Category: Shiny Pony

We Are All Treaty People

With work-from-home laptops and fat federal pensions;

In 2015, the Public Accounts showed that the department of Indian Affairs and the department of Health Services for First Nations and Inuit together cost $10.3 billion.

In 2017, the federal government reorganized these services and created two new departments, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Indigenous Services. The total spending on these two departments last year amounted to $23.3 billion. […]

Conservative MP Gary Vidal (Desnethé-Missinippi, SK) calculated the number of federal employees working on indigenous matters grew from 4,500 to “about 9,200 for the coming fiscal year” with little evidence that federal services were twice as effective.

No one knows why conditions aren’t improving.

Some of the benefits of working here are the cultural supports that are provided by places like the Kumik Elders Lodge where we get to have traditional knowledge brought back into here. It’s a place I can kind of go and decompress. It’s also the benefit of being able to contribute my voice to things like the Indigenous Advisory Circle that I sit on for the Communications Branch, so there are opportunities to bring traditional knowledge from myself and my own voice too, into the department. There’s never the same day twice, and I get to spread my wings on lots of different kinds of projects. Like this.

Quiet You

Michael Shellenberger- World on cusp of woke totalitarianism as governments act to end free speech

The Twitter Files gave us a window into how government agencies, civil society, and tech companies work together to censor social media users. Now, key nations are attempting to enshrine this coordination into law explicitly.

Around the world, politicians have either just passed or are on the cusp of passing sweeping new laws, which would allow governments to censor ordinary citizens on social media and other Internet platforms.

h/t Scott

Snowflake Nation

Hey, not so fast: Canada unveils new Heraldic Crown Emblem stripped of religious symbols

Canada’s new royal crown emblem unveiled by the Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA) during King Charles III’s coronation over the weekend has been stripped of all previous religious symbols such as crosses and the fleur-de-lis.

They did employ a crescent, with a 5 pointed star in the leaves.

But to be fair, I’m likely reading too much into this. It might just be a sickle. .

How Can We Further Divide Canada?

Looks like the next election will be a referendum on mandatory jabs.

Liberal.ca- Mandatory Vaccination

To finish the fight against COVID-19, protect people at work, ensure businesses can get back up to speed, and, most importantly, make sure our kids can safely return to school, we need to do everything we can to keep public spaces safe.

A re-elected Liberal government will:

-Require that travellers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be vaccinated.

-Ensure vaccination across the federal public service. As the country’s largest employer, this will protect the health and safety of the federal public servants and their communities, across Canada.

-We will also keep working with employers in Crown corporations and federally regulated workplaces to ensure vaccination is prioritized for workers in these sectors.

h/t Scott

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Stephen Chase is live tweeting her testimony, sort of.

Update: Pascale Fournier, former Trudeau Foundation CEO, describes how her property (including her phone) was promptly confiscated at her home following her resignation over a controversial Chinese donation

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Laura Love: Here’s maybe, partially why he cannot answer your question or expel anyone. He is a long term associate of XiXi Li, who runs two locations that are allegedly CCP “overseas police stations” who are now under investigation by the RCMP. Here is me discovering SinoQuebec two days before the RCMP state in the press that they are investigating her and her two service centers. (Thread).

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