Sat Jan 19, 2008 – 12:39 am
…is paved with the extortion attempts of Natives. Well, not like the majority highway that the Prime Minister is currently paving in Quebec, but consider this: a Liberal Premier is currently allowing a lot of terrorist Natives to run amok in Caledonia, the Conservative government in Ottawa is refusing to break bread with this […]
Thu Jan 17, 2008 – 12:37 pm
There is a fierce debate raging in an old thread about Chief Clarence Louie and his comments about Indians and life on the reserve. I highly recommend you head on over and read the two very different perspectives of Anwaan Jiimis and ….
Considering the comments in the “Straight Talk Thread“, and what […]
Mon Sep 24, 2007 – 7:34 am
There are lots of reasons to not vote for John Tory in the upcoming provincial election. And then one enormous, glaring check in the pro-Tory category.
Fri Sep 14, 2007 – 9:22 pm
Unfortunately, noble native warriors extended an oak railing instead of an olive branch:
The man’s brother, Joe, told CHCH-TV that more than three individuals attacked Gualtieri and that his nephew saw a native protester hitting him over the head with what may have been an oak railing.
“It was held with two hands when when the one […]
Thu Sep 13, 2007 – 9:54 am
Stats Canada’s recent statistics on single parent households in Canada is disappointing, but not nearly as worrisome as those reported on native reserves across Canada. Take two reserves in southern Alberta:
Of the southern Alberta communities included in the data, the Piikani Nation had the most lone-parent families at 58.8 per cent and the Blood […]
Wed Aug 8, 2007 – 4:38 am
Buchanan on Barack Obama’s “a lollipop in every hand” politics:
Barack Obama wins standing ovations from liberal Democrats by pledging to double foreign aid. Thus, under President Obama, the U.S. government will borrow from China and Japan $50 billion each year to subsidize regimes in Africa, putting our kids in hock forever, so we can […]
Tue Aug 7, 2007 – 3:53 am
Seriously. Have members of the Montreal Gazette editorial board lost their marbles? What compassionate progressive credentials will they be able to present now?:
A better way to deal with the illegal segment of the tobacco market, we think, might be - dare we suggest it - to enforce the law…As long as governments quiver in terror […]
Wed Jul 25, 2007 – 10:10 pm
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The 358 members of the Tsawwassen First Nation head to the polls Wednesday to decide whether to ratify B.C.’s first urban treaty, a process 14 years in the making.
If the members vote to ratify the treaty, they will get $40 million, a share of the Fraser River salmon catch and 372 hectares of Crown land […]
Thu Jul 19, 2007 – 12:50 pm
Without meaning to, I started a bit of a firestorm a couple of days ago over the residential schools issue. This has caused me to look much more seriously at this issue than I had before. While those who disagreed with me called attention to some remarks of mine that were perhaps not […]
Tue Jul 17, 2007 – 8:54 pm
Phil Fontaine complicates the world:
Unfortunately, tangible progress is not happening fast enough to contain the mounting frustrations of younger natives. “Canada’s biggest challenge is what to do about First Nations poverty,” Mr. Fontaine asserts. We agree.
What a challenge. It’s called, “getting a job.”
People have used this ingenious strategy to confront their poverty for some time. […]
