Indian Winter

Idle No More: Attawapiskat protester (Photo credit: jonathonreed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billions of dollars are owed to the First Nations people according to the

treaties that have been signed between them and the Federal Government

since Confederation.

Today they are knocking on the door asking for their money and demanding

to be free of Federal Government inept monitoring and control.

 

The Conservative Government, however, would rather put the money

elsewhere.

 

If you are like me and your home town newspaper is controlled by the Sun

Media right wing conglomerate, it is sometimes difficult to get the other side

of a story.

You can watch for opinion columns like the one written by Warren Kinsella. 

He is intelligent, amusing and refers to himself as the Sun's 'token

Liberal/liberal'. 

Jeesh.  That's an understatement.

To me he often sounds like the only journalist over at Sun who isn't frothing

at the mouth and afraid of water.

Anyway.

Reason is out there. 

The article, Attawapiskat: Firing back at the racist rants and ignorant

responses with facts, on rabble.ca is a must-read.

It was written by Âpihtawikosâ, a  Métis originally from Alberta now studying

Civil Law in Montreal.  You can read it here.

 

An essay, entitled Truth is more complex than Attawapiskat audit can tell us,

(sorry you'll have to google the title to read it), by John Ibbitson at

the Globe is also worth your attention. 

But whatever else you do, tie your tent down tightly.

 It could be a long bitter winter.

A New Years Resolution

 

 

I was having lunch with a friend a few weeks ago and she told me that she thought there were fewer interesting letters to the editor in the newspaper these days because people who like to share their opinions are blogging.

I realized that she is right. 

I used to send letter s to the editor.

I've had letters published in the St. Catharines Standard, the Toronto Sun and the National Post. 

One of my letters even resulted in one anonymous irate phone call and one phone call from a fan who did identify himself.  Much to my embarrassment.

The power of the printed word, eh!!  Ha ha.

Anyway.

I guess my New Year's Resolution is to speak out more often about issues that I think are important.

And not just in blogs.

 

Here is my letter published in the Standard last night:

 

 

 It's a start.