26 Replies to “Virtue, Signalled”

  3. I almost wore my safety orange tee shirt for a run early Saturday. Checked the date and went with green.

  4. So I figure little cancer patients will read these rock doodles and assume that they are about little dead cancer patients. A mass of ittle headstones with epitaphs at the clinic doors. How reassuring for them to be bombarded with child mortality.
    “One child is one child too many
    Sometimes stupid burns with incredible intensity.

  5. So the last residential school closed in 1996. Pierre Trudeau was in power from 68 to 79, and again from 80 to 84. Let’s call it 15 years.

    How many Indians did Pierre kill in his almost 15 years of leading the genocide? Surely Justin must have been aware of what was going on — surely cher vieux papa would come home at the end of a long day of killing little Native children and regale the family with tales of his exploits. Pull down Pierre’s statues, rename his streets and schools and airport, and hold his descendants — who were alive at the time he committed his atrocities — to account.

    Hell, I’m Polish and barely pass for white in Canada. If I am on the hook for what the British did 300 years ago, then Little Justin should be facing Nuremburg-like consequences for what was done in his lifetime by his own (nominal) father.

    Oh — and that radiation therapy team? Should be stoned with those painted rocks.

  8. Yep, today. Clinic closed. Police station closed. Post office closed. Public works closed.

    Maybe they need another day off next Monday too…………

  9. I’m unclear as to how painting rocks does anything for reconciliation. I thought it was about money.

    2. “I’m unclear as to how painting rocks does anything for reconciliation. I thought it was about money.”

      It is always about the money. Money magically makes everything better, as long as it keeps coming.

  10. Along the lines of virtue signalling how does this work.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/south-island-reciprocity-trust-1.6981095

    I’m no mathematical genius like our illustrious Prime Minister is but if I enlist to donate part of my residential taxes to the Indigenous Tribe doesn’t that mean that the residential budget of my municipality will be reduced by the amount of the donation. In which case the municipality will have to raise taxes to reduce the shortfall in order to pay the teachers, policemen, firefighters and others who are on the government payroll or will all of these employees take a payroll cut? Somebody help me here, maybe the usual rocket scientists and brain surgeons can grab a pencil and work this one out.

    What happens if we all donate and at the same time all of us over 65 take the option of deferring our taxes. I’m sure that would be an even better deal.

    2. I’m no rocket appliance guy but I read that as you still pay your property taxes at the assessed value and then you voluntarily pay a percentage of that as an additional amount which is a donation to the local savages to go to canoe races or something.

      Regardless of which way it is, it proves once again that a fool and his money are soon parted.

      1. Thanks Frank, I may have misinterpreted the article but I can’t see why you’d have to volunteer to donate 1% a month of your realty taxes. If you are so inclined to make charitable donations there is a provision for a commensurate tax deduction in the Canada Revenue Act. As usual when dealing with government programs the devil is in the details.

  11. Recognition. That’s a good first step. Then contrition. Followed by lots of continuing contributions. I can hardly wait. My diesel f250 is almost 4 years old.

  12. I wonder how many Indigenous children died of cancer during the Residential School Days? Our medicine was still somewhat primitive … and I believe it was called “consumption” back in the day.

    Oh wait!? There was no cancer among the Native peoples … they all lived in harmony with the perfect nature of body and ecosystem. It wasn’t until the white man brought fossil fuels and industrialization to the Native peoples that they started dying of cancer. Ohhhhhhhhhh mommmaaaaaa … we need to pay higher carbon taxes to SAVE the indigenous chil’ren

  13. I though only the Army made people paint rocks as make-work. I’m glad to learn that all the True Believers in an Native Holocaust are going to be placated by painted rocks.

  14. Went fishing today and saw some local natives engaging in the traditional practice of smoking weed and drinking lucky. Happy victim day!

  15. This Ontarian is going to Buffalo for an MRI, if needed. $535 USD (no IV contrast). No waiting and no painted rocks.

    1. Not just happening in Ontario. I’m familiar with a person in Victoria, BC., going to Bellingham, Wa., for treatment because treatment is not available in either Victoria or Vancouver. The cost for treatment in Bellingham includes ferry fees and overnight accommodation. Great healthcare system we have here.

  17. Point taken, but as a doc who’s worked in Canada, I can tell you the responsibility of the death panels (called wait lists) lies squarely on the government.

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