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31 Jul

Alberta to COVID-19: ‘What, me worry? " Each of these U-S states have a few things in common. They have relatively low vaccination rates. They have the Delta variant. And they’ve ditched public health restrictions. Who else has all that? Alberta."

"And Alberta is adding something new: blinders. The province is saying it doesn’t believe there will be another virus spike – it has basically declared the pandemic over. But, if there is another wave, it doesn’t want to know about it until the tsunami is already ashore."

"The early warning system is being dismantled. Alberta is also saying that, in future, residents who believe they may have been infected should not get tested, should not share their contacts with contact tracers, and should not stay home to avoid infecting others."

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Charles Adler

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5 Jul

Broken statues will not break our Country. Failure to achieve reconciliation will. There was a time when I rejected the idea that we were settlers. How could my family be seen as settlers, when we were political refugees in Canada a country we always called our promised land?

There was a time when I was ignorant of what this country did to the people whose land we settled. They never declared war on us. But we conquered them. We had no right to crush their culture and language and children. Yet we did.

Please spare me colonialist cackle about legislation granting authority to loot and plunder. That's like saying it was once legal in the U-S to own slaves. Legislation written by the conqueror is simply a license to dehumanize others and take from them what doesn't belong to us.

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Charles Adler

@charlesadler

26 Jun

In my interview with Michelle Good, author of "Five Little Indians" she made reference to a Canadian government official at Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, using that hideous term Fascists in 1930s Germany used "Final Solution" As the author told us,this was about children

dying in alarming numbers, of Tuberculosis which was highly infectious, killing #IndianResidentialSchool children at double the rate that was being seen on the reserves. That didn't bother the senior civil servant at the Dept of Indian Affairs. These are his words.

"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness due to habitating so closely in these schools and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages.

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Charles Adler

@charlesadler

17 Jun

4 Questions for #Alberta Premier Jason Kenney

(1 ) Do you have confidence that Chris Champion can design a curriculum in which the whole truth about Indian Residential Schools, will be taught to Alberta's children?

(2) Based on Mr Champion's mocking of the message that Indian Residential School Children were put through Hell, do you think Albertans, Premier Kenney, are justified in being skeptical that the whole truth about Residential Schools will be taught?

(3) Premier Kenney, Are you concerned that Mr Champion's continuing denial of the climate of abuse, that existed in Indian Residential Schools, damages Alberta's reputation?

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Charles Adler

@charlesadler

15 Jun

"Canada tops world in vaccinated population" (first doses) If that headline isn't worthy of gratitude to people in public service who purchase and distribute #Vaccine, nothing is. My maternal Grandmother taught me there is nothing less gracious than an absence of gratitude.

Please feel free to post yours in the Replies section of this message. I get that those who drink from the acidic well of pessimism will continue to bash and trash their favourite targets. But if terminal doom & gloom was anywhere close to the attitude of the majority,

@JustinTrudeau

Canada would never be in the enviable position it's in today. First Place in the World for first doses. So in honour of my best teacher of morals & common sense, Grandma Elizabeth, my gratitude to PM @JustinTrudeau's gov't - special mention to Anita Anand @AnitaOakville

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Charles Adler

@charlesadler

31 May

I ask myself would Jesus have dumped the flesh and bones of 215 children, one of them, a 3 year old, into a massive pit ? No tomb. No stone. No markers of any kind. The Church's mission was to “take the Indian out of the child” Seems to me they took the Christ out of Christian.

@Alethea_Aggiuq

My thanks to documentary film maker @Alethea_Aggiuq "Details will emerge with a report..it’s likely many burials over time means it was a long held & known practice to hide the bodies of dead native children in unmarked mass graves.. a policy...deliberately continued and hidden."

My friend @KyleIrvingin Winnipeg, produced what many think of as the definitive film about Residential Schools. This was done for the National Film Board. It's called "We were Children." available at NFB.ca site and #AmazonPrime nfb.ca/film/we_were_c…

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