The TRC was effectively paid for by Indian Residential School survivors themselves as part of their settlement from the state & churches. That TRC also requested $1.5m in funding to identify graves, which was denied in 2009 by the federal government.
This. In fact, “reconciliation” has been largely paid for by Indigenous people. Harper’s 2008 apology and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission didn’t emerge from Canada’s political will to act or redress relations, but from the largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history.
@arpan_on_BC I don’t pay enough attention to Global reporting to speak either way tbh but I’ll take your word. It’s just so infuriating. (also, good to see you bru).
This is the laziest form of reporting and so damaging to cultivating the kinds of engaged and empathetic sensibilities required to fix the many social and economic concerns this tweet demonizes as simply localized to this space. The replies are gross.
There was more genuine laughter in a week of TEAM than you’ll get from a lifetime of this canned joke of a station. @Bell really paved 1040 and put up this parking lot for our contempt, and I’m glad to see it being filled like a chamber pot and ratioed into the abyss. Funny™ !
@PaulChapman_ @Bell absolutely. lots of cruel ironies this week. irony helps makes legible the logics of a system where such contradictions are in fact structural to its maintenance rather than accidental.
Apologies that this note didn’t come Tuesday in the aftermath.
Hectic day. Much to do. Lots of emotion to sort. And many (now former) colleagues I needed to talk to.
Believe at the peak, there were 300 unread texts. Wanted to respond to those first. Done that. Took 2.5 days.
Just listened to the podcast of @HalfordTSN & @sadclubcommish and the last words spoken on #TSN1040 were: “Learn how to listen. Because it’s really important in life.” Cruel irony? Not sure, but it seems fitting. Hope you’ll listen here as I reflect a bit (or, mute!) 1/?
@YLWNucksFan @dude_ab1ded my wife on the morning commute with the kids today: “so we dont have to listen to two guys yelling about sports and the simpsons?” no, sadly 😂
@risingaction it’s funny, I think I actually listened MORE last year, in the thick of COVID lockdown, when there was no “sports” to be discussed, for precisely this reason. in isolation, with the world around crumbling, the connection was familiar/grounding and the irreverence was therapeutic
@orangeclarke98 @PaulChapman_ Yes—why Botch was great (if not too much!) for 1040. I’m leery to homologize the loss of human life with the end of a business, but I feel the analogy you’re making. Botch (as media persona) and 1040 both, in diff ways/degrees, sounded our weird fandom and ennobled its zeitgeists