46 Replies to “We’re From The Enlightened Class”

  2. You just know the international headlines when some Eurotrash reports on a family of 12 living in a 300 sq ft house on a reserve.

      2. Or how they hunted without snowmobiles or 60 foot twin diesel seiners
        Or how they survived without cell phones, big screen Tellies or F150s.
        But I Digress……….

  4. Just a small taste of what the NWO has in store for the rest of us. Multiple tiny living spaces in a cramped warehouse-like structure are what we can expect in the not so distant future.

  5. Teaching some kids to swing a hammer and use a tape measure is not a bad thing.
    What did you expect, kids building McMansions?

    1. I’ve seen McMansions being built, so, yeah, any kid who can build a shed can build a McMansion.
      Just one of the many reasons I would never buy one.

        1. Not only can I, but I’ve been known to be as many as several times a week.
          It may be unusual for me, but not so much as to be considered surprising, never mind rare.

          1. Sigh.
            Excavator + transit to dig hole, then compact the ground so you can pour and grade slab, ensure drainage from slab is at proper grade.
            Building and pouring forms, ensuring that its all nice and level.
            Sure, the kids can frame walls, with some help, so they know the difference between king studs and jack studs, etc.
            If you build your own trusses, know how loading works, know the ins and outs of a speed square…especially if you have dormers and weird valleys on the roof. Then there is lifting the trusses up to the top of the 2nd story wall, and getting them in place…sometimes you need a crane or a boom to do that, so, knowledge of using a boom, crane signals…
            Using I-beams or big laminated beams to support floors with a longer span, knowing what size rafters, etc, you’ll need to support what sized span.
            That’s just for starters, but hey, any 16 year old in high school can do all that, it’s kid stuff, just like framing up a 12’x20′ shed with 2x6s.

  6. “Kwonloon city was so inspiring to the GTA students they chose it as a model for proper indigenous housing.”

  7. Sorry, I missed something. Have tipis, wigwams and longhouses been banned? I’d hate to put FN people in the position where they have to culturally appropriate Western dwellings, that’s far too colonial and imperialist.

  8. Yeah … tiny homes. Now make them portable … and you’ll have true indigenous housing. Brilliant white people.

  9. Local indigenous folks here live in the same kind of houses as most everyone else, 1200 – 1500 sq. ft. Why would they want to move into tiny shelters?

    1. I can think of a few reasons.
      Young man wants to leave the nest, doesn’t want to pay $1500+ a month on a studio apt. in the city on a minimum wage job, so he gets a $300 a month mortgage on the res and finds work in his home community.
      Older widower or widow doesn’t want to spend their fixed income on rising energy costs for footage he doesn’t use, gets an extra thousand a month to spend on booze and ammo, maybe a new gun or two.

      1. All those houses are owned and controlled by the band, on reserve land. Zero impact on what it might cost to move to off reserve and get a job, apartment, etc.

  10. homeless veterans
    homeless indigenous
    A teeny house for y’all
    Immigrants next up
    Mod home industry gears up
    Wheels optional

  11. I lived in Saskatchewan. I have been on reservations (yes, plural). The free housing is destroyed by those to whom they have been gifted. They don’t maintain them, they break them, just like their water treatment plants that are an ongoing thorn in Canada’s side. Unless and until the First Nations take personal responsibility for their own issues, there should be no more free anything. Coddling children does not promote adult thinking. Reality is a harsh taskmaster.

    1. I live in Ontario. Some reserves are doing great, flush with money, trade, good roads, water, homes and businesses. Others, not so much. Its all a matter of their leadership.
      Do such reserves exist in SK or AB?

      1. Those are the reserves that work for a living and the people that live there are expected to carry their share of the load, or get out. The squalor reserves are the failed socialist enclaves of free stuff for all.

        1. Agreed., although in many of those places, a 40hr work week isn’t forced on people.
          If you are satisfied with what you can get on a 20 hour week, that’s fine.
          Seems many want people to work themselves to the bone just to put a roof over their head and feed themselves.
          That’s what really winds up happening in socialist places.

    2. “The free housing is destroyed by those to whom they have been gifted.”

      I’ve written about it before. Had a buddy who worked for a modular home company. He was with the warranty department. After a house was sold, he’d be sent out to address any concerns.

      Ended up repairing the exterior wall of a house on a reserve because they’d taken a chainsaw to the wall of a bathroom just above the bath tub so they could water the horse.

      This is the mentality we’re dealing with here.

      1. Did your man come up with a better way to water the horse?
        Our esteemed host is a dog groomer, do you expect her to be a plumber, too?
        …and what about you, do you know the difference between split-phase and 3-phase power? Hmmm…?

        1. Not his horse, not his problem.

          I expect our host has enough common dog-fukc (see what I did there?) to not cut a hole in the wall of her freshly constructed abode to water the horse. In addition, I expect that if she comes up against a plumbing issue she can’t fix, she’ll call a plumber, not a logger.

          Although I’m not sure of the relevance to the topic at hand, as to the difference between split- and 3-phase power, yes, I do know the difference. In a nutshell, 180° phasing, less efficient (both legs off at the same time) vs 120° phasing, more efficient (only 1 leg off at a time).

          What do I win? Or are we going to play, “Let’s test the magnitude of DB’s knowledge”, all night? Could be a long one.

        2. “…and what about you, do you know the difference between split-phase and 3-phase power? Hmmm…?”

          Split-phase? Never heard it called that before…

          1. Split-phase, dual-phase, two-phase, all the same thing. Two phases running 180° opposite each other. Both ramping up, ramping down, off at the same time.

  13. The diff between crowded Trailer Park living and Tiny Homes?
    One is trendy.
    No more discussion needed.
    As usual, when a trendy term is invoked, subsequent thought is deemed superfluous.
    (See also “Green” “Inclusive” and “Caring.”)

    2. And the mother of all superfluous monikers: “sustainable”. I swear to God, when I hear that word I want to throat punch whoever just said it. When the City of Edmonton changed the name of the Planning and Development department to “Sustainable Development” I wanted to go all Rambo on them.

  15. There are lots of “tiny houses” in the city I live in. These are just the normal houses built in the first half of the twentieth century. There are still lots of tiny houses being built, but now we call them “condos”.

    1. Drive through Estevan, SK and you’ll see lots of legacy tiny homes that were built for coal miners. Any coal mining community, actually. Lucky if they’re 800sq feet.

  16. Or how they hunted without snowmobiles or 60 foot twin diesel seiners
    Or how they survived without cell phones, big screen Tellies or F150s.
    But I Digress……….

    1. Guilty as charged. The worst was steel toes in the winter. F’ing cold. Back in those days they didn’t have composites.

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  21. Why don’t these teen-agers show up a year after donating these walk-in closets?

    Let them be proud of the holes cut in the sides of the structures, the filth and the black mold.

    Cue “colonialism”, “systemic racism” and “climate change”.

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