An educational website run by Canada’s national archives was deleted after management decided that the site was no longer necessary in a “diverse and multicultural” Canada.
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As houses of worship burn across Canada, radio host calls to ‘burn the churches’
The gruesome discovery of nearly 1,000 unmarked graves at the sites of former boarding schools for indigenous children in Canada has triggered a slew of church burnings across the country, and the flames may have been fanned by the comments of a popular radio host.
The Graph That Shatters CRT: July 4, 1776 Set Slavery on the Path to Worldwide Extinction
As America celebrates the 245th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this July 4, the legacy of the Declaration is under attack like perhaps never before. Much of the American left has adopted the view—one even espoused by Joe Biden’s Ambassador to the United Nations—that the Declaration is a “white supremacist” document. This is among the central notions of what has become known as Critical Race Theory. Yet this idea, so crucial to the thinking of the modern left, is not only not true, but the clear historical record shows that the exact opposite is true. The Declaration of Independence did not forever enshrine slavery and racism into the soul of America—it set slavery on the path to inevitable global extinction.
Jumping to conclusions without the facts in the question of the Indigenous residential schools
If there is any fault in the Kamloops school affair, it lies with federal Indian Affairs which did not provide adequate funding for the residential schools, the children, and the cemeteries.
Rescued from the memory hole: Some First Nations people loved their residential schools
World-renowned Cree playwright Tomson Highway testified to having had good experiences at one such school.
Probably going to get a social media ban for this.
O’Toole says ‘small group of activists’ using Canada’s past injustices to ‘attack the very idea of Canada’
Recently, some cities in British Columbia have cancelled Canada Day celebrations, such as Penticton and Victoria BC. Mayor of Penticton John Vassilaki said that when he heard about the discovery of remains in Kamloops of 215 children, he “thought it was appropriate to hold back and wait to see what the federal government was going to announce.”
They’re called the Liberal party, the very demographic O’Toole has been courting.
Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Abacus Data:
LPC 37%
CPC 27%
NDP 18%
BQ 9% (39% in Qc)
GPC 5%Details and regionals: https://t.co/TWM0LTiNKu
[Abacus Data, June 18-21, 2021, n=2,070]#canpoli pic.twitter.com/VCdzEJvI13
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) June 24, 2021
SMOL: Teachers should be outraged over Ryerson statue toppling
Teachers should oppose the toppling of the statue commemorating the founder of public education in Ontario.
Slave Stories History ‘Forgot.’ Black People Owned Slaves Too
Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry were wealthy landowners in South Carolina’s Colleton District in the 1830s, in what is now Charleston County. The couple owned 84 slaves each for a total of 168, at a time when most of their peers owned a handful. Their slaves worked their plantation and made them rich. Angel and Horry also traded slaves for profit, showing no regard for dissolving slave families. They were no kinder or crueler to their slaves than anyone else. They were considered “slave magnates” because of the number of slaves they owned. They were referred to as the “economic elite.” They were also black.
In Defense of Canada’s First Prime Minister, John Macdonald
The memory of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, is not thriving these days in the country he brought into being. In 2018, his image was removed from the Canadian $10 bill, which it had decorated since 1971. His name has been quietly scrubbed from the Ottawa airport named in his honor in 1993. In August 2020, vandals toppled statues of Macdonald in Montreal and in Kingston, Ontario. (The city of Kingston legally removed that statue on June 18—a special blow to Macdonald’s memory in the city he represented in Parliament throughout most of his career.) This summer, the province of Prince Edward Island removed a modern statue of Macdonald from its capital, Charlottetown. Even the small town of Picton, Ontario, where Macdonald argued his first law cases, will soon remove a statue erected with donations from local residents, my wife’s family among them. Macdonald’s name has been erased from university and school buildings, and even book prizes.
“Mr. Edison Has Invented Too Many Things” – The New York Times, 1878
Episode 1 is an 1878 New York Times piece that proclaimed “Mr. Edison has invented too many things” a year before he perfected the lightbulb. The whole thing is incredibly amusing.
Rewriting History to Remake America
Students are being taught a fraudulent version of American history that is transforming their understanding of the past.
h/t Marvin
White woman is filmed vandalizing Oregon monument to only black member of Lewis and Clark Expedition while screaming about ‘unity’
The unidentified woman was filmed using purple spray paint on Tuesday to deface the bust of York at Mount Tabor Park in Portland, Willamette Week reports.
York was a slave who became the first black man to cross America as part of the Corps of Discovery with explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early 1800s. He was enslaved by Clark at the time.
NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide
New Democrats are calling on the federal government to recognize what happened at residential schools as genocide.
In a motion to be tabled in the House of Commons tomorrow [Thursday], NDP MP Leah Gazan is asking fellow lawmakers to unanimously deem the institutions’ history as the deliberate, systemic destruction of a cultural group.
MALCOLM: The full facts are needed on the Kamloops discovery
Canadians almost universally agree that First Nations people were mistreated in the past and deserve reconciliation, and that much work is left to be done to achieve greater levels of freedom and opportunity for those in First Nations communities.
For that to happen though, we must make sure we pay attention to the full picture and full report of what has been found at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, also known as the Kamloops Indian Band.
