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UN representative finds Canada's Indigenous people are 'disproportionately' affected by toxic waste Many Indigenous communities "feel they are located in areas that are ... 'sacrifice zones'" - Baskut Tuncak https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stefanovich-un-special-rapporteur-toxic-waste-findings-1.5164746?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances says Canada's Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by toxic waste. He visited Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Montréal, along with Grassy Narrows and Sarnia in Ontario and Fort McMurray in Alberta, to meet with governments, academics, Indigenous communities and businesses. Tuncak said he was "quite disappointed" with a lack of clear answers from Ontario and Ottawa regarding why a remedy has not been found for the community of Grassy Narrows half a century after the discharge of 10 tonnes of mercury upstream from the First Nation, located about 100 kilometres northeast of Kenora, Ont. ... Mercury contaminated the local water and soil after the former owners of a mill in Dryden dumped effluent containing the toxin into the English-Wabigoon River system throughout most of the 1960s and into the early 1970s. As a result, many residents suffer from debilitating health consequences to this day. "The inaction for many decades really leaves in my mind questions of discrimination, and to what extent that community and other communities are protected from discrimination," Tuncak said. "It should've been at the highest of priorities and I can't imagine that, if this were to happen in an urban centre, that it would've taken this long for remediation to take place." I wonder if the governments will finally take action!

It's worth considering all possibilities, accounting for all deaths and disappearances. I don't think police would want to be seen just writing women off as "prostitutes and street people". Prostitution is legal in Canada. Murder isn't. https://aptnnews.ca/2019/05/01/serial-killers-hunting-large-swaths-of-canada-criminologist/ From the west coast to the Golden Horseshoe surrounding Toronto, there is evidence to suggest serial killers are hunting and disproportionately, Indigenous women and girls are their prey. And those serial killers likely number far more than the average person imagines. That’s according to Michael Arntfield, a Western University criminologist and serial killer expert who studies murder patterns for the Murder Accountability Project in the U.S. “There is very good research on west coast and the north west in the U.S and in Canada which helps explain a lot of patterns seen in lower mainland and B.C and in the Highway of Tears region,” Arntfield said, referring to the 724-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 in northern B.C where 18 – 50 women, mostly Indigenous, have gone missing or been found murdered since the 1960s. While Canadian data is hard to come by, data generated in the U.S. is helpful in guessing patterns north of the border. “When we input all the (American) data at murderdata.org and we see both coasts light up. We see the D.C. metro region and the Great Lakes region light up and we see major trucking centres light up,” Arntfield said. “We don’t know for sure in Canada because no one will give us the data but for sure you would see Edmonton up to Fort McMurray (light up) that’s already well established… certainly Manitoba through to Northern Ontario and down through the Golden Horseshoe and the Greater Toronto area as well.” It’s something police in Canada are reluctant talk about, but something that many missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls advocates have long theorized. While serial killers in urban centres can be from an assortment of walks of life, who hunt victims in a variety of settings and circumstances, those who prey in isolated rural areas are often long-haul truckers.

It doesn't take a genius to think about it a bit: The RCMP reported on 'Indigenous women murdered where the offender was identified'. That means ... The RCMP reported only on cases solved. What's their rate of solving? They did not even say what percentage of cases were still unsolved. Raging partners are careless. (Solved?) Serial killers are careful. (Unsolved?) Vancouver PD 'didn't notice' that women were going missing. Pickton farm is in RCMP jurisdiction. At least 49 women died there, majority Indigenous, before either VPD or RCMP ever investigated. It's much easier to identify offenders on small remote reserves where everybody knows the partners and victims, and all are Indigenous. No conclusions can yet be drawn ... except perhaps that RCMP can more easily identify offenders who kill their partners than they can anonymous predators and serial killers.

As it should be. Link for that? "Hate" isn't something I waste my earthly time on. If it's unjust, I try to change it. It's our civic duty. My Friday night knitters make socks, mitts, toques & scarves for homeless men because conservative and liberal governments don't provide public housing for single men. Ya we're cute, and thanks for saying so!

Most Canadians don't know that genocide isn't just murder, but can also be a sustained and devious campaign of removal of rights, removal of children, maintaining conditions of life that are destructive to Indigenous Peoples. But Canada's governments knew that: http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-threatened-to-abandon-1948-accord-if-un-didnt-remove-cultural-genocide-ban-records-reveal "Canada was ready to abandon 1948 accord if UN didn’t remove ‘cultural genocide’ ban, records reveal" In fact, Canada did not sign on to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. First, in 1951 Canada's government amended the 'Indian' Act to remove 1880 ban on Indigenous ceremonies and dance, ban on access to the courts for redress by Indigenous Peoples, and other laws that repressed Indigenous lives, rights and cultures. https://canadianhistory.ca/natives/timeline/1950s/1951-revised-indian-act The revisions to the Indian Act passed in 1951 encompassed something of a revolution in the treatment of Natives by the Canadian government. Having cleaned up the laws somewhat, Canada finally signed the UN Convention on Genocide in 1952. Canada was then bound to pass a domestic law against genocide ... but still did not do so until 2000 (Prime Minister Paul Martin), 4 years after the last of Canada's government run 'Indian' Residential Schools closed (Saskatchewan 1996).) Obviously, by their own actions, our governments knew in 1948, 1952 and until 2000 that they were committing genocide: acts committed or omitted with "intent to destroy" Indigenous Peoples' "as such" - their cultures and land rights. Canada always intended to eliminate Indigenous Peoples "as such", to take full control of traditional Indigenous lands ... Btw ... the UN did not include "cultural genocide" as a category, but covered it in the "acts" of genocide instead: Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

There was only one such report (repeated everywhere): RCMP data on offenders in their jurisdictions (ie, doesn't include cities) who were identified. It doesn't say how many women were murdered whose killers weren't caught. (Serial killers are better at hiding bodies perhaps?) It doesn't include women reported missing who were never found. The RCMP data are being overgeneralized, to dismiss and deny police and state incompetence and intentional negligence.

It isn't as innocent as that at all. Governments would like Indigenous people to get out of the way of business. Their land rights are an impediment to business. Business must have "certainty". Governments have used many different methods to try to dispossess Indigenous Peoples of their lands and rights.

That report is from 2015, produced under pressure after the RCMP were under several years of scrutiny and publicity for not investigating reports of missing Indigenous women, and investigating murdered Indigenous women poorly. The stats you cited refer to are based on only 32 cases they investigated in 2013 & 2014, under considerable public pressure. The RCMP have no stats on complaints they didn't bother to record and cases they didn't bother to investigate. It took a lot of public pressure for RCMP and other police forces to even start investigating. They've found some serial killers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_murdered_Indigenous_women

You take orders from the CinC.

Dougie93, Your Oath to Her Majesty includes upholding the Queen's Treaties and, in their absence, the sovereign Aboriginal rights of the Queen's allies. The Supreme Court of Canada backs you up: The Honour of the Queen must be upheld. The Commander In Chief of the CAF is the Queen's representative, the Governor General. For a reason.

I see you haven't yet grasped the truth in law: There are no "handouts". It is their money being released to them from their Trust Funds, and there are payments owing that are much in arrears. Indigenous Nations are legally independent from Canada, never ceded their sovereignty and declare it frequently, every time their sovereignty is breached. Canada's treaties are with those sovereign nations, just like our treaties with other countries. If 'none of this is your problem', you don't know the facts, you don't care to learn and you don't care about Canada anyway, perhaps silence is your best option. Your many comments on this thread seem to be in defence of white supremacy in the military, an ideology that shares your disinterest in facts.

If that's the full extent of your understanding of Indigenous issues in Canada, I think you're wiser to hold your tongue than to show your ignorance and racism. There are no 'handouts' to Indigenous people in Canada. There are only the huge debts that Canada owes each Indigenous Nation for land, infrastructure rights-of-way, resource extraction, and other rights and treaty amounts that Canada has failed to pay. At Confederation, Canada assumed legal responsibility to maintain all Indigenous rights and treaty obligations. Each Indigenous Nation has a Trust Fund, administered by the Federal government (as Trustee) into which Canada's debts and obligations were to be paid, and from which each Indigenous Nation could draw for the governance and service needs of its people. Canada has proved to be a consistently corrupt Trustee, stealing money from their Trust Funds to build Canadian infrastructure and institutions (eg, railway, Osgoode Hall, etc etc), and also failing to release to them sufficient funds to meet their needs. In the Criminal Code of Canada, someone having control of another person's money and stealing from it for themselves, while also 'failing to provide them with the necessities of life', crimes Canada has committed, would be in jail for a very long time. So the Proud Boys et al can f*n sit on it and rotate: They, and you, are ignorant of the facts. And the military and police, particularly RCMP, need to resist government pressure to attack and criminalize Indigenous Peoples who speak up to expose Canada's crimes. Racism against Indigenous Peoples - resistance to 'fair dealing' - infects every government department, agency, institution and political leadership. As for "NDPIndian" ... it was the NDP government in BC that recently violated Wet'suet'en land rights by making agreements with a pipeline company, and then stood silent as the RCMP violently attacked Wet'suet'en people resisting the intrusion into their territory. So ... you now have the real information, and can help inform other people who make inaccurate claims about "handouts". Interesting to note: While some white supremacist groups in Canada do target Indigenous Peoples (eg the dumb Proud Boys, the dumb Paul Fromm, etc), there are other groups that specifically don't. They're still racists, but even they understand Canada's crimes against Indigenous Peoples.

Considering the Liberals strong support for SNCL, I thought maybe SNCL didn't have to bribe officials for contracts them but ... this: -Michael Fournier, former head of Canada Federal Bridge Corporation, sentenced to 5.5 years for taking a bribe from SNC on a Quebec project. (Chretien era) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fournier-charged-snc-lavalin-1.4260367 SNCL people already charged for Libyan bribes: -A former SNC-Lavalin executive, Riadh Ben Aïssa, pleaded guilty in Switzerland in 2014 to paying millions of dollars worth bribes to one of Gadhafi's sons. -Stephane Roy, a financial controller at SNC-Lavalin, was also charged with bribing Libyan officals. That case was dismissed when a judge ruled last year that prosecutors were taking too long to move the proceedings forward. -Another former executive, Sami Bebawi, is scheduled to stand trial in October on accusations he too bribed Libyan officials. Bribing foreign officials wasn't even made illegal in Canada until 1999, after the OECD Convention passed.

There is enough evidence against SNC-Lavalin for the engineering corporation to be tried on fraud and bribery charges, a Quebec court judge ruled Wednesday. SNC-Lavalin spent months lobbying the federal government to avoid finding itself in this position. It hoped to use a new legal mechanism — a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) — to pay a fine rather than risk conviction. ... [Federal prosecutors] allege SNC-Lavalin paid around $48 million in bribes to Libyan officials between 2001 and 2011, a violation of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. Federal prosecutors also allege SNC-Lavalin defrauded a number of Libyan institutions out of $130 million over the same period. ... The current legal uncertainty around SNC-Lavalin extends beyond the pending trial on corruption in Libya. The RCMP has an open investigation into whether senior company officials were aware of illegal payments made to the former head of Canada's Federal Bridge Corporation, Michel Fournier. He pleaded guilty in 2017 to receiving $2.3 million from an SNC subsidiary between 2001 and 2003. Fournier admitted that, in exchange, he helped the corporation secure a $127-million contract to refurbish Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge. And the Liberals response ... ? The new federal justice minister, David Lametti, has so far refused to comment on whether the government is still considering offering SNC-Lavalin a DPA. Legally, he can do so up until there is a verdict in the criminal case. ... But the federal infrastructure minister, François-Philippe Champagne, reiterated the Liberal government's concerns about the damage a criminal trial could cause SNC-Lavalin. There are few engineering companies in Canada, he said, who have SNC-Lavalin's experience with major infrastructure projects. "We need to make sure that we have companies like that who can deliver on the projects that we have in Canada," said Champagne, who represents the central Quebec riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain. I think he must have meant the damage SNCL has caused to itself. Surely he isn't suggesting that the Federal Prosecutors and now a Quebec court judge are to blame for prosecuting crimes?! /sarcasm

What do you think the value would have been of the land grants ... our forefathers had when Canada was being explored and settled That was certainly a big hand-up for them, don't you think?

What benefits do you consider excessive?

?? Then why do you vote Liberal?

I get it now. I'm glad I clarified ... I think. Lol I don't recommend anyone kill or die for Canada either. Wars are just retail events, a big cash grab for industry, Hallmark holidays for the war and resource industries. If you're not taking a bullet in their war, they're grinding you down on the factory floor. Either way, it's all about the money they're making.

Hmmm ... the thread is about white supremacists focused on racism, but I guess homophobia is part of the complex of the syndrome too. So ... you clearly despise Trudeau (because of the 'immigrants'? Or the gays?) but you'd be happy to shoot a transgender person to vent your rage at Trudeau. Or something like that. Can you clarify?

Taxme, you're hilarious, a caricature and the epitome of the topic, bringing it unto sharp relief on a background of muddled confusion. Have a nice day.

I've noticed that children and youth of similar ages who attend public schools together develop their own shared culture. They think, act, talk, walk, play, work and laugh like each other, regardless of race, clothing, ethnicity, disability, religion, gender or gender identification or any other differences. They have each other's backs, they have spats, they have unwritten rules of conduct among themselves that exclude anyone who would try to divide them on visible differences. They speak up against adults to defend each other from discrimination: eg, a friendly store clerk who serves all the white kids first then turns into a cranky mean old fart with their friends of colour, treats them with suspicion, as intruders rather than customers. Kids today are likely to confront that adult, report him to school authorities or even to a police officer if one's nearby. They know their rights - to live without discrimination against themselves or their peers - and their responsibilities - to take action to counter that discrimination. They respect and protect each other and their common kid culture FIRST. It happens every day. Two girls have a playground spat, grab at each other's hair, one got hold of a braid, the other got hold of some hair and a hijab. Somehow some unknown idiot racist creep reports it to the media, and some idiot creep reporter sensationalized it in a report to the public implying a racial spat between an Indigenous kid and a Muslim kid, without verifying that at all. The two mothers speak up loudly and publicly with one voice: 'They were just being girls, arguing and grabbing at each other's hair.' The two girls think the reporter and the paper that published it are just "stupid". Kids know that's just bad (adult) behaviour. In that case, the both the shared kid culture and the shared parent culture were much stronger than any cultural differences. Love it! The 'other' doesn't create the fear: The fear creates the 'other-ing'. Pre-existing generalized fear, anxiety and defensiveness underlie adult racism and white supremacy: childhood trauma is a strong common element among white supremacists, physical, sexual, emotional, psychological abuse and the resulting "toxic shame" of being "not good enough", and I would add, the need and search for social belonging, a 'tribe of their own', people grappling with the same unspoken traumas, focusing their anxieties on and blaming the 'others', and focusing on being 'supreme' at something, being 'supreme' at whiteness itself - the only thing about them that could not be destroyed by their trauma. If there is nothing else in themselves that they are proud of, at least they can share pride of whiteness itself. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/white-supremacists-respond-genetics-say-theyre-not-white I'm not sympathetic to people who concentrate their underlying fears on racism and rage against the 'others': We are all responsible for dealing with our own traumas, without inflicting trauma on innocent bystanders, by choosing positive and constructive outlets for that angst. 'I couldn't help myself because I was abused as a child' doesn't cut it with me: You're an adult now and you are responsible for your own choices. But I do think it's important to recognize and respect how it arises. Unlike whiteness, the anxiety and fear is not genetic but arises from experience and can be mediated and perhaps remediated by new experiences in making personal connections with the 'others'. There's a point in therapeutic treatment of white supremacists where their defenses against the 'others' fall away ... and they fall apart because they are then facing within themselves the personal traumas underlying their fears and their generalized anxiety. Well, I think that's enough from me for now. Stay tuned ...

Btw ... if folks want to out themselves as white supremacists on this thread, I'm down w dat.

Read the article.

Canadian Liberals are no different than Conservatives ... they all work on behalf of large corporations, not for us. NDP are clear that they work on behalf of working people. Greens are clear that they work with business to improve environmental conditions for us, and transition to a green economy. Clarity is good. We don't get that from the Lib-Cons.

You cited "$229k" as the cost added to houses by " regulations and red tape". But that's the cost only if you live in Toronto or Vancouver ... Not representative of the rest of the country at all. And I think that included the cost of municipal infrastructure - roads, lighting, sewers, watermains. Infrastructure is very expensive in suburban areas with big lots (usually built on greenfields). People who live downtown in more densely packed areas have been subsidizing those real suburban infrastructure costs all along. Building on big lots on greenfields in far flung areas and expecting low cost infrastructure subsidized by downtowners ... those days are over I hope. You want that, you pay the price! And in most of Canada outside of Toronto and Vancouver, it is not the price you claimed, Argus.