Analysis: Burn it all down, BCCLA executive director Harsha Walia tweeted in response to two more arson attacks on Catholic churches, later saying it wasn’t meant literally.
Aboriginal Issues
GOLDSTEIN: Indigenous Canadians ill-served by failed federal programs
The path towards reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous people must lead to actual progress in improving their quality of life.
On that count, decades of Conservative and Liberal governments have clearly failed, despite pouring tens of billions of dollars into the effort.
GOLDSTEIN: Why massive federal spending is failing Indigenous students
In its April budget, the Trudeau government boasted it has dramatically increased annual funding on Indigenous issues by 115% since coming into office, from $11.4 billion in 2015 to a projected $24.5 billion this year.
Residential school survivors call for an end to arson attacks on churches
A group of residential school survivors is calling for an end to arson attacks on churches after several Catholic and Anglican churches were vandalized or damaged by fire following the reported discovery of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
MALCOLM: Canada deserves better than the events of the past week
Watching video footage of angry radicals tearing down statues of both Queen Victoria, Canada’s founding monarch, and Queen Elizabeth II, our reigning monarch, outside the Manitoba Legislature is an overwhelming experience.
GOLDSTEIN: Tainted water poisons reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians
In light of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada Day message urging us to reflect on our relationship with Canada’s Indigenous people, I’ve been reflecting on why his government can’t get clean water to every Indigenous reserve in Canada, despite spending $24.5 billion on Indigenous issues this year.
A cultural war in which nothing is solved
No one creates a better future for themselves by destroying the past of others.
If that sounds like a condemnation of residential schools, it should. But it is equally a rebuke of those burning down churches and toppling statues in the name of justice or retribution.
Woke Revolution, Residential Schools And Trudeau’s War On Christianity
To be forthright, Cultural Action Party of Canada called it from day one. Rather than sunny ways, freshly-minted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would over time bring serious trouble to society. He has done so in myriad ways– worst of all being an unprecedented form of social division.
An outcome of community disharmony is perhaps best exemplified by Justin Trudeau’s agenda of attack upon Christian Canada, in combination with an advancement of 3rd World religious communities.
Archbishop fuels more anger by saying the church is being persecuted over residential schools
A recent homily by the head of Canadian Catholic bishops is sparking anger, after he implied that the church is being persecuted amid widespread attention to gravesite discoveries at residential schools.
On Sunday, three days after an announcement that a preliminary search with ground-penetrating radar had found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former Catholic-run residential school in Saskatchewan, Archbishop Richard Gagnon delivered a homily in Brandon, Man. He said in his address that residential schools are “a big thing right now in Canada and I know that we Catholics, we’re troubled, we’re hurt by this a lot in our hearts.”
Blame where it’s due – the Liberal Party.
‘Unacceptable and wrong’: Trudeau condemns attacks on churches
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today condemned the wave of vandalism and arson attacks targeting Catholic churches across Canada, saying it’s not the solution to the trauma caused by residential schools.
Speaking to reporters after touring an Ottawa vaccination clinic, Trudeau said there has been “a rise of intolerance and racism and hatred that we’re seeing across the country.”
“It is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across the country, including against Catholic churches,” he told reporters.
“… including against Catholic churches” as if it were an afterthought.
‘We knew it was there’: Former B.C chief says unmarked graves near Cranbrook need more context
The detection of human remains in unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in B.C. was not an unexpected discovery, according to the area’s former chief.
On Wednesday, it was confirmed that ground-penetrating radar found 182 unmarked graves in a cemetery at the site of the former Kootenay Residential School at St. Eugene Mission just outside Cranbrook, B.C.
The remains were found when remedial work was being performed in the area to replace the fence at the cemetery last year.
Unmarked graves were found in Trudeau’s hair! We need to burn more churches!
The RCMP Must Be Deployed To Protect Catholic Churches
Federal government & provincial leaders had no problem deploying the RCMP & police to shut down religious services, so the least they can do is deploy the RCMP to stop arsonists from burning down places of worship.
Matthew Lau: The trouble with land acknowledgements
Whenever somebody tells me I am occupying the unceded land belonging to this, that, or another group of Indigenous people, I confess, the information quickly recedes from my memory. Many other Canadians have likely experienced something similar. Despite the prevalence of Indigenous land acknowledgements these days, most people probably cannot say whose land they are allegedly occupying. According to a recent poll, only 25 per cent of Canadians believe they live on unceded Indigenous territory. Still, there is more agreement than disagreement that politicians should make regular land acknowledgements. But why? Do land acknowledgements impart any useful knowledge?
182 human remains in unmarked graves found at site of former residential school in Cranbrook, B.C.
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre say there were recurring outbreaks of influenza, mumps, measles, chicken pox, and tuberculosis at the school.
There has been another discovery of human remains in unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in B.C.
The Lower Kootenay Band confirmed Wednesday that ground-penetrating radar revealed 182 human remains in unmarked graves at the site of the old St. Eugene’s Mission Residential School in Cranbrook, B.C.
Celebratory church arson to follow…