Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m Indigenous and I live in northern Ontario … and I fully support our current government for what it is and most of the people I talk to around me feel the same.

    It’s only a very loud minority of self serving conservatives with a huge bone to pick and an oversized chip on their shoulder that talk non-stop about how terrible this government is. I see stickers on trucks, ads on the internet, ads on tv, ads in paper, constant bombardment from everywhere in public ads saying how bad the government is … while most of the people I talk to have no real ill feelings against the government and only a handful of hateful, spiteful, angry conservatives who go around saying how terrible our country is and blaming it on one single person for no real reason.

    Honestly, the only message I hear from conservatives is that they hate Justin Trudeau … some knowledgeable ones and those with a decent vocabulary can describe to me why they hate Trudeau … the rest just keep telling me we are living in a communist dictatorship and they demand their freedom back.

    I agree that this isn’t a perfect government … they could be doing so much more but as they are now, they are doing fine.

    It’s the conservatives I fear the most because if they achieve power, we will regress this country back to fighting between minorities/marginalized people/people of colour/indigenous and a vocal moral minority of conservatives that think they own the country.

    This isn’t a political campaign for any kind of ideology … its just another hate campaign designed to make one group fight another because of??? just because they want to be hateful and fight … then after the fight is over, they’ll continue fighting with everyone and blaming problems on those they deem less than themselves.


  • Also discovered something crazy about birthdays when it comes to athletics and competitive sports.

    An athletes chance of success are based on what month they are born. Depending on the sport, region and organizations and systems involved … if an athlete is born earlier in the year and the rank they are placed in starts at the beginning of the year, they have a better chance because they will almost be a year older than the player born at the end of the year. In Junior leagues or youth divisions at 10 years of age to 18 … a year makes a huge difference in the players.

    I learned all of this from talking to a few individuals who went through provincial level hockey in Ontario.

    When it comes to the top level sports … what month you are born really matters.


  • I have a friend like that …

    We’ll both be looking at something amazing, like fireworks, a magician, a street performer, a house fire, an air plane crash, a ufo has landed, or a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion … and even though he knows full well that the thing we’re looking at is so interesting that you can’t look away or ignore it, he will still tell me and others around us …

    LOOK AT THAT!, JUST LOOK AT THAT, SEE???, LOOK AT IT!! … while nudging, holding, turning people at the shoulder and pointing manically … LOOK AT IT, LOOK, YOU SEE THAT?, LOOK!!! … even after you acknowledge him and tell him you’re looking at it … LOOK AT IT!, YOU SEE THAT! LOOK!!!








  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caOPtoCanada@lemmy.caHappy Canada Day
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    My mom and dad were born and raised in the wilderness and my family on all sides has been part of this land for thousands of years … even with all the trouble we suffered from colonialism and racism, my dad always reminded us that life was better now than it was a generation ago … years ago I thought that was kind of dumb but as I grow older I’ve come to understand what he meant … it isn’t perfect by any means but it is still good and its up to all of us to make sure it doesn’t regress but only moves forward, not just for one segment or small group of people … but for everyone who was born here, came here, were forced here or had to be here.

    I’m happy to be part of this land with you … kitchi-meegwetch doodem … it means ‘thanks very much, my friend’ in Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario.


  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caOPtoCanada@lemmy.caHappy Canada Day
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    @[email protected] and if you ever want to go full Native Canadian … go camping, take a day picking wild berries, make some bannock on a roasting stick over a fire, boil your berries in some water with a bit of sugar or honey … dip your roasted bannock in with the wild berry jam straight from the pot and have a wild dessert while admiring this beautiful wild country … while you’re at it, boil some water, make some strong tea, skim the dead mosquitoes from your drink with your finger and enjoy a hot beverage with your bannock