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Do Tell…

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Some Damn fine reporting here.

LILLEY: Unmarked graves were documented years ago but most of us looked away
It was all there in the 2015 report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

It was all there, ready for anyone to read in the 2015 report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There is an entire 273-page volume devoted just to this issue titled, “Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.”

The language in the report is matter of fact, the content is heartbreaking.

A total of 3,201 children documented to have died, or thought to have died, at Canada’s residential schools. Thought to have died is included because records remain incomplete — some are thought to have died after running away, others were presumed dead when they did not return.

As for the cemeteries, they are there in the report.

These were not hidden cemeteries as some have wrongfully thought or implied, they were part of the whole horrid system. The schools had cemeteries because the government refused to pay to transport the bodies of students who died back to their parents.

Read the whole thing, every word.

Official Report

Update: Candace Malcolm has a good summary/recap here. h/t Warren Zoell

The Gulag Trudeaupia: Diversity Is Our Cudgel

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A day in the life of a Transport Canada employee’s email bin. (Edited for length)

Last chance! Submit your P.R.I.D.E story to the Positive Space team [6] by Friday, July 9

Faces of Change: See how Emma Comeau is supporting reconciliation through co-management [7]

Reminder: The MS Teams recording feature is now restricted at TC [8]

Are you struggling to maintain your mental health? You are not alone
· Watch these videos from LifeSpeak [15] if you have been affected by the news from Canada’s residential schools (client name and password: canada)
· Visit the Wellness Together Canada portal [16] for mental health and substance abuse support

Check out the Agile Centre of Excellence’s new and revamped Agile Foundations training [17]! New dates available in July

Learn more about Indigenous culture and reconciliation
· Rewatch presentations by Indigenous speakers:

o Inuit history and culture by Kevin Qamanik-Mason of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami [18]
o Métis history, culture and reconciliation with Shirley Delorme Russell of the Louis Riel Institute [19]
· Check out the Indigenous Learning Hub [20] on myTC
· Visit the Canada School of Public Service’s Indigenous E-Learning: Tools and resources [21] page
· Sign up for Reconciliation, Relationship and Treaty 11 Centenary [22] – Wednesday, July 7
· Read the Translation Bureau’s blog Innu: A rapidly transforming language [23]
· Read Our Women and Girls are Sacred [24], the interim report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Check out upcoming Canada School of Public Service events [25] like this one:
· Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion: A Year After George Floyd [26] – Thursday, July 8

News Releases:
· Minister of Transport announces funding for Indigenous communities to address underwater vessel noise impacts on marine mammals [27]
· Building a green economy: Government of Canada to require 100% of car and passenger truck sales be zero-emission by 2035 in Canada [28]
· Minister of Transport highlights the important contribution of seafarers [29]

This week’s emails from our leaders
· Message from the Deputy Ministers – Monday, June 28 [30]
· Message to managers [31] – Wednesday, June 30

Hang in there, Al.

Not Just Any Church

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BBC

Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney, said on Thursday one of the vandalised locations was an African Evangelical Church in the city of Calgary.

He said its congregation was made up entirely of former refugees who fled countries where churches are often vandalised and burned down.

“These folks came to Canada with the hope that they could practise their faith peacefully,” tweeted Mr Kenney, a Conservative. “Some of them are traumatised by such attacks.

Ladies and gentlemen your Canadian social justice warriors at their finest.

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Diversity Is The Long Game

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According to the 2016 Census*, there remain only 1.6 million Indigenous survivors of Canada’s dark history of colonial oppression and genocide.

Yet, as the media trucks pitch camp in century old burial plots, and politicians trample one another in surrender, few seem to notice (much less mention) that the Trudeau Liberals have opened the floodgates to 300,000 economic immigrants a year — immigrants who have nothing to reconcile and no reason to apologize. These millions are to be added to a Canadian population that’s already over 20% foreign born.

In their strategic plan to replace vexatious old stock Settlers by importing a loyal new voter base, our Natural Governing Liberals are quietly diluting their “Indian problem” away — and they know it. Given current trends, First Nations protestors of the next decade will be banging their drums in a new and mostly indifferent country.

“Demographics is destiny” it is said, but about the accelerating erosion of First Nations population share and political influence, the chattering classes of our gated institutions and talk boxes remain conveniently silent.

It’s as though they’re in on the joke.

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Via Chris (from the comments);

Your future is being planned by your betters. Your opinions or permission are not being sought and are not welcome. (“When I want your opinion I’ll tell it to you”)

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/vaughn-palmer-b-c-s-undrip-plan-requires-much-broader-consultation

“The (BC) New Democrats have released the draft of an ambitious plan, setting out 79 goals they hope to fulfil over the next five years to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (that was unanimously passed in 2019).”

“…though the government says the plan is “meant to help everyone who lives in B.C. to understand the importance of reconciliation in B.C.,” the ONLY input sought through the consultations is from First Nations and Indigenous peoples.”

“…the plan, if finalized, “commits the B.C. government to entering into agreements that give Indigenous governing bodies statutory decision-making powers over non-Indigenous people and companies and/or a veto over decision-making by other statutory decision-makers.”

“This is unfortunate……but understandable if the goal is to get the plan finalized and out the door before the rest of the B.C. public notices what is being done in its name.”

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On Friday, the Supreme Court of A Post-National Nation ruled…

…that Desautel and the 4,000 other members of the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington state were successors to the Sinixt – and as a result, that they enjoy constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt their traditional lands in Canada.

The closely watched court decision settled longstanding questions over the status of the Sinixt, but it also has the potential to affirm hunting rights in Canada for tens of thousands of Native Americans living in the US dispossessed of traditional territories by an international border drawn hundreds of years ago.

Beauty.

h/t Peter

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The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America’s Indigenous Peoples

In a 2017 article published in Science, Ann Gibbons wrote about the power of DNA analysis to “bust” the myths associated with Europeans’ origins: “Despite their tales of origin, most people are the mixed descendants of many migrations… As techniques for probing ethnic origins spread, nearly every week brings a new paper testing and then falsifying lore about one ancient culture after another.” Gibbons properly describes this as a positive development. But if this principle is true for the so-called old world, why is it untrue in regard to Indigenous peoples?
 
The only way one might consider Duggan’s research to be offensive or controversial is to such extent as one might wish to preserve the idea of Indigenous peoples as staking out an unbroken genetic (and therefore moral) claim to this or that part of North America. Certainly, I can think of no other basis on which Duggan might be required to secure the permission of modern First Nations (as they are known in Canada) to conduct scientific research on populations that haven’t existed for thousands of years.

Because…

In many cases, paleogenetics is revealing that even those “true” homelands were not as ancient as once believed.

Grab a coffee.

h/t Me No Dhimmi

A serious conversation for a serious country

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Conrad Black has penned an important column:

Canadians should consider much more seriously than they have the implications of the charge against us and our forebears of genocide against Indigenous people. It is the most heinous charge that can be made and there is no evidence whatsoever that any Canadian authority ever advocated or imposed any policy on Natives or anyone else that was designed to eliminate or shorten lives or truly eliminate their culture. As I’ve written here before, the Native victimhood industry, pushing on an open door and frequently incited and echoed by self-hating English- and French-Canadians, has propagated the implicit notion that the presence of the Europeans in Canada was an intrusion and occupation that was morally almost indistinguishable from Hitler and Stalin’s subjugation of Poland in 1939, though not as violent. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommended in 1996 that approximately one-third of all of Canada be carved out and given to the sovereign rule of the four per cent of Canadians who qualify as Indigenous people, without any burden of taxation, to be sustained for all eternity by the taxpaying residents of this country. To call things by their rightful names, this would be national suicide.

h/t Ontario John

Home Invaders 1, RCMP 0.

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Watchdog reports find RCMP discriminated against Colten Boushie’s family

The commission found that not only was the way the RCMP officers who notified Debbie Baptiste her 22-year-old son was killed insensitive, but they also treated her with such insensitivity that it was discriminatory.
 
Additionally, the CRCC found and reiterated there was no evidence that Boushie participated in any property offences.
 
The complaint made by Boushie’s family expressed concern about the manner in which RCMP members surrounded Debbie Baptiste’s home and informed her of his death that night. They also expressed concern about media releases sent by the RCMP that made Boushie appear to be a criminal.

This is the same intoxicated Colton Boushie killed during a violent home invasion on the Stanley farm in 2016. RCMP were at the home searching for one of Boushie’s accomplices, who had a long record of criminal convictions. The Commission Report even repeats the media-fueled fiction that the group was at the farm looking for help with a flat tire.

Saskatchewan RCMP responds: The groveling will continue until morale improves.

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