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  2. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a lovely clip from the 1930 movie They Shall Have Music, featuring Mr. Jascha Heifetz performing Saint-Saens’ Rondo Capriccioso. Now I’ll freely admit that the violin is not my personal limbic favourite, I’m more of a German Baroque pipe organ, tympani, contrabass, contrabassoon, and tenor saxophone kind of guy (shall we start a quintet ~ I get the tymps), but dang nab it, Jascha could sure make that fiddle sing. And then there’s the young man in the movie, who falls in love with the music. It’s really quite beautiful.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHlZho5xm8

  3. Chavez Mourns Another Loss:
    Lets hope he spends a lot of time in grief the next while as socialists of an old era of killing are replaced by a new one.

  4. Socialist Success! Robert Mugabe’s plans so sucessfull,he is now exporting jobs to his poorer neighbours!
    “Selling sex for food in Mozambique
    With no jobs at home, desperate Zimbabwean women become prostitutes to feed their families”
    “While in their native Zimbabwe women selling sex could be arrested, Mozambique laws do not consider prostitution a criminal act.
    Mildred, a 33-year-old single mother of three, says she was ashamed when she started out as a prostitute but she has since got used to the demands of the profession.
    “I had never dreamed of sleeping with men for the sake of money or gifts. But now life is tough in Zimbabwe and in order to survive one needs to be innovative.””
    Mugabe,spreading the legs….er… socialist utopia,one woman at a time.

  7. There is no shortage of oil & nat gas in the ground.
    There is no shortage of fanatics who want to keep it there.
    We will need fossil fuels for some time – as we develope other sources of energy, especially nuclear.
    Who would you rather depend on for your energy needs ? Engineers, Geologists or UN bureaucrats, Al Gore ?
    John Hofmeister
    Shell Oil Company
    Before the
    Senate Judiciary Committee
    Wednesday, May 21, 2008
    [..]
    [There is no shortage of molecules of oil and gas in the ground. However, there are multiple influences that will affect the pace at which this oil can, and will, be developed.]
    [..]
    [We still have a significant resource base in this country, both offshore and onshore. The U.S. Government estimates that there are about 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and more than 50 billion barrels of oil yet to be discovered on the Outer Continental Shelf surrounding the Lower 48. When you then add in the Alaska OCS resource, you add the potential for another 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 25 billion barrels of oil.
    Unfortunately, 85 percent of the Lower 48 resource base is off-limits because of Congressional moratoria.
    The U.S. has enormous oil shale resources, too, that, when the technology to extract it is mature, may provide a very significant boost to domestic energy supply. According to Rand Corporation, the oil resource in place within the Green River Formation, which covers portions of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, ranges from 1.5 to 1.8 trillion barrels, of which between 500 billion and 1.1 trillion barrels are recoverable. According to Rand, “the midpoint in our estimate range, 800 billion barrels, is more than triple the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.” The U.S. has more oil locked in shale than any other country on Earth but impediments exist to accessing and developing this resource.]
    [..]
    [For the past 30 years, federal policies have restricted the availability of
    domestic oil and gas resources to U.S. consumers. Such as:
    • Outer Continental Shelf Moratorium Atlantic Ocean
    • Outer Continental Shelf Moratorium Pacific Ocean
    • Outer Continental Shelf Moratorium Eastern Gulf of Mexico]
    [..]
    [According to the Department of the Interior, 62 percent of all onshore federal lands are off-limits to oil and gas development with restrictions applying to 92 percent of all federal lands.]
    [..]
    [Hundreds of lawsuits result in significant delays or eventually derail energy projects. A 2004 report by the General Accounting Office identified 10 opportunities during the leasing and permitting process where outside parties can sue to hold up or stop oil and gas projects on federal lands. And we are now seeing increased litigation on offshore activities as well. The combined weight of litigation and restrictive and uncertain policies is placing a heavy toll on America’s ability to produce its own energy resources.]
    [..]
    [As we have increased imports to meet our domestic energy needs, a new concept of “resource nationalism” is emerging in resource-rich nations around the world. This concept has changed the dynamics of global energy development. Thirty years ago, national oil companies owned by or affiliated with governments were either non-existent or small players.
    Today, these national oil companies own as much as 90 percent of the proven oil reserves in the world, while investor-owned oil companies – some of which are here today – hold just six percent of proven reserves.]
    [..]
    [In 2006, the U.S. imported 3.7 billion barrels of oil to meet domestic demand, which is more than seven times the amount imported in 1970. The United States is the only country in the world that restricts the use of its own energy resources while transferring trillions of dollars of wealth to other countries in order to import energy.]
    why Why WHY ?? Why do so many in the Western World have this fatalistic attitude ??
    Does it make sense to send $trillion$ overseas ? That may fund terrorist orgs ?? Does Iranian oil produce less CO2 (if CO2 is problem) than American or Canadian oil ?
    http://judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/08-05-21John_Hofmeister_Testimony.pdf

  8. Well done r i k.
    I too share this WHY … especially for Canada.
    Thanks for posting.
    G

  9. In light of all the CHRC shenanigans, this is an interesting piece of news from the Globe and Mail, via Canadian Press’ Sean Patrick Sullivan: On or before June 10 the Canada Internet Registration Authority will implement new privacy policies which will mean that anyone with a .ca domain name will have their private information kept private; the door will be slammed on Whois enquiries.
    The CP article describes Michael Geist as saying that, while the new policy will not be popular with copyright lawyers and the police, it “will let potential whistleblowers — or those worried their political blog postings will lead to a home visit from a dissatisfied internet user — breathe a little easier.”
    “Those who criticize a company or their own employer (on their own website) often do it at great personal risk” he notes.
    theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080524.winternetcdn0524/BNStory/Technology/home
    What I find interesting about this development is that the new policy is also effectively a blow against quasi-judicial bureaucratic investigative agencies like the HRCs. In cases where someone is actually breaking an actual law the police will, as always, be able to obtain a warrant, and get the subject information from the registration authority, at which point everyone involved will be subject to rule of law, due process, accountable investigative techniques and so on, while GTA-Liberal busybodies like Buttercup W. will, you’d think, be taken out of the picture more or less, because, again, if an actual law is broken — as opposed to, say, someone merely expressing an opinion on immigration policy, or on the HRCs — it will be the police and the legitimate courts who will take action; it will be less possible for illegitimately empowered culturo-fascist bureaucrats to persecute and harass people for political reasons.
    We’ll have to wait for more information, but at first glance it looks like the CIRA’s new privacy policy for .ca domains — available only to residents of Canada — might have the effect of taking a lot of the frivolity and back-door cultural partisanship out of thought-crime persecution and putting it back in the hands of more legitimate and accountable public agencies, which could only be good for free speech, inasmuch as these legitimate agencies are more subject to public scrutiny.

  10. The intellectuals/philosophers/elites lecture the rubes/rotters and rednecks. TORedStar slathers on the socialist bs/crap.
    The word “equality” = socialist multiculturalism.
    The words “telling Quebecers what they need to hear” is the giveaway. TO, aka Hogtown, lectures Quebecers.
    …-
    “In Quebec, equality for minorities
    Toronto Star – 3 hours ago
    That’s the conclusion of the commission on reasonable accommodation. But co-chairs Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor say so diplomatically, while telling Quebecers what they need to hear.”

  11. That’s a good one ron in K.
    The oldest saying in oil exploration is;
    ‘To find oil, you have to look for it.’
    I blame the tree huggers! heh.

  12. From the Great Moments in Socialism files, starring Hugo Chavez at http://www.Bloomberg.com
    ‘Chavez Price Controls’
    ‘There’s no incentive to invest in new production now in Venezuela, says Jose Guerra, the central banks former director of economic policy.
    There’s been a massive increase in demand, but on the other side, ther’s a problem, because Venezuela is a country that produces almost nothing.’
    Stats show that foreign investment has dropped from $4.99 billion in 1998 to a mere $646 million last year.
    I can’t wait for the movie – Hugo Chavez Meets Rotten Robert Mugabe.

  13. Earlier in a news report, one group of 15 were burned (won’t say by which group) but a team of Christians in Africa found a better way.
    Central African Republic (MNN) – A JESUS film team responded to an epidemic of witchcraft in the Central African Republic by “soaking” villages in the region of Bossangoa with the Gospel. They walked from village to village and showed the JESUS film every night…
    Villagers watching the JESUS film …reports that witches in a village who saw the JESUS film were “convicted by the Holy Spirit, joyfully repented of their sins, experienced freedom from bondage, and turned their lives over to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
    The report also notes that the region’s governor called the JESUS film team to thank them personally, saying, “I congratulate you because of the miracles that your film is doing among those witches. Now your team and you have the responsibility to preach through your miracle JESUS film to all the towns and villages under my supervision.”

  15. Ezra Levant exposes the corrupt fascist HRCs and their methods/tactics.
    …-
    “deny any corruption, despite an RCMP investigation; claim that freedom of speech is un-Canadian; and lust for more power, more social engineering, and limitless “laws against hate”.”
    “pointed out that there were plenty of Ian Fines in Weimar Germany in the 1930s, and that in fact, as Mark Steyn has reminded us, there were 200 hate speech trials in the pre-Nazi era. They didn’t stop hate — they gave hate a forum. And when Adolf Hitler took over, they gave Hitler a turn-key law to point at his enemies, too.”
    “Debating the CHRC’s Ian Fine: “there can’t be enough laws against hate””
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/debating-the-chrcs-ian-fine-th.html

  16. Tony Blair’s Britain
    Where foxes go unmolested and prison guards learn to be sensitive to Al Qaeda: News from Today’s London Observer
    The problem:
    “The report, written by the Prison Service’s Directorate of High Security, says there is an ‘ongoing theme of fear and instability’ among staff at Whitemoor, where just under a third of the 500 prisoners are Muslim. It claims: ‘There was much talk around the establishment about “the Muslims”. Some staff perceived the situation at Whitemoor had resulted in Muslim prisoners becoming more of a gang than a religious group…The Home Office is concerned that young male prisoners are being radicalised by Muslim gangs and that the prison system is becoming a recruiting ground for al-Qaeda sympathisers.”
    Labour’s solution:
    “A programme of work is planned at Whitemoor to increase mutual understanding between staff and prisoners, including a development day for staff on the Muslim faith, focus groups in which staff and ethnic minority prisoners will discuss prison community issues, and diversity events.”

  17. “A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the s*xual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis. ”
    “Cold winters, when coal was in short supply, and a curfew from 11pm to 5am also encouraged s*xual activity, says Buisson, with the result that the birth rate shot up in 1942 even though 2m men were locked up in the camps”
    “It is disturbing to know that while the Jews were being deported, the French were making love. But that is the truth.”
    “Now Buisson is at work on a sequel, about how women were punished for sleeping with the enemy. The provisional title is Revenge of the Males. ”
    Commentor:
    “It now appears that “‘Allo, ‘Allo” was a documentary.
    Bill Peter, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia”

  19. The TO Grope and Flail has story today about Quebec using the courts to stop PM Harper from passing changes to make Senators elected before appointment to the joint.
    The G and M Comments section show that that there is an awful lot of political newcomers to the scene who clearly do not understand the Cdn unfair and unbalanced federal political system.
    I laugh at the whiners saying it is not fair that big tough Ontario and tiny PEI would have the same number of senators.
    Yea, there’s nothing scarier than an elected senator from PEI coming up with a better idea for running the country than an appointed doughhead from Ontario or Quebec.
    Nobody in Canada fears modernization and change like Ontario and Quebec does.
    The reason Ontario and Quebec like the present dysfunctional system is because they use Ottawa as just another level of municipal govt that slows down, or stops, development in the less powerful provinces until Ont and Que can figure out a way to skim big profits out the less powerful provinces.
    Just of think Ottawa’s Canadian Wheat Board and its tight monopoly control on western agriculture here folks.
    And for people who don’t know, Quebec is still only paying N/Labrador the equivalent of about $2 to $4 per barrel of oil for the hydropower they are stealing from N/L, thanks to Ottawa.

  23. The socialists lambaste/excoriate/reprimand the socialists.
    …-
    “China: Earthquake disaster exposes regime’s failings
    “A workers’ and grassroots’ aid initiative is clearly sorely needed amid this terrible catastrophe, although it will unfortunately come up against huge problems of illegality and repression because the Chinese state fears all independent activity.” (socialistparty)

  24. Friday’s National Post: “Our Generation’s Spanish Civil War” a well argued article by a self-described leftist, Terry Glavin, founder of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee. “The heirs to the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion are to be found today among the courageous young Canadian soldiers holding the banner high in Afghanistan”. “On the left, crude anti-Americanism has come to serve as a substitute for rational, progressive analysis”. There’s hope.

  25. Bill C313 to raise the age of sex consent was defeated 167 to 99 on September 28,2005. 90 FEDERAL Conservatives voted to raise the age of sex consent,and of the rest of the POLITICAL PARTIES IN CANADA PUT TOGETHER ONLY 9 MEMBERS VOTED TO RAISE THE AGE OF SEX CONSENT. How our MPs voted was on the website http://www.parl.gc.ca
    Socon.ca

  26. Last night on CTV news, Sandie Rinaldo started off the evening news by committing what i think is inexcusable hyperbole.
    “We begin tonight with nature as you’ve rarely seen it before. A series of powerful tornadoes, at least 17 of them, marched across the US midwest today…”
    As we’ve rarely seen it before? Not even close, Sandie. Check this day. Or this one. Or this one. Or this one. Seventeen isn’t a lot. And tragic as even one death is, 2 deaths aren’t a lot in tornado outbreaks. I think we can all infer what she and CTV news were insinuating.
    (And rockyt, I can only read the G&M comments on an empty stomach; if not, it soon becomes empty. That might help things. 😉 )

  28. Johann,it seems every newscast in the country has to have at least one item on ‘extreme’ weather,whether or not the story is newsworthy. Ten years ago, a tornado in Kansas,Nebraska,etc.,would not rate a mention unless there was also a great deal of death or destruction. Today,in the continuing brainwashing of the masses,’extreme’ weather is highlighted to gain support for the eco-elites and their agenda.

  29. I stumbled on this interesting commentary yesterday
    http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3208/2/
    regarding an explanation of Barak Obama’s recent spate of incredible gaffes (like the “all 57 states” howler).
    Key paragraphs:
    [quote]
    A neuroscientist with years of research into drug abuse and brain chemistry tells To The Point that the behavior exhibited by Obama is consistent with the use of either amphetamines or cocaine.
    “His campaign’s almost impossibly high level of activity, mental and physical, unrelenting day after day for month upon month is incredibly hard to maintain,” he says. “The temptation to maintain it psycho-pharmacologically is great, especially for someone with a history of drug use. The drugs of choice would be amphetamines or cocaine, which can cause amazing mistakes, errors of incredible stupidity.”
    [end quote]
    All to be taken with a grain of salt (or other condiment of choice). But let’s not forget similar concerns about Bill Clinton (who has still not released his medical records) or JFK whose addiction to pain-killers is now acknowledged.
    (So why is Hillary staying in the race?…..)

  30. But let’s not forget similar concerns about Bill Clinton (who has still not released his medical records)
    STD’s should be treated as a couple, maybe Hill will release her records.

  31. In response to a post from Prime on the “Would be Commanders In Chiefs” comments section on May 23,2008
    Posted by: Prime at May 25, 2008 12:05 AM
    Oh no you di’nt!
    While you are deciding if you are a righty or a lefty, you know what I’m doing, (Play’nWitYoMomma) and if you don’t, you better ask somebody. Judging from the length of your response I figured you must be two handing it; but, upon closer inspection it appears you are just over compensating for your inadequacies.
    War is the implementation of policy, policy that has been approved by the two American elected houses. At this time the burden of responsibility shifts from the populace to the professionals, and the buck stops at the Commander In Chief. The fact that you can not “understand how my disagreement with policy can be translated by you into a lack of supporting the troops.” is not hitting the spot (I mean point). What is in question here, is your motives for wanting to change the strategy they you at one time supported. Without making too many accusations, it has been the Democrats,you, and the rest of the political left who have acted in partisan fashion. It is very interesting that so many who supported the Iraq invasion and now who now don’t support the war belong to the aforementioned left. What you call candor I call bullshit, as is evident with your lack of consistency. So the left should feel free heckle the troops, accuse them of atrocities and analogize them to murderers. With support from and friends like that, who needs enemies?
    I admit calling you a lefty was a little presumptuous, although you do quack like a duck. When you say “hmm, what I would call ‘loathing’ as regards using a sports metaphor when individuals are dying—many of whom are ‘spectators’ (civilians).” is quite long winded. May I suggest something a little more concise like ” quack quack quack”, that will do just fine. I can only hope that one day I am as enlightened as you that I can analogize in a way that is not beneath you. I am so focused on the pain I get from my knuckles dragging on the ground that I can not appreciate the difference between Tom Brady hanging in the pocket, and the loss Cindy Sheehan’s family has endured.
    You can not truly analogize war to sports, on this we agree; but, you can analogize victory and sports quite easily. It is common to go into the locker room at half time and make adjustments. This is expected, even if you are pounding the other team. The coaching staff is always looking to improve the game plan on the fly, it is a very fluid process(like war). One way to assure defeat is to pull all of your players off the field and go home before the game is finished. The “I’m against the Iraq war” crowd (you) are partisan in the worst way. Your representatives knowingly lie to their supporters with stories about pulling out of Iraq in 90 days (and canceling traded agreements) knowing full well that it will be disastrous.The simplicity of the message appeals to a large number of people, and the power of office is too seductive not to capitalize on this truth.
    I can not speak for McCain, but in my mind victory in Iraq is three fold. Initially victory in Iraq was to remove a dictator(murderer) and the perceived threat of WMD programs (that’s another topic), to punish them for harboring terrorist(set an example), and lastly prevent anymore aggressive actions by Iraq towards other American Allies, mission accomplished. Secondly, Iraq shall be a free democracy with the rule of law. It shall have a police force and a military that can maintain order, and protect its sovereignty from foreign aggressors. It will shine as a beacon in the middle east for what is possible. Finally the existence of allied military bases in Iraq and in the gulf to help promote stability in the region, to protect our allies and our own asses. JFK said America would ““pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of freedom.”. JFK speaks for me with this statement.
    With respect to the war I think this quote is fitting:
    The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.

  33. The natural end result of socialism: dissolution.
    …-
    [Jack’s] “Note: I have ventured the theory for years that socialism is not a political persuasion. It’s a disease and it is usually fatal to the infected. Therefore the reason I take such delight in following Mr. Brown’s tribulations as once again I see my theory confirmed. I’m beginning to understand how Darwin must have felt as he went around saying “I told you so”. Because I have — many times.”
    “Labour begins to tear itself apart *”
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/05/25/labour-begins-to-tear-itself-apart/

  34. “Global Warming: A Primer
    In the web site of the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, Fred Singer offers an excellent summary of the skeptics’ view of anthropogenic global warming. If you haven’t followed the issue in detail and want to review the basics, it’s a good place to start.
    Singer makes one point that cannot be repeated too often: the AGW theory depends entirely on computer models, but we know for sure that those computer models are wrong. They do not accurately explain either the Earth’s climate history, or the present distribution of global temperatures. This simple diagram shows how the “fingerprint” predicted by AGW models fails to conform to observed atmospheric conditions; click to enlarge:” [chart]
    “If you think about it, it is rather remarkable that Al Gore and his confederates have been able to stampede millions of voters, based on computer models that are indisputably contradicted by the facts.”
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020585.php

  35. Suzuki is becoming Mr. Spooky, never know when or where he’ll pop up, or, out of. Guess it’s a living after fruit flies have been well documented.
    If he wants to do something useful he could look to some humane way of making black flies and mosquitoes extinct. Without causing any harm to the environment of course.

  36. Ron in Kelowna for PM, I have said for years if you don’t like the price of fuel well just thank a leftie pony tailed wimpy bearded environMENTAList, they are the losers that run the “Pembina institute” and all the other we do nothing for society but bitch, groups out there. These losers use all the trappings of the things they hate, to fight the things they hate, airplanes, cars leather plastic, stinking hippies. Take away their use of all things provided by a “big company” and watch the idiots whine.

  37. “The Fines of this world don’t seem to get that “culture” is not “more pavilions at Folkfest” (h/t SDA),”
    …-
    “A complete repudiation of hate is a denial of our humanity. Hate, love and related emotions are the governors of who we are. We co-exist by our ability to temper the extremes of each, but we are totally incapable of eliminating them, nor is it desirable to do so. Hate is at the core of our ability to survive. We call it hate when it moves to the socially extreme, but its essence is the core value that serves to ensure our individual survival.
    Fine’s view of the future of the world only has apocalypse as its outcome. We co-depend on those close to us to survive, and, we “hate” those who would interfere with that. The Fines of this world don’t seem to get that “culture” is not “more pavilions at Folkfest” (h/t SDA), but the rules of co-dependency of members of an ideologically and morally aligned group, governing all their relationships.
    There is no such thing as a multi-cultural secular state, at least not for long, because the rules of the cultures cannot co-exist and survive. A dominant ethic always ascends (or tries to). We cannot “all just get along”, unless we become all the same…
    Skip | 05.25.08 – 1:34 pm | #”
    “Debating the CHRC’s Ian Fine: “there can’t be enough laws against hate”
    By Ezra Levant”
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/debating-the-chrcs-ian-fine-th.html

  38. MORE CBC PROPAGANDA COME LATELY: Sunday Report (10:00 AM CST) has finally given a tad of credit to the Native Residential School Program. Has anyone ever given a moments thought as to what would have happened to most of those native kids had they been left “out in the cold?” (We don’t want to go there.)
    The follwing is an excerpt from the memoirs of one of my aunts who was a nun, and who worked in a residential school at Norway House in Northern Manitoba in the 50’s. I Translated the story from French text, the handwriting is hard to read as my aunt’s health had failed greatly when she wrote the following text in 2001. Sister “M” died a few years ago, she was 75. According to my mother, the following took place sometime between 1952-57. I did not use proper names out of fear of unfounded retribution against my family.
    “It was a bitter cold January 07. he doorbell rang, I answered. It was an RCMP constable, he was holding a young boy that appeared to be about 7 [years of age.] The officer had found him in a cabin about 60 miles from Norway House, he had been abandoned by his parents. They [police] had transported him to our place in a Bombardier Snow Tractor.
    The boy was wrapped in a woolen Hudson Bay point blanket, he was ravaged with lice and half starved. The officer had tried to feed him hot chocolate and a candy bar, the boy was too sick to eat.
    I undressed him, he was covered with feces and urine. I threw his clothes in a garbage bin, I took him to the lavatory. I bathed him, I had to cut his hair, as he had a scalp disease that was most likely caused by head lice and/or fleas.
    After I had bathed him and dressed him in clean clothes, I took him to the kitchen. The sisters had some oatmeal porridge on the stove. They fed him toasted bread covered with peanut butter, porridge, brown sugar and milk. The boy ate like I had never seen. I tried to speak Cree to him, he didn’t seem to understand very well. I tried French, then English. He didn’t respond to any language. We temporarily named him Maurice, as we had no record of his birth, no copy of his birth certificate or other papers. That evening, Father “L” tried to communicate wth him, the elder priest was prolific in Cree, Denae(?) and other native dialect. The boy didn’t respond.
    I kept a close watch on him for the first few days. After two weeks, he began to play with the children. He was extremely intelligent, I later realized that he didn’t speak simply because he had never been in contact with other children; we never knew his parents. (We later found out that both his parents were in Winnipeg, they never made any attempts at contacting him or recovering him.)
    When I left Norway House, the boy had reached a Grade six level, he was (about) 12 years of age, at least to the best of my memory. He had excellent marks in school, especially in arithmetic. He adapted well with the others. He and I had a close relationship, I had most likely replaced his real parents who had not been of much use to him.
    We kept in touch for several years. He attended a technical institution in Minnesota where he became a proffesional legal surveyor. We eventually lost touch when I was sent to Africa. However one of the sisters later informed me that he was established with an oil company, most likely in Oklahoma, and later in Saudi Arabia. (Unsure?) That was but one of many of my students who were successful.
    In the early to mid 1990’s, I was greatly saddened at the court cases that were brought forth against our order. I do realize that some of the sisters were sometimes harsh. How does a 25 year old sister who weighs 100 [lbs] deal with a six foot tall native boy who weighs 200 [lbs] plus? However they [natives] may have interpreted our system, I don’t believe that the level of discipline that we exercised in our school at Norway House was any different than what would have been exercised in any Western Canadian public and/or private school in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
    As for the accusations of immoral behaviour by our sisters, there may have been rare cases where we were attracted to young native men, and yes, even as a nun, I was often attracted to young men, after all, I was only 29 [years of age] when I arrived at Norway House. I can however swear to God that I never had intimate relations with anyone, male of female, in the many years that I served in the order, and at the residential schools or any other institution where I served. (End of quote.)
    Please note that my French is far from perfect. I do however understand her text, and her intentions clearly. God Bless aunt “M’s” soul. I do believe there are a lot of false accusations that were brought forth against the religious orders, and other organizations who devoted their lives to native children. AND IT WAS WAS ALL IN THE NAME OF GETTING MONEY FROM THE COURTS.

  40. Support for carbon tax growing across Canada;poll
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=c28d5cd4-5404-4ade-a748-0352268d392c
    A poll done for the Lieberal Pembina Institute by McCallister Research, who lists among their clients the Pew Foundation.
    Expect to see the usual Lieberal connected polling companies churning out this drivel throughout the summer.
    I still laugh at former PMPM’s assertion before the last election that the Lieberals would win the largest majority in Canadian history, according to the polls.

  41. Christian Soul, thank you so much for that fine testimonial to your aunt and to the Church, which, more often than not, was a great support to so many Native children.
    I believe that the smears against the Church have been largely politically motivated and not based on fact. Kyrie eleison.

  45. Mark Collin*s link is worth reading.
    Leftists, er, progressives are many in support too.
    **In 2004, only one in 10 Afghans had access to medical services. Now it’s eight in 10. Three out of every four children under the age of five have been immunized against childhood diseases. There are millions of girls attending school now.
    More than 100,000 women have begun their own small businesses with micro-loans administered by the World Bank — that sinister institution we progressives are supposed to despise.
    Afghanistan is now an embryonic democracy, and one of every four Afghan MPs is a woman. Just a few years ago, Afghan women weren’t allowed out of doors unless they were accompanied by a man.
    Under the Taliban, you weren’t allowed to watch television, but now there are seven national television stations, and all sorts of little newspapers, and 10 universities.**
    =============== NP
    = TG

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