From my November 25 piece titled To be different, we must do things differently: “Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, along with Chief Bob Chamberlin and Chief Marilyn Baptiste, executive members of the BC Union of Indian Chiefs, attended the Nov. 24 celebration honouring Rafe Mair. It was a treat to hear each talk
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – pogge points out the Cons’ suppression of news that a lack of running water on First Nations reserves facilitated the spread of H1N1 – offering a case in point as to both how neglect of social needs can carry widespread ramifications, and how
Continue readingWelcome to Harperland
How we embraced hate. I was watching the CBC News this morning, Suhana Meharchand was the host. Talking about Attawapiskat, she interviewed NDP/MP Charlie Angus. Hostilely, she asked him, “What would you do if you were Minister? Throw money at the problem?” His reply showed unflappable professionalism, indicating that he
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: So that’s the trick
Apparently it took a community housing crisis for the Cons to finally commit to…building a school which Attawapiskat has desperately needed for years. Which means that the housing problem too might be solved eventually – just as long as there’s another even larger and more immediate disaster that the Cons
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom notes that based on the Cons’ Kyoto embarrassment, Canada is now the odd man out on the world stage when it comes to climate change discussions: (I)n terms of international efforts to curb global warming, Kyoto is the only serious
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Canada’s First Nations: a scandal where the victims are blamed
In October, the Attawapiskat First Nation declared an emergency. And no one came to help. The community, situated in far northern Ontario and made up of 1,800 mostly Cree citizens, has announced that its situation is dire, due to a “severe housing shortage”. The community has been visited by an opposition MP
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Canada’s First Nations: a scandal where the victims are blamed
In October, the Attawapiskat First Nation declared an emergency. And no one came to help. The community, situated in far northern Ontario and made up of 1,800 mostly Cree citizens, has announced that its situation is dire, due to a “severe housing shortage”. The community has been visited by an opposition MP
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Canada’s First Nations: a scandal where the victims are blamed
In October, the Attawapiskat First Nation declared an emergency. And no one came to help. The community, situated in far northern Ontario and made up of 1,800 mostly Cree citizens, has announced that its situation is dire, due to a “severe housing shortage”. The community has been visited by an opposition MP
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ‘Twas Just Before Christmas in the House
Our clever Grinch of a Prime Minister gets a lyrical beating here. (If Harper is the Grinch, who is the little dog?)
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Are First Nation Complaints All Part of a Commie Plot?
At the root of the Conservative movement on both sides of the border, is the fear of Communism. In the U.S. they rallied around Joseph McCarthy, and Ronald Reagan became the poster boy for the anti-communist movement. I read yesterday that Canada’s First Nation chiefs are taking their case to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Monica Townson analyzes the Cons’ private-sector pension scheme and determines that it doesn’t add anything to the privileged treatment already granted to saving by those who can afford it. – pogge points out that as part of Peter MacKay’s desperation in trying
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Assorted content for your evening reading. – Alex Himelfarb finds a few positives in the Cons’ ramming their dumb-on-crime bill through the House of Commons: Thankfully many are not willing to “get over it”. How heartening, for example, to hear Leadnow.ca announce that they were simply regrouping for the next
Continue readingthe woodshed: When $90 million isn’t really $90 million
Before you go opening your piehole about how “those Indians get a free ride” and are just “spending all our tax money on booze, big screen TVs and new snowmobiles” or some such bullshit, let me suggest you go and read the facts on Attawapiskatt. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: BREAKING: Northern Gateway Pipeline Decision Delayed Until Late 2013
Northern Gateway Pipeline.png The Calgary Herald reports that the decision on the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was delayed today until late 2013, a year later than planned. The three-member panel said it “would anticipate releasing the environmental assessment report in the fall of 2013 and its final decision on the
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: ‘Twas just weeks before Christmas in Attawapiskat
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I got me a new video an’ poem all about Attawapiskat. Here it is: ‘Twas just weeks before Christmas, when all through the land,Attention was aimed at a First Nation band;Canadians heard as they’d oft heard before,Of hardship and squalour so hard to ignore;Of children
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: ‘Twas just weeks before Christmas in Attawapiskat
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I got me a new video an’ poem all about Attawapiskat. Here it is:’Twas just weeks before Christmas, when all through the land,Attention was aimed at a First Nation band;Canadians heard as they’d oft heard before,Of hards…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: ‘Twas just weeks before Christmas in Attawapiskat
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I got me a new video an’ poem all about Attawapiskat. Here it is: ‘Twas just weeks before Christmas, when all through the land,Attention was aimed at a First Nation band;Canadians heard as they’d oft heard before,Of hardship and squalour so hard to ignore;Of children
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Attawapiskat and the Shameless Cons
Woohoo. Excellent. I see the Con Injun Agent has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. Attawapiskat band councillors kicked out a federal appointee in charge of overseeing the troubled band’s finances on Monday when he showed up in the remote Northern Ontario reserve. Good for that little community. First the Cons
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – If anybody hasn’t yet seen Bruce Anderson’s critique of the Cons’ dirty tricks, it’s well worth a read – especially in emphasizing how a party supposedly built around morals and ethics is so quick to declare that anything goes when it comes to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Greg Weston nicely chronicles Peter MacKay’s flat-out lies about how he came to take a $30,000 helicopter ride. And while Weston despairs about the likelihood that MacKay will pay any price, he does point out why we shouldn’t accept anything less: Few things
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