Dougie Hampson wrote to relative admitting fear of going to hospitals, inquest hears - "An Indigenous man misdiagnosed at a Central West New South Wales hospital who later died once wrote to a relative saying he was "really scared" to visit them in hospital, an inquest has heard... Dr McBride was a first-year emergency medicine registrar and was responsible for all patients in the emergency department the night Mr Hampson was being treated. On Thursday Dr McBride, who is Indigenous, told the inquest he was not made aware that Mr Hampson was Aboriginal but said that information was vital given the complexities related to First Nations people seeking healthcare."
Indigenous culture 'completely misunderstood', inquest hears, as late dad's fear of hospital revealed : ABCaus - "An Indigenous doctor misdiagnosing an indigenous patient is somehow a result of white racism. Makes sense."
"I would never guess he was indigenous based on the photo. Maybe the Dr didn't know either."
Many Indigenous patients won't tell hospitals they're Indigenous for fear of poorer care - "In general, most hospital data in Australia is of a very high standard. Hospitals collect information about patient care, waiting times, disease and other factors. These data are sent to the national hospital information reporting system run by the Australian Institute of Welfare (AIHW). By and large, this data set is comprehensive, coordinated and consistent. Indigenous status has been a mandatory data item since 1996 for all hospitals in Australia. But as the most recent report from the AIHW on hospital data notes, the “true” number of separations (meaning hospital admissions) should be about 9% higher than reported for Indigenous Australians. Studies measuring identification of Indigenous patients in hospitals, GP clinics and other health services have found rates of accurate identification could be as low as 34%. My study of 784 cardiac patients (70% Indigenous and 30% non-Indigenous) found only 60% of the Indigenous patients were accurately recorded as Indigenous at hospital."
Weird how indigenous patients face racism when they're not even correctly identified as indigenous
Grievance mongering has very real harms
BC told to stop saying 'British Columbians' because it's offensive now - "The Province of British Columbia is now instructing its residents not to refer to themselves as “British Columbians” as the term is offensive. The guideline — first publicized by True North — is contained within an official guide for B.C. government workers drafting “Indigenous content.” Writers are told that the term British Columbian “excludes Indigenous Peoples who may not identify with it.” In referring to First Nations, bureaucrats are told to avoid any moniker associated with B.C. or Canada, a “nation that has actively worked to assimilate (Indigenous) people.” “’British Columbians’ also excludes other groups such as newcomers and refugees,” it adds. The correct term, according to the guide, is “people living in B.C.” It’s a turn of phrase similar to prior government-sponsored revamps of the words “homeless people” or “drug addicts.” The new government-approved terms — in B.C. and other provinces — are now “people experiencing homelessness” and “people who use drugs.” Awkwardly, the memo on “British Columbians” now being an offensive term has not yet made its way to the provincial government itself. The official website of the ruling BC NDP contains nearly 900 usages of the term “British Columbians,” including many press statements issued in just the last few weeks... The “Terminology in Indigenous content” guide also includes a list of outdated terms that bureaucrats are instructed to avoid. This includes “Aboriginal groups,” “Aboriginal interest” and the word “traditional.” “Traditional knowledge, traditional territories, makes it seem like it is only applicable to the past and not the present,” it reads. B.C. also happens to be the same province that is engaged in a years-long effort to purge absolutely every piece of provincial legislation of gendered terms. The program is premised on the notion that non-binary people would not “recognize themselves in the law.” As such, the province has a dedicated team combing through all 154 years of provincial legislation and codes to remove pronouns as well as mentions of any terms that imply the existence of gender such as “father” “aunt” or “herself.” According to the government’s own style guidelines, the official name for this gender neutrality project is now itself offensive. It is overseen through a regulatory process known as Better Regulations for British Columbians."
We're still told that liberals don't hate their countries
Left wingers still claim that the BC NDP is really conservative (because they can't ever take responsibility)
Meme - Anime girl conquistador: "Oh gosh, did I just go and conquer a native empire that was enslaving its neighbors, practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism, teach them to read and write, convert them to Christianity and give them modern ideas of sanitation? Did I just do that? I'M SORRY!"
Meme - ">be conquistador
>cross ocean to find mystic lands
>arrive there and find a death cult worshipping a serpent God
>parlay with them, walk by rows of skulls by torchlight with priests torturing babies at temple zeniths
>realize everything in your Bible is absolutely true"
Meme - Abraham Ash @Historycourses: "Deposit of remains from the Crow Creek Massacre, in present day South Dakota. Dated to about 1350, this deposit of at least 486 victims - men, women, and children - represents the largest pre-Columbian massacre with an archaeological record. Virtually all the victims were scalped"
Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "There must be some kind of mistake. This sort of stuff just never happened on Turtle Island until Europeans arrived."
Meme - "Who's going to tell him who the "Mexicans" got it from? Now do Anatolia and Constantinople!"
Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson: "The fact that the Southwest is occupied Mexican territory makes the militarized border especially morally heinous. By what right does the US keep people from entering stolen territory? The passage of time compounds a crime it doesn't erase it.
Chomsky on why Arizona should be called "occupied Mexico": "To use an analogy, I gave a talk in Arizona recently and I simply referred to it as occupied Mexico, which it is. It should be referred to that way. It's occupied Mexico. We conquered it in a violent brutal war of aggression. We should do something about it. That's why they have names like San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and so on. Recognize it, recognize what we did."
Barbara Kay on X - "Very excited to announce launch of a new website published by the "Indian Residential Schools Research Group" where I am a board member "at large". This site deals with all evidence in the round - including the bad stuff; this isn't about laundering known deficits - but not narratives, myths and unverified "knowings.""
Jonathan Kay: The cancellation of Michelle Latimer has become (another) disgrace to the CBC - "It’s been almost a quarter century since the Supreme Court of Canada told us that Indigenous oral traditions must be considered “on an equal footing” with other types of historical evidence. Alas, as the attack on famed Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer shows, the CBC still hasn’t gotten that memo... the “family and oral traditions that have shaped [her] Algonquin Métis identity are consistent with the documented history, culture, and struggles of a larger non-status and Métis diaspora located in the Ottawa and Gatineau Valleys.” This will come as an embarrassment to the CBC, which recently tasked a pair of reporters with a two-month investigation into Latimer’s roots. Having determined that part of her family history was incorrect, these journalists published a lengthy December 17, 2020 report suggesting that Latimer’s whole back story was a tissue of lies. (“It’s an insult and it’s an exploitation and an appropriation of our culture, identity, community,” went one outrage quote.) Angela Sterritt, another CBC reporter, followed up with an article promoting the idea that “pretendians” should be treated as criminals. Latimer’s name appears nine times on that CBC News story page. The CBC didn’t just want to disgrace Latimer. They seemed open to putting her behind bars. Thanks to this week’s Globe and Mail report, however, this hysterical campaign against Latimer has been discredited... Progressive witch hunts have become a problem everywhere in the English-speaking world. But the phenomenon is especially acute in this country, since we are still inhabiting the post-Canada-150 era — a period during which we have all been encouraged to treat Indigenous cultural expression as a form of sacred scripture. And as with every ethno-religious movement, the high priests of this one have gotten carried away with their inquisitions... The real audience for the CBC hit job on Latimer wasn’t you and me. Rather, it was the media executives, funders, arts grandees, academics, activists, and fellow journalists who collectively crowdsource the task of canceling anyone deemed to have incorrect viewpoints (or, in this case, incorrect DNA)... NOW contributor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers even claimed (and I am not making this up) that Latimer’s perfidy shows “how Canadian institutions uphold white supremacy.”... shortly before the magazine’s tragicomic implosion amidst a vast toxic cloud of white race guilt, Canadian Art even tried to take down blockbuster Cree artist Kent Monkman. Specifically, author Regan de Loggans claimed that “Monkman’s paintings do little to question art-historical inequalities between settlers and Indigenous peoples, and pander to the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty through the narrative of a shared history between settlers and colonizers as though their experiences are commensurate.” I’ll let readers parse that gibberish on their own time. But they don’t really need to, since Monkman’s actual crime was that he’d just landed two of his works in the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. To a certain kind of government-subsidized Canadian mediocrity, this kind of world-class success represents a sin almost as horrifying as deadnaming Elliot Page... Again, these are the same culture clannists who’ve been droning on for years about how we all need to “believe women,” trust people’s “lived experience,” and celebrate “Indigenous storytelling.” And so it’s worth asking how they explain going after a woman with Indigenous ancestry who trusted in her family’s own orally conveyed stories and collective memories."
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism - "The overall theme is that Indigenous peoples traditionally lived their lives in harmony with the land and its creatures, and so their land-use demands transcend the realm of politics, and represent quasi-oracular revealed truths. As has been pointed out by others, this mythology now has a severe, and likely negative, distorting effect on public policy, one that hurts Indigenous peoples themselves. In recent years, Indigenous groups have finally gotten a fair cut of the proceeds of industrial-development and commodity-extraction revenues originating on their lands. And increasingly, they are telling white policy makers to stop listening to those activists who seek to portray them as perpetual children of the forest. It is for their benefit, as much as anyone else’s, to explore the truth about the myth of harmonious Indigenous conservationism. When the ancestors of North America’s Indigenous peoples entered the New World some 16,000 years ago via Siberia, they hunted many of the mammals, reptiles, and birds, from the Arctic down to Tierra del Fuego. Mammoths, mastodons, and enormous ground-dwelling sloths, as well as giant bears, giant tortoises, and enormous teratorn birds with 16-foot wingspans—animals that had never had a chance to evolve in the presence of humans—were among the many species that disappeared from the Americas. Some medium-sized animals—such as horse, peccary, and antelope species—were also wiped out. But others survived: Bison and deer species, tree sloths, tapirs, jaguars, bear species, alligators, and big birds such as rheas and condors are, at least for the time being, still with us. The existence of these survivors, along with the relatively unspoiled forests, grasslands, and rivers seen by the first Europeans to enter the Americas, served to support the illusion that America’s first peoples had been maintaining what popular environmentalist David Suzuki calls a “sacred balance” with the natural world. Throughout history, however, humans killed animals that were tasty, numerous, and huntable. For kin-groups, staying alive meant making life-and-death cost-benefit calculations about where to send your berry-pickers and hunters. “Sacredness” had nothing to do with it... In every known case where humans entered continents formerly uninhabited by our species, the bigger animals tended to disappear, since they provided the most sustenance per kill. The first humans to enter Australia some 70,000 years ago wiped out giant kangaroo species, rhino-sized marsupial herbivores, jaguar-sized marsupial carnivores, big flightless birds, and many other megafauna. The same thing would happen in Europe: After sapiens completed its occupation of that sub-continent some 30,000 years ago, the mammoths, woolly rhinos, giant deer, and lions they recorded in their cave paintings and carvings also disappeared. After our species completed its settlement of Australia, Eurasia, and the Americas, further human-caused extinctions took place as we discovered and settled islands in the world’s seas and oceans. The last big die-off started as recently as the 13th century AD, when Polynesian seafarers started settling one of the Earth’s most isolated land masses, New Zealand. Within little more than a century of their arrival, over 60 bird species, including 500-pound, 12-foot-tall, flightless moas, and the world’s largest eagle, had disappeared. Little of this is controversial among mainstream scientists. Yet it is now considered taboo to discuss it, and fashionable to replace these historical facts with what are, in effect, modern fairy tales. A common meme, which now has found its way into newspaper articles, is that “worldwide, there is no evidence of Indigenous peoples systematically hunting nor over-killing megafauna.” The Australian Museum’s website informs us that “for social, spiritual and economic reasons, First Nations peoples harvested game in a sustainable manner.” Wade Davis, a professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, presents the killing of animals by Indigenous peoples as a gentle, almost consensual act: The Indigenous bushmen of Africa “do not simply kill game. They engage in a dance with the prey, a ritual exchange that ends with the creature literally making of itself an offering, a sacrifice.”... In many cases, the above-described mythology has become a subset of a larger anti-capitalist discourse that presents Indigenous lands as a secular Eden, and greed as a form of original sin. This worldview, in turn, leads to false hopes that we may return our lands and society to some fictional state of grace... Because Africa’s megafauna had co-evolved with the human family, it had been able to evolve behavioral and other defences against the relatively slow emergence of human inventive power. (The South Asian megafauna, which still includes elephants, rhinoceroses, and tigers, was also partially protected from the end-Pleistocene extinction wave by early exposure to our family.)... It is nice to think that humans always lived in “harmony” with the natural world. But had our ancestors all taken on a “harmonious” approach, hominids would have died out long ago, devoured on the savanna as they attempted to preach their pacifistic creed to some bemused predator in the instant before it pounced."
Black-only swim times, Black-only lounges: The rise of race segregation on Canadian universities : canada - "Land Act Amendments - govTogetherBC... here in B.C. it will literally mean that circa 5-6% of the population will have enormously greater decision-making power over public land than the other 94-95%. It is even more alarming - because it seems - albeit subjectively - that well over 90% of people have no idea these two laws have been proposed - or what their impact will be. I am researching the following question; But you seem to know a great deal more than I do; so: Is it possible to hire a civil rights lawyer to file an injunction against a proposed law if it contravenes 15(1)? What other ways can we stop these above two proposed laws? Thank you for any ideas in advance. I'm going for it; I'm literally going to spend hard-earned savings on this if I can figure out how to make a difference. I'm an immigrant. My partner is mixed background Canadian. I don't want my children's home province to be a place where 5% of people have governmentally enshrined rights and power - where my children and the other 95% of people do not."
"I have worked for lawyers for the past 7 years as support staff. My nonlegal non-lawyer advice, do not do it. You will lose, and waste your money, the courts are too chucked and hate you too much to interpret the law this way. BC has totally bought into the noble savage idea and will not adjust course. Best advice, figure out how to leave Canada, it is a failed state."
Opinion: Plan to co-manage public land with First Nations will close B.C. for business - "In a move that surprised both British Columbians and Canadians across the country, B.C.’s NDP government intends to change the province’s Land Act and essentially establish a co-management partnership with more than 200 First Nations, who will become joint landlords of more than 90 per cent of B.C. and own veto power over any land-use decisions. The NDP, which holds 56 of 87 seats in the provincial legislature, plans to table the proposal in the spring. If passed, the revised act will represent a massive barrier to infrastructure projects in the province and a death knell for investment. That is the last thing the province needs. Between 2010 and 2019, the decade preceding COVID, B.C. attracted less private investment per worker than the national average and far less than Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. B.C. did fare slightly better in 2021, the latest year for which data are available, but the province’s per-worker investment remains only 62 per cent of the level in the United States. As expected, the lack of business investment has produced lower incomes. A recent report compared the median employment income of 59 large metropolitan areas in the west, 11 in Canada and the rest in the United States. Of the bottom 10 cities by earned income, five were in B.C., with Vancouver, the province’s commercial hub, ranking only 47th at C$37,300, barely half what’s earned in top-ranked Silicon Valley’s C$73,895. What’s behind B.C.’s poor investment climate? Mainly poor government policy. Consider the province’s business tax system, which includes the highest total tax rate on businesses in Canada. In 2020, B.C.’s total business tax rate , including federal business taxes, was 25.6 per cent, almost two-thirds higher than the national average (15.6 per cent) and more than double the rate in neighbouring Alberta (12.1 per cent). On the regulatory front, a 2022 survey of mining companies ranked B.C. 27th of 62 jurisdictions around the world for mining investment attractiveness. A 2023 survey of petroleum companies ranked B.C. 15th among 17 jurisdictions in Canada and the U.S. in terms of its investment attractiveness. Survey respondents repeatedly cited the same three deterrents to investment: land claims, protected areas and environmental regulations. According to the B.C. government’s own economic estimates , its regulations reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), known as CleanBC , will cost the province $28 billion in lost economic activity by 2030, which means that by the end of the decade British Columbians will be $4,600 poorer per person than they would be without these regulations."
Who needs private investment? Just get the government to spend even more money!
Indigenous Australians are Earth's oldest civilization: DNA study
Civilisation doesn't mean what it used to
Chanel Pfahl 🇨🇦 on X - "By grade 1, most kids can:
- count to ten;
- put on their own clothes;
- recognize the letters of the alphabet;
- write their names;
and - (believe it or not) discuss the ongoing impacts of colonization on Indigenous peoples and lands!! 🙂
Last week at Davisville Junior Public School, Toronto (TDSB)."
Indoctrination in schools is good if it's left wing indoctrination
CBC News on X - "Since May 2021, at least 33 Canadian churches have burned to the ground. Only two fires were ruled accidental by police. Investigators say many were deliberately set while others were deemed suspicious."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Gee, I wonder why that happened…Oh. Right. Now I remember. It’s because your colleagues boosted false claims that hundreds of child corpses had been discovered in “unmarked graves”…instead of, yknow, just GPR data that, 2.5 years later, hasn’t yielded a single known grave."
Of course, if they were mosques...
Nearly ONE HUNDRED churches across Canada have been torched or damaged after activists lied that 200 indigenous children were buried under Catholic schools - "As the incidents pile up, outrage has been growing among those who feel the government's reaction was far stronger to the hoax 'mass graves' than recent attacks on Christianity... The fury at Canada's history has only escalated, however, with one of the earliest reported arson attacks coming on July 21, 2021, when 100-year-old St Gregory's Church in British Columbia, just over the US-Canada border, was razed to the ground... 'How was the precise number of the remains of 215 children arrived at with the specified technology, and will a thorough investigation be done to help determine the cause of death of those who were forgotten beneath the soil?'"
No human remains found 2 years after claims of 'mass graves' in Canada - "Some academics and politicians say it’s further evidence that the stories are unproven. Minegoziibe Anishinabe, a group of indigenous people also known as Pine Creek First Nation, excavated 14 sites in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church near the Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba during four weeks this summer. The so-called “anomalies” were first detected using ground-penetrating radar, but on Aug. 18, Chief Derek Nepinak of remote Pine Creek Indian Reserve said no remains were found... “I don’t like to use the word hoax because it’s too strong but there are also too many falsehoods circulating about this issue with no evidence,” Jacques Rouillard, a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal, told The Post Wednesday. Nonetheless, he welcomes more excavations because of the enormous adverse publicity and stain left on Canada after the first reports of the alleged mass graves. “This has all been very dark for Canada. We need more excavations so we can know the truth,” Rouillard said. “Too much was said and decided upon before there was any proof.” In May 2021, the leaders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc announced the discovery of a mass grave of more than 200 Indigenous children detected via ground-penetrating radar at a residential school in British Columbia. The radar found “anomalies” in the soil but no proof of actual human remains... until last week, there hadn’t been any excavations in the alleged burial spots. There still have been no excavations at Kamloops nor any dates set for any such work to commence. That didn’t stop many in Canada from painting a demonic picture of the residential schools and those who staffed them... A number of writers, academics and politicians like Rouillard have come out cautioning against the claim that hundreds or thousands of children are buried at the school, but they have been labeled “genocide deniers” — even though many of the skeptics do not dispute that conditions at the schools were often harsh. “The evidence does not support the overall gruesome narrative put forward around the world for several years, a narrative for which verifiable evidence has been scarce, or non-existent,” James C. McCrae, a former attorney general for Manitoba, wrote in an essay published last year. McCrae resigned from his position on a government panel in May after his views on residential schools outraged Indigenous groups and other activists and politicians. Tom Flanagan, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary, told The Post Wednesday that he sees the issue as a “moral panic” similar to the hysteria over repressed memories and alleged Satanic cults in schools in the US in the 1980s and ’90s. “People believe things that are not true or improbable and they continue to believe it even when no evidence turns up,” Flanagan said. “People seem to double down on their conviction that something happened.” Eldon Yellowhorn, a professor and founding chair of the Indigenous studies department at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, told The Post last year that he too was cautious about the veracity of some of the more highly charged claims. Yellowhorn, a member of the Blackfoot Nation, had been hired by Canada’s powerful Truth and Reconciliation Commission to search for and identify gravesites of Indigenous children at the residential schools. But he said then that many of the graves he found were from actual cemeteries and it wasn’t clear how they died."
Alleged mass grave of indigenous children at Catholic schools across Canada contains NO BODIES, excavation shows - as experts suggest it's proof the stories were fabricated - "'This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,' said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations in Saskatchewan. 'We will not stop until we find all the bodies,' he added... no bodies were recovered from the sites, and Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation admitted the figures may be exaggerated."
Weird how they stopped looking
Residential school denialists tried to dig up suspected unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C., report finds - "Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report. "Denialists entered the site without permission. Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to 'see for themselves' if children are buried there," said a Friday report from Kimberly Murray, the independent special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. She did not say who the denialists were or when they came to the site. But the unauthorized visits to the site are the work of a "core group" of Canadians who continue to deny, defend or minimize the physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in the Indian Residential School System "despite the indisputable evidence of survivors and their families," Murray said... Citing international experts, Murray called denialism "the last step in genocide." "Denialism is violence. Denialism is calculated. Denialism is harmful. Denialism is hate," Murray said."
Looking for evidence when (almost) no one has done or is doing that means you're a "denialist", because allegations must be taken on faith. If you question the government narrative, you need to be jailed because you are hateful and causing harm through your violence
McMaster University apologizes for 'grave oversight' of noting Sir John A. Macdonald Day - "John A. Macdonald Day, which occurs annually on Jan. 11, has been phased out by many institutions due to the first prime minister’s controversial history. But, it remains a day designated by the federal government, often used “as an opportunity to teach young people about our first prime minister and the founding of our country,” says the federal government’s description... Yet, even as there have been attacks on some Canadian historical figures, others have stepped up to defend them. In the case of Macdonald, a statement by over 200 experts in 2021 expressed concern over the way people were viewing Canadian history. “We urge governments, historians, teachers, media and other engaged Canadians to ensure everyone has access to a balanced view of our common past and the people who made us,” the statement said . “Looking at our history with a dispassionate eye will give us a much clearer vision of the future. Let’s start with Sir John A. Macdonald.”"
Weird. I thought liberals were all about teaching accurate history. Turns out they mean pushing the left wing agenda by demonising white countries
