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Yesterday BLM protesters vandalized statues of Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada's first Prime Minister, and Egerton Ryerson, the founder of public education in Ontario. The basis of this destruction of public property and memorials to important Canadian public figures is a very narrow interpretation of these figures' careers for the role played in founding residential schools. There seems to be little understanding of the fact that there were no Indigenous schools before the first public schools in Ontario, which were founded by churches and government. Many small remote communities didn't have local schools and so attendance required residency near the schools, which is still the case today for Indigenous students from remote communities who want to attend an Indigenous run high school. No doubt there was mistreatment of Indigenous and suppression of Indigenous culture, but such ideas were considered progressive and civilizing at the time. Education was highly valued. Abuses happened commonly to non-Indigenous in schools until quite recently, yet only a fool would say that we shouldn't have publicly funded education because of those abuses. Allowing the great achievements of the founding of Canada and the public education system to be ignored and twisted by an overblown narrative about evil colonialism is a blatant misinterpretation of history and a degradation of the antecedent progressive steps that have built the great country we have today with our rights, freedoms, and protections for minorities. Games are being played by radical, ignorant activists who are refusing to leave police stations, even after they are released and charges are dropped, in order to draw media attention and public support, as Toronto Police Chief Saunders noted after yesterday's incident. Is it time to increase sentencing for vandalism of monuments? Is it time to declare destructive forms of protest as acts of terrorism?

By June 19, the violence in the Twin Cities had resulted in one death, 617 arrests, and upwards of $500 million in property damage to 1,500 businesses, the second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Minneapolis–Saint_Paul So that pegs damage in just the rather small twin cities at half a billion dollars. Fifteen hundred businesses destroyed. Anyone see that in the media? I think they reported on one or two fires the first few nights, especially the police precinct, and then nothing. This study pegs the cost of the rioting across the country as $400 million on just the first weekend. https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/28/in-first-weekend-of-riots-looting-damage-in-20-major-cities-exceeded-400-million/

Who's discrediting a movement? The movement loses credibility the longer such destruction continues.

It's more than that, and you know it, if it were only 5 people one time, I would agree. When they get caught breaking the law they scream foul and demand the perps be released, so we are supposed to sit quietly by while they destroy property. We are fortunate that Canada hasn't reached the level of frenzied rioting and violence it has in the U.S. This is not about anti racism anymore, it's nothing but wanton destruction and a desire to bring down society.

I'm all for dialogue, but if you're condoning destruction of property as protest, count me out. I never said I was against all of the opinions expressed by the BLM protesters, and I strongly support their freedom to express their opinions. It's the method that's at issue.

I work as a chef in a pub. We were actually busier when we were locked down and doing take aways only. We have only opened two days a week for food and are just losing money. Pre-covid Sunday lunch was 70-100 covers. During lockdown we were doing 45-50 take aways. Today we did 26 and only 10 of them ate in. The rush to open everything back up is pointless until confidence returns.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/cmhc-spending-a-quarter-million-on-federal-home-equity-tax-research That's how socialism is - grabbing what you worked for to "spread it around equally." So....what happens to those poor folks who rely on their investment in their primary residence to augment their pension? When the time comes, will the government take care of their nursing home expenses..............................or, will they just euthanize them? For all their talking points, governments - especially socialist government - don't really care about the seniors who had already served their purpose. They'll be coming up with all sorts of ways to claw back, we can be sure of that.

He said he's more qualified than Dr. Bonnie Henry so he probably saying precisely that.

The problem with giving gazillions in money away is you have to pay it back. Some people assume they shouldn't have to suffer financially during a recession. It's absurd. The people taking the COVID money should primarily have to pay it back. But they want you and I to pay for it. F--- them.