This excellent explanation of what happened to the so-called millions sent to Attawapiskat all over my little corner of the internet, but I want to share it anyway. Another inbound hyperlink can’t hurt, eh?
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Impolitical: The PM’s not so bold meeting announcement
From the PM’s site: “PM announces meeting with First Nations early in new year.” Looking like an executive in charge, scheduling a major meeting to respond to the unfolding crisis in Attawapiskat. Except the word Attawapiskat doesn’t appear in the PM’s press release. Strange. Why not? As noted by the
Continue readingShame on Canada! Shame on us all!
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan tells an outright lie in this chance encounter on the stairs at the CBC. As if that is not bad enough, the Minister goes on to blame the MP for that area, Charlie Angus, for not informing him of the issue! Those who follow politics,
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Mr. Angus is the NDP MP for the Timmins-James Bay riding, if you’re not aware. This happens to be the riding that the Attawapiskat Native Reserve is in, where the conditions are so poor, members of the Canadian Red Cross volunteered to go up and try to help the Natives,
Continue readingResources re: Attawapiskat
Trying to sort through the muck the HarperCons are spinning around the humanitarian crisis on the Attawapiskat First Nation and First Nations communities across the country? Well, here are two important resources. The first is a blog, âpihtawikosisân, in which the writer unravels the HarperCons’ racist spin, including a breakdown of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the need for equitable resource sharing to start writing a new ending to Canada’s shameful story of First Nations relations – and how the Saskatchewan NDP nearly took itself out of the narrative. Scott Stelmaschuk has an opposing take on the proper response from the NDP. [Edit: fixed
Continue readingcmkl: Attawapiskat: don’t much care who’s to blame, I would like to see it fixed
An odd choice of headline on Heather Scoffield’s item today about the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. And it’s particularly odd because Scoffield doesn’t actually get to the issue that the editor saw as headline worthy until paragraph 24, two from the end.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Oh, Canada? Our Home and Racist Land
Canadians’ racist neglect of our first people’s seems unshakable. We had Davis Inlet, and we didn’t wake up to any systemic problems. That was just a one off? And now Attawapiskat? Perhaps it was just a tragedy of homelessness that happened in the last few weeks, so we couldn’t expect
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Garnder rightly points out how too much concentrated power and a refusal to take advice can lead to bad decisions. And sadly, our federal government serves as a classic case in point: “Most of the time, taking advice benefits your accuracy,” notes
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out how the Occupy movement has at least started to shift the terms of our political debate: Rather than hanging out at malls or zoning out on Facebook, these young people have endured real hardship in the Canadian near-winter
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Video Tells All!
Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, “We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now.”What are we able
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Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, “We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now.”What are we able
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Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, "We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now."What are we able to do to assist this community? This problem has been going on since a diesel fuel spill of 100,000 litres in 1979. That’s thirty years,
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