True. While slavery was never legal in Canada, in pre-Canada slavery was overwhelmingly something aboriginals did. However, that goes against the anti-white narrative so is ignored.
Sounds like typical of education of the time. Strict and student required to (gasp) work. Most students of RS had a good or neutral experience. The biggest complaint was bullying by other aboriginal students. Less than 2% of aboriginals of the last century attended a RS, and of those, most only attended for a year or two. Despite this, SJW strive to make RS the centre of aboriginal life and problems. Nonsense.
You think that anti-white hiring quotas in the government are bad now, wait until Jagmeet becomes PM.
Ottawa Public Health is racist. They blame all problems on whites. There is no evidence that the death rate for students in the Kamloops Residential School was higher than for other aboriginal children in BC of that time. If there were any such evidence, SJWs would be proclaiming it incessantly. These deaths were a great tragedy, as were all the other death from the frequent plagues of the time that effected aboriginals so disproportionately. But to blame that force of nature on whites is racism, plain and simple.
Trudeau's economic plan
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Shut down all industries that we excel at: oil, mining, forestry, and fishing
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chase manufacturing out of the country with hostile laws, green energy, militant unions, and costly social engineering
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massive immigration
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irresponsible spending to build a nanny state
To be fair, he stole this plan from Venezuela.
Coming soon - suing the government for not removing aboriginal kids from alcoholic homes and for educating them in unmarketable aboriginal language instead of English or French. No white child would be treated like that. It ruins the lives of hundreds of thousands of aboriginal who are raised in abusive homes when white kids would have been rescued.
Who is to blame for this anti-Canadian, wokist hate-mongering? The media, which passes it off as 'unbiased news', or the consumers that demand it and jump at any opportunity to hate Canada and the people who built this county. I guess it's both.
Well, he is a white male and his victims are minorities so the press must make the most of this.
In my experience, every worker who complains about sexism or racism is both lazy and incompetent. Canadian culture allows these leeches to blame all their deficiencies on discrimination. Women or minorities who are good workers never complain about discrimination. They let the quality of their work speak for itself.
No denying that some were evil.
It's strange how ideas change. 70 years ago, only a loony would claim that it was a bad idea to let a priest have absolute control over children without oversight.
Alberta still hates the Liberals. If it weren't for Eastern immigrants in Calgary, Liberals would have no support at all. Not surprising since Alberta pay the taxes then are labeled polluting, backward, ignorant, sexist racists by those who cash the cheque.
If I start destroying leftist statues and symbols, will that make me as hateful and racist as the left? Who cares. I'd rather be a hateful vandal than a doormat.
A white supremacist organization that activity discriminates against whites with hiring and promotion quotas, race-specific programs policies. There is a competition within our leftist government and academia to promote hatred against white males and paint others as victims.
They ALL KNEW THIS WASN'T A MASS GRAVE AND STILL DO AND ARE STILL LYING TO YOU.
Exactly. This is just hate propaganda at this point against whites, Christians, males, and conservatives. Leftist hate mongers control the media, government, and education. They demonize anyone who believes in merit, family values, or hard work. They are shamelessly dishonest.
How about 'Pol Pot' for a new name? He is a symbol of everything the Canadian left has become.
Ryerson was a great liberal of his time. But he is everything the left tell us to hate: white, male, Christian, industrious, patriotic.
Perhaps these are victims of First Nation attacks. These First Nations still exist and should be held accountable.
Lefties insist that RS arose through nothing but evil intentions. That the millions we spent on RS, even in depth of the great recession, was only out of maliciousness. That the priest and educators who devoted their lives to educating these children, did so only because they were sadists.
Educating aboriginals was an impossible and unrewarding task. They spoke 150+ languages, none of which had any form of writing. They were itinerant and isolated so reaching them was expensive. Their cultures were millennia behind the west. Broken homes, alcoholism, and violence were common place. Kids had no role models and no interest in leaning.
Yet, as you say, education was the only solution. What chance would they have if without it, not even speaking English or French? We ought to praise both the educators and the students who learned.
Definitely a left wing solution of the time. Educating the 'ignorant' with 'correct' values forced by the power of the state, just like they do today. This is the cycle of leftism: leftists gain power, force their solutions on others through the law, only to be condemned as 'righties' by the next generation of lefties. I see this in the humanities in college all the time. Proudly progressive professors display their leftism by hiring the next generation of extreme lefties. Upon being hired, the newbies dismiss those who hired them as the regressive establishment. And the seniors are actually surprised.
Hard to believe that this racist nonsense is acceptable in any business. It is racism and hatred masquerading as anti-racism and equality.
Spot on! This was the education of the time. Kids were expected to work! Corporal punishment was considered the best practice, not abuse. White people starved to death during the great depression, so they did not prioritize lavish meals for kids. Plagues devastated population. If the entitled people of today want to twist this into a race war they can go to hell.
The USA had several times more Residential Schools than Canada but no American knows nor cares. There is no evidence that the death rate at Canadian RS was greater than for other aboriginal children of the time. This was the time before white men discovered antibiotics and water purification measures. Terrible plagues, such as typhoid, cholera, and measles killed aboriginals at a much greater rate than other races because they had not experienced these diseases before. Even at their peak, less than 5% of aboriginal students attended a RS. Most did not have a bad experience. When the government tried to close them, tribes demanded that they stay in operation.
Yet the media will paint them as 'death camps'. Academics promote lies about them to demonize whites. Reddit uses it to justify their endless hate campaigns.
Notice that lefties (such as our supreme court) consider themselves 'anti-racist' yet treat aboriginals like children who have less responsibility for their actions. Isn't that the definition of racism: treating certain races as inferior?
Encouragingly, the majority in the comment section of that link condemn the silly racist hypocrisy of the Strathcona High administration. Sad to see CRT in Alberta at all. Edmonton is the leftist city in the province.