Unfortunately, I lost my draft links due to a copy/paste error and didn't manage to recover all of them. This is what I found in my Raindrop but inevitably some stuff that didn't go through there (or which did not have the "Indigenous" keyword) is missed. Big Tech censorship is all lost
Will Australia ever effectively "Close the Gap" for Indigenous Australians? : r/australian - "Canadian here: No. It will never be enough because reconciliation seems to be a performative state of being rather than an end result. Nobody can agree what exactly we’re reconciling with and what point makes us exactly reconciled. There literally isn’t enough word limit to link you the hundreds, possibly thousands of CBC articles where people are saying “this is a great first step” towards reconciliation. If everything is a first step towards reconciliation, reconciliation will never happen."
Reconciliation will never happen as long as white people can be guilty and exploited to suck free resources
Facebook - "‼️MAJOR BREAKING - NEW DOCUMENT Now that First Nations in BC have started TAKING land title they are developing a strategy to SELL the resources to China, who has already expressed INTEREST B.C First Nations Energy and Mining Council has released a ROADMAP to doing this ๐๐ผ"
MAGS ๐⛏️๐ on X - "1. BC enacts UN DRIPA in regs
2. Carney & BC negotiate secret agreements with First Nations, where aboriginal title supercedes Crown and private property (fee simple) title
3. First Nations sell ๐จ๐ฆ land and resources to China
4. Canadian soveriengty & national security eroded"
Bronwyn Eyre: The 'Gladue principle' has caused immense harm to Indigenous women - "A recent Investigative Journalism Bureau article, which appeared in the National Post, reiterated what we have long known: in Canada, Indigenous women are killed at a much higher rate — tragically, six-times higher — than non-Indigenous women. The article quoted experts who blame the Canadian justice system for failing Indigenous women. They note that those found guilty of their abuse or murder generally face less serious sentences than perpetrators of crimes committed against non-Indigenous women. Of 1,329 suspicious deaths of women between 2019 and 2025, more than 25 per cent (340) were Indigenous, according to the article. Of the 76 cases that went to trial, 46 per cent were convicted of manslaughter rather than first- or second-degree murder. In 97 per cent of cases, the victim and accused were known to each other. This raises an inconvenient truth about crime and punishment in Canada and the effect of the “Gladue principle” — which the article does not mention. R v Gladue is the 1999 Supreme Court ruling that addressed Indigenous over-representation in Canadian jails. It mandated that courts take into account systemic factors, including the legacy of colonialism, residential schools and inter-generational trauma in sentencing. Unfortunately, Gladue has led to a painful legacy all its own. Simply put, it is a major reason why Indigenous offenders, including those accused of domestic and sexual violence against their Indigenous partners, receive lesser sentences. This was recently, bravely highlighted by now-retired judge Paul Bychok who, last June, presided over R v T.T. in the Nunavut Court of Justice. T.T. — an Indigenous heavy equipment operator with a self-acknowledged “good life” — was charged with assault, sexual assault and voyeurism against his own daughters. He had nine prior convictions for violent crimes, including two for sexual assault, six for assault and one for sexual interference of a minor... “Colonialism’s legacy has affected Inuit women and girls every bit as much as Inuit men.”... despite the recommendations by the federal missing and murdered women inquiry that deterrence be the priority, above all — the Gladue principle has helped to entrench, not prevent, two-tier justice against Indigenous women in Canada. A terrible irony. And speaking of ironies: in December, the federal government introduced Bill C-16, the protecting victims act, whose goal is to reduce violence against women and children. C-16 categorizes murder motivated by hate, including femicide, as first-degree murder, even if no planning or deliberation was involved. Aside from rewriting what, for centuries, has constituted the evidentiary threshold to prove murder, the bill does not address whether Gladue — and lower sentences for Indigenous offenders — will trump those key elements of the proposed law. In R v T.T., Judge Bychok cited a female Inuk elder from Pond Inlet who, discussing Gladue, once told him that women are “supposed to be protected by the Charter too.” He then quoted a “front-line medical professional” who said, “We need our women here to be taken seriously and for offenders to stop being complacent that they will get away with their offences.” Unfortunately, neither looks likely."
Time to blame white people
Indigenous Ontario killer swaps life sentence for 12 years in prison - "An Indigenous Ontario man has swapped a life sentence for 12 years in prison for killing a disabled drug dealer. Article content Kenneth Morrison was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the July 7, 2018, home invasion in Kitchener, Ont., that left Shaun Yorke, 46, dead with a bullet in his chest. Morrison and an accomplice were both sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. But Morrison successfully appealed his case to Ontario’s top court, which set aside his murder conviction, substituted a conviction for manslaughter, and sentenced him again. Article content Article content Article content Morrison’s Indigenous status was considered a mitigating factor by Ontario’s Court of Appeal, as was his guilty plea to manslaughter and his “minimal” criminal record before the robbery gone bad."
"Indigenous" people cannot be guilty of murder, only manslaughter
Wade Grant on X - "Land Acknowledgments are symbolic & innocuous. Yet MP @AaronGunn tries to say they are a threat to Canada and Canadians. These four First Nations leaders, of communities he represents Federally, released a perfect response. I hope he takes their advice and just “Chillax Bud”."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Wait a second. For years, we’ve been told that land acknowledgments are deeply meaningful and consequential statements of belief—crucial to “healing” the traumas of history. Now they’re just meaningless text strings that we say to be polite? Which is it ?"
Nick Osmond-Jones ๐จ๐ฆ on X - "This is the ultimate gaslighting. Force everyone to participate in a political ritual. Tell them it's deeply meanful and leads to reconciliation. Call anyone who objects racist. In the court, argue (successful) that reconciliation means taking ownership of private property. And now say critics are overreacting, land acknowledgements are meaningless, and to "chillax". Honestly fuck these guys."
Holly Doan on X - "Feds @GCIndigenous are sealing all reports filed by Kamloops, B.C. First Nation that was paid $12.1 million to exhume purported graves of 215 children at an Indian Residential School. “Confidential information,” the department wrote in denying Access To Information request."
Ottawa ordered to release Kamloops grave records after access law breach - "The federal government has been forced to release documents related to the unproven claim of 215 graves at the former Kamloops residential school after the Information Commissioner ruled Ottawa broke access-to-information law... A recent Angus Reid Institute survey found 62 per cent of Canadians oppose criminalizing residential school denialism, including 36 per cent who said they strongly oppose it. The poll found Indigenous respondents were divided on the question. No parliamentary committee has investigated the Kamloops graves claim... Since the still-unproven discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools, at least 123 churches have been burned, vandalized, or desecrated across Canada. No national inquiry has been called to address these attacks."
Holly Doan on X - "Feds censor as "confidential" files on what Kamloops First Nation did with $12.1 million in funding to recover alleged Indian Residential School graves. @Tkemlups acknowledged Feb 18 it never exhumed remains. “The community received funding for field work.” — Carolane Gratton"
John Rustad on X - "Canadians were told there were 215 graves. The country lowered the national flag for months. Churches were burned. International headlines declared the discovery of mass graves at a former residential school. The federal government responded by allocating $12.1 million in taxpayer funding specifically to support investigation and exhumation work to verify those claims. Now we learn that no remains have been exhumed. At the same time, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has released the activity reports tied to that funding, but every meaningful detail has been redacted. The reports describing what work was carried out, what investigations were conducted, and how public money was spent have been blacked out and labelled confidential. That is unacceptable. When the federal government spends millions of your taxpayer dollars to investigate a claim that shook the entire country, Canadians have a right to transparency. They have a right to know what work was performed, what evidence was found, and how their money was used. This is not about denying history. It is not about attacking Indigenous communities. It is about basic public accountability. If the government funded an investigation, the public deserves to see the results of that investigation. Let me be clear : The records should be released in full. The spending should be explained clearly. Canadians deserve the truth about what was done with their money. And if that money was not spent for the purpose it was granted for, then the public deserves accountability, including repayment of those funds. #cdnpoli #bcpoli"
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa on X - "Unbelievable. David Eby admits he wasn’t even briefed on the feds recognizing Musqueam Aboriginal title over Metro Vancouver where a third of BCs population lives What are you even good for as Premier? These clowns don't give a damn about private property"
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa on X - "At what point does British Columbia consider separation? The Canadian govt does not have the right to unilaterally recognize Musqueam aboriginal title over Vancouver & surrounding areas. This jeopardizes the private property rights of almost 2M people."
Tara Armstrong on X - "If you want your city to look and feel like your local Indian reserve, then give control over your city to the people who run that reserve. That’s basically the plan that leftist politicians and judges have been implementing for the last 50 years. And now it’s at your doorstep, Vancouver. The longer we wait, the harder all of this will be to undo. Every citizen should be equal and there is no need for any reconciliation. We can start by repealing DRIPA and demanding the removal of aboriginal title from Canada‘s constitution. If that fails, independence may indeed become British Columbia’s only alternative."
Aaron Pete on X - "What a despicable post. First, Musqueam is one of the most successful nations in BC and the quality of life in that community is high. Remember, there’s a beautiful golf course there. Second, your post completely ignores the fact that the reason the living conditions are worse is because First Nations were forced onto reserves that weren’t where they lived historically, in areas that were believed to be less valuable and useful. Third, that living conditions are this way because of all the horrible policies put forward by the west that destroyed our way of life, governance systems, and cultural practices. If you want to say this - DEBATE ME. Come on my show, and say this to me. Defend your ideas."
Tara Armstrong on X - "Indigenous people on reserves live in constant fear of their Chief and Council. This Musqueam member says reconciliation payments don't improve life on the reserve because Band leaders siphon the money to enrich themselves — and any member who speaks up gets coerced into silence."
Tablesalt ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ on X - "๐จNEW Canadian couple's building contractor finds indigenous grave and they get a bill for $300,000!! AND if there's more artifacts, they could be on the hook for over A MILLION DOLLARS! This is why no one invests in Canada!"
Canada has gone mad ๐ on X - "The irony ๐จ๐ฆ... Homeowners slapped with a $319K bill (and counting) for a forced archaeological dig on their private property after unearthing Indigenous remains. Yet Tk'emlรบps te Secwรฉpemc First Nation (Kamloops band) got millions in funding but refuses to excavate. Make it make sense"
B.C. laws leave landowners alone with costly discovery of Indigenous remains : r/ilovebc - "Don't report what you find. Problem solved"
"Yeah but they need the money to purchase more casinos!"
"The town of Lytton can’t be rebuilt because the government forces them to look first, out of pocket pay to have companies come in to look. Then if they find anything you are screwed"
B.C. shelves Indigenous heritage conservation measures after strong political backlash - The Globe and Mail - "It was the latest backtrack on Indigenous issues from the provincial government. Almost two years ago, the NDP cancelled planned amendments to the Land Act, which would have allowed the province to share its decision-making powers over public lands with Indigenous groups. The measures would have covered access and use of public land, which encompasses 94 per cent of the province, and had impacts on forestry, among other endeavours. But the public outcry over the BC Supreme Court Cowichan decision that recognized Aboriginal title for the Cowichan on lands in Richmond this past summer, which has introduced legal uncertainty about the ownership of some private property in city, has forced the NDP to back down... Critics within the business community and some municipalities argue the government isn’t being cautious enough and that what’s needed is an entirely new approach to these issues. “It’s not that they’re rethinking their primary thrust. They’re rethinking how to do it,” said Chris Gardner, president of the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association. He said making “intangible heritage” protected under the Heritage Conservation Act without any further definition would make bad legislation worse. The overhaul of the Heritage Conservation Act was aimed at giving First Nations more say in decisions about what needs to be protected and how, and at expanding the definition of heritage by including sites that don’t have any artifacts but have been identified as sacred in songs, stories or legends of First Nations. Oral histories have increasingly been taken seriously as evidence by courts and researchers in recent decades, but Mr. Gardner said the proposed new act had no definition of how much evidence would be needed to certify a site as sacred. “What does it mean? What is the standard?” he asked. “Because of its subjective nature, it would create a significant challenge.” Mr. Eby defended his government’s approach to Indigenous consultation, but said no one thinks the current Heritage Conservation Act is working. He noted the act has led to years-long delays in rebuilding the village of Lytton, which was razed during a ferocious wildfire in 2021."
Jonathan Kay on X - "BC’s public broadcaster reserves 50% of its funded documentary slots for BIPOC producers. 25% is reserved for Indigenous producers alone. But it shot past that benchmark. The real figure is 42%. (In the 2021 census, 6% of BC identified as indigenous)"
Sask. to launch Indigenous court pilot, aiming to reduce overrepresentation in custody : r/LawCanada - "Anyone with Law Enforcement experience patrolling a Rez can tell you how frustrating and wasteful it is. I patrolled 2 First Nation Rez's assisting FN Police Services. Their officers NEVER wanted to charge anyone and even when we did charge Indigenous persons the cases were plead out to absolutely nothingness. We had one career criminal on the Rez with 234 occurrences, 120+ charges total ranging from MV thefts, mischief, theft over and under 5k and drug possession. He saw a total of 2 years in a cell over a period of 10 years of his criminal activity l. It's absolute insanity. Unfortunately become known to Indigenous persons that they essentially have a get out of jail card. This has emboldened them to commit crimes with little fear of repercussions."
Parasites confirmed in Kashechewan’s water supply, dozens ill : r/northernontario - "Pretty sure the daily testing was not being completed for this to happen. Perhaps jail time is in order but somehow I doubt it."
"Are there even daily flights out of here to take the samples to a lab?"
"Most water testing is completed onsite for municipal systems with scheduled more extensive testing completed elsewhere."
"We're the wrong colour" Marathon Council comment upsets nearby First Nation : r/northernontario - "it upsets racist when you say the quiet part out loud... maybe we shouldn't be deciding who gets water paid for and who has to pay for it themselves based on who their grandparents were"
"That's not how it gets decided.. It gets decided when you approach one group of people and say "if you leave this prime farmland you have been living on for centuries and move over to that piece of swampland over there, we will build you houses, dig you wells, send you doctors and teachers for as long as you live there and we use this prime real estate over here". Any time you want to have to stop living up to the agreements, feel free to vacate Toronto and give it back to the Port Credit band..."
"Just so you are aware, there is not a single treaty in Canada that say that water treatment would be provided to them. Everywhere else on this continent the people who use the water, pay for it to be treated."
Kamloops residential school search for potential unmarked graves rules out some areas: First Nation : r/canada - "Said this when the story broke; and got downvoted to hell: the initial searches were done using ground penetrating radar (GPR) which is super inaccurate. I use GPR as part of my job. It’s very good for things like locating underground utilities under concrete slabs. But not good at detecting organic material. The FBI in the US did a study using pig carcasses and found that GPR was virtually useless in finding cadavers."
"I expect this is why the alleged Kamloops expert Dr. Beaulieu backed away from the project and her report was never published. She will not speak on it because the reality of what GPR can do is off-narrative. The fact is that there's a lot of money at play here and nobody is going to get big tax dollars for 6,000 anomalies, it's far more compelling to say they are unmarked graves. There are some very unfortunate games and a considerable amount of misinformation around this situation."
"Are you saying that all of the virtue signalers overreacted while they were hiding away at homes during lockdown?! Never!"
"They burnt down churches over this shit"
"But its fine, because its against a religion that the progressive government at the time hated. Now if theres a girl out there lying about her hijab being cut that requires the national attention of out Prime Minister."
Kamloops residential school search for potential unmarked graves rules out some areas: First Nation : r/canada - "...that doesn't really matter though because we know from records that thousands of children died in these school, so the graves are real it's just a question of where they're located."
"Thousands of children also died outside of those schools during the same period due to poor living conditions in Canada at the time."
"Unfortunately in the time periods we are discussing here children died everywhere. The medical care was different, the nutrition was different and poverty cut across many demographics. And of course we know that there are graveyards that have fallen into disrepair and records that have been lost. Canadians were grossly misled about many aspects of this situation and diluting the truth of what happened with assorted nonsense does nothing to move this issue forward. There were atrocities at residential schools let's focus where we have the evidence and let's continue to find evidence as we are able."
Leniency for Toronto crack dealer because of his nine children, race - "Williams identifies as both Black and Mi’kmaq. Though he couldn’t prove the latter, the judge was “satisfied” Williams “has established a connection to Indigenous ancestry.” Article content Article content “It is not unusual for Indigenous people who have struggled under the yoke of colonialism in this country and its intergenerational impact to have lost connections to their roots and community,” Chamberlain said. “Further, markers of the effects of intergenerational trauma, including poverty, familial addiction, struggles with education and mental health, and over-representation within the criminal justice and child welfare system, are often present when Indigenous identity is confirmed.” Article content Williams “deserves consideration for the reduced moral blameworthiness associated with these challenges,” said the judge."
B.C. to rewrite law to limit U.S. tribal groups’ influence on environmental assessments - The Globe and Mail - "British Columbia intends to block U.S. tribal groups from participating in environmental assessments for projects developed in the province, saying it is working to rewrite the law to codify that change. At least three U.S.-based groups have claimed the right to shape decision-making in B.C., based on claims that their historical territory includes land that is now inside Canadian borders. One of those groups, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, won a landmark 2021 case before the Canadian Supreme Court, which said one of its Washington State-based tribes should be considered aboriginal peoples of Canada. In the wake of that decision, U.S. tribal entities have sought to intervene in a B.C. port expansion, mining projects, forestry work and the provincial school curriculum. However, in late January, the province issued a letter stating it intends to limit the influence it gives those outside B.C. A proposed change to the Environmental Assessment Act would prevent U.S.-based groups “from being participating Indigenous nations under the EAA”... In the U.S., however, tribal groups say B.C. is disregarding the principal finding of the Supreme Court’s decision, that “ ‘aboriginal peoples of Canada’ means the modern‑day successors of Aboriginal societies that occupied Canadian territory at the time of European contact, and this may include Aboriginal groups that are now outside Canada.” “They’re ignoring everything that was put in place that said that we should have a right at the table,” said Esther Reese, president of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission, or SEITC. In some cases, she said, groups in the U.S. stand to see a greater effect from Canadian resource projects than people in Canada. She gave the example of the Eskay Creek mine, which is being redeveloped by Skeena Resources Ltd. in partnership with the Tahltan Nation, which is headquartered in Dease Lake, B.C. That mine is situated in a watershed that drains across the border into Alaska."
Cowichan decision leads to another claim on private lands in B.C. - The Globe and Mail - "An Indigenous group on British Columbia’s central coast is claiming ownership of private lands in a case that relies on a groundbreaking court decision from last summer that opened the door to Aboriginal claims on private property. The Dzawada’enuxw First Nation is seeking a court declaration that almost 650 hectares of fee simple lands around Kingcome Inlet are rather “Indian settlement lands” that should never have been pre-empted by settlers more than a century ago. (Fee simple lands have long been known in Canadian law as the highest form of private land ownership.)... Until last summer, Indigenous land claim settlements and court actions steered clear of privately owned property. But in a 863-page ruling made on Aug. 7, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barbara Young recognized “Indian settlements lands” granted prior to Confederation, and declared that Aboriginal title is a senior interest in land above fee simple titles, which derive from Crown grants."
Weird. Left wingers keep telling us this is not happening and will never happen
CedarGroveWeatherHub on X - "Toronto's land acknowledgement now includes: Mississaugas of the Credit Anishinaabe Chippewa Haudenosaunee Wendat Many diverse First Nations Inuit Metis Mississaugas of the Credit (2) Africans New migrants Past migrants And takes up 70% of the entire meeting."
Are You About to Lose Your Right to Fish? » Amalgamated Conservation Society - "Common Property is the principle that salmon belong to ALL Canadians, and it is the foundation of fishery and resource management. BC First Nations groups are proposing to have this term and principle dropped from the Salmon Allocation Policy, and DFO is asked to consider this extreme policy change. Removing the principle of common property would shift public access to fishing from a federal, conservation-based management approach to an optional “privilege” granted by First Nations. If salmon are no longer acknowledged as a shared public resource to be managed for the benefit of all Canadians, YOUR rights are extinguished."
We fact-checked a viral claim about who's killing MMIWG. It was wrong. | Canada's National Observer: Climate News - "you may have seen a statistic claiming Indigenous men killed 70 per cent of murdered Indigenous women. The number was cited by white nationalist Faith Goldy, former editor-in-chief of The Walrus magazine Jonathan Kay and reams of others on social media who sought to undermine the report's finding that Canada's treatment of Indigenous people is genocide. Problem is, there’s no published research that supports the figure. It's based on years of sloppily collected RCMP data that doesn't examine the actual problems underlying violence against Indigenous women, and is grounded in racist assumptions about Indigenous people. "What we have is people cherrypicking evidence and choosing evidence that supports their point of view without sharing with the public the limitations of what they're relying on, or putting that information in context," said Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and member of the Gitksan First Nation. "It's really disturbing to me, because how are we to engender an understanding in Canadians about the experiences and the contributions of First Nations, Mรฉtis and Inuit people when there's this kind of fabricated evidence being shared around?""
Court outcomes in homicides of Indigenous women and girls, 2009 to 2021 - "Most Indigenous women and girls were killed by someone that they knew (81%), including an intimate partner (35%), acquaintance (24%), or family member (22%). In most cases, the person accused of their homicide was also Indigenous (86%)."
Time to shut Statistics Canada down for spreading anti-Indigenous racism
How Joseph Trutch Set the Stage for BC’s Indigenous Policies - "Why does British Columbia keep arriving at the same place? Every generation, a new set of political leaders faces the same Indigenous land question, reaches the same conclusions about cost and timing and legal uncertainty and finds a way to leave the question closed. The answer is not cynicism or coincidence. It is the architecture of the province, and one man did more than anyone else to build it."
Left wingers won't be satisfied till they've destroyed the country
