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  1. I’m a homebrewer and I make the best beer in town and I volunteer to brew the first batch in space (lager, maybe). I should, of course, remain there for purposes of quality control with frequent sampling required.

  4. There are many French and English settlers who arrived in Quebec and Ontario from France and England long before some of the native tribes arrived here in Saskatchewan. There were 5000 Sioux who arrived near here when Sitting Bill crossed over from Montana to Wood Mountain and Willow Bunch area in 1876, after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Some of the European settlers had been there since 1870. Some Sioux stayed behind, and their descendants still live here today.
    I have no quarrel with that, but please, don’t use the term ”First Nations.”
    https://youtu.be/sJUmlmhNxtw

  5. Bev Oda’s $16.00 glass of orange juice made headlines.
    Why is Justin Trudeau’s trip to New York and an order for $17.77 at Jamba Juice not on CBC.Ca??
    Liberal hypocrites! There is a lot more to the story!!
    https://youtu.be/aN6OFdxOfho

  6. I refuse to use the use the term “First Nations” in reference to aboriginals, they are in some cases ‘first immigrants’ but nothing more.

  7. The signs were there:
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    Mateen in 2007, as part of the G4S hiring screening process, underwent a standard psychological exam — named the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory — and a background check, its representatives said. The state also screened Mateen every two years in order for him to keep his private security license. Beyond that, G4S does not conduct yearly background checks of its employees; rather, 15 percent of all employees are randomly checked each year, representatives said.
    Mateen’s background, however, was checked again by G4S in 2013 after the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office requested he be removed from the St. Lucie County Courthouse patrol after he allegedly made derogatory comments to a deputy.
    A deputy at the courthouse mentioned the Middle East to Mateen, who reacted by threatening the deputy, said Sheriff Ken Mascara, who attended the Wednesday night meeting at the community’s Island Club.
    “Omar became very agitated and made a comment that he could have al-Qaida kill my employee and his family,” Mascara said Wednesday. “If that wasn’t bad enough, he followed it up with very disturbing comments about women and followed it up with very disturbing comments about Jews and then went on to say that the Fort Hood shooter was justified in his actions.”
    http://www.tcpalm.com/news/special/orlando-shooting/pga-village-residents-question-how-orlando-shooter-went-undetected-35523c28-ee5e-2242-e053-0100007fa-383208751.html?d=mobile

  8. The Ontario government has massively subsidized with our money the creation of wind and solar factories across the province that are unhealthy and unsafe, both for human beings and the wildlife we claim to care about…
    Wind and solar factories are inappropriate, giant megastructures that have been imposed on rural municipalities across Ontario, whose power to influence such decisions was taken away by the Green Energy Act of 2009.
    The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers reports wind and solar farms do not reduce greenhouse gases. But they do reduce property values.
    They threaten tourism-based economies, raise electricity prices and expropriate democracy.
    Concerned citizens have suggested at least 20 answers to these problems:
    http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/14/20-cures-for-ontarios-green-energy-disaster

  10. It’s the same situation on the “Grand River Tract” in Ontario. The Six Nations people moved their from New York after British settlers were already in the area.

  11. Now that we have scrubbed the word “son’s” from Oh Canada how long before God is also removed?
    How can we really feel patriotic when we sing or hear the anthem that’s been fiddled with by politicians to suit their agenda. Quebec has it’s own version so why not have each province and territory bastardize it to conform to their idea of and for Canada? We could just all sing our own versions to the same tune as a testament to the multicultural crap we have going on in this country.

  13. Many of the Native tribes in the West came from Eastern Canada and had followed the business activity provided by the fur trade.
    The Saulteaux tribes were named from the area they came from near Sault St Marie.

  14. Why does the IRS need guns?
    http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=136642

    The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history. Over the last 20 years, the number of these federal officers with arrest-and-firearm authority has nearly tripled to over 200,000 today, from 74,500 in 1996.
    What exactly is the Obama administration up to?

  15. But if they turn away, We did not send you as their guardian. Your only duty is to deliver the message. When We let man taste Our mercy, he rejoices in it; but if harm afflicts him for what his hands have done, then man turns to denial.
    Chapter 42 The Counsel, verse 48
    (emphasis added)

  16. In fairness many tribes were driven from their traditional land by white settlement. Certainly some followed the fur trade.
    In the US the Mississippi was the deviding line. No settlement was to take place west of the river. Several teaties were negoiated with the Indians to that affect but never respected.
    The moniker ‘first nation’ is a fiction. Almost laughable and harmful when used in the context of dealing ‘nation to nation’.
    They are not a nation.

  17. Meh, there has already been wine in space. Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon.

  20. “The moniker ‘first nation’ is a fiction. Almost laughable and harmful when used in the context of dealing ‘nation to nation’. They are not a nation.” abtrapper
    The UN does not recognize groups “first nations” that were put together for litigation/Media reasons and never had historic self governance. The Indian tribes “may” want to recover their original Tribal definitions..Cree…Black foot, Mohawk, Etc

  21. True enough, except the Saulteaux came from a sparcely populated area. In fact that area is still sparcely populated. You can take a canoe into that area and take the same routes the fur traders took without bumping into too many people.

  22. The various tribes had a brutal history, fought and killed off whole tribes. If left to their own none of them would have survived without interventions by the white man. However they will never give any credit just blame for all their problems. We can’t call them thankless bums, that would be offensive…oops.

  23. Seven Deadly Progressive Education Myths
    Our schools are failing our kids, and ‘Seven Myths About Education’ explains how politics replaced pedagogy. These are the myths Christodoulou explodes:
    ◙ Learning facts interferes with developing understanding;
    ◙ Teacher-led instruction is passive;
    ◙ Because of 21st-century changes in technology and in the economy, students must be taught differently;
    ◙ We should teach “transferable skills” such as critical thinking rather than content knowledge;
    ◙ Projects and activities are the best way for students to learn; and
    Teaching knowledge is indoctrination.
    When Christodoulou began exploring why so many students leave school ignorant of so much, she “was shocked to stumble across an entire field of educational and scientific research which completely disproved so many of the theories I had been taught when training and teaching. I was not just shocked; I was angry… [I]deas that had absolutely no evidence backing them up had been presented to me as unquestionable axioms.” So she wrote a book, and one every parent and citizen with an interest in education ought to read.
    http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/17/seven-deadly-progressive-education-myths/

  24. If you want another laugh about the idiocy that’s become the educational system, look up what the four “learning styles” are.
    During my last years of teaching at a certain post-secondary institution, I had to change my course outlines in order to accommodate them. Soon after that, I quit. I’d had enough of the absurdity.
    With all that flummery I was supposed to include into my lectures, I often wondered just how on earth I managed to earn my B. Sc. nearly 40 years ago, let alone my subsequent graduate degrees.
    I certainly don’t recall my undergrad profs worrying about how I learned. They taught the material and it was up to me to figure out how to learn it. That often meant that I had to take the initiative by either asking questions or meeting with my profs.
    Back then, there was only one learning style, which was summed up by Clint Eastwood’s character in the movie “Heartbreak Ridge”: you improvise, you adapt, you overcome.
    We have the educationists to thank for that.

  25. We made treaties that must be honored. We are a modern first world democracy.
    These treaties are proving difficult given the cowardice of the political elite. They are content to leave the interpretation of the treaties to the courts.
    Reasonable interpretation of what exactly was intended when these agreements were undertaken is almost impossible. Some were signed by tribes that couldn’t read. The terms were explained to them. Hardly a fair situation and a very difficult one in today’s context.

  27. In addition to knowing how to learn, we were also required to take personal responsibility for our learning.
    Many of my students did neither. Sadly, the administrators almost always supported the little darlings when they started whining about how “mean” I was for expecting them to put some effort into their studies.

  28. Knowing about different learning styles can be very helpful. In the past, some kids did poorly because teachers did not consider how different people learn. Just because you managed ok does not mean that everyone did. We are still discovering things about how the brain functions. Check out Tony Buzan’s books. The more we can find out about how people learn, the better.

  29. The more we can find out about how people learn, the better.
    YES !!!
    We can lead people to knowledge, but we can’t make them think.

  30. Sorry, but I’m not buying that and neither are a lot of educators. The policy of “alternate” learning styles is simply coddling those who are too lazy to put any effort into their studies. It’s also an excuse for “retaining” students in a discipline who simply have no talent for it.
    I quit the ed biz many years ago. I don’t miss it.

  31. Exactly. Many of my students thought that they were automatically entitled to high marks simply because they paid their tuition. In fact, I think the institution I taught at should change its name to (YP)^2 Academy, with its motto being “You pay! You pass!”
    They didn’t like that they often had to think their way through problems and that the answers weren’t always obtained by plugging numbers into a formula. They had to understand what the situation was, what they were supposed to accomplish each time, whether they had enough information to find a solution, and, of course, which equations to use. That meant that they had to think their way through and thinking means work.
    If many of them thought they had difficulties in my courses, they were in for some unpleasant surprises once they went into industry.

  33. My sister-in-law, who teaches in a post-secondary college near Hamilton would agree with you and Jean.

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