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They had already said that they are looking for numbers to stay down. Which they have. Today they said they could move to Stage 2 next Wednesday (Right before Canada Day). Makes sense. That leaves 2-3 weeks before July 21st, where JT better Open the Effin! Border with the US. By then, at this pace, we should have at least 50% full vaccination, if not more.

I agree wholeheartedly. You can already see how they're setting this up for the public message, to get the group-think going. We need to continue to be vigilant even after vaccinating. So I guess this is not a real vaccine then. It makes sense -> they told us there was no vaccine possible for sars-covid-1, but that was back when the truth could still be told. Dr. Tam is a bullshitting, grim-reaper. All she has are messages of our impending doom. No one ever questions or challenger her prophetic utterances. Even after the fact, when we could go back and see what she said was totally wrong. How is it that Canadians keep believing her, and no politician from any aisle stands up to challenge her in public? I dunno, why izzit

Definitely on all sides. The society has to determine the way and define the narrative. Lazy, apathetic, disenfranchised public is almost sure recipe for a weak and ailing democracy. Even in far away backwaters, only may take longer.

What settler religion is your second paragraph describing? Stewardship of the Earth is an important tenant of many Christian denominations. You’re setting up Indigenous beliefs as morally superior to non-Indigenous. People are entitled to practice their faith, as our constitution protects religious freedom. Leave it there. You think pre-contact Indigenous communities were safer and more harmonious that colonial ones? If that were so, why didn’t settlers emulate that society and vote to implement its tenants? People have had the democratic choice to do that for over 150 years. No takers? Indigenous hunted and killed too. Some also farmed in temporary settlements. Property wasn’t an issue until more and more immigrants came, so I guess we should ask whether immigration should’ve been banned in order to protect Indigenous races. Sounds like a form of suprematism.

No, we always hear talk about the native culture on CBC, CTV, as if it is something to be promoted but never hear exactly what it is. I am not saying to censor them. What people want to believe or do on their own is part of freedom of religion. It is the woke folks on CBC that seem to promote something undefined in some ways and condemn white society for depriving natives of their culture. I am wondering what this native culture that is never defined exactly is that is being mentioned. For example, there was a court case in B.C. not long ago over the public school allowing an aboriginal to conduct a smudging ceremony in a classroom. The mother of a student said that her child was being forced to participate in a pagan religious ceremony which is contrary to her families beliefs as a Christian. There was a lot of discussion or debate about this with the public school and government taking the position in court that it was not a religious ceremony and therefore was not improper in the classroom. The judge ruled in favour of the school and department of education and rejected the argument of the parent. The government seemed in this case to be forcing a pagan religious ceremony down the students throat (literally with the smoke) while claiming this is just teaching aboriginal culture to students.

So if you're not a subscriber you likely can't read this but according to the Globe and Mail virtually all Liberal MPs are paying money from their office budgets (which comes from the taxpayer) to a private company used by the Liberal Party during its campaigns and fundraisers. The company involved is owned by a close friend of --- Justin Trudeau. The money is allegedly so that the company can provide services related to the Liberal Party software, which the Liberals say is used for 'constituency work', but none of the MPs interviewed seem to know what services, if any, this company provides. The software is not theirs. The Liberals license it from the Democratic Party in the US. Liberal MPs have been using parliamentary funds to pay for services from companies that provide two of the governing party’s most important digital campaign operations, and that also run its powerful voter-contact database. An examination of expenses filed in the House of Commons shows 149 Liberal MPs, or 97 per cent of the caucus, made payments out of their office budgets to Data Sciences Inc., founded by a close friend of Justin Trudeau. And 152 Liberal MPs made payments to NGP VAN, a political-campaign software used by the U.S. Democratic Party and licensed by the Liberals to run their Liberalist database. The issue of expenses claimed by Liberal members of Parliament raises ethical questions about whether taxpayer funds are being spent for partisan political purposes. Mr. Easter was unable to explain what Data Sciences did for his office in managing social media. “I do my own,” he said. “I quite honestly don’t know what [Data Sciences] does,” he added. Liberal MP John McKay also said he had no idea why money from his office budget was going to Mr. Pitfield’s company. “I haven’t got a clue,” he said. “I can’t explain it. I vaguely recall once a year we write a cheque and it’s always been explained that it is within the ethical guidelines, so we all kind of sign up for it and it goes into some oblivion.” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-liberal-mps-office-budgets-are-paying-firms-that-help-run-the-partys/

I do not think there was any agenda. Simply one beautiful day someone found those bones and reported it. I can put my spin to it, you can put yours. Hopefully we hear more fact based news after the investigation.

You’re so wrong. Canada was absolutely founded on enlightenment values, many of them derived from Britain which banned slavery in the Empire in 1832, long before it was banned in the U.S. Read about the Underground Railroad. MacDonald was not a white supremacist. He was a Scott who was representing the overwhelming majority of his population who were of European ancestry. Many Indigenous would very much have appeared “uncivilized” in relation to mainstream society. Your comments are irresponsible and untrue. Learn about Joseph Brant and Tecumseh. Read about the countless progressive changes to laws and policies that unfolded in the British parliament and later the Canadian parliament. You really don’t know how Indigenous were treated or why publicly funded education was considered progressive and still is today. Provide evidence for “horrendous and appalling” system-wide treatment in residential schools. This is why people are clinging to extreme sides. No reasonable discussion based on facts.