1062 replies to this topic

[spanky123]

"CORRECTION: An earlier version of the story listed Danielle Smith as an only child, she was in fact one of five children."

 

 

Best and most telling part of that entire article.... 

 

So she gets to join the METL crowd. Interesting how the same people are taking vastly different positions on the two alleged fakes. 

[dasmo]

The difference here is that one person's career was based on such a claim.
In this case it is the beginning of a long line of character assassinations because she is not with the WEF forced masking and vaccinating you will own nothing and be happy crowd.

This genealogist missed that she was one of five kids. We are supposed to trust this expert going back more generations?

Is she intentionally lying or is this what she believes because it is her family story? That is what is relevant here.

Edited by dasmo, 17 November 2022 - 10:44 AM.

[dasmo]

Our Finance Minister tried to hide her family roots to the NAZIs. So if we are going to fire our politicians based on lying about family history let’s do them all.

Edited by dasmo, 17 November 2022 - 10:48 AM.

[amor de cosmos]

Scottish museum returning stolen totem pole after visit from Nisga'a Nation
Nisga'a say pole was hand-carved in the 1800s and stolen by a researcher in 1929
https://www.cbc.ca/n...rning-1.6671229

[spanky123]

^ Good for them. I am sure that the Nisga'a will display it properly in one of their museums!

[amor de cosmos]

The return of a 200-year-old Susk'uz headdress that had been on display at the Royal Ontario Museum for about 140 years will be celebrated in a repatriation ceremony in northern B.C. on Saturday.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...useum-1.6672972

[Victoria Watcher]

First Nation in western B.C. making strides toward energy sovereignty



The nation went on to sue the multibillion-dollar corporation in 2018, but says federal and provincial assistance have been hard to come by in the years since the spill devastated clam beds in the nation's traditional territory.

________


"Today that's simply not a risk that we have to take anymore and we can find alternatives to doing so … we're not just stuck in our trauma from that event anymore. We're taking action."

__________

Now, around 75 per cent of Bella Bella's homes have energy-efficient electric heat pumps installed — with Vegh estimating that the average household is saving $1,500 in heating costs and producing five fewer tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

_______

Q̓átuw̓as (Gahtuwos) Brown, communications manager for the Heiltsuk climate action group, said the community's electricity largely comes from a B.C. Hydro electric plant operated by private company Boralex.

She said the nation was in talks to buy the hydroelectric plant outright, as a part of solidifying Heiltsuk's energy sovereignty.

"They're trying to sell it to us for over $12 million," she said. "It shows the financial inequalities that still exist between settler society and Indigenous societies, and also the value systems."


https://www.cbc.ca/n...ignty-1.6672940

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 December 2022 - 06:27 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

British Columbia has asked First Nations if they want old-growth forests set aside from logging, ­allowing time for long-term planning of conservation and ­sustainable development, but it has yet to fund the process on a large scale, advocates say.

In the meantime, some of the biggest and oldest trees are being cut down.

Several years before the B.C. government launched the ­process last November to defer logging in old-growth forests at risk of permanent biodiversity loss, Ahousaht First Nation was developing the land-use vision for its territory on Vancouver Island.

It was with careful analysis that Ahousaht decided how to ­balance environmental and economic outcomes, said Tyson Atleo, a hereditary leader of the nation whose territory spans Clayoquot Sound, a globally recognized biosphere reserve.


https://www.timescol...nations-6196762



Conservation financing is the key element that enabled the large-scale protection of old-growth forests in the Great Bear Rainforest, said Watt, a National Geographic explorer whose work was funded by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.

It could mean developing eco-tourism or sustainable fisheries, or expanding Indigenous Guardian programs, which support a variety of land-based jobs.

“None of this can happen for free,” Watt said.

“It takes some leadership from the province to say, ‘We’ve taken from you for more than a century — now we’re asking you to protect these forests because it’s an ecological emergency, [and] here is how we’re going to help make that possible’,” said Watt, who works with the Ancient Forest Alliance, a B.C.-based advocacy group.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 December 2022 - 06:42 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Construction on the new Cowichan District Hospital has stopped after an Indigenous contracting company was denied a permit due to its employees not being members of an accepted union.

Owner and operator Jon Coleman of Jon-Co Contracting has been at the picket lines since 5 a.m. Friday morning along with at least 30 employees at the site of where the new Cowichan District Hospital is to be constructed.

Jon-Co Contracting is a part of the Khowutzun Development Corporation (KDC) which has several Indigenous-owned contracting companies under its membership. Coleman says that the province refused to give a construction project to KDC because none of its members were a part of an accepted union.

“We feel this is our territory. We have a right to help and build our own hospital in this valley,” said Coleman.


https://www.cheknews...l-site-1119592/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 December 2022 - 08:16 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Assembly of First Nations chiefs agreed to set their differences aside and demand Canada immediately compensate people harmed by the underfunded on-reserve child-welfare system, in an 11th hour show of unity on Wednesday night in Ottawa.

Delegates gathered for the AFN's annual winter assembly heard impassioned pleas as they mulled whether to back a $20-billion class-action settlement agreement or the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which refused to approve the deal.


https://www.cbc.ca/n...ution-1.6678108

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 December 2022 - 05:22 PM.

[amor de cosmos]

Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School in East Vancouver has been renamed wek̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm, meaning "the sun has risen" in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ dialect of the Musqueam people.

 

The name was gifted to the school in a ceremony led by Victor Guerin, Musqueam Band member. wek̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm is a nod to the neighbourhood where the school is located, originally known as Vancouver Sunrise. The name's pronunciation can be heard in this YouTube clip featuring Musqueam Elder Larry Grant.

 

The school was originally named for the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

 

Matthew Begbie was known as the hanging judge for presiding over the 1864 murder trial of five Tsilhqot'in chiefs in the Chilcotin War. The five were found guilty by a jury of white miners and hanged. A sixth chief was executed the following year. 

 

"There was no Indigenous person on that jury," said Grant at the school renaming ceremony.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...queam-1.6680563

[Victoria Watcher]

The long-simmering fight over membership in Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation is entering a new chapter Monday, as a group of people rejected in a controversial enrolment process head to court.

The Friends of Qalipu Advocacy Association is challenging a 2013 supplemental agreement between the federal government and the organization that founded Qalipu First Nation, the Federation of Newfoundland Indians.

That agreement established a points-based system for deciding membership in Qalipu First Nation, leading to the rejection of thousands of applications.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...lenge-1.6713649






Points system to determine ethic pureness. Reminds me of something.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 January 2023 - 05:14 AM.

[spanky123]

Points system to determine ethic pureness. Reminds me of something.

 

Pretty funny, 1/5 of the population of the Province claimed to be a member of the small band!

 

It is not that hard, my aunt got her status card and she was about as FN as Turpel-Lafond is! Right contacts, right amount of money and whola.

[amor de cosmos]

Officials announced Saturday that the federal government and 325 First Nations have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit, seeking reparations for the loss of language and culture brought on by Indian residential schools, for $2.8 billion.
 
The agreement still has to be approved by a Federal Court before it can be disbursed to recipients, who filed the claim for collective compensation in 2012 as part of a broader class action known as the Gottfriedson case.
 
Canada agreed to pay the $2.8 billion of settlement money into a new trust fund that will operate for 20 years, if the court approves the deal. The fund will be run independent of the federal government, according to officials.
 
The fund organization will be governed by a board of nine Indigenous directors, of whom Canada will choose one, the agreement says.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ement-1.6722014

[Victoria Watcher]

https://twitter.com/monitoringbias

 

[Victoria Watcher]

Michael Higgins: Truth ignored as teacher fired for saying TB caused residential school deaths

One would hope that this truth would be taught in every school. But that’s not the truth the Abbotsford District School Board cares about.


https://nationalpost...l-school-deaths

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 February 2023 - 02:23 PM.

[Nparker]

https://twitter.com/monitoringbias

Is $1200 a fair price for virtue signalling these days?

[Nparker]

...One would hope that this truth would be taught in every school. But that’s not the truth the Abbotsford District School Board cares about...

And it is only going to get worse:

...McMurtry said he was concerned that NDP MP Leah Gazan recently announced that she wanted legislation that might target people like him. “Now the NDP wants to have people like me labelled as denialists and guilty of hate speech,” he said.

https://nationalpost...l-school-deaths

[mbjj]

I'm sure that TB caused quite a few deaths. Even my dad had TB here on Vancouver Island. Affected him for the rest of his life. My brother and I had to regularly visit the TB clinic which used to be on Fort St. near the Jubilee. When my brother was a teenager they found a spot on his lungs, luckily caught early. 

[amor de cosmos]

blaming TB in this case seems to be like blaming sudden deceleration for deaths in car crashes (& not speeding)
 

It is a horrifying and appalling fact that a large number of residential school children died from TB in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions and without basic medical care. However, the Abbotsford District School Board would have us hide this disgrace not out of shame — which would at least be understandable — but in the name of some “truth,” which is incomprehensible.

 

 

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission highlights that this deplorable situation was well known, quoting documents in the National Archives of Canada that said: “As many as half of the aboriginal children who attended the early years of residential schools died of tuberculosis, despite repeated warnings to the federal Government that overcrowding, poor sanitation and a lack of medical care were creating a toxic breeding ground for the rapid spread of the disease.”

 

 

The TRC’s historical documentation is a damning indictment of Canada’s treatment of students at residential schools. However, it does not record any lurid stories of murder or torture.
 
Children in the schools died at a far higher rate than school-aged children in the general population, due largely to high rates of disease, particularly tuberculosis.
 
“Failure to establish and enforce adequate standards, coupled with the failure to adequately fund the schools, resulted in unnecessarily high death rates at residential schools,” reads the TRC’s Missing Children and Unmarked Burials report.
 
There were also accidental deaths from drowning or exposure, and the buildings themselves were often fire traps (19 boys died in a fire that destroyed the Beauval, Saskatchewan, school in 1927.) Students who died were often buried in graves at the school instead of the body being sent home.