Jim McMurtry on X - "Premier Eby uses the word “reprehensible” three times in talking about residential schools, e.g. the sexual abuse. There was infinitely less sexual abuse in these schools than on reserves today. The predators are all Indigenous males who never went to residential school."
Damn colonialism and inter-generational trauma caused by residential schools!
Frances Widdowson on X - ""I don't think we should have to prove to anybody what happened to these [dead children at Kamloops] because they are there and they send us messages telling us they're there...[@tkemlups] Chief Casimir and I went to visit the sacred site. You can tell they're there, right?""
Jonathan Kay on X - "Indigenous leader declares that no proof is necessary that 215 dead children lie below the surface in Kamloops because indigenous people have the psychic power (which white people cannot “understand”) to communicate with dead people & experience their “energy”"
Time to condemn Christianity as superstition
Aaron Pete on X - "Robert Fife has been holding power accountable for nearly 50 years. I admire individuals who challenge power, expose corruption and fight for justice and fairness on behalf of everyday Canadians. Throughout his career at CTV and The Globe & Mail, Fife has broken major stories ..."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Some of the stuff is pretty bonkers. At the 41 minute mark, Fife claims he knows that there are real unmarked graves in Kamloops. As proof, he told a story about some woman who started crying when talking about residential schools."
Danceinnadighetto on X - "He is an exemplar of the Canadian boomer elite and not any different from his UK forebearers. Relaxing on his status to expound on magical MSM myths like climate; immigration-good; rednecks-bad. The Globe (what a name!) is garbage and only survives due to subsidies."
Time for left wingers to call the Globe centre right again
Rent-seeking reconciliation industry needs conflict-of-interest rules and an end game - "Reconciliation has narrowed from the official goal of correcting historical and current wrongs perpetrated against Indigenous peoples into a pay-to-play model that increasingly resembles rent-seeking. The incentives are all there. Project proponents need legal certainty and physical access. Under the BC NDP government, this increasingly extends beyond consultation and simple “engagement” to the need to gain permission (by whatever deal necessary) from the Indigenous community claiming the territory where the project is located. Often this takes some form of partnership involving a combination of capacity funding, compensation, revenue sharing or equity. Ottawa’s own description of the pipeline emphasizes consultation, Indigenous equity, loan guarantees, and partnership. The emerging unofficial rule strikes uncomfortably similar to a line from the classic mob film, Goodfellas: “F— you, pay me.” Because once you strip away the binders and bureaucracy, the situation looks a lot like a shake down. But even questioning this state of affairs draws attacks, and accusations of being hostile to reconciliation or outright racist, rather than a rational inquiry into public governance. The Supreme Court has stated that Crown consultation with Indigenous peoples is a process, not a guarantee of a particular outcome. It requires good faith and, when warranted, accommodation. The B.C. government, enabled by the federal government, has gone much further. Sections 6 and 7 of the 2019 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) allow cabinet to authorize joint or consent-based statutory decision-making agreements between the province and Indigenous bodies. Under a consent-based agreement, a project or land use can’t proceed without approval of the Indigenous group. Without consent, the project is essentially vetoed. This did not descend from the clouds as natural law; it was a deliberate legislative choice by the NDP government, apparently enabled by the federal government. In essence, Indigenous consent requires lucrative financial deals for major projects to proceed. And the BC NDP government has created a chokepoint for major projects, with the costs and risks borne by industry and citizens. The Eskay Creek mine in northern B.C. is a case in point. Under the Eskay Creek section 7 agreement, Tahltan consent was required for the project to move ahead. The Tahltan approval process was tied to an Impact Benefit Agreement negotiated with the mine proponent, Skeena Resources. As part of a reported nearly $2 billion in benefits that would flow to the community under the agreement, the company also advanced the Tahltan government $40 million to be disbursed to community members before they voted whether to approve the project. In all, Skeena Resources and other sources estimate life-of-project benefits for the Tahltan community will reach $1.2 billion in cash, $570 million in contracts, and more than $184 million in wages. Separately, Tahltan will also receive 37.5 per cent of the provincial mineral tenure tax, which is estimated to reach as much as $1 billion. While $1.19 billion in revenues are projected for the province during the life of the mine. Apart from money, there is the question of authority. In northwest B.C., for example, the province has launched joint land-use planning across roughly 16 million hectares with five First Nations, while new mining-tenure registrations are paused across just under one-third of the planning area. The province says it will engage local municipalities and tenure holders, but the framework remains government-to-government; local governments do not legally qualify. If co-management becomes the operating principle, it risks transferring public control over public land to small Indigenous groups (with no democratic duty to the public at large), before British Columbians have even seen the final map. This model will only continue to sow distrust and cynicism over dealings with First Nations. There may never have been a point in modern B.C. history when reconciliation has been under more scrutiny, or at greater risk of becoming a toxic word. There was no need for it to be this way. Other models based on cooperation and good faith have shown a better path for reconciliation. The Haisla, for example, conceived of the Cedar LNG project, secured 50.1 per cent ownership, approved the project through a community vote, and borrowed $1.4 billion to finance their stake. That is true ownership and real risk-taking, because the Haisla carry downside risk if the project fails. The Nisga’a Nation has partnered with Western LNG and Rockies LNG on the Ksi Lisims LNG project, which is proposed for Nisga’a treaty land. Ksi Lisims and associated infrastructure are expected to attract more than $30 billion in investment if they proceed. These examples reflect First Nations seeking to build and be productive partners, rather than simply charge tolls for access. An owner only gets paid if an enterprise succeeds, while a landlord gets paid regardless. By pursuing sweeping changes to land use and opening the door to the pay-to-play model, the NDP government also risks amplifying inequities between First Nations. The NDP approach rewards litigation and strategic geography in a manner that advantages Indigenous communities with the leverage and resources to hire experienced negotiators. First Nations more poorly positioned economically have far fewer opportunities to develop projects or negotiate revenue. The federal Community Well-Being Index shows greater variation among Indigenous communities than among non-Indigenous communities. Turning reconciliation into a preordained hierarchy based on project location is manifestly unfair and destined to fail... Reconciliation in this model has become an industry, rather than a settlement, and its business case depends on never finishing the job."
Damn Trump keeping Canada behind!
Report examines colonial legacy of Canada's national parks | Toronto Sun (aka "Parks Canada report calls creation of national parks a 'colonial injustice' for Indigenous peoples") - "“For millennia Indigenous people have cultivated reciprocal relationships with land, water and ice guided by cultural practices, values and knowledge systems,” said the Evaluation of the Indigenous Guardians Initiative Internal Review, as reported by Blacklock’s. “Beginning in the 19th century the development of national parks and protected areas in Canada disrupted these relationships through exclusion and colonial injustices. “In establishing national parks, Indigenous people were forcibly removed from their homes, denied access to traditional territories and prohibited from hunting and harvesting on park lands,” the report said. The document is dated 2024 and was released without comment on June 22... “Stoney Nakoda were prevented from using the land as in past ways,” the report said. “These laws, practices and policies caused historic and ongoing harm for Indigenous communities. They eroded Indigenous systems.” Parks Canada was established in 1911 as the Dominion Parks Branch. Charged with administering a small group of parks and reserves, it became the world’s first national park service... A 2019 report titled Framework For History And Commemoration proposed that all federal observances address issues of “colonialism, patriarchy and racism” nationwide. “In Canadian history colonialism, patriarchy and racism are examples of ideologies and structures that have profound legacies,” the report said. “Nothing can be immune from review,” the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board, a Parks Canada agency, wrote in its 2019 report Careful Review Of Existing Designations. “Every designation can be re-evaluated.”"
I remember when left wingers supported national parks
Gabriel J. Benton ☦️🇺🇸 on X - "In 1697, Natives kidnapped Hannah Duston from her home in Massachusetts. Then they bashed her newborn baby's head against a tree. Today, people want to vilify her, because she killed her captors in their sleep and scalped them. Hannah Duston simply did what any true English mother would do. Pro-Tip: many American Indian tribes weren't exactly nice people."
Mike Kobe (Wild Horse) 🪶 on X - "During King William's war, Abenaki tribesmen killed 15 children in this particular settlement before taking Hannah Duston and her baby. They killed the baby (presumably to stop it making noise) and when they went to sleep, Hannah slipped out of her bonds and killed ten(!) of the Abenaki in their sleep with a hatchet. She then scalped them, which to me sounds quite reasonable. She deserves a statue in my opinion."
If white people defend themselves against "indigenous" people, that's "genocide"
Alberta First Nation sues Ottawa over $5 treaty annuity, argues amount stuck in 1899 - "A northern Alberta First Nation is suing the federal government to increase its annual treaty annuity payments. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam says the $5 his members receive every year is an amount that’s stuck in 1899, when Treaty 8 was signed. The payments date back to the signing of treaties across the country more than a century ago and were meant to provide assistance to First Nations members... First Nations across Canada, including other Treaty 8 signatories, have also launched legal challenges over the payment amount in recent years, and in 2023 Ottawa and the Ontario government reached a $10-billion settlement with 21 First Nations in that province... The claim notes the purchasing power of $5 has declined significantly since the treaty was signed and that there was never any mention of inflation when it was being negotiated. One online calculator pegs $5 in 1899 to be worth roughly $200 in today’s cash."
Weird. Left wingers tell us that the treaties are sacrosanct and can never be amended or renegotiated, and must be honoured for the rest of eternity, or that would result in the breakup of Canada.
Of course, they won't be satisfied with $200 either.
Leaders demand better health care for First Nations people after chief's 13-hour wait at Winnipeg hospital - "First Nations leaders are raising concerns about the quality of health care their citizens receive after the chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation waited in pain for about 13 hours at a Winnipeg hospital last month. Little Grand Rapids First Nation Chief Clinton Keeper, a cancer survivor, recently needed emergency medical care after experiencing complications from a kidney stone that obstructed his urinary tract, the Southern Chiefs' Organization said"
When you want special treatment not just for "indigenous" peoples but chiefs. Of course, they won't give up their money to fund more healthcare. Or go to their medicine men with their sacred and reliable ways of knowing
China clandestinely targeting First Nations leaders to procure Canada's natural resources: NSICOP - "Beijing is targeting Canada’s First Nations leaders with intelligence operations based on tourism that are aimed at securing Aboriginal-controlled natural resources, a Top Secret report from Ottawa’s intelligence-review watchdog NSICOP says. Additionally, Beijing funded a British Columbia provincial candidate and its Consul General in Vancouver took actions to cover up the candidate’s “possible Chinese Communist Party membership,” NSICOP’s June 2019 draft report alleges. The Bureau exclusively obtained NSICOP’s unredacted, 2019 report on foreign interference, which details China’s pervasive operations to bribe, coerce and co-opt Canadian leaders at all levels of government... Canada’s Aboriginal leaders — and the tension between federal and First Nations jurisdictions over natural resources in northern Canada — are an unexplored aspect of the Chinese interference story. But the 2019 NSICOP report demonstrates crucial national security issues at stake. It suggests Beijing is seeking clandestine relationships with First Nations leaders under false pretences in order to control Canada’s strategic resources in areas of increasing geopolitical importance. “In late 2011, China invited a national-level group of Aboriginal leaders to travel to China. A CSIS assessment noted that the invitation was advertised as an opportunity to develop tourism for First Nations,” NSICOP’s report says. “According to a Minister Counsellor at the PRC Embassy, the tourism opportunity was merely “beipian” (Mandarin for ‘to be fooled’) and that the true intention of the invitation was to pursue Aboriginal-controlled natural resources.” The report continues, saying that Chinese intelligence conducted research into every First Nations leader that joined the junket before they arrived in China. “The PRC conducted research on each delegate in part to identify their ‘potential usefulness’ to the PRC,” the report says. “The Minister Counsellor concluded that “Chiefs are ‘blind’ when dealing with the PRC and have no interest in knowing more.” In an interview Charles Burton, a sinologist and former Canadian diplomat, said “the idea of making friends with Aboriginal people for Chinese strategic purposes, would be part and parcel of their overall agenda to get access to the Canadian north and the natural resources that are there.” “China would be fully aware of the Aboriginal leaders that have permissions to give exploitation of resources,” Burton said. “But we don’t know to what extent gifts or benefits may have been given to the Aboriginal people from the Chinese regime.” More generally, NSICOP’s 2019 report says China’s deep interference in Canada expanded significantly, “following Xi Jinping's election as general Secretary of the CCP in 2012.”... “I’m not aware of this case, but I think a lot of people that have come to Canada and have been successful in the Chinese regime, are party members. And Beijing can leverage them, because I think it’s difficult to end your membership.” “So the idea that there could be candidates for provincial office that are members of the CCP, is very likely,” he continued. “The idea they would be used by the United Front as sleeper agents, even if they wanted to become part of Canada’s mainstream political life, that is very difficult to escape.”... “several PRC businessmen contributed to a mayoralty campaign instead of planned donations to a hospital, given that the ‘investment return on such a donation would be greater,’” NSICOP’s 2019 report says."
From 2024. Time for more "consultation". Anyway, looks like they're succeeded, and Canadians are happy about it, because they get to spite the USA as well by becoming a Chinese province
Five-year sentence whittled down to 810 days for Indigenous carjacker | National Post - "A judge defended the one-day sentence he handed a carjacker who stole a Toronto driver’s Mercedes at gunpoint, blaming the man’s jailers for failing the community... “Some decry what they call the court’s catch-and-release approach to criminal justice,” Justice André Chamberlain wrote in a recent decision where he ruled that Robinson would have to spend just one more day in prison. “If they truly believe that incarceration is the answer to our criminal justice problems, they should admit that the correctional institution’s neglectful approach to inmate care has led to shorter sentences, less time in custody, and lower rates of incarceration, even for serious offenders in some cases. The jails are the ones failing the community, the inmates, and the justice system.”... Robinson, 31, is a Black and Indigenous man. “During his time at the Toronto South Detention Centre (the South), the Indigenous Unit was eliminated. In September 2025, correctional officers removed and disposed of the artwork, teachings and prayers that were in the former Indigenous range,” Chamberlain said. “The position of Native Inmate Liaison Officer (NILO) has been and remains vacant, denying Indigenous inmates access to consistent Indigenous support services in the institution.” Robinson is a “Status First Nations adult with maternal ties to the Carry the Kettle Nakota First Nation,” said the decision. “His personal history reflects the enduring and well-documented impacts of intergenerational trauma arising from the legacy of residential schools and the colonial policies instituted by successive past governments, resulting in a cultural genocide. His maternal grandmother attended the Lebret Industrial School, and the resulting disruptions have contributed to a loss of cultural identity, fractured parenting models, and exposure to substance use and trauma within the family system.” His “upbringing was marked by family instability, emotional suppression, and a disconnection from cultural supports and traditions.” The death of his maternal grandfather when Robinson was 16 “represented a significant turning point in his life,” said the decision. “This loss appears to have intensified feelings of grief and abandonment, contributing to subsequent emotional dysregulation and substance use.” In early 2024, Robinson “faced multiple concurrent stressors, including bereavements, a serious illness affecting someone close to him, financial instability within his family stemming from the impending foreclosure of his mother’s home, and the abrupt loss of a significant business contract” for his audio engineering business, said the decision. “The convergence of these events is described as precipitating a ‘tailspin,’ and the temporal proximity between the loss of the contract and the index offence, within days, is particularly striking.” Robinson, who had past convictions for aggravated assault, theft under $5,000, and robbery, described for the court conditions he was held in at the South... “Jaiden Robinson has lived his life under the yoke of racism and colonialism. His background reflects a textbook Gladue profile: entrenched intergenerational trauma, compounded childhood abuse and addiction, and systemic disadvantage, alongside clear evidence of resilience and rehabilitative potential when supported through Indigenous-led programming,” Chamberlain said."
7 First Nations sign nuclear reactor ownership deal with Ottawa, Ontario
Dallas Brodie | Facebook - "Quit saying this is “in partnership” - if they put up their own money from their accumulated surplus, then it could possibly be seen as a partnership - provided other groups had a chance to bid on it as well. But giving taxpayers' money to FN to be “in partnership” does not form a true partnership - if you get money for free, your business decisions are not guided by proper risk management. Will the FN share in the losses if this goes south? Or is it always a risk-free investment when we form these “partnerships”? Until these deals are properly structured with risk to all partners, it is nothing more than welfare by a different name."
Geoff Russ: The South Africanization of B.C. | National Post - "The likely renaming of the small British Columbia community of Okanagan Falls exemplifies the toxicity, unworkability, and power of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and “decolonization” more broadly. It is a top-down, legally binding process, not an organic or democratic one. DRIPA, passed by the B.C. NDP government in 2019, requires the province to align its laws with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which includes recognizing and restoring traditional Indigenous place names. The mandate to rename Okanagan Falls stems from these legal obligations... Chief Clarence Louie said, “When it comes to reconciliation and land claims and Indigenous people having rights, those aren’t up for a vote.” Okanagan Falls is seeking to become B.C.’s newest municipality. However, through the incorporation process, the very name of the community itself has become subject to a higher dispensation. This is the South Africanization of B.C., in which an ideology of historical accusation, and the causes of “reconciliation” and “decolonization,” are turned into a permanent regime of racial political privilege, with undemocratic renamings only part of it. Unlike South Africa, Canada has no legacy of apartheid, and there is no reason for us to conduct our politics as if such a legacy exists. What we call a place matters greatly. If it did not, those on the political left and radical Indigenous activists would not devote so much time and energy to changing place names. After the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa’s new, supposedly post-racial government for the “Rainbow Nation” also began to wrap itself in the language of reconciliation. Rather than becoming a movement for national healing, the politics that followed evolved into something that included almost punitive dispossession of property, vicious rhetoric, and history wars. Sound familiar? Much of Canada is walking the same road, especially in B.C., and DRIPA has been made into a legal weapon. Following rulings that found DRIPA was legally binding to all past and future laws, rather than merely a guideline, NDP Premier David Eby attempted to suspend the legislation. He stopped himself in his tracks after the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) warned that any amendments without its permission would result in the pursuit of “every available avenue, legal, political and through direct action.” Faced with a situation that stopped barely short of open rebellion, Eby backed down. New powers have been unintentionally ceded to unelected Indigenous authorities, and they will fight to keep them. These powers include the ability to change what is on the maps of the province. Regarding democracy, the true spirit of “reconciliation” and “decolonization” has driven a wedge through Powell River, a small city on the B.C. coast. The local Tla’amin Nation has demanded that the city be renamed, and has rejected a referendum or opinion poll on that change, arguing that “the human rights of a minority should not be decided by a majority.” Even Powell River’s own Joint Working Group has said a poll is “not the appropriate tool.” Local power players have staked much on the renaming. After a wave of pushback, they are afraid of losing in the public square. The replacement of Powell River is already occurring, piece by piece and without public consultation. Powell River General Hospital was renamed in 2022, followed by the school board, both replacing “Powell River” with the name “qathet,” which means “working together.” Furthermore, the regional Vancouver Island University satellite campus was renamed to “tiwšɛmawtxʷ,” meaning “house of learning,” to eliminate references to Israel Powell, a controversial colonial official. Very ugly racial language has accompanied these changes. Former Tla’amin leader Maynard Harry went on the record declaring that, “the white people in Canada are subhuman because of what they’ve allowed to happen.” He repeated the word “subhuman” several times. There is no healing to be found in those words, and they make suspect the very notion that healing was ever the goal, rather than power. South Africa has already renamed more than 1,500 communities since 2000 on the basis of race, reconciliation, and retribution. Historic towns like Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, and East London, all of which have great importance to Afrikaners and Anglo-South Africans, have had their names replaced. These changes were often made despite public surveys indicating fierce opposition, including from some Black South Africans, from the residents of these communities. These name changes have occurred alongside land and property seizures in the “public interest,” often with little or no compensation. Even if one were to concede that South Africa’s renaming policy is justified on the basis of correcting historic wrongs, that doesn’t justify emulating those policies in Canada. Even so, the B.C. NDP has fully embraced this worldview, such as Premier Eby calling B.C.’s origins an “original colonial mistake,” while his MLA Rohini Arora said in the legislature that India, Pakistan, and Canada “share the same colonizer.” In this worldview, B.C. is a sin that must be purged and remade into something new. The NDP has authorized literature that declares the term “British Columbian” to be exclusionary. It publishes official guides for immigrants where the only history section is about the mistreatment of First Nations. Newcomers are being taught to despise B.C. before even signing a lease. B.C. is obviously not materially, economically or historically comparable to South Africa, but its political narratives are converging. Black nationalists in South Africa chant “Kill the Boer” as a threat to white farmers, while Indigenous chiefs in B.C. speak of non-Indigenous people as “subhuman.”"
Time to slam Israel for renaming towns to Biblical names, because we all know that the true eternal names of places are what they were just before "white" people "showed up"
Treason is only bad when it threatens the left wing agenda. Alberta must forever stay in Canada to pay for the gravy train
