Canada's Racial Hypocrisy: Example Thread

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Rise Up gathering aims to empower Indigenous students with identity, belonging and purpose

High school students packed the main hall at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on Thursday to learn more about Indigenous cultures and why it's important to have role models.

"I think it's really inspiring knowing that we have our own ways of learning and learning about culture," said Sophia Bird, a Grade 10 student from Maples Collegiate.

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When is Canada going to start treating its European demographic with the same respect they show its Aboriginals?

Rhetorical question, obviously.

This thread will be locked; a separate thread for discussing it can be started, if anyone wishes, in the General Discussion section.

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Award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer's Indigenous identity under scrutiny

An acclaimed film director lauded for two high-profile Indigenous productions this year says she's sorry for not verifying her ties to an Algonquin community after facing questions over the validity of her identity.

Michelle Latimer, who recently directed the CBC television series Trickster and the documentary Inconvenient Indian, has risen to become one of Canada's most prominent names in Indigenous filmmaking.

However, Latimer's long-standing claim of Indigenous identity is facing scrutiny after she claimed to be of "Algonquin, Métis and French heritage, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki), Que." in an Aug. 14 National Film Board (NFB) news release.

One of Canada's most prominent elders is from Kitigan Zibi. Elder Claudette Commanda is often asked to provide opening prayers for federal government announcements in Ottawa, which sits on unceded Algonquin territory.

Commanda said Latimer's claim, without more evidence, was an "insult" to the community.

"Why are you claiming you are from Kitigan Zibi? What is your purpose and intent? What do you have to gain from this?" Commanda said to CBC.

"Who are you? And prove to me who you are."

Commanda said Kitigan Zibi has seen a recent increase in unfounded ancestry claims to the community and such acts threaten the identity of her people who have survived in the face of immense hardship.

"Why is it that they just want the fame and glory, but they don't want the struggles that come with it?" said Commanda.

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Trickster producers resign amid Michelle Latimer Indigenous identity questions

Two producers with the CBC television series Trickster announced their resignations on Friday, a day after the Indigenous identity claims of the show's co-creator and director Michelle Latimer were called into question.

Danis Goulet, a Cree/Métis filmmaker who worked as a consulting producer, stated on Twitter she resigned from the show last week. She wrote she initially joined the production because it would be led by Indigenous creators.

"However, now that there is uncertainty about this, I feel a responsibility to uphold the values that I am dedicated to," she wrote.

The investigation is sending shock waves throughout the Indigenous film industry. Anna Lambe, the Inuk actress who plays Sarah on Trickster, said via Instagram that the situation was hurtful.

"I think the last thing we should be doing is absolving accountability for what happened and trying to affirm that what happened was a little mistake or in any way OK," she wrote.

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The language is astounding. Nothing but support and concern for Aboriginal wellbeing. Where are the Whites who can so freely voice support for our own people without being blasted as "privileged", "supremacist", "hateful" or "racist"? Where is the mainstream media support for such voices?

Nearly missed this little gem:

And there I was thinking Aboriginals might hold out against Zionist corruption. Here they are trumpeting about the subversion of their culture... through a mouthpiece that represents an even deeper subversion than the one they're sounding off about.

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Why it's important for Indigenous people to tell our own stories
When you remove us from our own narrative, we lose who we are

For centuries, the humanity of Indigenous people has been hidden behind stereotypes, myths and prejudices. Indigenous voices have long been silenced, only allowed to be heard when deemed valid by an "expert" like a priest, scientist, politician or bureaucrat.

By denying us access to the conversations that shaped this country, we were written off into the history books as a relic from a bygone era.

Our stories make us human; they are how we pass on culture, language and ways of life. They're how we connect with our families and ancestors. When you remove us from our own stories, we lose who we are.

This doesn't mean that people from outside our communities are incapable of accurately portraying us. But even when they mean well, they can miss out on important subtleties, misunderstand context or lack important details.

Having the ability to tell your own stories, to define your own world view, is called narrative sovereignty. It means that you have the ability to share ideas that are important to you. When Indigenous people have narrative sovereignty, stereotypes and myths fall away and we are free to truly represent ourselves.

Our stories are a chance to get to know us, to see our humanity, to see us as multifaceted beings instead of two-dimensional stereotypes.

We have generations of stereotypes to prove wrong, and generations to come to surprise, enrich and grow narratives of our own.

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That's certainly a problem Whites have: our narrative has been hijacked by hostile entities. And it doesn't help when the subverted, and now thoroughly anti-White, narrative is parroted by shabbos goyim. The Aboriginals even have their equivalent of that, by the way - an "Apple": someone who's "Red on the outside, but White on the inside": a sellout, a traitor, a servant of the enemy.

Chief takeaway here: the above story was published by CBC News, an Aboriginal's story about Aboriginal issues. But what are the chances that CBC would ever publish such a story by a pro-White, about the plight of White people? No - they would only be inclined to publish a story about how "hateful" and "ignorant" pro-Whites were.

This First Person article is the experience of Ossie Michelin, a Labrador Inuk journalist from the community of North West River. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

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NDP push to declare residential schools a genocide defeated in House

An NDP bid calling on the government to recognize the residential school experience as genocide has been rejected in the House of Commons.

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The UN definition cites various forms of genocide: killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or [COLOR="Red"]mental harm[/COLOR] to members of a group, [COLOR="red"]deliberately inflicting conditions to bring about a group's physical destruction in whole or in part[/COLOR], imposing measures to prevent births and forcibly transferring children from one group to another group.[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR]

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'A different kind of genocide'
But Gazan said the word genocide needs to be used because "cultural genocide" does not exist in international law.

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"You can destroy a group by destroying its social fabric, its social unit, and I think this is what Canada has been doing across decades," Lafontaine said.

"Canada has committed a different kind of genocide."

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Canada is indeed a genocidal state. So far the attention is entirely upon Aboriginals, and any protests against White genocide get brushed aside as "conspiracy theory" or even "hate speech".

Further, for some time now Aboriginals have been treated favourably, given tax exempt status, special hunting rights, educational support, and many other advantages by the government. As far as I can tell, their birth rates are high - while White birth rates are on the decline.

The CBC is a strongly anti-White news outlet, so it's no surprise that they are frequent purveyors of skewed news stories such as this one: blaring outrage at failure to recognize Aboriginal genocide, while quietly sweeping White genocide under the rug.

I emphasized "mental harm" in the above excerpt, because that is levied against pro-Whites on a daily basis: we are subject to gaslighting by the mass-media, suggestions that we are fanatics, extremists, conspiracy theorists, inherently criminal, social pariahs and worse - all because we object to the extermination of our people.

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Anger over defacement of Terry Fox statue a sign of his 'unique' legacy, says mayor of icon's hometown
Protesters draped Ottawa statue of famous Canadian marathoner with flags and sign reading 'Mandate Freedom'

The outpouring of condemnation over the defacement of a Terry Fox statue across from Parliament Hill in Ottawa this past weekend shows just how revered the Canadian icon is more than 40 years after his Marathon of Hope and his untimely death at age 22, say some who have commented on the events.

"Terry Fox is probably one of the most unique figures in Canadian history in terms of his ability to unite people," said Brad West, the mayor of Fox's hometown of Port Coquitlam, B.C.

"The way that he unites people in this country is probably unmatched."

The statue was defaced after protesters opposed to vaccine-mandates and other public health measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus converged on Parliament Hill over the weekend.

The figure was draped with a hockey cap on its head, a Canadian flag wrapped around its neck, an upside down Canadian flag hanging from its arm and a placard reading "Mandate Freedom" wedged under another arm.

People have taken to social media to express their outrage over what happened, and it has prompted some Canadians to say they are pledging money to the Terry Fox Foundation.

A spokeswoman for the Terry Fox Research Institute, the research arm of the Terry Fox Foundation, said it wouldn't comment on what occurred to the statue or how much more money had been raised in donations as a result.

The Terry Fox Foundation did not respond to inquiries, but on the weekend, it tweeted that "Terry believed in science and gave his life to help others."

Fox 'above politics'

Police in Ottawa are investigating the defacement of the statue, along with allegations that protesters desecrated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial by dancing on it during the protest.

West said Fox's legacy is revealed every year when millions of Canadians with different political beliefs and backgrounds all come together to participate in Terry Fox runs.

"What it's about is a belief that Terry Fox is above politics," West said. "People in this country can and should voice their opinion on different issues. But what they shouldn't do is try and use Terry Fox to make a political statement."

Darren Wark, one of Fox's cousins, who is a volunteer with the Terry Fox Foundation and one of the organizers of the Terry Fox Run in Victoria, B.C., said he would have thought that defacing a Fox statue was one of the lines you don't cross.

"As Canadians, we identify with certain things that are Canada: Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes, the oceans. And you know, Terry is included in those great things that make up Canada," he said.

Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 18 and had his right leg amputated above his knee in 1977. Running with his artificial leg, he became an iconic figure when he launched his Marathon of Hope in 1980, an epic cross-country trek to raise money for cancer research.

But his cancer forced him to cut his run short and he died the next year, at the age of 22. His actions led to the creation of the annual Terry Fox Run, The Terry Fox Foundation and the Terry Fox Research Institute, all in support of cancer research.

Fox's name can be found in a variety of places across the country, including schools and streets, a mountain peak in British Columbia as well as hiking trails, parks and monuments.

'Not a Canadian move'

The bronze statue of Fox near Parliament Hill was commissioned by the regional municipality of Ottawa Carleton in 1983 and sculpted by John Hooper, who saw Fox run when the Marathon of Hope passed through New Brunswick.

Wark said he felt a range of emotions when he saw the images of the defaced statue.

"My first was disappointment. And then I kind of had some anger and then I realized that, you know what? This is not the first time," he said.

Wark felt the protesters were trying to appropriate Fox's image, and that it reminded him of how others tried to latch on to Fox when he began his Marathon of Hope.

"They would try and run with him, with their logos, their corporate logos. And Terry didn't wear a logo because he didn't want people to be able to take over and make it not about cancer research."

Rob Reid, the chair of the Terry Fox Centre who helped erect a similar statue in Victoria, said "defacing a Canadian icon is surely not a Canadian move. I don't think it was going to garner [the protesters] any support for what they're doing."

Wark said at least some good may come from the episode if it's inspiring to Canadians to donate to cancer research.

"I'm sorry it had to happen the way it did in Ottawa. It's unfortunate, but you know what? I guess we can turn it into a positive in some way."

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No charges for statue toppling at Manitoba legislature grounds last summer
Statues knocked down following walk to honour Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools

No charges are being laid in connection with the toppling of two statues of British monarchs last Canada Day at the Manitoba legislature grounds, according to police and the province.

Police service spokesperson Const. Rob Carver told CBC News Tuesday morning that following an investigation into the incidents, a report was written and sent to Manitoba Justice.

The Department of Justice ultimately had the final say, he said in an email.

A provincial spokesperson confirmed Tuesday afternoon that no further action was being taken.

"It has been determined after investigation that no charges will be laid in relation to the toppling of the statues or the organization of the protests at the legislative grounds," an email stated.

A large statue of a seated Queen Victoria, originally unveiled in 1904 on the front lawn of the legislature grounds, facing Memorial Boulevard, was covered in orange and red handprints and then pulled from its pedestal by a crowd of people on July 1.

The head was then cut off and tossed into the nearby Assiniboine River.

A smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth II, which stood near Government House at the southeast side of the legislative building, was also pushed over, landing face-down.

The statues were toppled following an Every Child Matters walk that afternoon, intended to coincide with Canada Day to protest the country's former residential schools system and to draw attention to the thousands of Indigenous children who died while attending the schools.

The walk followed the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at school sites in Kamloops in May and in Saskatchewan in June.

A sign saying "We were children once. Bring them home" was left leaning on Queen Victoria's pedestal after the statue crashed down.

It's not the first time the Queen Victoria monument was targeted during a rally. It was defaced in June 2020 as a wave of protests across Canada against statues commemorating colonial figures.

Queen Victoria, who reigned from June 1837 until her death in 1901, was the monarch as Canada became a country and negotiated treaties with Indigenous people, and reigned as the federal government began its residential schools policy.

There has been no word on replacing the statue, which has been put into storage as part of its repair. In the days following the topplings, then premier Brian Pallister admonished those who took part in the incidents.

He also said the monuments would be repaired and returned, though he said the locations of the statues could change based on consultation with stakeholders.

Anyone involved in the tearing down of the statues would not have a voice in those discussions, said Pallister, who announced his resignation in August.

Current Premier Heather Stefanson has not commented on the statues since taking office.

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Indigenous lacrosse group working to launch women's program

A group that aims to promote lacrosse among Anishinaabe communities is developing a parallel program for women and girls.

Anishinabe Baagaadowewin, a non-profit group formed in late 2020, is working to grow both competitive sport and community-led programs that promote Anishinabek history.

Leading the charge on the women's program is Wiikwemkoong's Marcia Trudeau-Bomberry, who has a background in sport administration and development and is a former Brock University lacrosse player.

"It's about sharing that cultural background, that history, some of those key things around the traditional side of the game and building that cultural pride," said Trudeau-Bomberry, who also works as the chief executive officer of Anishinabek Nation.

Isaiah Kicknosway, a former national-level player, founded Anishinabe Baagaadowewin with a mission to preserve this culturally important sport. Baagaadowewin translates to "they play lacrosse," according to the group's website.

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Although this article is specifically about starting a women's program, I present it here as another example of Canada's racial hypocrisy. Anishinabe Baagaadowewin is an organization dedicated to promoting Aboriginal culture. If Whites formed anything comparable it would instantly be blasted as "racist" and "supremacist".

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RCMP national security unit monitored 'threats' linked to Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline activism, records show

An RCMP national security unit monitored First Nations-led anti-pipeline activism for "potential threats" to the energy, transportation and banking sectors between 2021 and 2022, internal police documents show.

Records obtained by CBC Indigenous reveal Ottawa-based federal policing groups tracked and analyzed protests against TC Energy and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), citing concerns about "anarchist groups" or "fringe environmentalists" sabotaging infrastructure or targeting executives in solidarity with Wet'suwe'ten hereditary chiefs.

It's a concern one of those chiefs feels is unfairly used to justify surveillance of Indigenous rights-based activism.

"This really isn't news to us," said Na'Moks (John Ridsdale), a leader of the Tsayu, or Beaver, clan.

"It's disturbing, but it's really not unexpected."

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This is interesting because the overall tone is one of indignation at the idea of Indigenous activists being under surveillance. If you reversed the races involved, and had White nationalists under surveillance instead of Aboriginal nationalists, the tone would be entirely the opposite: gloating and encouraging the government to watch White nationalists closely, inferring and implying that White nationalists are inherently evil and should be dogged at every step, while implying that any Aboriginal activist is a shining angel that should be granted complete privacy from any governmental agency's watchful eyes.

Just another example of how the government propaganda organ that is CBC News actively dehumanizes Whites.

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Support needed for community organizations after users die violently, advocate says

A peer support coordinator at Winnipeg's mobile overdose prevention site says staff were shocked to learn that the person shot and killed by police over a month ago was an Inuk man with a record of violence — someone they treated like family.

Winnipeg police said Jordan Charlie, 24, had an edged weapon but didn't drop it as officers told him to, and video posted to social media shows him take a couple steps toward them before he was shot dead outside a St. James-area bus shelter in late November. Nine shots can be heard.

Charlie, an Inuk man from Taloyoak, Nunavut, accessed homeless shelters and the Tunngasugit Inuit Resource Centre while in Winnipeg, as he had no family in the city, CBC News previously learned.

Ally Seidlitz, peer support coordinator at Winnipeg's mobile overdose prevention site, said Charlie frequented the site run by Sunshine House — a community drop-in and resource centre — and that staff grew fond of him.

"It feels like they've lost a family member," Seidlitz said.

"Going to the site the day after it was revealed to be Jordan, the main feeling was like, just why? Why did they have to shoot him so many times?"

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This is a rather significant example of hypocrisy. Here we see mourning over an individual "with a record of violence", where the fact that he has a "with a record of violence" is apparently intended to evoke sympathy for the individual - an Aboriginal individual.

If, however, a pro-White individual with a "with a record of violence" were being discussed, you can be absolutely sure that the same media outlet would go to great lengths to use this information as a means of demonizing the individual.

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Here's a side note to this thread: if any anti-Whites took notice of this particular thread, and felt the need to make mention of it, they would attempt to infer that it reflected hatred of non-Whites on my part. And since this thread is Canadian and, thus, involves mostly Aboriginals as the examples of peoples held to a different standard than Whites, they would almost certainly say that I exhibit a focus on Aboriginals specifically and thus, they would construe it as "this thread illustrates that Noble exhibits hatred for Aboriginals specifically".

A large part of their propaganda strategy would be geared towards preventing my own points delivered in this thread from being considered on their own merits. Step one would be to divert attention from them altogether, with their aforementioned effort to misconstrue this thread as exemplifying anti-Aboriginal hatred. Step two, to be used out of fear that anyone did indeed seriously consider the points I put forward, would be to offer point-by-point "refutations" of the points I've made. How convincing such "refutations" seem will vary according to how lazy their authors happen to be at the time the fabricate them.

But their primary strategy, of course, would be to avoid mentioning the existence of this thread to begin with, because they always rest easier when our genuine expressions do not see the light of day and they can instead flood the mass-media with their own prepared mischaracterizations of White nationalists.

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Bloodvein First Nation will bar non-Indigenous hunters from land amid overhunting issues

A Manitoba First Nation says it will no longer allow non-Indigenous hunters on its land, after years of alleged moose overhunting and meat wastage left the community's traditional hunters with a dwindling animal population and few opportunities to hunt.

Bloodvein First Nation, located just over 200 kilometres north of Winnipeg along the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg, erected no-trespassing signs on Saturday.

The First Nation is calling on the province to stop issuing hunting licences in Bloodvein territory.

Chief Lisa Young said non-Indigenous hunters, including those with licences, will be turned away at the community checkpoint — where one of the no-trespassing signs is stationed — if they try to enter the area.

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Two words notably absent from the article: "racism" and "supremacist".

"We're doing this out of sustainability," she said. "We're just standing by our rights."

- Chief Lisa Young

Indeed. Imagine the CBC coverage if Whites did anything of parallel nature.

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Activist warns of 'propaganda' as CSIS officials tout agency's new approach to Indigenous people

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service acknowledges its past investigating of Indigenous people has left a legacy of mistrust that persists today, but officials at the spy agency say the organization is mending its ways.

That's the main message two CSIS officials, speaking on the condition they not be identified, impressed on CBC Indigenous during a recent sit-down discussion at the agency's Ottawa headquarters.

Long gone are the days, they said, of CSIS's expansive "Native extremism" program, in which CSIS officers labelled Indigenous activists as domestic extremists and potential terrorists in sweeping countrywide investigations.

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Final excerpt:

But Gabriel was equally keen to point out what's missing. There is no apology, no voluntary transparency (CBC News had to file a court application before getting access to the requested internal documents), and no guarantee CSIS won't backslide into old habits should the political situation shift.

"Everything that CSIS has done and said is unforgivable," she said.

"There's no apology from CSIS for invading our privacy, for labelling us as criminals or terrorists."

I suspect we have a long ways to go before CSIS - or CBC, for that matter - stops referring to pro-White activists as "extremists".

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'He was a man on a mission': Eddie Carvery remembered for keeping memory of Africville alive

Eddie Carvery, the activist who crusaded for reparations for the former residents of Africville, N.S., has died of cancer.

Carvery was born in 1946 in Africville, a Black community that stood on the shores of the Bedford Basin.

The town was bulldozed in the 1960s after decades of mistreatment and neglect from the City of Halifax to make way for industrial developments, including the MacKay Bridge.

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A lot of the examples in this thread tend to contrast the difference between how Aboriginals are portrayed versus how Whites are portrayed. This example focuses on the difference between how Blacks and Whites are portrayed. If anyone started a pro-White community, would the CBC cast it in such a favourable light as they are this pro-Black community?

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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement
Secret files reveal Mounties penetrated Assembly of First Nations' predecessor, spied on Indigenous leaders

The Mounties called it the "Native extremism program." Today, it sounds like a spy novel.

Intelligence dossiers stuffed with documents. Wiretaps. Paid informants. Covert operatives with code numbers like "A-828." A Red Power dissident photo album. Surreptitious surveillance at homes, offices, airports and bars.

But it wasn't fiction.

In fact, newly declassified RCMP Security Service files confirm Canada's Cold War-era domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion.

The files also corroborate for the first time that the Liberal government in the mid-1970s approved covert RCMP wiretaps to monitor the telephones of the National Indian Brotherhood, known today as the Assembly of First Nations, in Ottawa.

That's no surprise to First Nations leaders like Georges Erasmus, former Dene Nation president and Assembly of First Nations national chief. He always knew the state was watching. Now he has the proof.

"Because it's been happening for so long, it's just become second nature," Erasmus said.

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The Mounties' stated goal was "broad penetration of extremist groups" to predict activity and counter it. However, most of these "extremists" were engaged in legal, democratic dissent.

Sound familiar? Just swap out "Indigenous" for "Aryan". The tone of this article is outraged indignation, like it was wrong to spy on them just because they were Aboriginal. The same news source will report with glee when pro-White organizations get infiltrated, even if we're doing things as innocuous as working out at the gym or going on hikes.