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People are so ignorant about our history. about all history, really. And so they read the breathless accounts of 'mass graves' which suggest some horrific slaughter and are appalled. But that's not what has been found here. What was found were unmarked graves. And you will find the same anywhere there were institutions like this, be they natives or not. Similar such graves have been found in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and the US, as well as Canada. Orphanages, except those in big cities, all had them, as did homes for unwed mothers, prisons and mental institutions. People don't realize how poor Canada was when this school went into operation. If you've ever been in an old house, a hundred years old, in the winter, and thought about how drafty it was, well, that was where the better off lived. Except there was no furnace or boiler back then. Most people had very substandard housing which was cold as hell in winter, shacks and cabins with little or no insultation. And most people scrambled to get enough to eat. And if they didn't, no one cared. The very concept of government taking care of people hadn't even occurred to anyone yet. There were no social services and if you didn't have money you didn't get a doctor either. As a result, waves of deaths swept the country every year from Tuberculosis, Scarlet Fever, Measles, and even Influenza. A third of Canadian children died before their tenth birthday. So yeah, in a very large school which operated for a very long time in a rural area you're going to find graves. Kamloops was a tiny fort and railhead back then. Even up to 1950 the population was under 2,000. So when a child died, it was buried there. The government didn't think it could afford to ship the bodies home. And likely didn't care anyway. Government rarely cared about poor people and they didn't come any poorer than natives. I'm sure they'll wind up exhuming the bodies and they'll find all or virtually all died of various diseases. Just like the kids in orphanages etc. This is no different than you'd find at similar institutions anywhere in the world that date from that time. So no, this isn't some kind of horrible crime of mass murder, just how the world was back then. Nor was it racism, just the callousness of government. Hell, look up the Duplessis orphans some time and see how cold and callous government can be to white kids. They were wrongfully transferred to psychiatric hospitals because the feds paid more for mental patients, and then the Quebec government let the CIA do mind control experiments on many of them. And that was in the 1950s! Some of them are buried in unmarked graves too.

Because Doug Ford is absolutely way in over his head. He is a bewildered and frightened big stupid monkey. He was in over his head the day Ontarians bestowed the premiership upon him, with resounding majority, a man who knew nothing. So let the people own what they've done, what they have chosen for themselves. So let it be written, so let it be done,,,

Joe Biden, who took office in January, announced nation-wide recovery measures to combat the effects of the pandemic on the USA's economy. One of his specific plan, was to give money to small businesses most hurt by the pandemic, under one condition; the owner of said business must not have white skin. This is an extremely concerning news, as this is a plan pushed forward politically that would create a lot of animosity. This is blocked by two courts right now; https://www.wsj.com/articles/stopping-racial-bias-in-covid-relief-11622421892 This is something we saw Democrats do as well in Oakland, where the people -except those who have white skin- who make less than $US 59,000, are eligible to receive $US 500 a month. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/oakland-california-universal-basic-income-program Just remember the Democrats really hate White people, and they would risk a civil war if they could hurt them to favor them electorally.

Me neither. I'm more of a "caring for others besides myself" kinda guy though. The issues raised by the top doc at Sick Kids has more to do with helping out the kids. There is an epidemic of mental health issues taking place that he claims is unprecedented. I think a true leader would have done better. I'm not interested in parties. Real leadership is a different thing, requiring wisdom and experience. Which Canada at the moment has very little of.

Not to burst your bubble of piling on against Canada and religious institutions, but infant and child mortality rates were much higher in the late 19th century and early 20th century than they are today. Without antibiotics or the treatments of illnesses that are commonplace today, many children died, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and many mothers died in childbirth. You will find many more child graves in cemeteries from that era than you will find in recent graveyards. That's not to say that many abuses didn't take place in residential schools. However, corporal punishment that we consider abuse today was commonplace in all schools a century ago and even fifty years ago. Cultural genocide? Perhaps in terms of a suppression of cultural traditions and languages, but the educators were English or French-speaking and the funding came from the taxpaying public, reflecting their values. Was this a planned and systemic eradication of Indigenous cultures? Well different schools had different practices. If you immigrated to Canada and participated in publicly-funded education, that education would be in English or French and would reflect the cultural values of the dominant populations' cultures, English and French. The Indigenous did not have an education system in the sense that we still expect today of a curriculum across subjects that every child attended daily, paid for by the larger society. Separating children from parents sounds terrible and it might have been very hard on very many families. It shouldn't have been forced upon anyone. However, living at the schools is hard to avoid if there are no local schools in remote communities. We also still value the idea of mandatory education for children. Not educating children is still seen widely as a form of neglect, so "forcing" children to attend school, especially in an older, harsher world where death and illness were much more commonplace, needs to be taken in context. Put away the swastikas and hyperbolic slamming of Canada. It's ridiculous.

If there was a leftist version of Ted Talks their muppets could listen to: 3-house Bernie Sanders talk about socialism the 4-house BLM leader could lecture them about the greatness of communism, the evils capitalist greed and the lack of equity in America 4-house David Suzuki could lecture them about their carbon footprint (and Leo DiCaprio and John Kerry etc from their private jets) Hillary Clinton could cry about election cheating and Russian collusion (after she got caught cheating on the 2016 election 3 times while she was busy paying Russian agents for disinformation) AOC and Kamala can talk about how wonderful the rioting of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020 was, how insignificant all of the thousands of assaults were, how trivial the dozens of murders were, how the arson and looting were no big deal, and how rioting suddenly became horrible for 2 hours in 2021, when it affected them personally. AOC can talk about how big of a deal her PTSD is, and how meaningless everyone else's feeling are from when they were assaulted, lost businesses or loved ones in the previous 4 years of rioting. Trudeau could lecture them on morality, accountability and transparency, teach them how to balance a budget, etc... They could listen to Biden mumble incoherently for a while and call it a big verbal hug.... Honest to god I think liberals are the stupidest things to ever walk the earth. It's time to take the warning labels off of everything and cull the herd.