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Interesting read http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/eagleslaughter/ http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...les-050406.html VANCOUVER - B.C. conservation officers say they've identified a main suspect in the slaughter of dozens of bald eagles in North Vancouver, and are urging the man to turn himself in. The province's Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection said Wednesday that the suspect is a member of a B.C. First Nation. It believes he may be part of a ring that has distributed eagle parts across North America to First Nations artists and other individuals.

As I said - she insinuated it by inferring that by not putting children in regulated daycare, there would be more criminals - you better put more money into jails - hmmmm I get the message. quote: "There's actually no plan for early learning and child-care spaces. So it's a good job they're putting more money for prisons in the budget, because we're going to need them if we don't get this early childhood right." unquote Winnipeg Sun editorial: The charge from Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett that the Conservatives are condemning children to a life in crime by refusing to fund the national daycare program is an insult to every family that has decided to raise their children on their own. This hysterical rhetoric will not get the Liberals re-elected (WSun 10 and TSun 18).

Seniors are getting something, another $1,000 exemption. Expanding the military is a priority, gee, the lefties want us to send troops into Darfur, where are they going to come from? Harper is under no obligation to uphold promises that were not passed by parliament, and I do support him not 'upholding promises' to the aborignals and day care. Considering there was about 20 billion in tax relief, it is not to be sneezed at, but hardly a 'neo con' budget, considering the amount spending. - including 1.5 billion for agriculture. I was glad to hear that Ottawa will not commit itself to funding cost overruns for the 2010 Winter Olympics until it gets a full picture of the financial management plan - good move., including replacing 3 patronage appointments on the Olympic board. Another $591 million over eight years for the Pacific Gateway isn't getting much attention, but overall it definitely is a step in the right direction.

Nothing wrong with Seal Hunting, or hunting Eagles for that matter, in a sustainable process.. We are talking about a breech in conservation law here. We've stopped killing people in the real world for violation of spiritual codes for quite some time, few hundred years I think. So instead of being humane and keeping people locked up and having them at least attempt at rehabilitation, we are just going to go willy-nilly executing everyone that breaks laws? How silly, I hope we don't go that way with justice. Hunting eagles to that extent is wrong, Seals are not in danger of extinction. I feel the same way toward the Inuit killing whales, they shouldn't be exempt, at least until we can get the whale population back to a more sustainable level. Execution is too harsh for killing eagles, but they should get a good stiff sentence in a federal jail. Too many eagles and too many people involved, to let it go with a slap on the wrist.

I can't imagine anyone wanting Bennett as a leader, she's on a par with Hedy Fry. Quite a crop of wannabe leaders the liberals have. One thing in our favour, they have until December to keep on showing the public what they are really like. I'm disgusted that she would actually insinuate that we are not fit to raise our own kids, cos if we do, they'll end up in prison. Typical liberal arrogance, keep it up Carolyn baby, maybe the rest of the country will find out what you are all really about. Loose lips sink ships

Odd, though, that all the "ethnocentrist" and bigoted type attitudes he criticses in White Canadians are reflected so abundantly in his own bigoted and ethnocentrist attitudes. I agree, and this thread is starting to degenerate into name calling. As soon as someone starts throwing around the race card and calling names, then its over. No point in discussing anything when that starts. Mind you,, the basis of this whole thing is the race card when you think about; it is simply about privileges and apartheid given to a group of people based on race and ancestry which would not be tolerated in any other situation. All the arguing in the world over treaties and who's the biggest racist, natives or the white guys doesn't change that fact.

Graham can safely huff and puff all he wants, along with Layton as the Bloc has agreed to support the budget. Guess it just goes to how you can't teach old liberal dogs new tricks - they can safely vote against it. Some of Graham's problems listed here, provides some good entertainment at least. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...get2006&no_ads= Despite opposition from both the Liberal and NDP parties, the first Conservative budget in over a decade will likely pass because of the endorsement of the Bloc Quebecois. I like this part, guess Duceppe is expecting the CPC to last at least another year - "The real budget will be next year and Mr. Harper will have to deliver on that," he said. Leader of the Opposition Bill Graham said he would feel "ashamed" if he did not vote against the budget. "I don't think that the people who have voted for the Liberal Party and asked us to be the custodians of their principles and their ideals, in this House of Parliament, would want us to vote in favour of this budget," he said. "In fact, I would be ashamed if I went back to my electorate and said, 'Yes, I could vote for it." Graham said the budget offers little financial help for upper-income Canadians. "In terms of taxes, there's little benefit to lower and middle-income Canadians and lots of benefits to upper-income Canadians in it," he said. "But ultimately, there's going to be tax increases in spite of what the minister is saying for those least able to afford them." Graham also said the budget "totally eviscerates our Kyoto responsibilities." The Conservative government has said it will drop Canada's Kyoto programs in favour of "made in Canada" solutions to lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, NDP Leader Jack Layton also said he will not endorse the budget, citing a lack of real benefits for child care. "What this budget fails to do is invest in the things that working families need for their families, like child care spaces," he said. "There's just no long-term funding for child care spaces, so we can get places where kids can be looked after. And certainly $100 a month isn't going to do the job. Secondly, nothing for post-secondary education to keep the costs of going to school down."

Hope these guys get a good stiff sentence - in a federal jail. What part of 'its wrong to kill eagles' don't they understand. .............................................. 11 men arrested in B.C. eagle mutilations. . Sun, 30 Apr 2006 . A North Vancouver RCMP spokesperson said the men – who are all from British Columbia – face 105 charges in total. . The B. C. Conservation Officer Service, with help from various agencies in Canada and the United States, conducted an investigation after at least 50 carcasses were found in North Vancouver in February 2005. . About 40 of the eagle carcasses were buried in a shallow grave on the Burrard First Nations reserve. The legs and feathers had been cut off, investigators said. . Eagle feathers and talons are used in some traditional aboriginal outfits and ceremonies. For these purposes, permits are issued for First Nations to use eagles that have died naturally – but sometimes the birds are killed for the parts. . . http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...aths060430.html

they were here first. no they were not, entitlements are based on race - and your welcome. But it doesn't matter, every country had someone who was there before - so what. Its about now, and being full and equal citizens, taking responsiblity, working and paying taxes ho hum - you know, like the rest of us. Who said anything about anyone having a 'peculiar look', I probably look peculiar to some folks, but hey, I don't want any preferential treatment. Have a great day

If you happen to be an average earner (around 40 Gs) your pocket was picked, you'll lose 100 bucks a year. But if you are big time spender and purchase 10,000 worth of goods to which GST applies, you'll be back to even. Bill Graham is right! No he isn't, your pocket wasn't picked at all, all he did was roll back a benefit promised by the liberals, the tax credit for workers more than offsets that. Course the usual suspects will be whining, the day care advocates and Kyoto pushers, but that is to be expected. The GST cut will benefit the lower income more as the spend a higher percentage of their income on goods and services than higher income people. It does signal a new direction for Canada as it is big on tax cuts and reins in program spending, a cood move, and they kept their election promises - a government that Canadians can trust. The Liberals were growing spending by 14.4% in 2004-05 whereby the CPC have predicted an increase in program spending by only 5.3% this fiscal year, and 4.1% in 2007. 0 increase in spending would be prefereable, but cutting in back is a step in the right direction. I would have preferred more broad based tax cuts, and a lower increase in spending, it wasn't quite what I was looking for, for its a start. And darn it, I want bigger and better pensions !!!

Equal rights? Where did I say anything about equal rights? What I said if you read it, is I cared about living up to agreements. Your version of "equal rights" is assigning benefits and privlildges based upon race. As abhorent as that is, I could accept it if it was a binding and legal agreement between parties. If you cared about equal rights, you would advocate no special status or benefits for Natives. Your version of "equal rights" is neither equal nor are the rights uniformly assigned. Now, where's my prize? I agree, with full and equal rights comes equal responsiblity to work, pay taxes and respect property. The liberals are wrong for agreeing to terms in the Nisga Treaty which made apartheid legal in Canada, and established Native homelands with laws that supersede provincial and federal laws enshrined it in the constitution and segregeted the population by defining rights based on racial anchestry. The gov't lost an opportunity to enpower the individual native to better their lives. What would happen if the Government made a law that granted rights, resources and economic opportunity to a visible minority group say ( fill in the blank ) and denied it to other groups ( fill in the blank ) using the racial anchestry of that group as the qualification for those rights. ? Do you think they would get a free ride on this issue if it were any other group but 'native'. This is what is happening with these treaties and the sooner Canadians wake up the better.

IMO the reaction by some Caledonian citizens is because they are fed up with the official approach to Native problems which is an absolute farce. It is driven by an absolute of fear of causing unrest and having to stand up to that unrest, and of overly-romanticised images of Natives. In the past, we have seen governments bend to or ignore illegal activities conducted by natives. These include smuggling across the border and blockading private and public roads. We are fed noble images of a people 'at one with Mother Earth' only to read of uncontrolled logging, hunting, the creation of bingo-lovers' paradises and extreme fighting events etc. Life on Reserves is often characterised by slothfullness, lack of care for property, drinking problems, unemployment, failure to persue educational opportunities, and high incidences of assault against women and children. Naturally, the blame for this is placed everywhere except on the Natives themselves. Despite the obvious ineffectiveness of current policies - i.e. throwing more money at the problem, holding Royal Commissions, and all kinds of incentives by giving Natives preferential treatment - governments show no sign of sorting out this mess. A mess where people are brought down by an over-dependency on others. What is really needed is an honest debate about why the billions of dollars the gov't spends are not mproving aboriginal people's lives; that along with less rhetoric and a more positive plan from native leaders. It is time fears of the racist label are put to rest, and we demand some ccountability.

Be interesting to hear how the liberals will come down on the corporate income tax down from 21 to 19 as it was planned by the Liberals for 2011, now it is for 2008. What a lot of hot air from Graham et al, they should bring the gov't down, it'll guarrantee the CPC a majority.

Funny how perspectives differ. All I read from him is smug, snide, and snotty. Well, he's giving his perspective which is of course - biased, he obviously subscribes to the idea that all 'natives' should be supported by the taxpayers in perpetuity. I doubt that at any time did the signers of these treatys ever envision this to be so. When you treat a group of people differently because of the race I believe that it causes resentment, contempt and possibly hatred. So if you think people are hostile now give it a few more years of violent 'protests' and see how the average person feels then about one group having more rights, responsibilities and opportunity because of race . If Canada grows through more immigration and becomes even more diverse and the government changes over the generations , which will bring in even more immigrants - watch out. I doubt that future governments will be so generous.

Scriblet: I digress. If you or any of your ancestors voted federally in the past 150 years, and the party you voted for won, then -as a voter- you aided and abetted the governments' policy on residential schools, and therfore, you and your ancestors enabled pedophiles to do their dirty work on Native children. However, it wasn't just Native children. Other children who became state wards also suffered abuse at the hands of the system -Newfoundland being a prime example-, so you and yours that voted to install winning provincial governments also. I know that many Canadians take offense to these suggestions, but that is how the system is designed to work. We vote for a government to make decisions on our behalf, so we have to be accountable for our choices. however, we also have a tendency to "Eichmann-ize" ourselves so that the blame is shifted squarely to the pedophiles and the bureaucrats that didn't do their jobs properly. This is a cop-out, which I can see that you stand firmly behind, scriblet. I'm not saying you or yours are pedophiles, but I am saying that you enabled them. I disagree, I have not enabled anyone to do anything, I wasn't responsible for abuse in residential schools or anywhere else and you don't know who any of us voted for at that time. I doubt that a change in gov't would have changed the school situation, as atrocious as it was. I do not condone any of it, but dwelling on history doesn't change nor help natives advance. I am not nor do I accept that I should have to continue to pay for a race based system of entitlement or pay for historical wrongs forever. Neither do I accept that opposition to native illegal protests is racist, it is time we all accept the need for reasonable discussion without the usual accusations of racism etc. thrown around. The people of Caledonia have as much right to protest as the natives do, in fact, I would bet that there will be more protests of the same nature if there are any more illegal and violent native occupations. The Nisga treaty has made apartheid legal in Canada, established Native homelands with laws that supersede provincial and federal laws enshrined it in the constitution and segregated the population by defining rights based on this racial ancestry where economic rights are granted to a collective based on this racial ancestry; land, resources and opportunity will be owned by a communist type model state where individuals in a communist style state are sometimes given a vote but the means of production are held by tribal heads. The people are powerless and more often not the individual on these reserves are poor while the 'chiefs' are rich. We are losing a opportunity to enpower the individual native to improve their lives which I am sure would happen if they were given the means to do so. The billions of taxpayer dollars given every year would be better given out on an individual basis and inidividuals given property ownership. This could be reduced over time until the inidividuals have improved their skills and education or whatever it takes to empower them to be self sufficient.

Agreed, although I don't think we can just 'tear them up', but we should take a firm stand on not accepting any new claims, no more squatting on land and declaring it 'theirs'. Neither myself nor any of my relatives, past or present committed any crimes or took land from the 'natives'. Yet many people seem to feel that I and my family and other innocent Canadians (and their families in peretuity) should pay for crimes they never committed. The so-called First Nations is a bogus title if there ever was one, they were here first - so what (actually they weren't) Are all Canadian ssupposed to be held in some kind of feudal thralldom for the convenience of native overlords for all time? Are Canadians going to bow to race-based agendas forever?

Oh Oh, think its time to get a bigger tin foil hate LOL

I think its a hoot that the party which actually campaigned on getting rid of the GST, now wants to keep it. Its all idealogy and trying to bring down the CPC. The liberals will support anything which might make the CPC look bad, they will even try to create a situation; never mind what might be good for the country or you and me.

In case you missed it, Preston Manning had a Letter to the Editor published yesterday in the National Post. It read as follows: "Isn't it amazing how trade relations improve when we stop referring to representatives of our largest trading partner as morons and bastards". Preston Manning, Calgary. Right on Preston.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. There isn't a heck of a lot at the moment for the CBC et al to carp about so they try to invent a situation; show the starving and ravaged people and eventually blame Harper for "not doing anything." I can't imagine the Liberals taking the lead and sending in troops without the U.N., they wouldn't do it. I don't know what the solution is to Darfur and other such atrocities, sometimes I believe personally it is completely out of our control. If the U.N. does go in, it has to be with a large show of force which would have to stay there, probably for decades while we try to educate and help the people out of poverty. As soon as the troops leave, likely they would be right back at it. Should we just turn our backs on them and let them go at it? I'm waiting for the anti U.S. "its the U.S. fault in the first place' rhetoric to start up, cos we know every situation in the world is the fault of the U.S.

Saw on the news yesterday a demonstration demanding that Harper take the lead and go into Darfur? Now Cloony et al want the U.S. to go in... Whats up with this? First off, its a muslim country, any intervention by the west will cause more violence and terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, putting our soldiers in more danger than they allready are. Secondly, why is it okay for the U.S. and Canada to put their soldiers in harms way when it only suits the left? Thirdly, If Harper did this, and Canadian soldiers are killed, how long would it take before the protesters turned against Harper? As sad and grave as this situation is, we should not go in without the U.N. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/30/us.sudan.ap/index.html Celebrities, activists rally for Darfur Demonstrators want U.S. action to end genocide WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of people joined celebrities and lawmakers at a rally Sunday urging the Bush administration and Congress to help end genocide in Sudan's Darfur region. "Not on our watch!" the crowd chanted as a parade of speakers lined up for their turn on a stage on the National Mall, the Capitol serving as a backdrop.

www.smalldeadanimals.com has the .pdf files from the Caledonia.ca site and http://www.dustmybroom.com/?p=3548 has info. on this: NON-ABORIGINAL GROUPS DECLARE SUPPORT. CHECK OUT SOME SAMPLES FROM THE LIST. THE GAME OF FOOTSIE WITH RADICAL ANTISEMITES CONTINUES***********: Al-Awda (Palestinian Right of Return) Coalition-Vancouver Canada Palestine Association Palestine Community Centre Palestine Solidarity Group Palestinian Arab Women’s Association Voice of Palestine-Vancouver Iranian Federation of Refugees

There is pictures of the Indians burning down the bridge from the website from the previous post. They should all be jailed for maximum sentences for arson and their band should pay the complete cost of rebuilding the bridge. Actually, make the Indians rebuild our bridge. Obviously they don't work anyways, they have been sitting on this protest line for weeks. Agreed! but guess what, that website has been shutdown due to harassment and intimidation. Didn't take long did it for those who don't believe in equality for all and freedom of speech to shut down opinion because they didn't want the truth told. Did anyone keep a copy of the .pdf on the site, I didn't save it, darn it.

What a first 3(?) months: International role re-affirmed. Military re-established. Kyoto on the back-burner Budget in place Softwood lumber resolved Opponents and provinces off-balance. Media eating crow. I, like many here, have been occassionally a bit bewildered by Harper's actions since the election, but you've got to hand it to the guy, he is just going ahead, within the realm of the possible, with much that I had hoped for.

Too damn much, this retirement isn't all its cracked up to be, I need more money !!!!