42 Replies to “September 7, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. Was honoured to meet the Rev Margaret Waterchief some years ago and heard her talk about her experiences with the residential school system. Like the writer, Thomson Highway, Rev Waterchief was very positive about her years at school, saying that the teachers were very encouraging and that it was only when she had to take to bus to the local high school that she encountered prejudice. In her view, it was alcohol more than the residential schools that caused the greatest harm.

      1. That’s not the msg I’m hearing from that phony Glo-bull news report. They seem to be pinning the entire episode on the Residential schools, and that, to me, is just shameful. I’m tired of these communities playing the victim card instead of them owning up and taking responsibilities for their own failures.
        Just how did these brothers manage to get the alcohol to fuel their “pain” and their “secondary emotion” of anger anyway?

    2. My sister and I knew that it would be “just a matter of time” before the “legacy of the residential schools” was invoked.

    1. You are only truly virtuous when you have one of Tesla’s paperweights parked in your driveway.

  7. I am a MASSIVE Beck fan. I don’t use terms like “genius” and “artist” loosely … and yet both apply to Beck Hansen. He is a musical genius who has successfully melded multiple genres and forms of music into (mostly) ‘listenable’ and ‘accessible’ tunes. Nobody … and I mean NOBODY has ever created anything near what Beck has. He is a stone cold genius.

    https://youtu.be/LfoeC5rmHWI

    Fortunately, I have collected quite a library of Beck on vinyl. From the beloved Mobile Fidelity pink swirl version of the Sea Change Album (pure genius) of heartbreaking tunes https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/4011544 … to … very early Beck Mellow Gold on the ‘Bong Load’ record label https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/3134364?ev=rb

    1. I’m a big Beck fan too, though his earlier material is by far the best. But I saw him on stage once and he was awful. Apparently he suffers from bouts of depression and it really showed that night. He was backed by a group called the Flaming Lips and they salvaged the show for him.

  8. She Loves You appears so schmaltzy and simple as to be dismissed by today’s “sophisticated” music aficionados… until … you listen to the lead guitar fills and lead riffs George Harrison wrote for the tune. Absolutely memorable and brilliant. If his signature guitar hooks weren’t there, the tune would have been a boring strumming folk/love song. The Blues riff he tosses in is just massive ear Candy. Harrison was an absolute guitar genius.

    https://youtu.be/pYRe5GMdJfs

    1. For once, America was slow to pick up on a new trend. Released in the States on 16 September, ‘She Loves You’ sold barely a thousand copies in its first few weeks, and failed to hit the charts. At the cutting-edge Café What? in Greenwich Village, the hard-boiled folk singer Steve De Naut first heard it in October. His then girlfriend, Vicky Tiel, remembers him marching into her apartment and – ‘Listen to this, baby’ – placing it on the record player. ‘Steve and I started to make love. At the point where it changes beats, he stopped in the middle of having sex. “Listen to this!” he said. The music went down to another beat. He said, “Nobody f*king does that! That’s no! And the ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’? That’s f*king no! Nobody does that!”’
      Vicky couldn’t understand what Steve was getting at. ‘It’s a new type of music,’ he explained. ‘I’ve never heard anything like it. And it’s fantastic.’ He then added, more despondently: ‘I’m finished. It’s over. It’s over for all of us.’

      Craig Brown
      “One Two Three Four”

    2. Freeland never had to work for anything when it comes to her current position. Everything has been handed to her. She was personally recruited by the Bong. He was attracted to her particular brand of genius. He brought her to Ottawa from NYC. She was gifted Bob Rae’s seat and electoral apparatus. Again – no effort from her. So, is she going to get in the trenches and duke it out with the unwashed in order to get the nomination? In a word, No. She will demand a coronation.

      Freeland presents as a cold calculating and aloof. Women don’t warm to her and men? Forget about it. She can’t win and she probably knows it.

    3. Not a chance in hell she gets to be NATO SecGen. Canada has been NATO’s biggest slacker, free-rider, and cheapskate since Trudeau 1.0’s day. A country wants the top job, it better had been doing something more than just preening like a ninny. My bet is on a Polish guy for the next one.

  11. The EU is proposing mandatory targets for reducing peak electricity. This would mean closing down much of heavy industry, limiting heating and cooling. It seems like the right thing to do – after all it’s the best way to fight climate change – but I suspect the law of unintended consequences is swinging into effect (i.e., a total rejection of the current governing system and a massive swing to the right).

    1. A total rejection of the current governing system and a massive swing to the right is the only thing that will save western nations now.

    2. Thankfully no steel or aluminum are required to construct renewables infrastructure. LOL

      Bring on the wooden wind turbines.

  12. Lordly, Lordly, Lordly, Canada has gone to crap.
    Plastic vehicles that are totally unsafe…
    Houses that deteriorate rather quickly…
    Baby equipment that amputations are now a concern…
    Plastic money that you can’t leave in the Sun…
    Politicians so corrupted that they’re trying to knock off it’s own citizens…
    Law’s so restrictive that any type of job needs some government certification…

    1. It also brings into question if our plastic money is even legal now under these new regulations that I can’t keep up with on single use plastic ban?

    1. I wonder if Canada’s Immigration Rules state No White People should bother applying or if swearing forever fealty to the Liberal Party will work.

  16. More truth in these 2 paragraphs than every word ever uttered by Canada’s Idiot Dilettante.

    “So here goes: the entire “climate crisis” is an opportunistic hoax; the entire “equity” (along with “diversity” and “inclusion”) movement is a corrupt fraud. This hoax and this fraud have permeated and overwhelmed every formerly respectable sector of American life, with disastrous consequences we’ve only just begun to feel.”

    “It has turned the average voter into a Pavlovian stooge, completely unaware that it’s not white privilege, climate change, or racism that is to blame for the average price of rent to double in the last 12 months or the price of electricity to triple, or the price of food to quadruple in some instances. Rather, this reset trauma is a logical next step in the consolidation of wealth and power in America into the hands of a few hundred billionaires.”

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/06/the-two-most-destructive-frauds-in-history/

    1. on that note the BOC raised rates today and promises more to come as if the average working stiff is responsible for the price inflation cuz he heats his home, drives to work and feeds his family.

  19. They cops have released the names and pics of the 10 people killed by the SK knifemen.

    Six of them have the surname Burns. A family wipeout? The rez is full of enemy families. They hate each other and rivalries go back many generations. Wonder who killed Damien Sanderson – a Burns? Speculation of course.

    1. L – He died defending his family against two armed attackers, as he would have done in the service of his country. Evil filled with resentment predating on good, the archetypal story of the first murder, right out of Genesis.

      If that is the story that emerges in more detail, maybe P.P.C.L.I. vets will fund a statue?
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      “Burns was a veteran of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. McLean said he was killed while protecting his wife and grandchildren from the attackers who left a trail of devastation in 13 crime scenes across James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan’s northeast and into the community of Weldon 30 kilometres away.

      In a message to paNOW, McLean wrote, “My brother Earl Burns was a true hero. He fought til the death to protect his family. ”

      https://www.ckom.com/2022/09/06/he-fought-to-the-death-families-of-stabbing-victims-seek-answers-and-support/

  20. Well, I do wonder where BA (Ruperts) has gone and miss his input. I hope he returns. Even though we do not know our online contributors personally, when people post regularly, it helps create a sense of community. Sudden disappearances are felt.

  21. Well, I do wonder where BA has gone and miss his input. I hope he returns. Even though we do not know our online contributors personally, when people post regularly, it helps create a sense of community. Sudden disappearances are felt.

  23. Had to take a moment to listen to Sade. Thanks. BTW, I don’t have a TV or streaming, and I enjoyed watching The Sting last month when you offered it. Thanks!

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