A church in the Alberta hamlet of Cherry Grove went up in flames early Friday morning and RCMP are calling the fire suspicious.
Cold Lake RCMP were sent to the hamlet, about 10 kilometres east of Cold Lake, and found the church “fully engulfed.”
RCMP said the fire is considered “suspicious,” based on their early investigation.
Your Money Is In The Very Best Of Hands
This is how Canadian banks now hire Quantitative Risk Modelling Analysts pic.twitter.com/gqFBTH2SSk
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) April 7, 2023
“These journalists knew what fate would await them if they helped debunk a sacred narrative…”
I would like to report that I was one of those few wise owls who knew, right from the start, that the story didn’t add up. But I wasn’t. Media figures, government officials, and First Nations leaders all seemed certain that these were indeed actual graves that had been discovered — and not just any graves, but graves of murdered children.
During the height of the ensuing social panic, in late May and early June 2021, mainstream media sources even repeated urban legends about babies thrown into furnaces and clandestine midnight burials. Surely, I thought, all of these public figures wouldn’t embrace such claims if real proof weren’t about to be sprung from the soil. After all, the GPR data indicated exactly where the remains of these supposedly murdered children were lying. All that was required was a forensic examination, something one might expect to occur within weeks, perhaps even days.
Build more prisons, and fast!
What’s the proper response to someone who proposes that we objectively investigate a serious allegation to arrive at the truth? Why, that ought to land you in jail, according to at least one MP.
Burying evidence
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.
Surely A Coincidence
6 found dead in Akwesasne marsh, child missing: Police found the six bodies while searching for Casey Oakes, 30, an Akwesasne man reported missing Thursday. He was last seen Wednesday boarding a small, light blue boat departing from the east end of Cornwall Island in the St. Lawrence River.
Update from Jamie M: Bodies of two more migrants found. And still no sign of the captain.
Governor General Fights Global Warming
Looks like she is copying Dear Leader’s approach to fighting climate change.
Justin’s Governor General
She went to a book fair and it only cost eight hundred thousand dollars.
The White Man’s Medicine
APTN News- Unvaccinated athletes getting notice they can’t compete at Indigenous games
“Allow him to carry on and let his immune system develop. Especially at that age,” he says. “Being if you look at our history as Indigenous people, if you look at the forced sterilization, the history of forced vaccination pushed on our people, we should be learning from our history and what its done to our people in the past.”
Indecipherable wokeness
If the city of Winnipeg goes ahead with the proposal to rename Bishop Grandin Boulevard, one can just imagine what a future 911 call might sound like:
“911. What is your emergency?”
“I need an ambulance on the corner of St. Mary’s and Bishop Grandin. We have….”
“I’m sorry sir, but St. Mary’s and what street?”
“Oh, um,… Abino,…, Abinjoey, Mika…ugh, you know, the street that used to be called Bishop Grandin….”
“I need to remind you sir that street is no longer called by its hurtful colonial name. Do you mean Abinojii Mikanah Boulevard?”
“Sure. That sounds about right.”
The wokest nation on earth
Biologist Richard Dawkins has recently come under fire for his observation that Maori myths are not actually science. Nonetheless, the New Zealand government seems determined to treat them as a useful tool for determining facts of reality on par with the scientific method.
To grasp government intentions requires a little work, because every third word of the relevant documents is in Māori. Since only 2 per cent of New Zealanders (and only 5 per cent of Māoris) speak that language, this again looks like self-righteous virtue-signalling, bending a knee to that modish version of Original Sin which is white guilt.
New Zealand children will be taught the true wonder of DNA, while being simultaneously confused by the doctrine that all life throbs with a vital force conferred by the Earth Mother and the Sky Father.
And just how useful is such “traditional knowledge”? Apparently it resulted in the discovery that woven bassinets can prevent sudden infant death.
Stolen land?
The Canadian host of the Daily Objective and America lawyer James Valliant weigh in on the subjects of indigenous rights, property rights, genocide, reparations and touch on today’s nearly obligatory nods to land acknowledgements at every public event. Warning: no political correctness to be found here.
Valliant has this to say about the history of indigenous culture:
“The three most important words in history are: compared to what?”
“Whatever the imperfections of the British legal system, native Americans were not on their way to discovering Lockean property rights, nor were they on their way to the discovery of classical liberalism, much less be at the dawn of an industrial revolution…when the British came, they were bringing an objectively better system that benefitted everyone more than the system that existed before.”
Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics
Examining the exaggerated death rate of Canadian Indian Residential Schools.
The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, never misses an opportunity to give his enthusiastic stamp of approval to any new claim made in the perennial quest for evidence of residential school wrongdoing. Two days after Williams Lake First Nation announced on January 25, 2022, the “discovery” near the St. Joseph residential school in B.C. of “93 potential unmarked graves”, Mr. Miller embarked on a tweetstorm that encapsulated his thinking, or, shall we say, his habitual presumptions, on residential school-related matters.
Among Miller’s tweets on January 27 was the following: “As early as 1909 (1909!!!), Dr. Peter Bryce estimated that the death rate from all causes for those attending residential schools was 18 times higher than that of non-Indigenous people in Canada of the same age [the curious exclamation marks are Miller’s, not mine].”
The “18 times higher” assertion is based on a report that Peter Bryce, Indian Affairs chief medical officer, prepared for the Department in 1909. In looking at mortality in three residential schools – Shingwauk in Ontario, Sarcee in Alberta, and Cranbrook in B.C. – Bryce found that during the period 1892 to 1908 the schools had a death rate of 8,000 per 100,000.[1] If Bryce’s finding for the three schools reflected the overall mortality rate across all of the 60 to 70 residential schools operating in Canada during that time period, the rate in the residential schools would indeed have been approximately 18 times higher than the 430 per 100,000 that Bryce reported for Canada’s general school-age population.
However, the evidence shows that Bryce’s “8,000 per 100,000” death rate was an overstatement for the three schools he studied, and a gross exaggeration of the overall rate for all of Canada’s residential schools operating in the 1892 to 1908 period.
Pine Ridge Reservation
Peter Santenello tours Pine Ridge in South Dakota: I was warned by many Natives not to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation because of crime and poverty. But what was it like when I got there? Join me and the locals as we tour around the homeland of the Oglala Lakota people to understand their culture better, and to see what it really looks and feels like on the ground.
Worth the time.
“One, Two, Three, Four, Many…”
The Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA) will be holding a retreat to discuss the power and potential of indigenous knowledge systems in math.
“Math teachers who go to this retreat on Feb 6-7th (Mon + Tues) will learn to incorporate indigenous ‘knowledge systems’ to ‘create transformative learning” for their students,” said former Ontario teacher Chanel Pfahl in a Tuesday tweet.
“Because ‘mathematics, along with other subjects, are not exempt from colonial bias.’”
Trudeau’s Canada
Apparently there is a need to stamp out colonialism in physics.
We’re From The Enlightened Class
And we’re here to lift up the lowly savage.
Trust @HaltonDSB and clueless "GTA students" to resurrect #firstnation reserve housing policies of the 1950's in which families were crammed together in trailer sized dwellings of a few hundred square feet.#tinyhomes https://t.co/Eh2trpQ7aG
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 12, 2022
We Are All Treaty People
For now.
Trudeau is doing nothing. He's buying off #FirstNations leaders, as federal governments have always done, and will always do until eternity — or until mass immigration pushes indigenous voices into the political wilderness for good. #cdnpoli https://t.co/CSeplU8FRI
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 9, 2022
Pretendianism
In an era where being the biggest victim brings you more power & attention, it’s no surprise that some people fake their heritage:
The best known recent pretendian case involves Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, widely regarded as one of Canada’s most successful and honoured indigenous scholars and legal professionals, who for decades claimed to be of aboriginal ancestry through her putative Cree father William Turpel. According to an October 12 CBC exposé, she even referred to herself as the “first Treaty Indian” appointed to the judicial bench in Saskatchewan history.
The CBC asked Turpel-Lafond how her father, William Turpel, could be Cree when his parents were British. “She refused to answer, only hinting at family secrets and shame, saying ‘I will never call anyone out’ … However, in a public statement days after the story was published, Turpel-Lafond declared that her father had been adopted.”
h/t James MacMaster
Pot O’ Gold
NEW🧵: @PrideToronto exploited Cree artist Kent Monkman’s name on yet another federal grant.
This $1million @FedDevOntario grant was not included in Pride Toronto’s apology and KPMG review earlier this year, current leadership must be held accountable for this cover up.
Since 2019, this is the third federal grant that @PrideToronto used Kent Monkman’s name without permission.
This is the fourth federal grant where Pride Toronto promised benefits for Indigenous artists and communities that were never delivered. This now totals $2,850,000.
The grant required that @PrideToronto submit authorization from the Board of Directors, this enabled staff to administer the project funds. Pride Toronto submitted to @FedDevOntario forged signatures of the Board.