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On 6/1/2021 at 7:55 AM, Michael Hardner said:
I was thinking about a moment like this at the time Gord Downie was naively praising Trudeau for his work on aboriginal issues, on the last stage of his life...
It's evil and mundane mediocrity all mixed together causing this and we allow it to happen.Downie is responsible for one of the biggest fabrications about residential schools. The Secret Path is a tissue of lies and he knew it as he was given all the relevant documentation - facts about Chanie. He chose to ignore the truth. Instead he invented a story he felt he could sell and to our shame it did. Of all the children he could have picked that indeed suffered at a residential schools it is still a mystery to me why he picked Chanie and why he lied about how his death actually came about.
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On 7/19/2021 at 12:45 PM, Michael Hardner said:
I guess you are saying that the Conservatives, NDP and Greens will never nominate a good candidate ?
My response is: maybe you are right.Leslyn Lewis is one conservative candidate I would vote for were she in my constituency. I also believe that had she won the party leadership Conservatives would have had a much better chance in the coming election.
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Pardon me but I thought there was already a topic covering climate change. But the armchair warriors have no compunction taking over a topic on the fire that destroyed much of Lytton. Not a thought or care about all those affected. Nor a thought to all the others that are currently being evacuated from their homes due to wildfires. Oh what's the point.............carry on with your climate change debate.
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22 minutes ago, cougar said:
Keep in mind they started as being 100% of those living on these lands. The settlers brought disease, killed off many of them, oppressed the rest and then started importing new residents from other continents. So integrating to them is not all that unreasonable.
As for those non bio degradable items, I find it entirely a problem of those who manufacture them and distribute them. It is all with the government.
For arguments sake, please explain exactly what you mean by integrating to them?
You might also explain why immigrants to Canada should have to subsume their individual identities in order to appease a small minority of the population.
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15 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
I don't know anyone who is "fed up with natives", and I live in rural Ontario. I live very close to the Tyendinaga reserve. These people aren't living in filth and squalor. In fact they are doing quite well. I for one am a bit envious when I drive through their town and see the well kept houses and land, multiple cars, boats and quads they own.
To be honest, I think they're living better than most people and have the best of both worlds, quiet rural living with quick access to a nearby small city for resources.
But I do know many people who are fed up with the government and media narrative on this. Watch the TV news and they come out like this is a total shock, look we found children's graves. Older folks know, it was already known a long time ago that these deaths occurred and there are grave sites at many if not all residential schools. Young folks do not know.
It angers me to hear the media go on like this, as though they intend to inflame the anger in our youth towards Canada. Our youth don't know the history of Canada very well and they are hearing about this, and asking, wtf are we.
That's how to subvert a society, by fomenting dissent from within through ahistorical narratives. In other words, lies. It's not a lie that the kids died. It's a lie that they all died of abuse and that this was not known.
Now ask yourself who would want to subvert Canadian society, why, and how.
I most certainly am totally fed up with media coverage and their blatant use of superlatives, exaggeration and constant repetition. I counted 12 articles in my news feed one day about the grave sites - not one of them had an iota of new news. Not one. In saturating our news with a constant barrage of of these articles it is only natural that people finally get fed up. Instead of fostering sympathy the media coverage is having the exact opposite effect.
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"But maybe it is not entirely their fault. If they do not have the knowledge or comprehension on how to deal with garbage, the problem lies with those who produced the items and sold the items to them."
I find it very hard to believe that in 2021 the band council of such reserves don't have the knowledge necessary to deal with garbage.
I agree that manufacturers should be more responsible for the goods they produce and the packaging especially. I do not agree that with you that they are the sole problem. Personal responsibility for one's own environment must also play a part.
"The part of integrating the natives into Canada, I find amusing to say the least. In my view it should be the other way round."
The Indigenous population represent less than 5% of the Canadian public which is a mosaic of many different ethnicities. The idea that the majority should be subsumed by the minority is totally unfeasible and thoroughly unreasonable.
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Though the outcome was never in doubt, the intellectually challenged but ever self-righteous arbiters of woke aka the democrats chose to waste precious house time, putting aside all other matters of importance including addressing the ever increasing death toll due to the pandemic, the need for a stimulus bill to be passed and every other matter of note in order to hold their petty little trial that turned out to be little more than a theater of the absurd complete with home movies. If this is an example of how democrats will govern America than there is nothing on Earth or in the 'heavens' that can help Americans.
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A San Francisco teacher has been ridiculed for her 'performative wokeness' after she claimed that viral Bernie Sanders wearing mittens at President Joe Biden's inauguration was a lesson in 'white privilege and male privilege.'
High school teacher Ingrid Seyer-Ochi penned the San Francisco Chronicle op-ed published on Sunday, nearly two weeks after Sanders and his mittens took the internet by storm.
In it, she criticized the 79-year-old senator for wrapping up against the cold in his mittens and winter coat, while she claimed that his female colleagues, and especially women of color such as Vice President Kamala Harris, did not have the same opportunity to dress down for such a prestigious event.
"Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel,' Seyer-Ochi, who earns six figures working for the San Francisco Unified School District, wrote.
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a high school teacher in San Franscisco, has received criticism after publishing an op-ed calling Bernie Sanders' mittens a lesson in 'white privilege'
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On 1/23/2021 at 2:59 PM, DogOnPorch said:
They chop down every tree & bush for a solar farm...and install miles of panels...eco-friendly...lol. Same with wind farms.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-dreams-of-wind-and-light
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14 minutes ago, Aristides said:
Then the US is doomed.
Well they are doomed to lose their status as the world's biggest economy once the Chinese take first place. What will happen then is only conjecture. This new regime can do nothing to halt that progress but stand by and watch it happen.
"Meanwhile, China’s growth continues. And with every passing year, its weight in key markets increases. For commodities such as oil, it is by far the largest growth market. In 2018, it created a yuan-based futures contract, which amid the gyrations in dollar-priced oil markets in the spring of 2020 proved its worth as a safe haven. In Shanghai, the price of oil never went negative. Meanwhile, foreign investors are ever more attracted to the interest rates on offer on Chinese bonds. Almost 10 percent of China’s sovereign bonds are now foreign-owned. That share will increase as the bonds are included in the main indices. But this is welcome diversification rather than an immediate threat to dollar hegemony."
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41 minutes ago, Petros said:
That is because many of the cult is still brainwashed, and are going through an identity crisis. Give them several months, and the cult will die out. With each passing day, more people are abandoning the MAGA sinking ship. Hopefully, they will return to reality.
Well good luck with that. pete. People don't abandon their beliefs simply because a new regime takes over. The fact is that over 70,0000 people voted for the orange man. I doubt all of them were cultists. I also doubt that Biden's agenda is going to do anything to change their minds.
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24 minutes ago, Petros said:
Finally!
America once again has a competent leader for the first time in four years. Hopefully Biden can undo some of the damage that raging lunatic did in his four years of terror. America needs to regain it's standing in the World. We must make sure a man like Trump never is allowed to circumvent democracy again.
Congratulations, President Joe Biden.
Wishful thinking that Canadians can do anything about who is or is not Pres, pete. It will be most interesting to watch US politics in the next two years before the next Senate elections in 2022. Biden has a tough row to hoe what with the goon squad nipping continuously nipping at his heels, making outrageous demands and attempting to cancel anyone that refuses to march in lock-step. I wish him luck. He will need every bit he can garner.
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21 hours ago, Nefarious Banana said:
Hard to argue with that logic . . . .
Are you from Toronto ?
Final B.C. election count sees NDP win 57 seats, BC Liberals 28, Greens 2
Like I wrote..............not a hope in hell of winning. If I were from TO how would it be possible for me to vote in our provincial election??? sheesh
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On 12/6/2020 at 2:24 AM, betsy said:
You know what.....I'm not in a hurry to get the vaccine. Vaccines seems to have been rushed up, that it's actually spooking me. That they all went through trials is well and good - a couple of months? - that, it still makes me wonder about side-effects in the long run, like a year after?
I'm okay with waiting at the end of the line.
I'll be at the back of the line with you Betsy. The possible long term effects are still a question in my mind.
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18 hours ago, bcsapper said:
Well, I used "plumbers" because that's who you usually call when everything is plugged with shit. I didn't know about Nixon's plumbers.
I wonder if that's why he used the name.
"On Thanksgiving evening of 1971, David Young arrived home from his planning at the Special Investigative Unit, when his grandmother asked him, "What do you do at the White House?" He replied, "I am helping the president stop some leaks." She exclaimed, "Oh, you're a plumber!" Young, E. Howard Hunt, and G. Gordon Liddy then put up a sign on their office with the title "The Plumbers" but it was taken down since their covert operations were supposed to be top secret. Still, the name stuck for the group.[3]"
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On 2/20/2020 at 10:02 AM, Zeitgeist said:
The truth is that any community that relies on outside funding to remain in a particular location is unsustainable. Other than transitional funding away from such a location, no matter how "sovereign" one might consider the place, no ongoing outside funding should be provided. On what basis, being a member of a select race? It's just wrong. All conversations about Indigenous issues always end on that note. No self-determination without self-sustainability. Those communities that can survive on their own without infusions from the outside, that can collect their own taxes to pay completely for their own services, are indeed independent. How many such communities are there in Canada that could do that? I'm also talking about covering the costs of health and education, of course, as currently taxpayers are paying for those for Indigenous. Independence has to mean independence. Almost always, when I hear about calls for greater autonomy, there is a request for more programs or funding from taxpayers. Land claims will continue to go through the courts (unless Canada ceases to exist), but what value does that property have if it can't be privately owned and exchanged? Reserve land that can't be sold ties Indigenous to one geographic location because that's where the free land and tax benefits are. Indigenous status cards are another form of race-based privilege that creates pressure to only intermarry within the tribe. It's retrograde, unhealthy institutionalized segregation and dependence. No real progress can take place with the Indian Act, status cards, and the current reservation system in my opinion. My opinion, however, will be construed as "colonial". The way forward has to come from Indigenous.
Agreed in full. Very well put.
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On 2/20/2020 at 9:19 AM, Rue said:
I isolate the above words. They get to the heart f one of the continuing legal issues. When Canada's non indigenous government created the structure of the myriad of indigenous nations we mixed unelected (inherited, bloodline Chiefs) with elected ones. That in itself has created problems as has a lack of uniformity in approaching business by the Chiefs of each nation. Some take kick-backs and look the other way and do not spent it on their communities but hoard it for themselves. Some engage in actually very creative and constructive alliances with businesses employing people from their nations and protecting their environment and building infrastructure in their communities...and some do not trust any form of Western business and shun it. Because of that there is no uniform approach and its very complex as technically each nation among the nations is equal in legal authority and there is no strong leader who can unify these nations at this time. As well some nations have unpaid bills from businesses and still seek compensation for violated treaties while others do not as they have been compensated.
The nations within the nation of nations are split. That now requires an indigenous politician with a backbone to be able to sit down and talk with vision and leadership and rally disparate causes and interests.
Me Z I personally believe the whole reservation system was created because it was an exercise in couching or sanitizing or containing indigenous people in open air prisons and keeping them separate from European settlers. That was then. Dwelling on the past simply prevents moving ahead. Yes the reservation system was part of an exercise to jail people without using walls. Its time to take those walls or reservations down. Enough already. Its time to focus on what can be done now to heal any remainingconflicts. It is also time to deal head on with the corruption within the indigenous self governing structure and with the ineptitude in our own federal government's handing of the indigenous portfolio. The question is will anyone surface from the indigenous and on indigenous communities who can do this? It certainly won't be Prince Justin of Trudeau or his Band of Merry Men, Bill, Seamus, etc.
What it will take is strong Indigenous leadership from bands that have proven to be successful, whose communities have secure employment and the necessities of life. There are many of them across this country and it is past time they step up and show other indigenous communities that looking forward not backward, working with - not against - provincial and federal governments will help them to attain their goals.
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On 2/19/2020 at 12:24 PM, Zeitgeist said:
What makes it their territory? Title hasn't been established. Unelected chiefs making non-binding calls against elected chiefs. Seems very dubious.
It is dubious especially considering that the current crop of hereditary chiefs illegally kicked out many of the hereditary matriarchs who supported the elected chiefs.
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On 11/24/2020 at 4:50 PM, bcsapper said:
Given the craziness they are rescuing them from, they probably should be known as "The Plumbers".
Considering that 'The Plumbers' was the name given to Nixon's illegal goon squads, I doubt that using it for the Dems is a good choice..........but then, that's just me.
"The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, the " Room 16 Project ," or more officially, the White House "Special Investigations Unit" was a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established within a week after the publication of the "Pentagon Papers" in June 1971, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. "
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On 12/4/2020 at 9:25 AM, taxme said:
I am still baffled by people like you when the liberal party leader of BC says that he was going to abolish ICBC and cut the PST for a year to help people along during these terrible times of a plandemic and yet you go and vote NDP. Not to bright a thing to have done. So, you must be a socialist then and you appear to me as though you do not know all that much about politics. Just saying.
Throwing my vote away on the liberals who had not a chance in hell of winning? Nope.
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On 10/27/2020 at 9:43 AM, taxme said:
It's now official. Welcome to socialism and communism in BC. The buffoons In BC have now spoken and they prefer to have more government, more taxes and less freedom in their lives. I always knew that most of the people living in BC were socialists and communists and this election now has proven that. If one is looking for economic growth in BC they best go elsewhere. BC is not open for business. All we are going to get now here in BC is more big government. The buffoons that voted for the NDP have no idea what they have just done to themselves.
The liberals wanted to get rid of ICBC and abolish the PST for one year and the buffoons passed that up. Why would anyone living in BC want to pass that up? This only proves that the buffoons in BC want more government and more taxes and thus they will get their wish. Just wait until the lies and farce about Convid20 gets up and running. They the people are really their own worse enemy. Aw well.
The only choice in this election was the NDP, ts at least for this buffoon. Blame it on that silly woman elected to head the green party for demanding that Horgan stay an election till 2021. After enduring four dismal years of Weaver and his ilk stymieing any efforts by the NDP to advance our economy, I was determined they would be shut-out this time around. Seeing them left with only two seats did my heart good. IMO, the NDP are not hard-line socialists nor are they by any means communist - those labels better apply to the aforementioned greens. Also, IMO, Horgan has done a decent job during the pandemic and I believe that with a majority government he will continue to do so. Sometimes the people get it right and this was one of those times.
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On 8/11/2020 at 2:11 PM, dialamah said:
I think it should be addressed earlier on - most people don't kill anyone the first time they drive drunk and usually have previous court appearances.
My opinion is that a first offense results in those in-vehicle breathalizers and out-patient addiction treatment of a minimum six months, will jail time for non compliance Second offense - in-person addction treatment, six months minimum and minimum one year loss of licence. Third offense, jail time, probation and loss of licence until proof of long term sobriety - at least a year, maybe as long as 5 years.
Or something along those lines. I've a friend who realized he had to stop driving drunk when he smucked up a work vehicle and had to use the in-vehicle breathalyzers in his work truck as well as his personal vehicle. Ever since, he's been religious about using transit or taxi if he's been drinking.
I find those to be very sensible solutions, Dia.
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On 11/14/2020 at 7:14 PM, Moonlight Graham said:
If you represent Canadians as the PM you could bother to swing by at least one of the parades, especially if all the other parties are.
If you disagree with homosexuality you're a turd bigot and your religious beliefs shouldn't be a cover for it. In several Muslim countries homosexuals are put to death.
If the PM chooses to march in parades then he should march in all parades no matter who is holding them. Fair is fair. But if he only chooses to march in gay parades he is doing little more than virtue-signalling while showing his disdain for the participants of other parades.
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Georgia goes to Joe.
Trudeau vows help after Indigenous kids' unmarked graves found, but offers no details
in Federal Politics in Canada
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From the time the first story broke about the so-called 'discoveries' so close to Canada Day, I believed and still do that this was a well-timed, well-planned event by activists within FN communities designed solely to grab headlines and with the complicity of the media milk them for all they could. I've read the entire TRC report. These grave sites have been know for decades yet nothing was done about them until now?
The media ate this up publishing article after article that only regurgitated what was already in the news. It took FN communities themselves actually admitting that these graves sites were identified long ago to finally quell some of the uproar much to the dissatisfaction of the more extreme activists.
First Nations and the media had an opportunity to advance the cause of reconciliation and ignored it in favor of erroneous headlines and outright lies.