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Slow day!; maybe news from north of the border will pick things up:
Topic Started: Mar 31 2014, 06:42 AM (342 Views)
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Truth and Reconciliation: Nearly 4 Years of Hearings Wrap

Commission heard about sordid legacy of church-run schools
CBC News Posted: Mar 30, 2014


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The commission delving into the sordid legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools was wrapping up nearly four years of public hearings Sunday, where thousands of victims recounted stories of cruelty and abuse at the hands of those entrusted with their care.

The heart-breaking accounts — almost all videotaped — will now form part of a lasting record of one of the darkest chapters in the country's history.....

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Constable leaves ICU after being shot at Brampton Courthouse

Courthouse will resume 'normal operations' on Monday morning
CBC News Posted: Mar 30, 2014

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The veteran officer who was shot in a Brampton, Ont., courthouse two days ago is now out of intensive care.

Peel Regional Police Const. Mike Klarenbeek was wounded Friday morning, when a 46-year-old man walked into the courthouse and opened fire....

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Union takes federal government to court over who has right to strike
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The country’s largest federal public sector union is taking the Conservative government to court over legislative changes in last fall’s budget bill that block strikes by federal workers considered to offer “essential” services.....



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colo_crawdad
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The day looks to be slow because few of amy one is visiting the forum today.
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Yes, the Indian School disgrace
should give anyone claiming to be Christian pause!
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campingken
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Ontario is one of my favorite Canadian Providences. Atikokan is the gateway to some great wilderness fishing and the Rainy River area is flat out beautiful.
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Mar 31 2014, 08:53 AM
Yes, the Indian School disgrace
should give anyone claiming to be Christian pause!

Yes, especially Canadian Christians..... and the Canadian Non-Christians looked the other way which, I suppose, makes them just as guilty. But, I also suppose it happens everywhere... not just in Canada.
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Union takes federal government to court over who has right to strike
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The country’s largest federal public sector union is taking the Conservative government to court over legislative changes in last fall’s budget bill that block strikes by federal workers considered to offer “essential” services.....


Public Unions... they can be a problem. Perhaps Canada should take the advice of a great liberal president, FDR, and avoid the possible catastrophic results of public employee strikes that could halt government.

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All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."....


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Lets hope the Canadians do make the same mistake in judgement that FDR did in that particular case.
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campingken
Mar 31 2014, 10:20 AM
Ontario is one of my favorite Canadian Providences. Atikokan is the gateway to some great wilderness fishing and the Rainy River area is flat out beautiful.
The 'Choke', was just there for some hockey the other day.

You probably wouldn't like it much in the winter Ken!!
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Our Indians were grosly mistreated as were yours and Australia was probaby the worst.
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It seems yours is ongoing.

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