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[Victoria Watcher]

The exact timing she left to the RBCM board and CEO Alicia Dubois, who was alongside and conducted most of the tour.

 

Popham deferred to her, with: “My expectations might not be based in the reality of what the work that needs to go on. … But I personally would like to see that there is more access to the third floor and Old Town by the summer.”

 

“Personally” is the key word. Because Popham’s preference to make this nagging problem go away doesn’t necessarily mesh with Dubois’s outline of what’s going on and why.

 

Dubois said museums all over the world are changing their approaches, making sure that the stories being portrayed in museums remain the control of the communities … “so we’re not telling their history for them.

 

“We have a number of diverse communities who’ve never had an opportunity to consistently be the one who tells their own story.”

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-phases-6621082

 

 

 

 

Just leave the exhibits alone, but put the story-boards and descriptions on a video screen, then we can keep changing it as we become more or less woke.

 

 

1983: This was Captain Cook's ship, that opened the west coast to European exploration.

1996:  This was Captain Cook's ship, that opened the west coast to European exploitation

2023:  This was Captain Cook's ship, that opened the west coast to European exploitation of the indigenous population

2035:  This was Captain Cook's ship, that opened the west coast to European genocide of the indigenous population

2055:  This is a very, very bad ship 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 February 2023 - 04:49 AM.

[Nparker]

Between the shameful handling of the RBCM, the disastrous state of health-care and continued economic mismanagement, the NDP should be given their walking papers in the next provincial election, but I bet they won't.

[spanky123]

The NDP is doing what they did in Victoria last year, shuffle the deck chairs and claim that this time it will be different.

[Mike K.]

What’s the status of that recall?

[aastra]

 

“We have a number of diverse communities who’ve never had an opportunity to consistently be the one who tells their own story.”

 

I suppose that's true. I actually know some people who weren't 18th-century navigators.

[Victoria Watcher]

There wasn’t a lot of notable progress in the indigenous Canadian population for the thousands of years before European contact.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://twitter.com/...042985071636480

 

[Matt R.]

It’s not real anyways.

[Nparker]

Just another ecoterrorist nutjob that does more harm than good for their cause.

[aastra]

 

It’s not real anyways.

 

Exactly. None of it is real.

[Nparker]

The cost to clean the tusks will be real enough.

[Mike K.]

VicPD arrested three people following this morning’s incident:

Three people have been arrested after the woolly mammoth at the Royal BC Museum was vandalized with paint today.

Just before 11:15 this morning, Patrol officers were called to the Royal BC Museum. When they arrived they learned the woolly mammoth display had been vandalized with paint.

Other visitors, including children and families were present in the gallery at the time of the incident.

Three people were arrested and transported to VicPD cells.

This incident remains under investigation. If you have information about this incident and have yet to speak with an officer, please call the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654 extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

[spanky123]

I guess no issues with the cops holding people in cells if they want to!

[Victoria Watcher]

I guess no issues with the cops holding people in cells if they want to!

 

Just for processing, they will still be out today.

[Nparker]

Make an example of them. Conviction for vandalism involving property with a value below $5,000, can come with a sentence of up to two years in jail, along with fines and probation. If the property value exceeds $5,000, these terrorists could receive a sentence of to up to ten years in jail. I would imagine the value of the mammoth exceeds $5000. Give them the maximum and make them pay restitution. I'm fed up with the lackadaisical attitude taken towards the destruction of property that pay to maintain.

Edited by Nparker, 01 March 2023 - 04:10 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

We have video of a statue being town down at the harbour. No arrests. Pretty sure we are not too serious about prosecuting demonstrators.

[Nparker]

Unless those demonstrators are in Ottawa and driving semi-trucks, in which case they are held in custody and have their bank accounts frozen.

[Barrrister]

Ten years is a nit extreme, eight will do fine. I am sure that they will be fine with being martyrs for the cause.

[Love the rock]

Make an example of them. Conviction for vandalism involving property with a value below $5,000, can come with a sentence of up to two years in jail, along with fines and probation. If the property value exceeds $5,000, these terrorists could receive a sentence of to up to ten years in jail. I would imagine the value of the mammoth exceeds $5000. Give them the maximum and make them pay restitution. I'm fed up with the lackadaisical attitude taken towards the destruction of property that pay to maintain.

One day one of  these jokers is going to accidentally do damage that can’t be fixed .

[aastra]

So what's the official story for how this went down? Because back in the day security guards would come running if you tried to interfere with an exhibit. Heck, there were loud alarms in some areas. I remember a loud alarm going off at the sea lions scene one time because some small children did something. Another time some young guys climbed down into the mine in full view of myself and several other people, and security came running ASAP.