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ChemGal

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I s it possible to celebrate Canada Day and be respectful to First Nations and Indigenous groups, particularly this year?
If so, what do you think is ok, vs. what needs to be avoided?
 
I'll be marking this July 1st as a day of mourning ~ following the lead of the Keewaywin First Nation in northern Ontario. Seems a little tone deaf to be celebrating when our Indigenous friends are mourning. I'll wear orange and I won't be putting out my Canada flags. I've signed up for a July 1st virtual tour at McMichael Art Gallery (love that place!) ~ we're asked to reconsider our personal vision of Canada.
 
Mast*tye*Cajuns ... right on the spine ... as he Spaniards say ... requires some Ba'aLs ... Gaols?

Thus the temporal inhibitions ...

This too will pass ..
 
ChemGal said:
Oh I wish that were possible with the little ones!
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Depends on how they are mounted on the stick. I seem to recall some being just secured with staples so you could dismount and remount them with just a stapler.
 
Mendalla said:
Depends on how they are mounted on the stick. I seem to recall some being just secured with staples so you could dismount and remount them with just a stapler.
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The ones that get handed out here are the fully sewn ones. I fiddled though, peeled off the sticker with the contact info (it's a semi-community thing, semi-advertising thing) and was able to slide it down.
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Someone who is Indigenous who lives on my street is organizing a walk, will likely join her, although the heat this week is a factor.
 
Tough question. After years of being embarrassed by our past, I would like to celebrate that so many Canadians are sad and angry because of the deaths at residential schools and want to do something to help. Ironic that Idle No More, started by living young Indigenous Women who wanted to start a dialogue with non Indigenous people so we could learn about each other, was less successful than publicity about the discovery of that mass grave. It took dead bodies to open the eyes and hearts of many people
 
jimkenney12 said:
Tough question. After years of being embarrassed by our past, I would like to celebrate that so many Canadians are sad and angry because of the deaths at residential schools and want to do something to help. Ironic that Idle No More, started by living young Indigenous Women who wanted to start a dialogue with non Indigenous people so we could learn about each other, was less successful than publicity about the discovery of that mass grave. It took dead bodies to open the eyes and hearts of many people
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The dead and the ancient old folk are better equipped to spook the present folk! Yet denial of history prevails ... so we don't learn much of the time!

Thus the People of the Lie succeed --- Scott Peck of the mental pecking order! We maintain superiority over the People of Lessor Gods ... thus the concept was lost ...
 
jimkenney12 said:
It took dead bodies to open the eyes and hearts of many people
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"If it bleeds, it leads" exists for a reason. The more rational and informed among us may decry it, but sensational stories get more eyeballs and stronger emotional reactions. Wish it was not so, but it seems to be part of what is at work here.
 
Clocked in orange as the melting timekeeper?

Maybe a just sign ... passing icon ... flighty words? Someone called this concept ephemeral as it took off ... mindless power of word without the attachments! Thoughts are sometimes like that ... beyond with the fringe group watching a world on fire ... ochre phenomenon?

And the Scots say Och Mon ... said to be untranslatable ... unless one gets the drift! If condescended ... you may be raising something from the bottom Leon ... an evolution of fear of powerful cats ... beaten down by a jawbone? The powers say asinine as the deeper power of word is yet not well understood as histrionic ... some folk are allergic to word and rejected by myth, story etc. Fringe of the red zone ... deep? Perhaps just fascia ...

There are other thin powers ... humbling as the shaft strikes from the hunter ... Xenos?
 
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Big demonstration, the Turtle Island Healing Walk, happening in London today. Since it is a holiday, they got the okay to close some streets and get police escort. Organizers were expecting c. 10,000 but I haven't heard actual numbers. I know it sounds risky, but the demonstrations against Islamophobia got fairly big and there don't seem to have been any outbreaks from those (organizers insisted on masks and distancing for those events).
 
My neighbour is a collector of flags & usually on Canada Day he strings a long line & hangs the Canadian flag & one from each province & territory. I like it. This year, he's only put out the Canadian flag, flanked by two First Nations flags. I like that too. Seems appropriate for this year.
 
Our son & his gf are participating in this Toronto walk today. They will come by to see us tomorrow. Some friends ae dropping by this afternoon for an outdoor visit - we haven't seen them in a year & I imagine the kids will be SO different. She is Israeli & they will soon be heading off to Israel for the summer. As I read many articles about Indigenous issues in the Star this morning, I wondered about a similarity/parallels to the Israel/Palestine situation - aggressive colonizers on land previously owned by others.

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