The St. George Coptic Orthodox church was engulfed in flames on Monday morning. Firefighters in Surrey, BC arrived at the scene at around 3:30am and were able to stop the spread of the fire to other buildings. However, the church could not be saved.
Aboriginal Issues
MALCOLM: NDP stunt at Manitoba Legislature was the woke mob personified
Moments after being introduced as Manitoba’s new Indigenous affairs minister, Alan Lagimodiere gets interrupted by Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew. Lagimodiere stares blankly and has no idea what to do.
Melissa Mbarki: Trudeau’s virtue signalling to First Nations is meaningless
A historic moment happened earlier this month, when the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced it had reached an agreement with the federal and provincial governments to take control of its child welfare system and receive support and funding from both levels of government over the next two years.
MALCOLM: The Tk’emplus Band has more facts to offer — will anyone pay attention?
Two remarkable events happened at roughly the same time on Thursday afternoon.
In British Columbia, the Tk’emplus Band presented its preliminary findings on the discovery of unmarked graves, and in Manitoba, the government introduced its new Minister of Indigenous Affairs.
Large cross at the top of mountain near Duncan removed
A large cross that for decades stood atop a popular lookout in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island was mysteriously removed this week.
The cross, which is at the summit of Mount Tzouhalem, about four kilometres east of Duncan, disappeared at some point in the last few days, cut from its base, according to Duncan Mayor Al Siebring.
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Independent MP Wilson-Raybould to release book ahead of election
The book, titled “From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada,” is scheduled for release on Sept. 20 and “urges us to build upon the momentum already gained on the reconciliation journey or else risk hard-won progress being lost,” according to a news release.
Early Music Vancouver offers free concert tickets to all indigenous peoples
“We want to open our doors to indigenous peoples and welcome them to the early music scene both on and off the stage,” Suzie LeBlanc, EMV’s artistic director and executive, said in the statement. “We are committed to connecting more deeply with indigenous communities through action and removing barriers that inhibit sharing our cultures.”
Conrad Black: Centuries of failed policy does not equal evil intent
Almost all Canadians who have given it any thought have serious regrets that the country’s policy towards native people over the whole history of Canada since the arrival of the Europeans as settlers more than 400 years ago has failed. The reason for this is not “systemic racism.”
Anthropologist explains how she concluded 200 children were buried at the Kamloops Residential School
… She also stressed her findings can’t be confirmed unless excavations are done at the scene.
“Which is why we need to pull back a little bit and say that they are ‘probable burials,’ they are ‘targets of interest,’ for sure,” said Dr. Beaulieu, who has about a decade of experience searching for historic grave sites, including working with the RCMP and other First Nations communities. She said the sites “have multiple signatures that present like burials,” but that “we do need to say that they are probable, until one excavates.”
In other words no one knows for sure until daylighting, there are no “mass graves” and the plots were never “secret” but sadly just forgotten with the deaths occurring naturally over many years, but let’s run with the genocide thing anyway.
GOLDSTEIN: Despite massive federal spending, unsafe water on many reserves
The Trudeau government can say, if re-elected, that it’s pouring massive amounts of taxpayer money into Indigenous issues.
What Canadians can’t be sure of is to what extent this new spending will improve the lives of Canada’s 1.7 million First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
Church Burnings Could Be Deemed Acts of Terrorism, Says Former CSIS Specialist
A former security intelligence specialist says the recent spate of fires that demolished or partially damaged churches across the country are likely deliberate, which could constitute acts of terrorism under Canadian criminal law.
“As somebody who worked in counterterrorism in Canada for the better part of 15 years—I’ve written six books on the topic—a very strong case could be made that these are actually acts of terrorism,” Phil Gurski, president of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, told The Epoch Times.
US media shamefully justified a string of Canadian church burnings
One day this month in Canada, 10 Catholic churches were vandalized in a single city, Calgary. In the last month, arsonists and vandals have attacked dozens of Canadian churches, burning some entirely to the ground.
America has 70.5 million Catholics; Canada, with just over a 10th of the population, has close to 13 million. So this is a big story. Yet the US media aren’t interested in reporting our northern neighbor’s plague of church burnings — except to suggest it’s understandable.
Kelly McParland: Indigenous Canada remains unreconciled, and not just with the rest of the country
Judging by recent events, six years of Liberal attempts at reconciliation have left Canada’s Indigenous people decidedly unreconciled.
It’s hard to get a firm grasp on the situation, given that the Indigenous “community” is really a diverse, scattered and disparate collection of communities and organizations spread across a vast and varying expanse of geographical and political landscapes.
Anti-Christian Hysteria Has Grown Into Church-Burning Terror, And People Might Be Next
Overall more than two dozen churches in Canada have been targeted over the past few weeks — and people are cheering it on. Not just anonymous people, either: On June 30, Harsha Walia, the executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, responded to a story of another church arson, saying “Burn it all down.”
h/t Marvin