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Lobster Catch Destroyed, Van Burned As Tensions Rise With Illegal protests over Legal Indigenous Fishery In N.S.

The RCMP were present for some of the incident but did not have official comment Wednesday morning on what happened.Which seems par for the course when dealing with illegal infringement of Indigenous rights!

HALIFAX — The chief of a Mi’kmaq First Nation says an angry group of non-Indigenous people damaged lobster pounds holding his people’s catch and burned a vehicle on Tuesday night. 

Video being circulated on social media shows a van being set alight in West Pubnico, N.S., during one of the tense encounters.

Chief Mike Sack of Sipekne’katik First Nation says damage occurred at two locations, one in West Pubnico and the other in the Weymouth area, and lobster caught by the Indigenous fishers was removed from lobster pounds.https://www.cbc.ca/i/caffeine/syndicate/?mediaId=1806607939771

“Local fishermen attacked two lobster buying facilities and did a lot of damage, burned vehicles, took lobsters,” Sack said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “Whatever they wanted to do, happened.”

Sack said two Indigenous harvesters were at the lobster pound in West Pubnico when people broke a door, a van was burned and their catch was taken away.

“My reaction is, I can’t believe how they are getting away with these terrorist, hate crime acts and the police are there,” he said.

Source Canadian Press

In the words of Mi’kmaw Senators Brian Francis and Dan Christmas:

Canada must fully embrace the spirit and intent of the ruling of the highest court in the lands in respect of Moderate Livelihood. Unless and until this occurs any sense of meaningful reconciliation cannot be realized.

Excepted from Tyee article by Andrew Nikiforuk  ,October 9.2020

The Australian Invasion: Big Coal’s Plans for Alberta

Speculators from Down Under aim to carve up the Rockies with a chain of open-pit mines amid growing revolt.

Two Australian billionaires and four coal mining companies with names including Atrum and Montem plan to industrialize nearly 800 square kilometres of the southern Canadian Rockies to supply steel-making coal for Asian and Brazilian markets.

Jason Kenney’s government ,in addition to rescinding the Coal Policy, has sent letters of support to Australian mining speculators offering them less red tape and lower corporate taxes. As well, it has promised speedy permitting. And it has staffed the Alberta Energy Regulator, which will review each coal mining project, with people whose pasts are aligned with resource extracting corporations. One is the self-described “political activist” John Weissenberger, who worked on Jason Kenney’s election campaign. 

Coal Association Canada president Robin Campbell lobbied to achieve what Australian mining companies wanted, the killing of Coal Policy restrictions on open-pit mining in sensitive areas of the Rockies. He’d previously served as Alberta’s environment minister

Revolt in Alberta’s ranchlands

The government’s cozy relationship with Aussie coal miners and speculators has alarmed and outraged landowners and ranchers who graze cattle in the eastern slopes, used for that purpose since the turn of the century. 

Water scientist David Schindler, a noted professor at the University of Alberta, called the mine proposals short-sighted and foolhardy. 

“The best example of why you shouldn’t mine in mountain watersheds comes from Appalachia where mountaintops have been pushed into streams, aquifers have been destroyed and selenium and other toxic trace metals contaminate the watershed.” 

He sees a lesson in Alberta’s experience with the oilsands, now losing investors as analysts predict that globally climate change regulations and low prices will render bitumen mining projects “stranded assets” incapable of breaking even.

If the Australian invasion is given free rein, “the coal will not be used for long,” said Schindler, “so again Alberta will be left with stranded assets,” along with a legacy of degraded landscapes. 

Recycling was a lie — a big lie — to sell more plastic, industry experts say

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LESS THAN 10 PER CENT OF THE PLASTICS WE’VE USED HAVE BEEN RECYCLED. A NEW DOCUMENTARY REVEALS WHY

Sainte Françoise Romaine announcing in Rome the end of the plague by Nicolas Poussin, 1657

Icarus was so intoxicated by the experience of flight that he went higher and higher. As the wax in his wings melted, he tumbled into the sea and drowned. The saying “don’t fly too close to the sun” is a reference to Icarus‘ recklessness and defiance of limitations.

Fan Boy Donald Trump and Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio

UPDATE: September 5/23

CNN — 

Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and leading a failed plot to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

The sentence from District Judge Timothy Kelly is the longest given to anyone in relation to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

Tarrio leaned against a podium at the front of the courtroom and hung his head as the judge handed down his sentence. Three other members of Proud Boys leadership were also found guilty of seditious conspiracy and sentenced last week

UPDATED July 7,2022 from September 30,2020 post

The Proud Boys is a far-right and neo-fascist organization that admits only men as members and promotes and engages in political violence. It is based in the United States and has a presence in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Founded in 2016 by a Canadian Gavin McInnes

n 2018, McInnes was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for violating terms of use related to promoting violent extremist groups and hate speech. In June 2020, McInnes’s account was suspended from YouTube for violating YouTube’s policies concerning hate speech, posting content that was “glorifying [and] inciting violence against another person or group of people.”

According to his remarks (Stand back/Stand by) during the 2020 Presidential debate it seems President Donald Trump is a fanboy !

Fast forward ahead to June 6,2022

The former top leader and other members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group were charged with seditious conspiracy for what federal prosecutors say was a co-ordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol could arguably through it’s investigations find evidence to recommend seditious conspiracy charges against Fan Boy Trump !

Fan Boy will join Proud Boy pals in the slammer ...perhaps…

Disclaimer: This may prove to be a fantasy because ….Stay tuned!

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Their ancestors were sworn enemies. Now two … – CBC.cawww.cbc.ca › art-connects-on-q-aa-bronson-adrian-stimson

Their ancestors were sworn enemies. Now two artists are exploring the power of apology

Adrian Stimson & AA Bronson emphasize conciliation, arguing that conciliation needs to be achieved before reconciliation is possible.

“When the government apologizes, that’s fine, and a lot of people did a lot of work around that. But the real acts of conciliation happen between individuals. It’s the people themselves who have to take it upon themselves to find ways of creating relationships,” Stimson said. “And it may not always end up in an apology. But it’s so important to understand that history, and look to ways of repairing or creating new relationships into the future.”