Moonlight Graham

They're just facts.

We aren't ruled by the British Crown, we're ruled by the Canadian Crown, and have been since 1953. They are 2 entirely separate and equal legal entities. The British Crown acts in accordance to the will of the British Parliament and we're no longer legally linked to the British Parliament or British Crown since we are now a fully sovereign country legally and politically. Unless you were born before 1947 you weren't born a British subject if you were born in Canada, you were born a Canadian citizen. Unless you were born before 1953 in Canada you were never ruled by the British Crown. If you swore an oath to Queen Elizabeth after 1953 you would have sworn an oath to the Queen of Canada, not the Queen of the UK. An oath is a legal contract, so the next time you agree to a contract you should read the terms more carefully so you understand it properly. These changes occurred because Canadian soldiers, including anglo British and Quebecois, fought bravely and proudly together during WWII and wanted more national independence from Britain after the war. You dishonor them because you want to reverse it all. The British Empire is dead and buried, get over it, or move to Britain. All the Brit ex-pats living in Canada i've encountered over the years who think we're still a part of the British Empire are as delusional as you are.

You don't agree with what? That a disproportionate % of black students live in single-parent households than most other racial groups?

What is your conclusion? Well if the problem isn't so much caused by anti-black racism in schools and mostly lies elsewhere then only focusing on reducing anti- black racism will not solve the other causes that exist. I'm aware that you use your real name on here and even if you wanted to agree with me you can't because you could lose your job or upset friends and family. This is the culture we've built that creates political correctness that suppresses the truth in order to spare people's feelings. Social science shouldn't care about offending people. My motivation isn't to deny racism, it's to help black students. Ignoring a key variable contributing to their problems is harmful, not helpful, to the black community in the longterm. My conclusion is that if we want black students to have similar education outcomes as Asian and south Asian students, then they need to be exposed to similar conditions and environments from ages 0-18. Focusing only on what's happening in schools and not what's happening in the home for all of these groups/ individuals is illogical because we're ignoring important variables that influence outcomes.

How was Confederation anti- British? They were largely loyalists and chose not to join the anti- British, anti-monarchist Americans lol. You are anti-Canadian, pro- American, pro-British. You're a British 5th column and actively want to break up the King's country because you want it to become British again. So your loyalties lie with 2 foreign countries. One of the problems with Canada is their tolerance with people with loyalties to other countries like yourself.

Lol you actively seek the destruction of Confederation itself, you're loyal to the British Crown not the Canadian Crown, two separate legal entities, which means you've broken your oath to the monarch of Canada.

The causes are multiple, but a lot of it comes down to poverty and income and education support in the home. Single parents make lower incomes than 2 parents, and have less time and energy to be able to help their children with homework. It is a fact that single parent families and are quite high among the black population. That a lot of black students live in single parent households that have lower incomes and less education support.

Every company and organization is obsessed with politically correct representation now. It's weird. Everyone is afraid of being accused of being racist or sexist.

Is it more dangerous to be offensive, or to censor expression that is deemed offensive? Creating dogma that can't be challenged, and those who do are treated like heretics is what religions do. Like Martin Luther sent to the Diet of Worms.

https://www.durhamregion.com/news/achievement-gap-new-ddsb-data-shows-black-students-faring-worse-than-their-classmates/article_36791356-924a-5ea4-9f08-c43422ea1868.html I don't understand how someone could reach a conclusion on what the causation variable is for black students doing more poorly in school based on that one statistic, and how people are continually allowed to express unsubstantiated social science claims like this without being challenged on it. A lot of black students have never met their fathers, while south asians rarely get divorced and rarely have children out of wedlock. This has a lot to do with the education and income gaps. Political correctness means these claims are never questioned.

Pierre Poillivere is rightwing waldo. I think both leaders are toxic and childish. I think Singh is more mature but yet doesn't have a clue about policy. The overall maturity level of people in our society is tanking. We're turning into a nation of brats.

He and his government have done nothing to curtail domestic housing speculation. The result is everyone with some money has a 2nd investment property and everyone else can't afford a home. They also continue to increase immigration levels every year to all-time highs during a housing crisis when there aren't enough homes for even the people who live here now. Canadian standard of living is plummeting and personal debt is spiraling. His government has injected a ton of money into the economy which has made inflation worse, and doubled the federal debt since taking office in just 8 years and has never balanced a budget. The economy is now dominated by the banking and housing industry, who are parasites leeching money from every Canadian who actually produces economic value. Not everything is his fault, like the healthcare crisis, but he has contributed since you shouldn't be adding half a million new Canadians per year plus hundreds of thousands of people on visas when actual Canadians can't access the healthcare system or buy a house. They should be letting in people who are doctors and work in the housing industry etc and pause others. He has gone hard on divisive identity politics. All his hiring decisions are based on racist and sexist soft quotas. His party has erased everything uniquely Canadian from the new passport. He caused the trucker convoy crisis. Our military is suffering a recruiting crisis. His party is accused by CSIS leakers of ignoring Chinese election interference and crooked political funding they benefit from and won't call a public investigation on it because clearly his party has something to hide. He was just voted by a landslide the worst PM since his old man took office.

What's your evidence for these comments? I posted the FL curriculum standards. If you want to learn about slavery of African-Americans you need to know the context. Slavery at the time wasn't uncommon in Europe, Africa, Asia, or the indigenous Americas. Slavery was very wrong, southerners were very racist, but you also can't look at it with 2023 morals and scientific knowledge either. Slavery should not be excused, but you also shouldn't be pushing narratives where the US was a uniquely evil society at the time. The US constitution was very sexist and racist in 1789, but so was every society in the entire world at the time. Context matters, and kids have no idea what it was like in 1789 unless you tell them. So they either grow up thinking "I hate America and am ashamed to be an American, we are evil and this country was founded on racism, sexism, and homophobia" or they can teach all the facts instead of just the victim propaganda they're now fed from leftwing activists and realize a more accurate narrative like "When this country was founded it had a lot of racism, sexism, and homophobia, which were common beliefs at the time throughout the world, and through the next 200 years America helped achieve important advancements in human rights and political movements like feminism that have been influential throughout the world". It is important to teach all of the facts and dismantle the increasingly common narratives among young people that causes them hate their own country and push divisive aspects of identity politics. They are being sold on false propaganda from leftwing types, and "progressive" teachers should not be able to push their activism and lies in the classroom anymore.

All crime is up across Canada. All types of thefts are up as is violent crime. People are feeling the economic pain, and pandemic isolation didn't help mental health: https://globalnews.ca/news/9860239/vehicle-theft-robberies-2022-statistics-canada/

I posted the link to the actual government source in this thread. It said this: [Quote]Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation). Benchmark Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.[/quote] That's what they're complaining about. Not a big deal.

It would have some value to them when slavery ended. Obviously slavery was horrible and wrong and it doesn't make up for slavery in any way.

I don't know anything about what Harris said. The actual curriculum summary can be seen here: https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf I don't see how the controversial bits are that controversial. A lot of the curriculum is celebrating black artists, leaders, showing the wrongs of slavery etc. African-Americans did learn some skills/trades during slavery, and some African-Americans did take part in violent uprisings, those are just facts. Are schools supposed to hide any facts that might possibly reflect poorly on African-Americans at the time (i think most of us would be understanding if some riots did occur)? Or that they were taught some skills during slavery? Is education supposed to only push a 100% victim narrative, or reveal all major facts?

CBC News is an embarrassment. It needs significant reform or abolishment. Given how news in this country is struggling I'm more leaning towards abolishment.

Unfortunately the country is run like a joke at most levels so it doesn't really matter. Politicians and CEOs are sociopaths that only care about themselves. Given everything in the country is a mess I can't believe the Liberals are still polling as high as they are. If the CPC weren't such a bunch of homophobic dunces they'd be running away with it. "Canada is back". Imagine how arrogant you have to be to make that statement.

He has to renegotiate his mortgage and lengthen it

No you didn't. I searched it and the only references I found were from the Constitution Act, 1982, such was also included in your link. You don't know what you're talking about. Quote me something from Constitution Act, 1867 and prove me wrong. Show me where the role and powers of the Prime Minister is described at all anywhere.

Federal government can't "overrule" local governments, it doesn't work like that, per the constitution.

People do not want to live near each other. Are you insane?? Canada's problem, and the western world's problem, is a lack of children. The developing world has too many children and that's their problem.

Portland, Oregon is a city where crazy people live. Montreal is an island. Where are you going to build on an island? It is racist to curb immigration. It doesn't matter if people can't get a family doctor, are waiting 12 hours in the ER, or can't find a place to live.

That's not true. Before whitey came around indigenous peoples lived in total peace and harmony with nature and each other, and every person lived to a ripe old age.