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Canada’s Hateful Indigenous Blood Libel

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Those who think such repugnant myths would never gain traction in a civilized multi-cultural country like Canada should think again because we have our very own version of the Jewish blood libel, supported by numerous Protocols look-alikes such as the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, namely an indigenous blood libel grounded in the belief that the Canadian nation-state, aided and abetted by the Roman Catholic Church, have been trying to exterminate the aboriginal people of our country from early contact in the 16th century to the present day.

The goal of this sentiment is to fuel hatred against the Catholic Church and the country of Canada, paralleling the 2004 US Department of State’s “Report on Global Anti-Semitism” (2004) that “The clear purpose of the [Protocols is] to incite hatred of Jews and of Israel.”

But the indigenous genocide blood libel — that countless children were murdered Nazi-style in Indian Residential Schools as part of a plot to wipe out all aboriginals— did not begin with stories by unnamed and unknown indigenous knowledge keepers, as most people assume.

Although many indigenous actors have been involved in this tangled web of deceit, what was originally a blood libel against Jewish people was re-jigged by a white man, a defrocked United Church of Canada minister named Kevin Arnett. And its strongest promotion since then has been at the hands of an NDP member of the House of Commons…

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The Libranos: Entitled To Her Entitlements

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National Post;

The Governor General’s four-day visit to Iceland last fall racked up over $71,000 in limousine costs, according to receipts from the trip.

Obtained via access to information requests by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, expense reports from Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s October 2022 working visit to Iceland list five separate line items for Icelimo Luxury Travel, a limousine and transportation firm based outside of Reykjavík. […]

“You know the feds spared no expense when the Governor General could have bought a brand new BMW, drove it around the island and then left it outside the airport with the keys inside and still saved money,” Terrazzano said.

“It seems like Simon and her band of bureaucrats go out of their way to spend as much money as possible.”

The Governor General and her entourage were in Iceland to attend last year’s Arctic Circle Assembly — described by Rideau Hall as a means to “…demonstrate Canadian leadership in the Arctic, and reinforce other priority issues for Canada in the north, including climate change, reconciliation, gender equality and youth engagement.”

According to official programs, also obtained via the access to information request, the entirety of the four-day visit took place within Reykjavik — a city of 130,000 people about a quarter of the size of Calgary.

Evading the obvious

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As anyone who has watched the TV series The Curse of Oak Island knows, ground penetrating radar isn’t quite the equivalent of Superman’s X-Ray vision. But according to journalists at APTN, the problem does not lie with the limitations of the technology, but rather with some dastardly people seizing on these limitations to disrupt a narrative.

Indigenous communities searching for unmarked graves with ground-penetrating radar have encountered a rising number of individuals questioning, or outright denying, that children disappeared or died in residential schools, says a new report from an independent special interlocutor.

… First Nations that have detected possible unmarked graves are exploring the possible options. Many communities are hoping to avoid disturbing the sites even more.

Upon discovery of a possible crime scene, wouldn’t the first priority be to have forensic investigators exhume and examine the remains? Apparently not, since that would “undermine” things. Far better to obscure the issue with a rambling discussion about actual versus potential:

“It’s also really dangerous because we do know how to distinguish a rock from a potential grave. But sometimes when denialists get a hold of some of these narratives, they use that to undermine.”

Turf wars

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When I first saw the headline, I made a pretty good guess as to where this was going: someone sees a need to stifle the competition. In this case, the competition’s approach to gambling is alleged to be bad because it doesn’t take as much physical effort as ours. That’s quite a feat to apply the Marxist labor theory of value to gaming.

The Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation own the Great Blue Heron Casino.

When asked why she feels so strongly against online gambling advertisements considering the casino, LaRocca said, “You have to make an effort to get up and visit a land based (casino) facility.

Big Chief Spending Money

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National Post;

After a statue of Queen Elizabeth was defaced, one would hope that at least the Crown’s representative in Canada would denounce the vandalism.

Such hopes were dashed when Governor General Mary Simon addressed the issue this week and seemed to actively encourage such criminality.

She not only refused to condemn the act, “I can’t say whether it’s right or wrong,” but condoned it, “I think it’s really important for Indigenous people to express themselves in whichever form they want.”

As the first Indigenous person to hold the title of governor general, Simon obviously knows she has a role to play in reconciliation. And, indeed, as an Indigenous person and the Crown’s representative, she has a foot in both camps and is ideally suited as a mediator.

But to endorse the vandalism of a statue of Queen Elizabeth will not put us any further along the path to reconciliation. If she wishes to be an outspoken advocate for Indigenous people, she might want to reconsider the job she’s in.

She’s not indecisive about the Queen’s currency.

We Are All Treaty People

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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.

Burying evidence

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As Rodney Clifton points out, the residential school grave controversy has morphed from an investigation of the actual extent of an alleged crime into a well-funded exercise in browbeating “colonial” society in perpetuity.

The realists began questioning the official narrative when “215 children’s bodies were discovered” by ground penetrating radar (GPR) in the Kamloops Indian Residential School yard. One of the realists examined the historical records and discovered that in the mid-1920s, clay pipes for a septic field were buried in the surveyed area.

As a result, the realists wondered if the GPR had re-discovered the clay pipes and not the graves of IRS students. To date, Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc (formerly the Kamloops Indian Band) has not released the GPR report, and it has not allowed excavations to see what the GPR had picked up.

Surprisingly, none of the 94 calls to action demand that school yards should be searched for the bodies of murdered and buried IRS children. This is important because the commission worked for six years, spent over $60 million, and did not report credible evidence that children had been murdered and buried in residential school yards.

And The Water Will Boil Itself

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Sun- Many reserves still lack clean water

Since the Trudeau government came to power in 2015, spending to improve the lives of Indigenous people has gone up 140% in seven years, from $11.4 billion annually in 2015 to a projected $27.4 billion this year.

And yet the lives of our Indigenous citizens have not demonstrably improved.

To cite just one example, despite all that spending, the Trudeau government still hasn’t fulfilled its 2015 election promise to end all drinking water advisories on reserves by March 31, 2021.

Fauxcahontas

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Professor Carrie Bourassa resigned from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Wednesday over questions about her claims she’s indigenous.

Bourassa claimed to be Metis, Anishinaabe, and Tlingit, but her ancestry came into question by a CBC investigation in the fall of 2021. […]

“USask has placed Dr. Bourassa on leave and she is relieved of all her duties as professor in the USask College of Medicine in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. Dr Bourassa will not return to any faculty duties during this investigation,” said the USask media release.

Bourassa received millions of dollars of research grants for indigenous health and was considered a leader in the field.

The Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health removed Bourassa from her position as scientific director which is part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Just another reminder that race is a social construct, plus we need millions in public spending for race-based medicine, because science.

” It has escalated quickly, shall we say. “

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Year of the Graves: Terry Glavin, on the reaction and fallout to his adventure in residential school truth telling.

For a “mainstream” Canadian journalist to be too closely associated with me right now might be bit dangerous, owing to the bosses responsible for all the shoddy journalism I catalogue in Year of the Graves. […]

Then there are the senior journalists at top-drawer news organizations who have come to me privately. Here’s one: “We in this business have become a bunch of wankers. . . much of the industry decided it knew what was right and wrong, and chose its orthodoxy. Orthodoxies allow no room for dissent.”

“The coverage triggered protests, church arsons and condemnation from Canada’s bad-faith rivals…”

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Give Terry Glavin and the National Post their due. This took guts.

This is how it all began, a year ago this week: ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada. On May 28, 2021, that’s how the New York Times headlined the first of a summer-long series of gruesome “discoveries” that precipitated a descent into paroxysms of shame, guilt and rage that swept across the country.

That first story was ostensibly about 215 children whose remains were discovered in a mass grave at the site of the long-shuttered Kamloops Indian Residential School, on the grounds of the main Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc reserve in British Columbia’s southern interior. The New York Times headline illustrates the way the story was almost universally reported.

Except that’s not what happened in Kamloops.

Read it all.

Its Always About The Money

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Indian groups are demanding that the Catholic Church pay up to sixty million dollars, before the Pope is allowed to come to Turtle Island and apologize.

UPDATE:  The CBC is excited that Indians have given permission for Big Chief Gay Eagle to raise the flags before Remembrance Day. However Justin must also display the orange missing children flag on the Peace Tower and all government buildings. And the flags must be lowered on the separate Indian veterans Remembrance Day. Apparently we have to have separate veteran’s days now for the various groups on Turtle Island.

“Financial Irregularities”

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That’s what we’re calling it now. 

The head of Sandy Bay First Nation’s child welfare agency has been fired after financial irregularities were discovered, the Southern Chiefs’ Organization alleged Wednesday.

At this point, Prince alleges millions of dollars have been taken from the CFS agency, which has about 100 children in its care, although he doesn’t yet know exactly how much.

“That’s basically like stealing from the kids,” said the chief, who was elected in October. “We’re going to do what we can to get whatever funds we can back to where it’s supposed to be.”

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