Mladen Palaic @mpalaic - Twitter Profile

@GagnonFrancois There was no Gold medal match in 80 Olympics. It was a round robin medal round. The last game was US v Finland but Finland didn’t even medal. People forget that!

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Mladen Palaic @mpalaic

6 months ago

@BobbyPrica Habs play tonight

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6 months ago

.@davidfrum: "Canada should be able both to recognize rights for Indigenous people and to care more about the real outcomes of investments in Indigenous well-being, without resorting to a metaphor that claims there is some overriding “title” that validates the idea that Canada itself is an act of wrongdoing. I think that’s where we really need to start if we’re going to teach history—and that is, after all, what these land-acknowledgment rituals are supposed to be about. We should teach it honestly and say: look, before European arrival there were, in what is now Canada—of course there were no borders then—somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000 human beings. They lived north of the 49th parallel, north of the Great Lakes, stretching all the way up to what is now the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Some lived in the eastern part of Canada; some were agriculturalists in parts of the west. But these populations were very thin, especially on the Prairies, because there were no horses. You couldn’t do buffalo hunts on that scale, so people lived a far more hardscrabble, basic existence. Life was terribly poor. People were constantly at the mercy of the forces of nature. The idea that there was some harmonious Eden here, where people were long settled and stayed in the same place for hundreds or thousands of years, is not true either. And the notion that bringing this part of the world into the modern age was some singular, terrible crime—that, I think, is where we need to push back and say: that’s not true. Everyone—including Indigenous people, very much including Indigenous people—is better off now than they were before North America was brought into the world system. And in any case, there was no realistic way that this was not going to happen. To imagine otherwise is fantasy". https://t.co/ryqbzs9zAh

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