Some People Are "Special"

They sure are:

Does the RCMP want the truth? Can it handle the truth? The questions present themselves thanks to a bizarre entry in the Mounties’ latest “environmental scan” of ostensible risks to Canada’s security — everything from climate change to artificial intelligence, foreign conflicts and barriers to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

Under the umbrella of “socio-cultural” risks, we find an entirely false allegation against the National Post with respect to an alleged article “concerning increase in residential school denialism.”

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“The National Post …(has published) articles questioning the devastating impact of residential schools and giving a platform to denialists calling it a hoax,” allege the RCMP’s environment scanners — in-house analysts plus, naturally, some consultants from PwC Canada.

Follow the report’s citations and you’ll find this assessment appears to be solely based on Terry Glavin’s excellent “Year of the Graves” feature, published May 26, 2022, which entirely stands up factually to this day (and is the only National Post story referred to in the cited reference). Almost in so many words, the RCMP is suggesting true stories can be a threat to the body politic just because they go against the prevailing narrative.

Particularly at a time when the federal government is ever more enmeshed in the business of mainstream media, it’s a chilling message to send.

 

The RCMP are foot-soldiers for the Liberal government.

When the government barks, the RCMP mobilise to silence whomever the government says.

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So, I guess we no longer have to use the word "indigenous" as it is not at all applicable:

A team led by University of Ottawa researchers says it's discovered evidence that ancestors of today's Inuit peoples arrived in Canada's Arctic centuries earlier than previously estimated.

The Thule Inuit, ancestors of the present-day Inuit, were a group of whalers currently estimated to have arrived in Canada approximately 800 years ago.

However, after analysis of pond sediment samples on Somerset Island, Nunavut, the new research suggests the Thule arrived at these sites around 200 years earlier.

Scientists used unique methods during the study, said Jules Blais, a professor of biology at the University of Ottawa who was part of the research team. Levels of sediment were extracted using large tubes pushed into ponds on the island.

The sediment samples, or "cores," were then used to date and analyze what has collected at the bottom of the water for centuries, providing a window into happenings on land at the time. Evidence of human habitation is preserved as human-specific chemical signatures that can be trapped in lake sediments.

Previous knowledge of the Thule relied on archeological findings, which alone may not tell their whole story, Blais said.

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Now who can be blamed here?:

Filipinos have the lowest poverty rates in the country and Arab Canadians and First Nations the highest, says a Department of Social Development briefing note. Managers calculated poverty rates by race following criticism by an Alberta think tank that depictions of the poor were misleading: “We recognize poverty does not affect everyone equally.”

Interesting:

Toronto police have arrested two men they say have been targeting Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) clients and allegedly stealing their funds. ...

Two 18-year-olds, identified as Wadia Khaled of Toronto and Fadel Yazbak of Mississauga, were arrested and charged with robbery with an offensive weapon, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and disguise with intent.

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This is what it looks like when two groups vie for places on the victimhood totem pole:

In the wake of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7 last year and Israel's subsequent military assault in Gaza, Halifax Pride and other organizations in Canada have faced calls from parts of the 2SLGBTQ+ community to support Palestinian people. 

Community educator Aaliyah Paris is one non-binary and queer person in Halifax who's made that call.

She wants more transparency from Halifax Pride, and for it to divest from companies on the Canadian boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) list — a group of firms, organizations and people that pro-Palestinian groups say should be boycotted to put pressure on Israel.

"I really don't think I'm free until everybody is free," Paris said, adding that people "in places like Congo, Palestine, Sudan … are unable to even be out and celebrate."

 

You don't say.