There is no way to enforce building or fire codes on First Nations and pursuing a legislative fix would require significant time and money, federal officials warn in an internal briefing document.
But Blaine Wiggins, the senior director of the Indigenous Fire Marshals Service, said that enforcement gap has “catastrophic” consequences.
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry published admitted falsehoods, and hasn’t done anything significant to correct the record
Virtue signaling white flagellants and assorted grifters all have a stake in this on going con.
… The discovery last year of what are believed to be 215 unmarked graves at a former school site in Kamloops, B.C., forced the country to listen to what survivors had been saying for years.
Fake Graves + Fake Holiday = Trudeau keeping his civil servant vote bloc happy as pigs in shit with yet another holiday you get to pay for but never enjoy.
Indigenous population hits 1.8M, growing at twice rate of non-Indigenous Canadians: 2021 census
The number of people identifying as Indigenous in Canada grew almost twice as fast as the non-Indigenous population and now stands at 1.8 million — about five per cent of the population — according to newly released census data.
From 2016 to 2021, the number of people in Canada identifying as Indigenous grew by 9.4 per cent. The non-Indigenous population grew by just 5.3 per cent over the same period.
While that growth rate is high, it’s almost half the growth rate for the population that identified as Indigenous between 2011 and 2016, which was 18.9 per cent.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on Tuesday evening announced that the Parole Board of Canada will review its decision to uphold Saskatchewan stabbing suspect Myles Sanderson’s release from minimum security incarceration.
The board ruled in February that it did not consider Sanderson to “present an undue risk to society” in its decision to maintain his release.
Sanderson was initially released from incarceration in a healing lodge in August 2021, but that release was suspended in November after it was determined that he had violated the conditions of his release.
More Healing Lodge is the answer to everything!
Very little is left of a northern Alberta Catholic church that went up in flames early Thursday morning.
RCMP said a blaze at an inactive Catholic church in Fort Chipewyan was reported at 2:34 a.m.
A community member identified the building as the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Roman Catholic Church, built in 1909.
Over 50 churches so far. Trudeau sanctioned this pogrom.
Gruesome claims that Native Canadian children were buried en masse have completely unravelled.
When events occur that are important, but awkward and hard to discuss, the public should not be encouraged simply to move on and forget them. We often hear this line from good-faith leftists. Sometimes, as in the context of a historical lynching, those making this point have a real and significant case.
But there is another side to this. Frankly put, most high-profile recent US / UK narratives of racial conflict have turned out to be largely or entirely falsified. Stories touching on race are often misreported, and hoaxes are often uncritically believed by the media. The outlets and individuals who promote these storylines should not – cannot – be allowed to simply move on and forget them when they collapse.
Hate crime reports in Canada surged during COVID-19 pandemic: StatCan
Hate crimes reported by police are on the rise in Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns and other virus-related measures disrupted everyday life.
A new report released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday showed that 3,360 hate crimes were reported by police last year, representing a 27 per cent increase compared with 2020 and a 72 per cent jump over the span of two years.
You have to love how the surge wasn’t even mentioned by Trudeau’s lackey press. I have no doubt it was in large part due to Trudeau’s tacit approval.
How many prosecutions have their been? Over 50 churches burned at last count.
A member of the National Indian Residential School Circle of Survivors says it’s good Pope Francis acknowledged that what happened in the schools amounted to genocide, but that he should have said it before he left Canada.
Ken Young, who is the former Manitoba regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says he believes the Pope failed to make the acknowledgment during his Canadian visit last week because Canadian Catholic officials failed to brief him properly.
When Pope Francis said, on his way out of Canada, that he believes what happened in this country’s residential schools amounted to genocide, what many Indigenous people across the country heard was a long-delayed acknowledgement of an obvious truth.
Ghislain Picard, the Assembly of First Nations regional chief for Quebec and Labrador, said the Pope’s comments, which he made during his flight back to Rome at the end of a six-day Canadian tour, are a sign of progress.
The Pope’s visit to Canada and apology for the role of many church members in Canada’s residential school system has sparked intense discussion over the extent of that apology, its impact for Indigenous peoples and the question: what should be the next priority in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action?
An apology from the Pope was call 58 by the TRC. But many felt what was actually said this week didn’t go far enough, and one of those people is Murray Sinclair, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Pope Francis’s apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Indigenous residential schools in Canada has raised questions about whether he would formally rescind the church’s Doctrine of Discovery.
The doctrine, dating back to the 15th century, included a series of edicts known as papal bulls, that were later used to justify colonizing Indigenous lands.
But any hesitation by the Pope to renounce it may stem from the Vatican’s view that the church has already done away with and replaced those edicts, some observers suggest.
While the word genocide wasn’t heard in any of Pope Francis’s addresses during a week-long trip to Canada, on his flight back to Rome, he said everything he described about the residential school system and its forced assimilation of Indigenous children amounts to genocide.
“I didn’t use the word genocide because it didn’t come to mind but I described genocide,” Pope Francis told reporters on the papal flight from Iqaluit to Rome on Friday.
Is that a potential unmarked genocide?
Indigenous leaders have welcomed the apology by Pope Francis as a historic first step toward reconciliation for survivors of residential schools and the families of the estimated 6,000 Indigenous children who went missing — a call to action made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the Catholic Church.
This is not the first time the Pope has spoken publicly about this topic. He first apologized on April 1, 2022 at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. But apologies, no matter how many, aren’t enough.
This garbage is just another instance of Islamists latching on to Aboriginal issues.
