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I like the sound of that. I was having issues with the Happy National Aboriginal Day!
It definitely should be a holiday, and definitely needs renaming!!
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
"Education and awareness are two steps that lead to understanding that should lead to action," he said. "Having a statutory holiday for Indigenous Peoples Day is a way of educating Canadians, it's an opportunity to listen and learn. I think we've got to really interact more together and learn from each other because there's just not enough integration either way. We still live in solitudes."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-aboriginal-indigenous-day-1.4170695
I heard that Clark is going to raise the welfare rates..what a joke...lie... and John Horgan ...a big $100 a month is nothing and WILL NOT HELP!! So many poor are not on welfare, can't get it, refuse it and if they need disability or IE they are not eligible SO GET WITH THE PROGRAM!! Many would rather live on the streets, and horrible often dangerous situations than be screwed over and over and over by the welfare system.
No Clark or MASS HYSTERIA in the streets!!
Let me tell you how really F*K'D things are here in Vancouver. There is a lovely Filipino lady who has just returned to her job after taking a year off to look after her newborn child. Guess what!! She has no day care, she can only work when her husband isn't working.
Now let's look a little closer. She has looked around but she can't find anyone she trusts or will work for a wage that even makes it worthwhile to work.
I mean think about it, you have a child ...so you can ACTUALLY raise it yourself, NOT some lovely Filipino nanny, which by the way is how this lovely woman came to Canada. She looked after another poor woman's child, that couldn't do it herself...because she had to WORK to support herself and child and possibly with the help of a husband.
So now we've come FULL CIRCLE. The Filipino nanny immigrated, married, had a child but she can't afford to stay at home and raise the child herself, as is, it's 1. 5 hour commute to the job she is returning to.. and so you need someone to work 8 hours + another 3 or more for traveling time.
People must charge $15 an hour to survive, Daycares were outrages in the early 2000's, I can't imagine now... I remember it being $700 a month if they were potty trained, $900 for babies...something insane.
So even at ...minumum wage is $10.45 (I think it is) but that's not going to happen.
Any they wonder why women and children are having a problem with POVERTY & HOMELESSNESS.
The irony of the whole thing is if people get helped out now, with daycare and housing and stuff. AGAIN I fall through the loophole. I was born and raised and worked my whole life here, in BC and had and raised my child here. When I needed, whether is was WCB, Welfare, EI ( I had to cash my RSVP's to take a course) , banks (Student loans ) they have SCREWED me over and over.
So when people come here and get the benefits and they buy homes and they go to nice schools it pisses me off a bit.
Then I look at the abuse First Nations, their land- unceded territories, the treaties, the DTES, the Opoid Crisis and I get really pissed. I guess they figure if they can't force us into poverty and /or jail then they will build a pipeline and poison us and the land and take are the rights and money.
I think about my Gr. Gr. Grandma who was actually from here and her family the last 13,000 + years and how she felt when she saw what was happening.. What did my grandparents think... what damage was done by my immigrant grandparents...
But let's fast forward to 2001 and onwards....
I have ALWAYS believed that all of us women who were victimized by Gordon Campbell's cuts and continued with Christy Clark's antics WE DESERVE COMPENSATION!!
We deserve compensation for undo stress, suffering, pain, anguish, harassment (I was harassed by bill collectors ) and our children, they have paid with their mental and physical health. I believe that Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark should pay. I think politicians should pay for their #CrimesAgainstHumanity
They should be charged and made to pay and made to do some hard labour. Like clean people homes and toilets, vacuum, wash floors on hands and knees and really see how the other side lives because if she ever understood it, she forgot...and if not then she needs to experience it.
Oh I as an extra give her a nice dose of bed bugs.(not really- I wouldn't wish them on my worse enemy...but then again she may be my worst enemy...) I remember that someone said that of poor Jagrup...as they said "you truly haven't lived until you've experienced that. "
The UNCEDED TERRITORIES of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Squamish Nation, Musqueam is what has become know as Vancouver.
I acknowledge that have led a privileged life compared to my gr. grandma's grandma and my gr. gr. grandma and so many others of Indigenous Ancestry. I know that my gr. grandma's grandma attended a convent school in the Oregon,
"Probably not many women in the history of the west coast of North
America could rival her, when it comes to generations of grandchildren.
(my gr. grandma's grandma)Mary Ann was born at Marysville (Corvallis) in the Willamette Valley of
Oregon in 1834. Her parents were of Iroquois and Kalapuya blood; she
was raised to age 15 at the Catholic Mission at St. Paul."
and I know that my gr. gr. grandma was Songhees (Theresa Eliza) married a Portuguese settler (Joao Ignacio d'Almada- name changed to John Enos) and lost all her rights and privilege to land and anything else. Her child, my great grandpa Joseph Enos was spared residential school because he was part Portuguese. Due to these events, my life could have been very different and I am blessed it wasn't, but it doesn't make it easier to know truth. It is to horrible to imagine but it happened in the place that everyone loves to call "their home", "their Canada". Indian Agents came and stole children and forced them into schools, often far away from home where their parents could not help. If they tried THEY were send to jail. Stop and imagine IF that was YOUR child. They tortured many of children physically, mentally and sexually. It was warfare. Crimes against humanity.
But time passed and people just went about their business and they taught and told other untruths and so nothing was learned. Many many people never knew the truth. Many people today who are in their 50's & 60's never knew anything about it, still don't or simply refuse to acknowledge the what actually occurred or the legacy left behind.
An evil legacy which is
huge numbers of children in the Foster/Welfare system and
many Indigenous people incarcerated,
drug addiction caused by TRAUMA from the Residential schools and their legacy.
Sadly people would rather blame people than to acknowledge the ugly history of this so called Canada.
The time has come, it's out there, the truth, the knowledge, the way to learn and to heal. Please if you do not know, educate yourself. Take the bag off your head and WAKE UP! Stop saying hurtful evil things like I saw in the comments on some of these posts.
Imagine if "you" were one of those children. Imagine your life today if you are the child or a grandchildren of one of those children. THINK, put yourself in their shoes.
Celebrating Canada day is wrong if you do not acknowledge the past and make every effort to correct the horrible wrongs done to the children and to parents.
We have so much work to do, it's hard to know where to start but everyone must do something....start with yourself.
Do it, do it for every child taken.
It is National Aboriginal History Month.
"In 2008, the federal government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine the abuse inflicted on Indigenous people through the Indian residential school system. In this clip, Senator Murray Sinclair discusses how participating in the commission impacted him."
Reading the comments is so sad, so many unempathetic people that can not grasp what really happened. It was 150 year war on children. A war on children. Right here. Right in Canada. It was evil. That evilness carried on and lives until we acknowledge the crimes against those children. Only then can we move forward.
This is why EVERY person must learn the TRUTH!
It is a ugly uncomfortable truth but nevertheless to ignore allows for ignorance and hate to grow.
The legacy of the colonialism lives on and is thriving in the pipelines, fish farms, LNG, Site C, Mount Polley, lack of housing, addictions from trauma, our health care, the education and political system. We need a complete overhaul in everyway we think.
