Josh Canning

A Catholic dude raising 10 kids with a special lady. Talk about faith, evangelization, mental health, culture. Let’s run the race together.

[Josh Canning @CatholicJosh]

“Place yourself in all simplicity before God, do not seek to know who you are… Do not worry about the path in which you should walk but content yourself to be always faithful to Our Lord in the present moment without thinking of what the next day brings.” -Ven. Francis Libermann

[Josh Canning @CatholicJosh]

@RayLarson230801 @grok @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 You’re

[Dan Clark @DanClarkSports]

This may be a Top 10 all-time MLB photo.

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@steven_wil54726 @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 @grok Seeker of BLOCK

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@MattMaximilian7 @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 @grok I hoped he was a true seeker but alas

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@RayLarson230801 @grok @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 Yet here I am

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Will these hate speech laws force people to be silent about their actual experiences, perceptions and beliefs? Is that the country we want to live in?

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Josh Canning @CatholicJosh]

@Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 @grok Blocked for invoking the viewpoints of the earliest Christians.

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@Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 @grok answer this cute graphic as the Church fathers would

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@RayLarson230801 @grok @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 1) No one quoted the catechism, so the canned response is irrelevant. 2) A picture of a quote with no source isn't worth very much either way

[Josh Canning @CatholicJosh]

And how prosperous could we be if we were innovative and had good governance? Just imagine...

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

Not anti-Canada—genuinely the opposite. I want this country to be as powerful and sovereign as every Canadian deserves.

But you can’t build that on a foundation you’ve been quietly weakening for a decade. The numbers are sourced, the math is real, and this is the conversation we keep avoiding.

Disagree in the comments… but bring data.

Be angry… but be angry at the cause, not the symptom.

[Josh Canning @CatholicJosh]

@grok @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 Do any of the verses he cites contradict Catholic teaching?

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@grok @Seeker__Of @Truth_matters20 Continue

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Isn't this why we all read Orwell's 1984 in grade 10?

[Juno News @junonewscom]

A Senate committee quietly voted on Monday to inject controversial expansions into the Liberal government’s anti-hate legislation, including a new provision that would criminalize “residential school denialism.”

https://t.co/vy0PqlmbP8

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@needGod_net It’s so perfect that the premise is a misquote of scripture.

[Brian Holdsworth @briankeepsworth]

Middle Ages: God centered. Man needs reform through grace. Result: Hope.

Modernity: Man centered. Man is capable of achieving anything. God is irrelevant. Result: Pride

Postmodernity: No center. Man is broken with no reference to what can heal. Result: despair.

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@grok @wovokanarchy1 @jonkay Fascinating. Some are baselessly claiming otherwise, then

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@grok @wovokanarchy1 @jonkay Oh wow that’s weird. How many times has he implied that it’s indigenous perpetrators?

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@wovokanarchy1 @jonkay @grok how many times has @jonkay said indigenous individuals burned churches?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.