I had the pleasure of attending the Truth and Reconciliation National Event and it was incredible.
There was also a fantastic display at the Human Rights Museum when I went about a year ago - highly wit h a visit.
Right on.
Gotta admit I never heard of the event - cool reading up on it.
My esteem for this man grows.
I’ve never voted NDP before, but this guy makes it tempting. I haven’t heard his platform yet but I’m loving his vibe!
Jagmeet Singh Explains Why He Didn’t Tell Heckler He’s Not Muslim
Hi there from the murder capital of Canada – Thunder Bay. Investigations have been re-opened into 39 deaths (mostly of aboriginal persons) that occurred over the last few decades in TBay. Just to make it an even 40 investigations, someone was killed this week down the street from where I used to live (the day I moved in, a person was stabbed to death in my back lane, and the day I moved out a couple of years later a person was eviscerated in the house on the other side of my back lane). Just to add some spice to the mix, the mayor (who previously had been the longstanding Police Association president and a long-term police officer) and his wife have been charged with extortion concerning an alleged sexual assault, and arising out of the same investigation the Chief of Police has been charged with with breach of trust and obstruction of justice for allegedly disclosing confidential information about the mayor, and a senior lawyer has been charged for allegedly committing the alleged sexual assault. Although the lawyer’s son’s sudden death a few years ago was not suspicious – he stumbled while getting a snack from the fridge – the lawyer’s wife’s previous drowning death was rather odd – in late October when it is cold up here she allegedly went jet-skiing alone late at night in a bathing suit on the very cold Lake Superior. Anyway, to bridge the gap between the closed devastatingly disastrous residential schools and the utter lack of secondary education on remote reserves, a non-residential school for students from such reserves was established here, with the students boarding out in the community. Unfortunately, the kids keep turning up dead (usually in one of our rivers) – averaging one kid every couple of years, but two kids last year, in a school with only about 150 students. Well, that was 150 students up until this year – enrollment this fall has dropped to half of that due to so many kids turning up dead. Everything that you have heard about remote reserves being impoverished third-world rat holes is true, but the kids are just as safe there than going to school here and boarding out. An inquiry in to highschool death rate recently held, but it is only touching the tip of the iceberg. Re-opening 39 investigations (adult and child, mostly aboriginal) will hopefully shine a brighter light on what the hell is going on, for we have horrid societal and systemic problems that we need to address.
Shouldn’t these recent messages more properly go in the Canadope 2017 thread?
Yup. Unfortunately, I’m a really pathetic time lord.
Yup. Wrong thread.