CTV News Vancouver on X - "First Nations decry denialism on anniversary of suspected graves found at B.C. site"
Jonathan Kay on X - "How is it “denialism” to question something that even the most gullible media outlets in Canada now acknowledge is merely “suspected” You don’t even know what you’re trying to argue anymore"
Wei Wai Kum say civil disobedience coming if Province doesn't pause K'ómoks treaty - "There’s a stark warning tonight from the chief of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River, who says if the Province doesn’t pause approval of the neighbouring Komoks First Nation’s treaty then his members are ready to engage in civil disobedience... He says they’re angry and disappointed that the Province and neighbouring K’omoks First Nation aren’t listening to their concerns. The Province and K’ómoks signed a treaty in April, and now Bill 20 as it’s called is going through the legislative process in Victoria before final approval. The issue according to the Wei Wai Kum is that the K’ómoks treaty land claims overlap much of its own ancestral territory."
If two "indigenous" groups fight... it's whitey's fault
Mario Zelaya on X - "Some hard facts on “mass graves”:
-The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, found 0 cases of homicide. ZERO.
-In 165 years of residential schools, there were a total of 6 suicides in residential schools.
-From 2011 to 2015, the estimated deaths by suicide was 1,180 for First Nations -There were a total of 3201 deaths in 165 years
-Over a third were before 1940
-Tuberculosis, influenza (the Spanish Flu), and pneumonia were the leading cause of death
-Antibiotics weren’t widespread until the 1950s
-This is well documented in the 1907 Dr Bryce report (screenshot attached)
-Back then, there was NO admission medical exams & kids who were admitted were documented as sick
-IMPORTANT FACT: the Spanish Flu FORCED common graves with PRIESTS, STAFF, & STUDENTS
-This was the norm during this era: Philadelphia, the UK, and Norway all used mass graves in 1918–19
-And yes, outside of the 1918 Spanish Flu there was SHARED USE cemeteries
-School cemeteries buried priests, bishops, settlers, and reserve community members so remains aren’t necessarily students
-This is a FACT CONFIRMED by the truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
-Pupil burials were free to First Nation parents; what was known as Indian Affairs, they had a policy to do this to keep costs low
-This ensured that on site burials were the cheapest option
-This was consistent with how institutions treated the impoverished or indigent in a general sense
-It’s worth considering that neglect can explain “unmarked” graves
-Wooden crosses with painted names deteriorated or were destroyed after schools closed and were abandoned post 1969
-So “unmarked” reflects decay, not some sort of secret burial
-Here’s a major discrepancy which you might not know of: Kamloops
-The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada documented only 51 deaths at Kamloops
-This completely contradicts against the May 27, 2021 press release of “215 children.”
Where did that number come from?
-The community’s own framing, Chief Rosanne Casimir stated it was “not a mass grave, but rather unmarked burial sites,” and the press release acknowledged the cemetery was already “spoken about” and known
-FYI: ground penetrating radar detects ONLY soil anomalies
-It cannot confirm human remains, identify age, nor determine whether a body is a student, former student, a nun a priest or community member"
Harrison Faulkner on X - "A City of Toronto activist on the "2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee" asks officials to rename Queen's Park due to "the insidious nature of settler colonialism." City staff have proposed relocating the King Edward statue within Queen's Park to the periphery to "address the colonial landscape.""
Daniel Tyrie on X - "Why is this foreigner trying to a shame us for our history? Our ancestors risked everything to build a civilization from nothing. They collaborated with First Nations to create a unique society. They brought technology, literacy, and prosperity to the new world. We should be proud of our colonial roots."
Jared Taylor on X - "Indians immigrate to Canada and tell Canadians they can't have a Queen's Park because the "indigenous" deserve better? Despicable swine."
Time to condemn this racism and xenophobia while calling white people born in the country colonizers, settlers and immigrants
Tom Fletcher | Facebook - "BC's current land claims crisis officially started in 2017 with the election of John Horgan's NDP government. My latest for Western Standard.
A brief history of British Columbia’s deconstruction
David Eby’s ‘shared decision-making’ is the second province-wide effort to put the land claims genie back in the bottle
VICTORIA – It appears we will have to wait until this fall to learn if British Columbia can find a way out of the latest effort to resolve the historic tangle of indigenous land claims and unfinished treaties across the province. Premier David Eby has been warned that his latest trio of watered-down treaties, two of which were tabled in the BC legislature in April, must be halted for 180 days or they will face challenges in the courts and on the highways due to overlapping claims. Eby has also backed down on his plan to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), promising to spend the summer negotiating a solution acceptable to at least some of the 203 indigenous communities in the province. Eby’s voluntary “shared decision-making” plan, to effectively cede control over large areas of Crown land in secret negotiations outside of treaty talks, may also be stalled. Appeals of court decisions that threaten private property and the entire framework of provincial law are years away, as even American-based tribes begin to use DRIPA to assert their claims over BC mining projects. BC residents may wish that this effort to resolve the land claims across the province ends the way the last one did. It was in 2009 when former BC premier Gordon Campbell pulled back at the last minute on the Recognition and Reconciliation Act, which would have reconstituted BC’s unceded lands into 30 historic tribal areas. BC Conservative opponents, surging in public opinion polls even before they choose their next leader, have promised to repeal DRIPA on day one after defeating the NDP. The concept of “shared decision-making” goes back to 2006, when Campbell’s government signed a framework agreement for the “Great Bear Rainforest,” a faux-indigenous name for the vast region of the central and northern Pacific coast that was transferred to effective control of the group that came to be known as the Coastal First Nations. That’s a selected group of the many coastal communities set up by the David Suzuki Foundation with US support to form a barrier against Canadian oil exports. Shared decision-making in those days was not only with the Haida Nation and other anti-oil indigenous groups, but with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, now known as San Francisco-based Stand.Earth. The north coast oil tanker loading ban remains today, thanks to Justin Trudeau, and US-backed environmental groups are still active in BC. A current court challenge to BC’s second natural gas pipeline to the north coast is being run by Ecojustice, formerly known as the Sierra Legal Defence Fund. The current crisis officially arrived with the election of an NDP government under John Horgan in 2017. He barely toppled the BC Liberal dynasty with the help of three BC Green Party members and a Fraser Valley MLA who defected to the NDP to become speaker. Horgan’s mandate letter for his first minister of indigenous relations and reconciliation instructed him to make the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples part of BC law. Then-attorney general Eby completed that task with a little-noticed change to the Interpretation Act, which the BC Court of Appeal has since ruled makes DRIPA the law of the land in the province. History, common sense and the latest opinion poll suggest that Eby’s summer-long effort to settle this mess is not expected to succeed. It’s difficult to win when your opening move is to surrender, as Eby has done with the legal directive to abandon “extinguishment” of aboriginal title as the Crown’s position in court. BC may survive this latest crisis, assuming DRIPA is repealed and the legitimacy of the Crown is restored. But that’s not likely to be achieved by an NDP government."
Meme - Scott McLeod: "Last week I was sitting beside a non Indigenous gentleman at the airport waiting for my connecting flight. He struck up a conversation with me which, for the most part was pleasant enough (he was actually from sturgeon). When he inquired to what it is I do for work I informed him that I was Chief of my community. His reply was simply "Oh so I pay your salary?" Rather than being insulted and getting angry I decided to do him a favour and educate him a little. My reply: "Sir, a little lesson in the basics of economics may give you a better understanding of how things actually work. The very fundamental ingredient for any economy in this world is having a land base, one that is rich in resources. These resources are harvested, extracted or grown from that land. This creates commodities and revenues, This in turn creates a workforce that pays into a tax base that creates roads, infrastructures, schools and hospitals. This workforce in turn needs services and goods which expands this economy creating more businesses and more jobs. Pretty basic stuff. Now, where do you think this land base came from sir? The Indigenous people of "Canada" signed Treaties to share our land base so Indigenous and non indigenous could all prosper from the richness of our land base. Instead, our people got raped, murdered, thrown in residential schools, jails and marginalized from the economic benefits of our own land and became the poorest people as a result. So no matter what job or business you have, Indigenous people have paid and continue to pay YOUR salary every single day whether you'd like to admit it or not. No land base = no country = no economy = no job, it's really that simple" To all my non Indigenous friends, this week is Treaty Week, if you believe Canada is the best country in the world please take the time to learn about it's real history and be thankful.
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The people who support this also call landlords useless parasites who harm society because they don't produce anything
Fran Yanor on X - "A new DRIPA-related case in BC courts could force BC Hydro to pay more for energy generated by Indigenous-owned power producers, potentially leaving ratepayers on the hook, writes former BC Utilities commissioner Richard Mason for @BeatNorthern"
Ben Woodfinden on X - "This is bonkers, worth reading because if the implications. A First Nation bought into Rockford, a regular private power company in 2023, after BC Hydro’s standard renewal terms were already public knowledge. Now they’re in court arguing their Indigenous status entitles them to the higher rates BC Hydro reserves for brand new Indigenous-owned projects. They entered a commercial venture with eyes open, and are now using constitutional consultation rights to extract a better price. This is what DRIPA has created - weaponized litigation to renegotiate commercial contracts after the fact. The courts get clogged. The uncertainty spreads. Investors flee. And ordinary people pay more for electricity. This madness needs to stop."
Federal, Manitoba governments breached First Nations' child welfare rights, judge says in 'historic' decision : r/winnipeg_alt - ""A good place to start would be focusing on preventing involvement with Child and Family Services, rather than apprehending kids, she said." Really easy way to do that is not abuse children in the first place."
"Yeah I’m sure they’ll just stop trying to rescue these kids and then we will get blamed for not doing enough, cycle continues etc. etc."
Clearly, indigenous people abusing their children is white people's fault, but the only solution is to give even more money to them
The Reclamare on X - "Sept 6, 1930 Kamloops Residential School. A request is made for Ottawa to pay to build larger fruit and vegetable storage rooms at the School "wishes to buy 15 tons of apples for winter use""
Damn Genocide! Clearly this was a precursor for the Gaza Genocide!
Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast on X - "Chief Allan Adam is the lead voice of the First Nations coalition that brought the legal challenge that killed the citizen-led Alberta separation petition. He went on CBC to celebrate the ruling. He called it a "great win for Canada and for democracy." But here is what CBC didn't ask him about. Chief Allan receives foreign interference money. The Tides Foundation is a left-wing lobby organization based in San Francisco who wired $55,000 directly to Chief Allan Adam's bank account to oppose the oil sands. Shortly after receiving that money, Adam flew to Toronto to sit on a stage next to Neil Young to publicly demonize Canada's energy industry. CBC themselves reported that various American funders contributed an estimated $40 million to Canadian environmental and Indigenous groups with one specific goal.... to landlock Alberta crude by blocking pipeline construction. Researcher Vivian Krauss attributed the cancellation of Northern Gateway, Energy East, Keystone, and Trans Mountain directly to this coordinated American-funded campaign. Chief Allan Adam was part of that campaign. He gladly took the money. This is real foreign interference in Canada's energy economy. And the same man who took American money to block Canadian prosperity is now the man leading the charge to block Albertans from having a democratic vote on their own future. Meanwhile he REAPS the benefits of tax payer money from the very same industry profits. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's own audited financial statements tell a story that Chief Adam did not mention once during his CBC interview. Combined with existing assets and real estate holdings, the band is sitting on close to $300 million. And the registered population of this band? 1,567 people total. With only 33 people living on reserve. That works out to roughly $9 million per person on reserve and Canadian taxpayers are still sending them $10 million a year plus a $100 million lump sum payout. Meanwhile this reserve has no public accounting of money spent since 2021. That's five years of missing financial disclosures. No accountability. No transparency. And the money keeps flowing. Chief Adam has been doing this for years:
2018 — The National Post reported his complaints were complicating the Liberal review of the Frontier Oil Sands mine. The Alberta government publicly stated his concerns were about money, not environment.
2018 — Despite publicly criticizing fossil fuel developers and hosting anti-oil activists including Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam signed a benefit agreement with Teck after what he described as positive negotiations. His opposition was for sale.
2020 — Adam was stopped by RCMP outside a Fort McMurray casino for an expired license plate, resisted arrest, and publicly accused the officers of "racist" treatment. The RCMP was cleared. No evidence of misconduct was found.
Chief Allan Adam did not vote against Alberta separation. He did not organize Albertans to vote against it. He went to court to make sure Albertans never got to vote on it at all. Over 300,000 Albertans signed that petition. They followed the law. They used the exact democratic mechanism the Legislature created for them. And a judge threw every one of those signatures in the garbage. A man taking money from foreign interference organizations who also massively benefits from Alberta prosperity is taking democratic rights away from Albertans. Yet he thinks this is a "win for democracy." Canadians you are being scammed in every way possible."
Foreign - American, even - interference is only bad when it threatens the left wing agenda
She heckled a land acknowledgement. Child services were sent after her - "Childcare authorities were called on Lara Yates, a mother-of-four, after she dared to heckle a land acknowledgement at a school in British Columbia, says her lawyer. Land acknowledgements are tedious political theatre and pompous virtue signalling and weaponizing social services to persecute those who refuse to adhere to this zealotry smacks of the Inquisition. For her sin, Yates was also banned from the school premises for two months. She is now at the centre of a legal battle which might have the advantage of declaring land acknowledgements as quasi-religious in nature and should therefore be banished from schools, city councils and other places where we don’t expect to be indoctrinated by those in authority. “Schools are supposed to be neutral public educators, they’re not supposed to be weighing in on political or sectarian matters,” said Lisa Bildy, the lawyer for Yates... “This has become a form of quasi-religious ritual now, at the beginning of all these performances, and not everybody agrees.”... “Targeting this family with social services interventions because they do not share the current progressive orthodoxy over land acknowledgments is reprehensible. Ms. Yates and her family have rightly interpreted this action as threatening and intimidating, meant to wield the power of the state in order to silence their political and ideological dissent.”... In one of her letters to the school district, Bildy cited a Supreme Court of Canada case who referenced a judge saying, “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” That Supreme Court case has lots of profound nuggets which officials, like school principals, would do well to read. Such as, “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” Or, “The essence of the marketplace of ideas argument is that control and regulation of expression is intolerable because we can trust no government to know the truth. Those who purport to legislate the truth invariably turn out to be tyrants.” Tyrants, you say?"
Clearly, land acknowledgements are part of being a decent human being, and human decency is not being political
Coastal B.C. First Nation leaders go to Calgary to dissuade pipeline investors - "A delegation of First Nations leaders from British Columbia have come to Calgary to relay a message to pipeline executives face-to-face: steer clear of investing in a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast or risk a prolonged legal fight... Chief councillor Arnold Clifton of the Gitga'at First Nation recalled the "David and Goliath" fight northern B.C. communities won against Enbridge Inc., whose Northern Gateway proposal to Kitimat, B.C., was scrapped a decade ago amid fierce Indigenous opposition. "I think it's going to be a lot stronger now if anything would come up, because we'll have everyone involved to fight," he told The Canadian Press... Hereditary Chief Darin Swanson of the Haida Nation, who also goes by Ginaawaan, said no amount of money would convince him to support a bitumen pipeline and tanker port."
Clearly, Donald Trump is the reason why Canada has seen stagnant GDP per capita growth since 2015, when the Liberals took over federally, and Alberta are traitors for selling their oil and gas to the USA
Pickering councillor faces possible 9th sanction over residential school video | CBC News
Jonathan Kay on X - "1. councillor notes that no “unmarked graves” found in Kamloops
2. colleagues attack her for speaking a forbidden truth
3. CBC, which *itself* admitted in 2025 that no “unmarked graves” found in Kamloops, reports on it…without mentioning that she’s right"
You're not allowed to question anything Indigenous people say if that threatens the left wing agenda. Indigenous people can say anything they like and no proof is needed, an if you ask for it this is "far right" and it has "no place in respectful public discourse".
Rob Shaw on X - "BC Parks says Joffre Lakes Provincial Park near Pemberton will close to non-Indigenous people from June 20-27, and Sept. 8-30 to allow First Nations to practice cultural and conservation traditions. Has been policy for several years. But could be contentious in current climate."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Yes racial segregation at government facilities does tend to be “contentious”"
Meme - *Every Child Matters logo*
"Every Hoax Matters"
Meme - "It's Red Dress Day, a day to honour the memory of the astoundingly high number of aboriginal femicides, mostly at the hands of aboriginal men. The sad statistics that speak volumes about a high level of aboriginal domestic violence also dispel activist accusations of genocide."
"Statistics Canada (2023 Juristat report on homicides of Indigenous women and girls, 2009-2021): In most solved cases, the accused was Indigenous (explicitly stated as 86% for accused persons between 2014 and 2021). Victims and accused were known to each other in 81% of cases (intimate partner 35%, acquaintance 24%, family member 22%). The vast majority of homicide perpetrators overall (across all groups) are male; female-perpetrated homicides of females are rare. Indigenous women and girls had a homicide rate about 6 times higher than non-Indigenous counterparts."
The cope is that this is just those who are caught, and anti-indigenous racism means there're much more white men out there killing indigenous women, but they are not caught because white supremacy means white people can murder indigenous people and get away with it
Sarkonak: Danielle Smith gets it. Aboriginal rights have gone too far | National Post - "Within the tangle of Indigenous rights holding down the Canadian economy is Section 35 of the 1982 Constitution — the Indigenous rights guarantee. It’s the country’s very own Gordian Knot, and that’s why it was such a good sign that Premier Danielle Smith is willing to split it. “If there’s an appetite among the other premiers to talk about defining that ever further through some kind of constitutional amendment, I’m open to having that conversation,” Smith told reporters at a Friday news conference. She added that the conversation could start as early as this week. Section 35 is the reason why private property rights have been in flux in B.C. since last summer; it’s the cause of death for pipeline projects that couldn’t survive past the drawing board. It’s a convenient excuse for weak governments to justify their inaction when Indigenous fishers on the East Coast harvest illegally. And earlier this month, when an Alberta judge invalidated a citizens’ petition on secession for the preposterous reason that Indigenous people weren’t consulted first, it became a barrier to democracy. Since it was added in 1982, this part of the Constitution has grown far beyond treaty acknowledgements and assurances that traditions will be considered when state decisions are made. This is because the courts have interpreted it more broadly and given it more power over time. In 2004, for example, the Supreme Court decided that Section 35 imposes upon the Crown a duty to consult with potentially affected Indigenous people whenever an upcoming government decision could affect their interests. This has given the anti-development wings of the Indigenous community incredible leverage in their efforts to roadblock the Canadian economy. They’re much more likely to win in court if they decide that consultations aren’t to their standard. Even the most unserious arguments that fail in the end — like the claim that a grizzly bear spirit would be disturbed by a new ski resort and thus it should not be built, which lost at the Supreme Court in 2017 — can pause projects for years and cause such a political headache that projects die on the page anyway. Last year, a judge in B.C. applied that duty retroactively to Vancouver-area colonial officials a century ago in a case called Cowichan Tribes. To the shock of no one, these long-dead men did not meet her high standards. The effect? Some early land transactions that took place long ago in an area of Richmond were tainted. The people who own those lands today were told in August that the local Cowichan Tribes also have exclusive property interests over the area. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, and, by the account of Aboriginal law lawyer Thomas Isaac, it appears to be causing landowners grief. “I know of two examples, firsthand knowledge, of two commercial purchases in the eight-digit range — the tens of millions — of two commercial parcels, two separate deals, not on the 800 or the 1,800 acres (in the area affected by the court decision) … within the city of Richmond,” Isaac told the Kelowna Real Estate Podcast in December. “Both of those deals fell apart because the purchasers walked away, and in both of those instances, the only reason that was given was a lack of certainty in British Columbia’s land title system and the Cowichan decision.” The worst of this problem manifests in B.C., but it’s always possible that a judge could find that historic Crown agents also had a duty to consult with the Indigenous in the course of arranging land secession treaties elsewhere in the country. That would pull the rug out from under the property system in places considered stable now, such as the Prairies and Ontario. Few dare to talk about paring it all back. It’s a bold idea, one met with visceral displeasure from progressives who thirst for decolonization, and amplified by the media sympathetic to them. Anyone who talks about removing or declawing Section 35 risks severe political blowback. But between the erosion of property rights in B.C. and now, democratic rights in Alberta, the moment calls for bravery. Smith gets the honour. The trouble with Section 35 is that it’s ironclad, lodged within a Constitution that is nearly impossible to amend. It takes the House of Commons and the Senate to both agree, along with two-thirds of the provinces (with the additional requirement that these provinces comprise more than half of the country’s population)... “I think it’s worth it to go back and look at what the founders had to say when they were putting (Section 35) in the Constitution,” Smith said"
Left wing logic: since corporations don't want to build due to regulatory and legal uncertainty, governments shouldn't do anything because the free market has spoken and we shouldn't interfere with the free market. If governments try to do anything to reverse the damage, this is a "corporate subsidy" and "crony capitalism" and proof of corruption
This is why left wingers hate Danielle Smith and Alberta so much
