A Saskatoon street is one step closer to a new name. The new proposed name for John A. Macdonald Road in the city’s Confederation Park neighbourhood is miyo-wâhkôhtowin Road – Cree for “you elected a Council of leftist retards, Saskatoon.”
Protection racket
“It’d be a shame if something happened to all those nice trees you want to plant….”
It seems that Canada is not the only country in which politically favored groups regularly shake down various agencies for what this news item accurately describes as ransom.
EXCLUSIVE: Two major tree planting events were cancelled this weekend after an aboriginal corporation demanded two and a half million dollars, in return for it's approval. @geofparry7 #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/yOz7rmn2oN
— 7NEWS Perth (@7NewsPerth) July 16, 2023
Dumpster fire
Since no one is going to dig up Prairie Green landfill to look for the equivalent of needles in a haystack, these continuing protests are simply another excuse to browbeat the white colonialist regime for alleged past sins. Now that a judge has ordered the protesters to remove the blockade, the inevitable and absurd comparisons to the truck convoy protest have come out of the woodwork:
Val Vint said it was frustrating to see the blockade at the Brady landfill ordered to end after a matter of days, drawing a comparison with a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and public health orders that was allowed to block streets in downtown Winnipeg for weeks last year.
Organizations that couldn’t be bothered to dig three feet to find an alleged known grave can’t grasp why anyone wouldn’t instantly agree to spend $180 million to dig up an entire landfill:
“That’s bullshit. Because the feasibility study was conducted by experts. We had an anthropologist on the technical working group,” Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick said in an interview on Wednesday.
The Libranos: Entitled To Her Entitlements
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.
We Are All Treaty People
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation — one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont — told Newsweek it was “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands,” but that the company had yet to approach them.
It comes after the ice cream company was questioned as to when it would give up its Burlington, Vermont, headquarters — which sits on a vast swathe of U.S. territory that was under the auspices of the Abenaki people before colonization.
And going… Thank you for supporting the shareholders and executives of Unilever, the multinational conglomerate that owns @benandjerrys. As you know, its market cap has tanked by $2-billion due to July 4 virtue signaling, so your efforts are appreciated
Related: The potted version of the nation’s history favored by the likes of Ben & Jerry’s is meant to delegitimize the United States.
“It was their final, most essential command.”
Jonathan Kay: Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence.
Evading the obvious
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
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
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.
Conspiracies aplenty
If you go by what the leftist corporate media are saying, conspiracy theories are the exclusive province of conservatives. Jump into the “rabbit hole” of residential school controversy, however, and conspiracy theories abound.
Not one reporter even thought to ask questions such as “If 215 children had disappeared at the school, why is there no historical record of even a single Kamloops indigenous parent – or any parent anywhere in Canada – claiming that their child had failed to return from school?”, “Where is your evidence of murderous priests, nuns and secret burials?” Why are you not releasing the radar operator’s report, that you promised to release?” or Why are the RCMP refusing to investigate what indigenous leaders are calling a “crime”, and why are the RCMP refusing to properly secure what indigenous leaders are calling a “crime scene” and do at least basic excavations?
Racist Fireworks
City News- No Canada Day fireworks for Calgary this year
Instead, there will be an “enhanced pyrotechnic show” featuring what they describe as a “visually stunning display of lights and sounds” that will be launched from the main stage at Fort Calgary during the headliner act.
The city says it recognizes the cultural sensitivities around fireworks displays in relation to Truth and Reconciliation.
Franca Gualtieri, manager of arts and culture at the City of Calgary, says it’s a test to address some of the “cultural, community and environmental impacts previously experienced with traditional Canada Day fireworks.”
We Are All Treaty People
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.
Law & Order: Burning Churches Unit
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.