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How is a meteorite sacred?

Vincent Steinhauer, the president of Blue Quill First Nations College in St. Paul, Alta., said the stone should be cared for by aboriginals once again.

“The prophecy goes that if that rock was ever to disappear then we would experience famine, pestilence, diseases and basically death,” told told the CBC. “Ever since that rock was taken in the late 1800s that’s basically what has happened to our people.”

Sacred, as in 'the trees and the wind is sacred'? As in, 'I'm going to need some compensation for this' sacred? What are we talking about? The vein of that wears pretty thin when everything is sacred.


If this were some rock in Mecca, people couldn't fawn over it enough.



Abolish teachers' unions:

After dozens of Ontario Catholic school boards rejected the Ontario government’s latest deal with teachers’ unions, one local board has tentatively accepted the province’s offer.

In an emergency meeting Tuesday night, the Toronto Catholic School Board accepted a deal to freeze teacher wages in exchange for changes to managerial rights. ...

The last-minute agreement will spare the debt-ridden province from the automatic rollover of teacher contracts and subsequent wage increases. Should the deal fail to catch on with other boards, Premier Dalton McGuinty said the province may be forced to draft “last resort” legislation to avoid paying as many as two million more banked sick days and a 5.5% pay increase for new teachers. According to Mr. Piccininni, the deal will save the province $3.7- million in wage increases.

In exchange for the wage freeze, the board will concede some control of teacher hiring and assessment to teacher’s unions. School boards across the province have claimed the deal erodes managerial rights and threatens the standards of students’ education.

And who is accountable for one of the wealthiest school boards in North America?



Related: all the resources went to the trans crowd and the mosqueteria.



In case we were tempted to forget what the real problems are: Christians flee from Syrian rebels, religions slowly being made "illegal", persecution in Pakistan, "mole people" and a rather rattling history of slavery.



The North Korean regime will not tolerate sunlight in the Land of the Morning Calm:

North Korea on Tuesday threatened to "hunt down" defectors as well as South Korean activist Kim Young-hwan, who was released recently after being detained in a Chinese prison for 114 days for helping them.

"We will in the future, too, never allow those abductors, terrorists and saboteurs who dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of [North Korea], encroach upon its sovereignty and threaten the safety of its people to go scot-free even by scouring all parts of the earth," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said in an English-language statement.

And now, some cats with pretty eyes.



(With thanks to all)