If you’re an organization that has as its goal the assistance of indigent young women who can’t get married because they lack a dowry, maybe. 
Thinking about the “mariages of poore Maides” a bit more, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a way to refer to young girls “in trouble” as the euphemism used to be.
You could say these shags are a form of dowry as well.
That’s a good example of the vagueness of the term “charity”. A charity as defined for income tax purposes is different from a not-for-profit for tax purposes amateur athletic organization permitted by the OLGC to sell 50/50 tickets for the charitable purpose of funding kids’ hockey.
More to the point, laws on piddly little things such as raffle tickets are not monolithic. It’s just a matter of having enough people wanting to shag, and then humping the politicians to change whatever laws need changing.
On the subject of the pending inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, I was accosted today by a young teen prostitute on a reserve on the Trans-Canada. I very much hope she doesn’t end up as a statistic in the inquiry.
That is entirely possible. I don’t care, though. It remains the fact that fundraising is legal provided one does not run illegal games of chance or illegally sell alcohol. That was the point I was making. It is really that difficult in Thunder Bay to get people to pony up money for the happy couple without promising them prizes?
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The NHL standings cannot be disputed.
I am accosted by young Native teen prostitutes on the streets of Lethbridge, Alberta, at least once a week. I am threatened by young Native teen males about as often, or more; unless I give them money or cigarettes. It gets tiresome, hearing, “Give me a smoke, you f**cking whitey, you owe me!”
Seriously. I put up with this s**t, every time I go to the local sports bar, and I’m tired of it. I’d stop going, if it wasn’t the best sports bar in town.
Yeah, the Native system is broken. What can we (and they) do to fix it?
That is awful that you have to wade through that!
Which system, though?
Seriously, some bands are doing well and some are Attiwiskipat, which is more or less a concentration camp. It’s a social disaster and one of the reasons for it is that every situation is its own unique, albeit connected, mess.
There are solutions but they’re too economically and politically expensive.
Speaking of Attawapiskat (assuming that’s what you meant):
I overheard an elder who was up there on the weekend say that “The people working there are exhausted, the new people who have been flown in are lost and need to be taught, and the situation is very bad . . . very bad.”
Yep. Apparently there about 5% of the population attempted suicide since September, which is just insane, even considering the way that suicides tend to cluster. And while the crisis workers might provide immediate relief, I’ve not heard any plans longer-term plans. Sure, they talk about a youth center, but in a town with bad housing, poverty, and rampant drug use, I’m not really sure how much that will help.
A place out of the cold where they can do drugs?
You trying to be funny, or are you serious?
Just answering on the potential usefulness of a rec center. I guess it could be used for basketball or something equally inane. Or would money be better spent on getting the people out of there and resettled in civilization?
Please consider reading this article from Macleans, by Joseph Boyden. (First Nations Author, Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda)
But it’s true. We’re less than an hour away from one of the largest reserves in Canada, and there is a shuttle bus that runs between the reserve and the city. So, we get plenty of Natives in town; and not all of them come to town for good purposes.
And, sadly, the ones who are the most obvious are those who panhandle, who prostitute themselves, the ones who are only in town to get drunk. What many people don’t see or realize, are the ones who left the reserve and who live in town–a couple of my professional colleagues are Native, and I know any number of office assistants, tradespeople, and retail clerks (among others) who are Native. They manage to keep their culture, and they do go to the reserve for cultural reasons, but they have taken advantage of the educational (and other) opportunities offered them. And in the end, they have found that they can do better off-reserve than they can on.
As I understand from my Native colleagues and friends, those who come on the shuttle bus for the day are embarrassing, and I can understand why. When you’ve seen a young Native girl, drunk out of her head, standing on a downtown corner and yelling, “I need money! Somebody get over here and fk me! Cheap!" you start to wonder. Or a Native comes into the sports bar, and heads straight for the washroom, but is reminded by the barman, “Washrooms are for customers only.” So he stands there, and you see a wet spot start to form at his crotch. In the middle of the sports bar. And when he is done, he says, "Fk you,” and just leaves.
You know, when I lived in Toronto and got hit up by a panhandler, I’d say, “Sorry, I got no change” or similar. And I got, “No problem, brother, God bless,” or “That’s OK, have a nice day,” or similar. Here, a refusal to give change or smokes is met with “F**k you!” Maybe the first step is to teach Native panhandlers that you can catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar.
What you are describing is identical to Victoria and Brodie in Thunder Bay.
Muffin, I am unfamiliar with Thunder Bay. Are you referring to a street intersection?
And another NDP leader goes down to defeat: Premier Selinger in Manitoba loses the election to the PCs:
• Brian Pallister’s Manitoba PCs win record-breaking victory;
• Manitoba election: Greg Selinger resigns as NDP leader after big loss to PCs
Mind you, I don’t think this had anything to do with the Great Leap Forward; Selinger’s personal poll ratings and the ratings for the Manitoba NDP have been in the toilet for three years, since he reneged on a campaign promise not to raise taxes.