âhousewifeâ this â1950sâ thatâŠ.. my bitch in christ they were giving those ladies drugs and lobotomies because they were so depressed and unhappy with their lives i am going to beat the shit out of you
Murray Sinclair was a great Canadian, a great Manitoban, a great Anishinaabe.Â
His career stands as a legacy of public service and a deep commitment to truth, fairness and dignity for all people.Â
He was the first Indigenous person to be named to the Manitoba provincial court and the Court of Queenâs Bench of Manitoba. He was the first, but he will be remembered as one of the best.Â
He was appointed co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which laid bare systemic racism within the justice system and is considered a foundational perspective on the systemâs relationship with Indigenous people. He led the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest and his report spurred systematic change in the delivery of pediatric cardiac care in our province.Â
The penultimate moment of his career was his work as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. He approached a process that could have been divisive and instead transformed it into Calls to Action for the future of our country, helping all Canadians to learn to walk together into a future of respect and understanding where we live up to the phrase residential school survivors taught us â Every Child Matters.Â
It will be a long time before our nation produces another person the calibre of Murray Sinclair. He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth. We should hold dear in our hearts his words that our nation is on the cusp of a great new era and we must all âdare to live greatly together.âÂ
On behalf of the people of Manitoba, I extend my condolences to his family and to all Canadians for the loss of Mazina Giizhik.Â
A sacred fire will be open to the public on the north side of the legislative building grounds until Murray Sinclairâs funeral later this week.
Something that Tanya Talaga said a couple of weeks ago that hasnât left me: when you think of Murray, think of the weight of hearing thousands of accounts of untold horror, and the toll it would take on your body. Think of taking that on. https://t.co/30LQbg26Q2
Adam McNamara will send the Ontario Science Centre the $522,500 required to keep it open for 2024. All those summer childrenâs programs will not need to be cancelled/relocated. All those staff wonât be laid off or displaced at the 11th hour.
Iâm retweeting this because I would like to see this happen. (And I know Adam, and I know he is serious.)
Would you like to see this happen?
Once upon a time youâd take the subway down to Queen, walk west until the stores became fun, and then youâd wander into the crowd under the news van embedded in the building to watch a band play or window cameo a live broadcast, and it was fun.
There it is. This was never about Hamas. We know this.
It was always about seizing Gaza's land and coastlines to build oil rigs and an access channel straight through the country.
This is US imperialism at work; destabilize countries and kill and displace the indigenous people.
Incredible testimony from a former Israeli hostage in Gaza: "the first time we really felt like our lives were in danger" was from Israeli bombings, at which point "Hamas guards covered us with their bodies to protect us from our own forcesâ shooting."
https://t.co/y0i4mCQI3V
At least 26 out of the 35 hospitals in Gaza are non-operational due to Canada-backed Israeli airstrikes, and Canadian politicians are more concerned that a protestor in Toronto waved a Palestinian flag on a hospital, one of many sites a flag was waved along the protest route.
Yesterday in Rafah, #Gaza, one of our doctors recounted via voice message the harrowing experience her family lived through as airstrikes and bombs dropped around them at 5am. Today, she sent us the below series of text messages describing the situation.
The entire spectrum of Canadian politics has chosen to lie about a demonstration today to distract from the assault on Rafah. Every time Israel does something they can't defend, they look for distractions.