The simple facts today are that anyone who disagrees with the narrative from the liberal elites in Ottawa headed by Mr trudeau aka Blackface and his booblehead crew are considered racist, colonials, terrorists, nazis and people who wear tinfoil hats. Whereas he in fact is the most divisive intolerant premier to ever lead this country who has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth every time he opens it and has a temper tantrum every time anyone has the temerity to disagree with him a classic example of that is Tamara Lych & the peaceful convoy to Ottawa.
Disgusting to see the head of this country act like a little spoiled brat at the best of times but when he started this entire debacle in the first place it only makes it worse. A sad day indeed when truth and justice take a back door to woke ideology.
What is Sinclair's hold over WFP. He seems to be able to write anything with impunity and with no dissenting (read truthful) viewpoints or rebuttals allowed.
-- "Informed sources have indicated that Frontier’s focus of concern is an opinion piece titled Fomenting hate sets stage for heinous criminals’ devastating acts, published by the Winnipeg Free Press (WFP) on December 7, 2022."
The FCPP statement of Jan 19 specifically references this event and the activists, political party reps and "some media" who had "worked in a concerted effort the day of the event to make false and damaging accusations against the Centre."
If FCPP does take legal action, I'll be most eager to learn (via the proceedings) exactly which of its facts on residential schools are shown to be "nonsense" as claimed by Sinclair (or, as he says, "wouldn’t pass a fact check in any introductory Indigenous studies class." (Do they do fact checks in those classes?)
Thanks, NGC. I'd read that Giesbrecht piece and saved the link, but failed to note the author, so my search didn't connect me to it (and I was looking for something from farther back, like last spring or summer). I always appreciate Giesbrecht's articles and their complete documentation.
Following a (July 23, 2022) Real Story article, commenter Steve Weatherbe complained to Glavin, “You never give the Kamloops Band enough DIScredit for its initial news release which claimed that the remains of 215 Residential School children had been found.”
Glavin responded with: “Maybe. There's no question the chief shouldn't have used the word "confirms" in her initial statement and three days later she was already backtracking/clarifying. Also, "the stark truth of the preliminary findings" is really bad phrasing. Makes it sounds like it's the "truth" that there are human remains involved, when the only truth was the "preliminary findings," which did not find human remains, because GPR doesn't do that.”
Then commenter Joan (yours truly) responded with: “And then there's the word "remains", which should definitely not have been used, and I don't believe that wording was ever really retracted. So for more than a year now we've seen it repeated in the media, sometimes amplified as "skeletal remains" or even "bodies." There could have been much more clarification coming immediately from the Kamloops band, and even from SFU and/or Dr. Beaulieu or UFV, but there wasn't much effort made in that regard. Instead, one got the impression that Indigenous leaders were enjoying the heat from that wildfire, and didn't want to see it controlled. And that they were indifferent to the trauma that the unverified reports were causing to vulnerable Indigenous people. Even this morning, during CBC's coverage of the Pope's address at Edmonton, one Indigenous leader (sorry, didn't catch his name) made reference to "the discovery of those graves last year and 10,000 more since."
The simple facts today are that anyone who disagrees with the narrative from the liberal elites in Ottawa headed by Mr trudeau aka Blackface and his booblehead crew are considered racist, colonials, terrorists, nazis and people who wear tinfoil hats. Whereas he in fact is the most divisive intolerant premier to ever lead this country who has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth every time he opens it and has a temper tantrum every time anyone has the temerity to disagree with him a classic example of that is Tamara Lych & the peaceful convoy to Ottawa.
Disgusting to see the head of this country act like a little spoiled brat at the best of times but when he started this entire debacle in the first place it only makes it worse. A sad day indeed when truth and justice take a back door to woke ideology.
Journalism is supposed to be a dispassionate search for truth. This "journalist" seems like a hate-filled activist with an agenda.
What is Sinclair's hold over WFP. He seems to be able to write anything with impunity and with no dissenting (read truthful) viewpoints or rebuttals allowed.
-- "Informed sources have indicated that Frontier’s focus of concern is an opinion piece titled Fomenting hate sets stage for heinous criminals’ devastating acts, published by the Winnipeg Free Press (WFP) on December 7, 2022."
I don't doubt this "Fomenting" thing is one of their concerns, but the timing of the FCPP's statement (Jan 19) makes me think their threat of legal action was more directly triggered by the N Sinclair piece of Jan 13 (updated Jan 14) in which Sinclair attacks the FCPP by name, following an FCPP event that was attended by Pierre Poilievre: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2023/01/13/poilievre-think-tank-event-adds-to-nonsense?fbclid=IwAR1Gxpo53d9bK-vrEmpTvhqf15Dgv8i7xIEyx14zqQMKdqnXeRWloBcqsDM
The FCPP statement of Jan 19 specifically references this event and the activists, political party reps and "some media" who had "worked in a concerted effort the day of the event to make false and damaging accusations against the Centre."
If FCPP does take legal action, I'll be most eager to learn (via the proceedings) exactly which of its facts on residential schools are shown to be "nonsense" as claimed by Sinclair (or, as he says, "wouldn’t pass a fact check in any introductory Indigenous studies class." (Do they do fact checks in those classes?)
Thanks, NGC. I'd read that Giesbrecht piece and saved the link, but failed to note the author, so my search didn't connect me to it (and I was looking for something from farther back, like last spring or summer). I always appreciate Giesbrecht's articles and their complete documentation.
Following a (July 23, 2022) Real Story article, commenter Steve Weatherbe complained to Glavin, “You never give the Kamloops Band enough DIScredit for its initial news release which claimed that the remains of 215 Residential School children had been found.”
Glavin responded with: “Maybe. There's no question the chief shouldn't have used the word "confirms" in her initial statement and three days later she was already backtracking/clarifying. Also, "the stark truth of the preliminary findings" is really bad phrasing. Makes it sounds like it's the "truth" that there are human remains involved, when the only truth was the "preliminary findings," which did not find human remains, because GPR doesn't do that.”
Then commenter Joan (yours truly) responded with: “And then there's the word "remains", which should definitely not have been used, and I don't believe that wording was ever really retracted. So for more than a year now we've seen it repeated in the media, sometimes amplified as "skeletal remains" or even "bodies." There could have been much more clarification coming immediately from the Kamloops band, and even from SFU and/or Dr. Beaulieu or UFV, but there wasn't much effort made in that regard. Instead, one got the impression that Indigenous leaders were enjoying the heat from that wildfire, and didn't want to see it controlled. And that they were indifferent to the trauma that the unverified reports were causing to vulnerable Indigenous people. Even this morning, during CBC's coverage of the Pope's address at Edmonton, one Indigenous leader (sorry, didn't catch his name) made reference to "the discovery of those graves last year and 10,000 more since."
Checked my notes but couldn't find precisely what you are looking for. There's a great article here by Giesbrecht, but it's from April 2022 (so it pre-dates the Glavin *Year of the Graves* piece in the NP): https://giesbrecht.substack.com/p/we-had-a-knowing?utm_source=account-card&utm_content=reads&showWelcome=true&s=r
In terms of rebuttals, here's a good one by Flanagan and Giesbrecht, rebutting Marc Miller, from January 2022: https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/a-reply-to-minister-marc-miller?fbclid=IwAR3HtTHQG-obApyKq_hnBJ9zvA4_6if31rsrWsB3riDgRzJFmpa3tGgg390
Here's another by Flanagan & Giesbrecht from April 2022: https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/they-were-not-forced
There are multiple comments following Glavin's own pieces (in the National Post and in his substack) that disagree with some of Glavin's views.
I expect someone on here will point you to the exact Giesbrecht article you seek.
Is it this one Joan? https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/common-misconceptions-of-the-indian
Yup, thanks. Greg (NGC) located and shared it above.