Is Canadian Judicial Council investigating this current SK Prov Ct Judge (no longer on Twitter)?
After (Stanley) verdict, Judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond wrote on Twitter: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."https://t.co/iBjjmfW8iI
— John Gormley Live (@JohnGormleyShow) March 1, 2018
“First Nations”,”Federal Government” and “Crooked Lake”
Even the gods tried to warn them.
(h/t Glenardo)
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
Louie’s experience is indicative of a widening rift between Indigenous communities and activists over natural resources, particularly in British Columbia, the focal point of major green campaigns generously funded by U.S. interests to thwart oil and gas exports.
The campaigns consistently portray a united Indigenous anti-development front and allies of the green movement, but some Indigenous leaders are becoming alarmed that they could be permanently frozen out of the mainstream economy if resource projects don’t go ahead.
They said in interviews they’ve had enough of activists invading their lands, misleading them about their agendas, recruiting token members to front their causes, sowing mistrust and conflict, and using hard-line tactics against those who don’t agree.
“The best way to describe it is eco-colonialism,” said Ken Brown, a former chief of the Klahoose First Nation in southwestern B.C. “You are seeing a very pervasive awakening among these First Nations leaders about what is going on in the environmental community.”
Lay down with liars, you’re gonna get lied to.
We Are All Treaty Immigrants
The discovery of two infants, ceremonially buried by a previously unknown population of ancient humans in Alaska around 11,500 years ago, offers stunning new clarity to the story of how humans came to inhabit the Americas, according to a new scientific paper.
By confirming the theory that Indigenous Americans are descended from Asians, the find also threatens to inflame a cultural controversy that has long troubled the study of human origins in the New World.
Fauxcahontas
My favorite Elizabeth Warren story involves a cookbook. Warren, who was at that time posing as a trailblazing Cherokee, actually contributed recipes to a recipe book with the name, I kid you not, “Pow Wow Chow.” But here’s the best part of the story. She plagiarized some of the recipes.
Silver Linings
Community ‘role model’ sentenced for killing friend while impaired:
“One of the positive things that the Aboriginal community contributes to the justice system is a sense of forgiveness, which I don’t see taking place nearly as readily as we see in the First Nations community,” Pfefferle remarked.
That’s one way of looking at it.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why my basement is filled chiefly with ammunition.
Excuses
One of Trudeau’s excuses for paying out the terrorist Khadr without a court judgement was the amount that the Gov’t had already spent defending their actions.
I guess that means this little girl will be getting a financial windfall pretty soon.
The federal Liberal government has spent more than $110,000 fighting a First Nations girl in court to block payment for orthodontic treatment that cost just $6,000, according to documents released under the Access to Information Act and shared with CBC News.
Via, NewsHubNation
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The former Liberal candidate appointed by Indigenous-Crown Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett to conduct consultations on First Nation child welfare issues was given a $437,000 contract to do eight months of work, according to internal documents.
Bennett appointed Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, chair of truth and reconciliation at Lakehead University, as her special representative on child welfare in August 2016. The appointment, which ended on March 31, was made following the January 2016 ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which found Ottawa discriminated against First Nation children by under-funding child welfare services on-reserve.
Wesley-Esquimaux, who ran for the Liberals in 2011, was required to conduct consultations on child welfare, act as a mediator and conduct media interviews and produce a report on the issue, according to the contract obtained by NDP MP Charlie Angus.
Emphasis mine.
Dear FSIN
Do you think rural Saskatchewan is stupid?
Reconcilliation
What’s the lesson here? To not even try?
Janelle Pewapsconias recorded a video of the performance Saturday night at Folkfest in Saskatoon and posted it on her Facebook page. It shows Ukrainian dancers, some wearing headdressess, performing a routine which includes sections similar to powwow dancing.
In a statement, the Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble said the piece, called “Canadian Kaleidoscope,” has been performed internationally and in Saskatoon since 2003. The dance group said the performance was meant to promote inclusivity, not disrespect Indigenous culture.
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act is simple: It requires First Nations to publish salaries and expenses for chief and council as well as basic financial documents online — the kind of information the rest of us can get with a Google search. The overwhelming majority of First Nations follow the law, but Onion Lake is one of six bands that have never complied. The previous Conservative government withheld non-essential funding from those bands, but the new Liberal government suspended all enforcement.
Charmaine’s victory enforces the legislation and for her it’s a very personal victory. The stay-at-home mom went on a 13-day hunger strike to demand accountability from her leaders during the summer of 2014. They told her she’d never get anywhere. She now has judicial validation.
The most fascinating parts of this ruling are the arguments Onion Lake left out. Rather than contesting matters of fact, Onion Lake asked the court to stay Charmaine’s application until other court proceedings conclude. Justice B.A. Barrington-Foote rejected the stay application.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Where every culture is equal, except your own;
Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to make appropriating Indigenous cultures illegal — and to do it quickly.
Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.
Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.
h/t A Deplorable Sewer Rat
We Are All Treaty People
Only Indigenous people have the right to paint like stone-age children decorating rocks, using blobs of highly refined pigments developed by Europeans, you racy-racist cultural genocider.
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Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
Who among us doesn't have a $14000 TV ? pic.twitter.com/BxSmIs4BU3
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) March 25, 2017
h/t Dan T.
I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK
Saskatchewan First Nations shocked by municipalities’ self-defence resolution.
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A man who was removed as chief of The Key First Nation following a six-month conditional sentence for drug trafficking is back in jail awaiting a bail hearing on new charges.
Clarence Papequash, 64, is now a band councillor. Prior to his political career, he worked as a drug councillor.
But in 2014 he was convicted in a sting in which RCMP were cracking down on dealers who fueled a wide-spread opiate problem in the Kamsack, SK area, as revealed by APTN Investigates
Papequash sold a morphine pill to an undercover officer.
Five months later his community voted him back onto council.
Wait, it gets better.
Health Canada has pulled the plug on a methadone doctor who APTN Investigates exposed last year.
Dr. Murray Davies ran the methadone program in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, located on the SK/MB border, 80 kilometres north of Yorkton. In April 2013, APTN Investigates’ episode Questionable Pharma featured Aboriginal patients who claimed they were over-prescribed opiates and once hooked, were shuttled into the same doctor’s methadone program.
Great investigative work by APTN. (Via John Gormley Live)
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De Beers is shelving immediate plans to study an expansion project at a remote northern Ontario diamond mine after failing to get support from a neighbouring aboriginal community, a “disappointing” setback for the world’s top diamond producer, the mine’s manager said.
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While most First Nations continue to comply with Stephen Harper’s controversial financial transparency law, a National Post analysis has found the compliance rate sharply dropped after Justin Trudeau’s government dropped a key enforcement mechanism.
As a result of the Trudeau government’s rule change, some bureaucrats are worried they won’t be able to properly account for and administer the billions of dollars transferred each year to the country’s First Nations.
Moreover, the Post has learned that the drop in the compliance rate to 85 per cent this year from 92 per cent in Harper’s last year may be the fault of the federal government itself which, in some instances at least, may have failed to live up to its obligations under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA).
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What's that thing following behind the Indigenous youth walker? Please, @CBCSask — check into this and report back. https://t.co/lnpLgvHZCa
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 28, 2016