John Luton

Active transportation consultant. Former city councillor, still working Canadian politics. New Democrat. Liver transplant survivor. Gold medal-Transplant Games

[John Luton @johnluton]

@realannapaulina Yeah, tell me about. MAGA and your Russian friends are piling on Canada. You reap what you sow.

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"Throughout the history of Canada’s residential school system, there was no organized effort to record the number of students who died in residence each year across the entire system." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"On the basis of the work undertaken to date, it is apparent that there are likely to be other unidentified residential gravesites across the country." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"This led to the destruction of fifteen tons of paper. Between 1936 and 1944, 200,000 Indian Affairs files were destroyed." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"As well, many records have simply been destroyed. According to a 1933 federal government policy, school returns could be destroyed after five years and reports of accidents could be destroyed after ten years." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"Due to the limitations in the records, it is probable that there are many student deaths that have not been recorded in the register because the record of the death has not yet been located." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"The most basic of questions about missing children—Who died? Why did they die? Where are they buried?—have never been addressed or comprehensively documented by the Canadian government." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"No one took care to count how many died or to record where they were buried." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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Unfinished business. "There is a need for the development and implementation of a national strategy for the documentation, maintenance, commemoration, and protection of residential school cemeteries." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"The tragedy of the loss of children was compounded by the fact that burial places were distant or even unknown." From the report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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"Aboriginal children in residential schools died at a far higher rate than school-aged children in the general population." https://t.co/PYjUCIdKz2

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Where are they, who are they? Truth & Reconciliation Commission reported that the government and the churches did not record the names of 32% of the children who died in their care at residential schools. https://t.co/PYjUCIdcJu

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Reality bites, literally. Climate change is coming to a mosquito near you. https://t.co/jjDYBPII3X

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@rparmar_BC Ms Findlay plans to rid BC of WEF influence so a little rich for trolls to take issue with so called tired old conspiracy theories. Some of you need to get a new hobby.

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@caroltreardon @mario4thenorth And don't forget the fire sale of public assets to create the illusion of fiscal surplus.

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@rodmickleburgh It may be a heady brew, but there's lots of froth. May be a bitter brew for some to swallow Findlay's transparent racism, unhinged WEF conspiracy theories and unhealthy pandering to anti-vaxxers.

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@franco_nomics Don't recall seeing your outrage at the millions Poilievre spent touring the country on the taxpayer dime pretending to be doing Parliamentary business while running his losing campaign. Can't take you seriously.

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@Polysesouvient Rebel News is not a media outlet; it's a front for extremists, and your gun "rights" are not absolute; they are subject to those restraints agreed upon through the tools of democratic governance. Trolls need to find a new hobby.

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@VancouverSun Constitution guarantees Canadians freedom of religion, but it needs to be absent from our governance. She is signaling otherwise, and given her intolerant bigotry, it is clear she intends to advance her personal faith into the body politic, which everyone should reject.

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@Bclark86 @VancouverSun Yeah, there is. Faith is a personal choice, not a political agenda.