One can not exist in both worlds, at the same time , one that does not except killing or were it is normal....a person can not travel back and forth very easily....or without conditioning once again, I learned that the hard way , coming home for my HLTA (holidays) in Afghanistan, our unit was in the middle of a major op, so one day I'm on the battle field, the next I'm in Montreal airport, very very excited to see my family, , lets just say it was not how I had dreamed it would go, lots of emotions, by the time I started to relax and decompress it was time to go back spent the last couple of days trying to get back in combat mode, as my unit was still on that operation...all I could think of was getting back...

I doubt this strike has made national news, but obviously, as the Co-op refinery in Regina provides most of the fuel for SK and the MT/ND areas to the South, the severe interference with access to the site for fuel haulers has become a serious disruption to the economy. First, that has been a LOT of intimidation, harassment and even assault on people trying to enter either to operate the plant or to ship product: https://globalnews.ca/news/6441876/14-co-op-picketers-charged-with-mischief-unifor-escalates-boycott/ The courts felt that the insolence of Unifor was intolerable, so a hundred grand fine yesterday: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-union-fined-for-violating-court-order-in-regina-refinery-labour-2/ I won't debate the merits of the union's demand, but I will offer both sides to those who might be interested: https://www.fcl.crs/our-business/refinery-facts/?utm_source=loknow&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=crc&gclid=Cj0KCQiApaXxBRDNARIsAGFdaB-8SqVIw5SFQtH2GGTpgjERu7ugmPsdQ47RNQCwMDsy4gw8yGNOonwaAvliEALw_wcB http://www.unifor594.com/bargaining-2019/ It is ironic that here in the wellspring of socialism it is of all companies the Co-op (Federated Co-operatives Limited) that has been forced to stand up against unreasonable demands of trade unions. They had to endure a totally ridiculous job action over the last couple years where the union insisted that new hires be given full wage of established employees (in their retail gas station/C stores). The Co-op stood their ground, but it was clear that the unions were looking to draw a line in the sand and had mistakenly targeted the Co-op thinking very wrongly that they would find some sympathy from either the organization or its members. Hitting the refinery (that is famous for paying far too much money for not very much work of its employees) was a bold move that once again, it seems they thought would be so critical to the economy that someone along the line would give in once more putting the CLC back into the driver's seat. Awkward for the NDP (which, if you don't remember was formed as a formal amalgamation of the CCF - the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the CLC - Canadian Labour Congress) that has removed the Regina Manifesto from its website to try to appear distant from their Marxist roots. The solution is simple, and it needs to be implemented in MB, SK and AB before the opportunity is lost: we need right to work legislation. The idea that Pallister, Moe and Kenny are somehow "conservatives" is now on the line. If you guys want to keep claiming that ground, time to grow a pair and step up to the plate. Recognize individual rights and freedoms for what they should be and place collectivism back on the shelf where it belongs.

..wow you are a commie. Now the native people I know use bullet boats. Lol. No solar panels. Good luck trying to catch one of them bullet boats. I actually had a canoe when I was younger. A heavy canvas canoe with wooden rims and tar patches. Hah. I think this canoe concept came from some guy in Miami smuggling drugs.

U.S. political party election results now lead CBC News top stories. The national blockade and disruption of rail transportation in Canada has now been normalized, with no expectation for quick resolution and resumption of services. Rail freight will be re-routed to the U.S. and south-north distribution by rail and truck.

Blocking roads and rails in order to damage innocent lives at the behest of unelected petty kings is a noble venture. They want something and the means justify the ends in terms of getting it. They justify any moral doubts by deciding any opposition to their goals is fascism.

The Green Fascists certainly are a threat to democracy in Canada.

This is what the protests are really about which no one wants to speak about.. it's the elephant in the room. It's not about 'reconciliation' it's about giving the land 'back' to the Natives and living under their laws... is this what Trudeau wants or expects, and who will speak up and whop will fight for Canada and ALL Canadians. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/22/movement-end-canada/ The Wet’suwet’en chiefs contest the authority of Canadian law. Their supporters have behaved in kind, illegally blockading train tracks and bridges across the country, causing widespread economic disruption. snip This only makes sense. A movement that believes it is desirable to severely weaken, or even dissolve, the state in order to achieve some larger goal, whether it’s a socialist utopia or green one, will naturally latch onto any movement with shared objectives. This is why it is unpersuasive when conservatives complain, with performative empathy, that “non-indigenous activists” have hijacked the cause of the Wet’suwet’en, or whoever. The more important question is why this cause is so easily hijacked in the first place, and whether it was wise for Canada to have accepted the existence of an independent indigenous political authority without establishing clear parameters around it.

Homo Sapiens have a primal drive to gratuitously kill unlike any other life form on the planet (except certain Chimpanzees). As well when we are in groups, neurological studies have shown being in a group has the same effect on our frontal lobe as drinking alcohol, it triggers chemicals that numb that part of the brain and make it easier to kill or become violent. This is a throwback to our past primal imperative to survive by hunting in packs which increased the likelihood of killing what was needed to eat to survive. So that group interaction developed into a way to better kill an object of the hunt. Now we still have a killer drive but most of us through evolution have rechanneled its expression and/or repress it However our psyche has two components. The one that nourishes life and strives to create (positive) (eros)(yin) (light) and the one that strives to kill (negative)(thanitos) (yang) (dark). These two are equal propensities or drives within our psyche and supposedly in a healthy mind they balance each other out. Some of us are born missing an X chromosome and so would have no feelings so can kill in unlimited manner and feel nothing. We also know from anthropological and psychological studies that as a general ruke when you can see another man's eyes, it becomes much harder to kill him then when you do not have to see his face or eyes unless of course you are a person missing that x chromosome (sociopath) . Also those same studies showed that the more different someone looks from you, the easier it will be to kill them. Both these phenomena have been well documented. In fact so much so the American Armed Forces engaged in studies giving unsuspecting soldiers LSD, others LSD after telling them, and other sugar pills, to see if the LSD could make them braver or more capable of killing. The studies were a failure in that all they got was conflicted patterns of behaviour. Police or social workers or emergency doctors/nurses can tell you from their experiences, certain drugs like stp, crystal, cocaine, amphetamines, metaamphetamines, etc., can hype people into hyper drive where they have extra-ordinary energy that can turn into unfocused rage that kills. We also know people in manic phases of bi-polar disorder or in about 5% of certain kinds of schizophrenia (usually paranoid schizophrenia) can kill but these are cases where capacity to know right from wrong is diminished or completely prevented. Interestingly with sociopaths, they kill without remorse or feeling and know exactly what they do. So some people kill because of drugs or missing a chromosome or mental illness but really eople kill the same reasons others do not. Its a part of our inherited primal tendencies and whether we become civilized and repress the tendency to kill or not depends on our dna, inherited genetic characteristics, how the environment may influence us and ultimately our own individual choices we make. All the above goes out the toilet when it comes to war and terrorism. In a state of war or when dealing with terrorism, in the heat of the moment adrenaline causes the body to do unpredictable things to survive and ordinary people can become super-extraordinary (super string and without fear) in concentrated periods of time, or become catatonic (go into a trance) or become paralyzed (entire body, certain limbs, eyes). We also know people with Tourette's Syndrome (specific tics and twitches or repeat mannerisms) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or stutterers, might find in the heat of conflict there symptoms not there as the intensity of the situation triggers adrenaline and other chemicals that deaden or shut down those symptoms. The same does not happen with bi-polar or schizophrenia. I have met and spoke with sociopaths. You would not know they are. You would have not a clue. What I do know as well working as a volunteer in a conflict zone with terrorists and the mothers of terrorists and brothers and sisters of terrorists is that these terrorists are not victims-they are quite aware of the choices they made and how it impacts on their families and others. They do not care. The part of their soul that cared is no longer there. In that sense the closest analogy is a vampire. They are alive but without a soul. They make that choice while the majority in their communities DO NOT and REFUSE TO and in fact shun them. They are not the glorious heroes they are depicted of. Many were already alienated from their communities. The profile they usually have in common is they feel powerless, unimportant, not in control of their destiny, and want to be respected and admired and thought of as the top of their communities. They do NOT like themselves. They hate who they are. They have as much hatred and contempt for their own people as they do their "enemy". Their "enemy" is a reminder to them of the parts of themselves they hate. The "enemy" is the thing they want to be but feel they can not be so they try extinguish this "enemy" which is the part of themselves they feel they can never be, They kill to block out any reminder of what they can not be. They are not in fact victims. They engage in victimization. Their victims are their own people as well as the innocent civilians they kill who they call the "enemy". Soldiers are not victimized by them. Soldiers are there to negate their power. Victims are people they have power over. They have no power over soldiers. Soldiers do not fear them. Soldiers are more likely to fear an "enemy" soldier than a terrorist. Terrorists are actually not brave. You get them one on one and many of them cry, plea, whine, urinate their pants, shake with fear, regress to an infantile state. They often need drugs or alcohol or getting into a religious frenzied state from chanting to be able to fight. Many panic and run. The ones that "die", the supposed martyrs are a minority of these terrorists and are dead eyed. You look at them there is nothing in the eyes. Something in them was snapped by their own fellow terrorists who trained them. Such terrorists are made to believe their life has no value and the only value they can have is after they are dead. They are not victims. I have seen people from the same environment and some walk away from this, others embrace it. You have the vast majority of people from conflict zones reject it. If it was as simple as saying terrorists were victims, everyone in the world would be a terrorist because all of us face situations where we loath ourselves or our lack of control over what we think is our destiny.

Marocc and Kactus you will exploit any issue if you think it supports your view of Muslim extremist views. The coronavirus has nothing to do with religion. Not a damn thing. It hasn't been inflicted on Muslims because they are Muslim. Muslim nations as we speak arrest and detain fellow Muslims in squalid conditions and these prisoners are tortured, infested with lice and disease from the poor conditions. Have either of you been concerned? Why suddenly only with Muslims imprisoned by the Chinese? Where have you two been? Where have the two of you been all these years as Muslims at the hands of other Muslims have been exposed to countless diseases and squalid conditions? Tell me. Please. Why the selective outrage? What bullshit. Someone had to say it.

Men do not like to kill men, as evidenced by Army Guy's very credible post. A majority of normal human beings suffer psychological trauma after killing someone, presumably because they have a conscience.

No, it is the greatest of answers.

OK I get it Rue, it's going to be hard, complicated, So was Vimmy Ridge thought to be impossible and yet it was one of Canada's defining moments, so they have us believe.... but right now it's a bag of hammers, I mean the frame work is there but it needs to be updated, it needs to be fair across the board and it need s to include all the provinces, it does not do that right now, Add to that this entire first nations issue is now holding up everything, our parliament, our economy, it needs to be addressed, and not by one political party but all parties... First nation issue also needs to be addressed, it is holding up everything parliament, our economy, people are losing their jobs. Rue this nation has stalled first nations class actions suits before my time , dealing with only those of their choosing, , and we been doing this for how many years , our government is a professional staller, let those indivs have their day in court. after the changes have been done and approved by the senate. I also agree that this issue is not a military matter, This is not what soldiers are for, they spend very little training time on civilian discourse /riot/ They train for war, and there is nothing pretty about it.... look at OKA, that could have ended very badly during the morning assault, all it would have taken would have been one shot taken by either side and it would have erupted into a blood bath, with the First nations taken the brunt of it. And while the mohawk warriors might have been good warriors, they were no match for modern warfare. If Justin is trying to convince Canadians that the RCMP do not work for him, he's bat shit crazy, kind of like letting the military pick their own wars to fight....or not to fight. All federal depts. work for Justin, and all Canadians already know that except for Justin.

Do they really want self determination, and what does that even look like? I get the impression that Canadians are not to concerned on making changes, let alone the massive under taking of changing our entire way of governing, way to much work. Having more than one tier of government and that is always going to be the case one will always be stepping on the others toes.. I think there is more to the issue than Que, AB wanting to be able to determine their own destiny, I still think all the provinces and Canadians should be striving towards the same goals, and while being able to self determine within limits, one province can not or should not be allowed to create laws or policies contray to the constitution and chater of rights. their must be left and right of arcs , or lines in the sand so to speak. I think "my opinion" most of the problem is just being treated as an equal, with equal representation in government and your right I don't see a reason it can't be done... Now that would be a legacy project for any PM.

The Russians aren't very Communist anymore. They've changed...Bernie hasn't. The Russians loved the Clintons/Obamas, though. As corruptible as they were...

Spain was Holland France and England's direct rival...and usual enemy...in the New World. Spain had a century before the rest got into the colony business heavily...along with their Portuguese cohorts...looting, converting and exterminating the native populations as best they could.

In response to Army Guy. As you know Armed Guy, the constitution is a mix of oral protocols, case law precedents that are now followed by courts, statutes such as the Constitution Act, treaties with native communities the British government signed with these communities prior to Canada's coming into existence but were inherited and recognized as being inherited by our Canadian legal system. Add to that we have a constitutional framework that created a constant legal dynamic or tension between the provinces and federal government over jurisdiction to implement laws and a second tension between the federal government and a parallel government of the indigenous peoples. Then we added a Charter of Rights which now creates yet another tension which now enables individuals to push their individual rights in as wide an application as the law will allow it thanks to the Supreme Court of Canada. So bottom line, you have provs, hundreds of indigenous nations, and now individuals all fighting for more rights coming to court with ambiguous doctrines and legal precedents that don't help matters as they can be argued any way you feel like it. Then of course to top that all off you have an amendment formula which makes amending any constitutional law damn near impossible. You would need unanimous consent from all provinces, the feds and the entire nation of nations constellation to change any constitutional doctrine. Welcome to Canada. Uh yah it can be a friggin mess Army at least from a legal perspective. You bloody well may as well expect a Charter challenge on anything and everything to do with enforcing any legal power by any government and because of that, politicians trying to avoid making any decisions that could trigger such a challenge...and so we have what I call Charter syndrome a fear factor that is behind almost every damn political issue of the day and I would suggest not withstanding Trudeau. is a problem any fed or prov leader will now face not just with native peoples but all individuals. For many Canadians its a source of complaint, doomsday scenarios and annoyance at not forcing laws onto people who are considered whiners.I get that sentiment that we now have a nation of self entitled victims all seeking compensation and no one wanting to take responsibility for their own lives but instead demand the governments do it for them. Some believe the ultimate conclusion to all this is soldiers. When all else fails, throw in the soldiers or police. Throw you guys out to do what? We can't take advantage of our freedom to discuss anything and solve anything we want, so we throw you guys out? Oh phack that. My perspective Army is Ivolunteered in a country of constant war and violence and travelled to many others with the same violence or serious problems that make ours seem so trivial.I gratefully live in Canada with all the freedoms most people in the world could never imagine having let alone natural resources most people can't even fathom and the people born here whine and whine and whine over disagreements that grade schoolers could settle if they wanted to. Excuse my rejection of those sentiments of those who think you solve everything by sending out soldiers to do your dirty work. For me this is nothing more than lizard politicians trying to preserve their own fiefdoms of power. They have lost touch with their constituents. I appreciate the impatience of people. I do. I am not snot nosing the anger they may have. I just don't think throwing our army or police out is a remedy. In a democracy its painfully slow to make changes in a civil manner. Dougie is right you can have a guy make trains run on time but what else does that leader bring? To this day I hear, Mussolini made the trains run on time... Hitler was efficient you have to hand him that.. he made his trains run on time. Yah they did. Then again in Jamaica you ask someone, what time is the bus or plane coming and they simply say, SOON COME MAN SOON COME and that could mean an hour, a day, who the phack knows. Thanks given the choice of sittin in the shade waiting or having some angry man goose step in my face... I will take the former not the latter. It may be slow but a train running on time don't mean much to me especially when that train is headin to some destination of extinction. Not the greatest of answers but heartfelt.

The company consulted for 5 years then signed a deal. The 20 elected bands and 8 hereditary bands accepted it. Then 5 hereditary chiefs freak out so it gets torn up? This precedent screws good-faith negotiations with all FN bands because now, *no* deal is final, and signatures don't mean a thing. Ellis Ross@ellisbross I was able to address a lotta issues in my time as Chief and Council but The tearing apart of Canada is something thats got me stumped. The foreign$$$/the slick campaign/ plus the smart organizers are brilliant at getting Canadians to shut down Canada

Listen kid you sound cranky. People my age solve that with prune juice.

Men like to kill other men because of natural selection. If you have 20 men, where 10 men like killing other men and 10 men who don't like killing other men....the 10 men that like killing other men will kill the 10 men who don't like killing, That means the killer men will survive to procreate and pass along their genes to their male children that will also like to kill other men, while the 10 men that don't like to kill are dead and thus won't procreate and pass on their non-killer genes. Women don't have to like killing because their fathers, brothers, sons, and husbands do it for them in order to protect them from outside threats (including other men). If women didn't have fathers and/or husbands they'd have to start liking killing too and have the genes (strength & speed etc) to be good at it or their genes wouldn't survive and be passed on.

Ooooookaaaayyyyy......not sure what that has to do with you claiming that the SoO and Proud Boys were responsible for removing the barricades in Edmonton.

The ones who removed the barricades in Edmonton were mostly oilfield workers. According to the person I know who joined in to help. He did not mention any far-right groups being there, perhaps they were, but there is nothing on the news about it and no one there seemed to notice if they were also there or not. Not the first time Jacee has lied about her far-right conspiracies.

Maybe a good move towards 'Reconciliation' would be to slash foreign aid then redirecting it towards communities in need, many of whom are Native . Instead, Trudeau keeps focusing on foreign countries spending billions for UN seat.

May i assume you speak french fluently? That you understand the difference between the words, souveraineté association, souverainiste, nationalistes, and indépendantiste? Because if you don't, your in no place to comment on Quebec politics Don't get me wrong, I in NO way, shape or form support the separation of Quebec, but having now lived in Montreal for almost 20 and speaking fluent french i can now appreciate the nuances of the movement, and the fact that many of their reasonable "demands"( not all their demands are reasonable) for more autonomy whould be supported by other provincial governments. As far a survival, the french language is worth protecting, and again though it can most definitely go to far in some areas, bill 101 overall is net positive, and will prevent a Catalonia situation here Not to mention the original "souveraineté association", proposed by René Levesque (that was actually the name he wanted and not the "Partie Québécois" that was finally decided upon against his will)gave us things like campaign finance laws and nationalized(that what they call province run here) enery, things now taken for granted by most Canadians.

Also true. So maybe lay off shaming people who comment on this thread. Since you're here returning to the "vomit" as well.

That would be the final stage in the greivance process. The first stage is to try and resolve it in house. That is were most issues are resolved and it is the best solution.

Ok. That doesn't negate the fact that there are tens of thousands of companies that treat their employees like crap, or that many "good" non-union employers are good because they don't want to be unionized. In many places people stay in terrible working conditions because they have neither power nor options. In my opinion that's a much worse breach of human rights than "forcing" an employer to treat workers decently. Why do you start with such an aggressive, belittling comment about someone else's opinion? Do you want civil discussion or an exchange of insults?

Imdeed, 'individual rights and freedoms' resulted in the formation of unions because too often corporations treated their "human capital" as poorly as possible. Where there are no unions, they still do. The track record of corporations demonstrates that they'll generally sacrifice people's welfare in pursuit of profit, and an individual has little power in comparison. Anti-union sentiment is kinda the same as anti-vaxxer sentiment; the reasons these things exist and how they've been a benefit to all of us has been forgotten.

I have been in both a Union Shop and a non- union shop. In the latter. I like the idea of my wages and benifits being negotiated by professionals. It puts me on a level playing field as management.

Just to clarify the issue, the workers (the people who actually do the work) made concessions on wages in the last contract in exchange for a promise to maintain the current pension permanently. The Co-op is breaking that promise inspite of very healthy profits. Also, this is not a strike. The company locked out its workers. We need legislation to force a company to shut down if they lock out their employees. Nobody should be on those premises. If the workers are not allowed to work, the company should not be allowed to carry on business. Right to work legislation pits an individual worker against a multi-billion dollar corporation. This is a fight to preserve defined benifit pensions. Non-union shops have been forced to change to defined contribution pensions which leades to poverty in old age. It is good for the cat food producers.

I see people make the case for removing capitalism, based on the emergence and response to climate change. I find that argument to also be ridiculous, but at least the scale of the problem makes it more compelling than one strike. And calling SK the wellspring of democracy may be accurate but it's like calling Iraq the wellspring of democracy. These are dead traditions here...

Looks like all you did with your freedom is to fill the void in your life with racism. Maybe your mom was trying to help you with that.