Category: Great Healing Forward

“Reflecting” On A Narrative

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How anyone can take these people seriously anymore is beyond me. Every time the issue of residential school graves crops up, things just get weirder and weirder as the gap between accusations and efforts to discover the truth gets wider and wider.

Spearing is leading the team that has used ground-penetrating radar and aerial and terrestrial sensors to identify 93 sites of “potential human burials” near the former residential school by Williams Lake First Nation.

At a press conference led by Chief Willie Sellars on Tuesday, Spearing said the sites show “reflections” that suggest human burials, but added the only way to confirm the findings would be through excavation. She said the investigation is still in its early stages and the findings are preliminary.

Inconvenient History

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Paleolithic cultures necessarily live in perfect harmony not only with nature, but with each other, right? If there is any conflict in such cultures, it must be due to residential schools or the 60s sweep or some such. So what explains deadly conflict that occurred over a century prior to European settlement, the memories of which continued to create divisions between aboriginal communities well into the present?

They show elders relaying their tales of ambush and murder while in the midst of daily activities, cutting up a seal or cleaning fish on the beach.

One elder tells of a slaughter so extensive that the Inuit called the place where the rotting bodies were left Annarnituq – Bloated Island. It’s visible in the distance as a boy runs toward it through the wild grass.

There is enough residual enmity that people in the area convened in 2011 for a ceremony initiated by Cree trapper Ron Sheshamush to try to heal the rift once and for all.

 

Soviet Medicine

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Every so often, you run across an op ed which is a perfect example of “seeing, and yet not seeing”. It amazes me that this doctor can work every day in the collapsing single payer medical system and yet not recognize that it is precisely the stubborn adherence to this doctrine that is causing the collapse. He claims to desire “real action, real change”, but cannot or will not expand on his weary bromide.

Long gone are the days of the early pandemic, when our neighbours banged their pots and pans in appreciation every evening. Now we are yelled at every single shift about the long wait times. We are verbally and physically assaulted so regularly that the B.C. provincial health authority recently mandated violence-prevention training. All these things, it’s just too much.

Revolutionary violence

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Lenin used to make a phony distinction between revolutionary violence and counter-revolutionary violence, the former being appropriate and the latter completely unacceptable. It’s not likely that we’ll ever see these revolutionaries arrested for anything, much less having their bank accounts frozen. The crown is far too busy prosecuting Tamara Lich anyway.

Senator Don Plett says he was stopped and harassed by “probably 30 or 40” protesters as he drove into a building for the meeting. They blocked traffic and insisted drivers take pamphlets, and targeted him as he attempted to drive around them.

“They actually jumped on to my car. They were banging on my windows, they were laying on the hood of my car and they were trying to prevent me from moving,…”

“And when they had asked PPS (Parliamentary Protective Service) over at the House why they weren’t being given any help the answer was, we don’t have enough staff. They seemed to have enough staff to stop all the hot tub parties and barbecues when we had some friendly protesters here and now they don’t have enough staff when many of us feel very unsafe.”

Temporary relief

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I’m all for tax cuts, but I really can’t see the point of cutting gasoline taxes for a period of six months. Does the Manitoba NDP believe that the trend towards rising living costs is going to reverse by then? I’d like to know what crystal ball they’re looking at.

In any case, 14 cents per liter in gas tax revenue is roughly what the Manitoba government devotes to road maintenance and construction. If Wab is anything like his predecessors this move leads me to believe that they’re going to cut the highways budget. They always do.

The tax cut is to remain in place until inflation subsides, although the government has not yet determined how low inflation would have to fall before reinstating the tax. The tax holiday would last at least six months, Sala said, and could be extended depending on economic circumstances.

Prosecution for nothing

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Canadian taxpayers ought to be livid that crown attorneys have wasted this much time on a trial that is clearly going nowhere.

An Ottawa police liaison officer testifying in the trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich agreed on Wednesday that none of the protesters he communicated with indicated they were participating in the “Freedom Convoy” because they were influenced by the high-profile organizers.

…he told the court there were multiple groups and factions attending the demonstrations.

Blonde said he believes that not all protesters had the same “wishes or desires,” but that they had the same “general reasoning” for demonstrating.

The Crown is seeking to prove that Lich and Barber exerted influence over protesters’ actions.

 

Recession blues

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As we’re all aware, the last three years have seen unending supply chain snarls and production backlogs for a variety of reasons. We might be seeing these forces coming back into equilibrium, but don’t break out the champagne just yet.

The backlogs are lessening not because productive capacity and plant performance is finally rising to meet demand, but instead because demand is falling to a level at which supply chain snarls just don’t matter as much. The marginal consumer is tapped out.

Caterpillar Inc.’s stock tumbled to the lowest level since early June after the company said its order backlog shrank in the third quarter, a sign the market sees as slowing demand for its iconic yellow machinery in the coming months.

The year-on-year decline of $1.9 billion is the first since the third quarter of 2020, when Caterpillar was grappling with the effects of Covid-19 shutdowns on its sales…

Stalling out

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When regime water carriers like the CBC start to run stories about an imminent recession, that’s a pretty good indication that they’ve run out of ways to sugar coat bad news and are coming to the same conclusion that many SDA readers arrived at months ago.

Soaring inflation has eroded purchasing power, and climbing interest rates have clobbered households. Now, cracks have begun to appear in the data, and economists expect those cracks to grow. GDP contracted in the second quarter of this year.

Next week, new data is expected to show economic growth flat-lined in July and perhaps contracted again in August. Some of that can be chalked up to specific factors, including labour actions like the port strike in B.C. or wildfires.

But before any of that, momentum was clearing being sapped out of the Canadian economy.

Let them eat cheaper cake!

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I won’t object to any tax cut, but this one strikes me as too little, too late, coming from a government which happily shut down restaurants during the pandemic, ultimately forcing many into bankruptcy.

Dining out in Manitoba would cost less under a re-elected Progressive Conservative government, the party says, announcing plans Friday to ditch the provincial sales tax on restaurant meals.

The Tories say the move would give the restaurant industry a much-needed boost after being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it would make dining more affordable.

We’re all gonna die!!

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We used to be bombarded with the message that global “boiling” was not quite here yet, but it was nonetheless imminent. That didn’t seem to generate the requisite hysteria, so the message has been amped up. Apparently, “boiling” has now arrived. Who knew?

Protection racket

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“It’d be a shame if something happened to all those nice trees you want to plant….”

It seems that Canada is not the only country in which politically favored groups regularly shake down various agencies for what this news item accurately describes as ransom.

Dumpster fire

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Since no one is going to dig up Prairie Green landfill to look for the equivalent of needles in a haystack, these continuing protests are simply another excuse to browbeat the white colonialist regime for alleged past sins. Now that a judge has ordered the protesters to remove the blockade, the inevitable and absurd comparisons to the truck convoy protest have come out of the woodwork:

Val Vint said it was frustrating to see the blockade at the Brady landfill ordered to end after a matter of days, drawing a comparison with a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and public health orders that was allowed to block streets in downtown Winnipeg for weeks last year.

Organizations that couldn’t be bothered to dig three feet to find an alleged known grave can’t grasp why anyone wouldn’t instantly agree to spend $180 million to dig up an entire landfill:

“That’s bullshit. Because the feasibility study was conducted by experts. We had an anthropologist on the technical working group,” Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick said in an interview on Wednesday.

Collateral damage

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Remember when nearly every medical expert said assured us that the economy will just “recover” from the lockdowns? Inexplicably, a growing number of companies did not get that memo. As for what the future holds, just wait until all those pandemic assistance loans come due.

“We’re seeing bankruptcies up 116 per cent year-over- year,” said Tostenson, and less than 50 per cent of all restaurants in a recent survey were making money.

“A lot of business owners took those loans on the premise (business) would come back,” noted Tostenson. “And it did for a couple of months, but then inflation kicked in.”

The hospitality entities listed in the petition currently owe BMO about $13.6 million, while Bomber Brewing owes $1.25 million, according to the petition. Their monthly debt servicing payments total about $295,000 a month.

A great comment by John”: “Its nothing dancing healthcare workers can’t fix..”

Declining fortunes

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Bricks and mortar shopping malls have been in decline for a long time as various anchor stores ceased to exist, but as long as the marginal consumer is tapped out financially while still facing a variety of lockdown hangovers, this trend can be expected to accelerate.

Total retail sales growth in Canada has slowed recently, cooling to 1.5 per cent last year after rising to 8.5 per cent in 2021, according to data from CBRE Group Inc. The commercial real estate company predicts total sales growth of 1.7 per cent for all of 2023. At the same time, a flood of retailers are shutting their doors for good, leaving mall units vacant for months or sometimes years on end.

In fact, I went to Saks Fifth Avenue at Sherway Gardens (in Toronto) with my wife one morning during the week; they didn’t open until noon. The sign said that they were open seven days a week between 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., or by appointment,” Minakakis said. “I thought to myself, ‘what is happening here?’ Is that a part of being unable to recover staff? There’s a lot of question marks.”

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Indecipherable wokeness

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If the city of Winnipeg goes ahead with the proposal to rename Bishop Grandin Boulevard, one can just imagine what a future 911 call might sound like:

“911. What is your emergency?”

“I need an ambulance on the corner of St. Mary’s and Bishop Grandin. We have….”

“I’m sorry sir, but St. Mary’s and what street?”

“Oh, um,… Abino,…, Abinjoey, Mika…ugh, you know, the street that used to be called Bishop Grandin….”

“I need to remind you sir that street is no longer called by its hurtful colonial name. Do you mean Abinojii Mikanah Boulevard?”

“Sure. That sounds about right.”

 

Cheerleading failure

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In war, if you’re not winning, you’re losing. For the Ukraine, there’s no denying that this is pretty bad news. A string of blank checks from Biden is not going to change things that much. Maybe, just maybe, the leftist corporate media and various politicians could start doing their jobs and demand to know what the Ukrainian strategy for victory is and what it will cost. At that point, the West could determine whether all this is remotely worth it. To see where this might be headed, it’s worth looking into the story of the mutiny of French troops in 1917.

As Moscow intensifies its campaign on the eastern front, the tone from Ukrainian officials on the embattled city marks a reversal. Zelenskiy declared on Feb. 2 that Kyiv won’t surrender Bakhmut. Less than three weeks later, he said his forces won’t hold the city “at any cost and with everyone dying.”

A voice of sanity

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John Campbell has been one of my “go-to” sources when it comes to information about Covid, and this interview covers a lot of topics in one convenient go. Neil Oliver engages Dr. Campbell in a discussion of his background and career and then delves into various aspects of Covid and pandemic policy.

Campbell is no conspiracy theorist, but approaches the topic of Covid by recognizing that there are degrees of evidence when it comes to analyzing the effectiveness and safety of various treatments. There is an unfortunate tendency, for instance, to treat the topic of adverse vaccine reactions as if the evidence is utterly conclusive (rare and always treatable) and we can simply close down the discussion. The same goes for Ivermectin and excess deaths, which are discussed in this interview.

Interesting to note that Campbell is no longer certain that, if he knew back then what he knows now about the vaccines, he would be inclined to take the shot.

Update: Robert here. I hope my SDA colleague, Dennis, doesn’t mind but this video directly from John Campbell, is directly related.

Betting on failure

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I can’t blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to escape a collapsing economy, but a nation’s finances won’t be resurrected by a few people earning an income derived from the betting losses of others. Zimbabwe could turn things around by rejecting the legacy of scientific socialism, but there seems to be insufficient interest in that.

Unable to further his education after finishing high school with low grades in 2019, Chisakarire struggled to find a job in Zimbabwe’s stressed industries. The outbreak of COVID-19 meant his father, a truck driver, lost regular work. So Chisakarire began hanging around an illegal tavern where patrons dodged or bribed police to overlook pandemic restrictions so they could drink beer and play pool.

His hobby became a skill and he showed a talent for shooting the round balls into the pockets. Soon it helped solve his financial problems as he began betting on his games and winning. These days he earns about $300 on a good month by playing pool, he says.

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