Canada: At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked It’s Soldiers

” That’s because the most common functional definition of “terrorism” in Western discourse is quite clear. At this point, it means little more than: “violence directed at Westerners by Muslims” (when not used to mean “violence by Muslims,” it usually just means: violence the state dislikes). The term “terrorism” has become nothing more than a rhetorical weapon for legitimizing all violence by Western countries, and delegitimizing all violence against them, even when the violence called “terrorism” is clearly intended as retaliation for Western violence…
Historically, the rhetoric of terror has been used by those in power not only to sway public opinion, but to direct attention away from their own acts of terror.”

This article does a great job articulating some conflicting feelings I’m having over the #OttawaShooting yesterday. I think it says a lot that it was written just before the shooting happened. The best predictor of future behavior is relevant past behavior.
I highly recommend reading it in full HERE

Romeo Saganash on MMIW

Speaker in the house speaking of his families experiences of residential schooling and calling on the Canadian Government to push forward with an inquiry into the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women across turtle island.

Research Finds Number of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada is Higher Than Previously Thought

“The number of missing and murdered women in Canada may be much higher than previously believed, new research shows, giving hope to families seeking answers about their loved ones the new figures will spark fresh action from the RCMP….research has resulted in a database of missing or dead Canadian women, 824 of whom are identified as aboriginal.”

We’ve been saying all along…

Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women, toping 800…

Recognizing Indigenous Genocide in Canada

“Article 2 of the Convention states that “genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The letter writers assert that at least three actions on the part of Canadian governments constitute genocide under those rules.

1. Sir John A. MacDonald’s policy of deliberately starving First Nations people to make way for settlers in the Canadian west.

2. The residential school system and especially the decision of Department of Indian Affairs chief Duncan Campbell Scott not to address rampant tuberculosis among students.

3. The forcible removal of aboriginal children from their homes for the purpose of adoption by white families, a practice known as the “Sixties Scoop.” Estimates put the number of children removed between the 1960s and the mid 1980s at around 20,000.”

Read in full HERE