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• A reply on Conversation: How much do you know about First Nations Treaties and the Crown?

  Feb 20 2013: Yes Ken we just finished a four day fireside vigil for a noted woman in our community who passed away last week and it was the women who guarded the fire throughout those four days often it is the men who do this all in all it was very sacred and an honor to have been a part of this ceremony I appreciate your input :)

• A comment on Conversation: Should governments decide where the poor can live?

  Feb 18 2013: I think if it weren't for the poor your taxes would be a lot steeper !!

• A reply on Conversation: How much do you know about First Nations Treaties and the Crown?

  Feb 18 2013: Having said that much the Mi'kmaq are a beautiful entity yet they have not had to battle the many cultures that the Canadian West Coast has had to survive. Many Native Nations on the West coast argue with one another over funding and politics where each Nation holds contrasting traditions and funding. The Mi'kmaq have had a better foundation to rise above it all as it were in our most recent history and in the least it would be my hope that the Mi'kmaq can help the west coast find a common ground by which -all- Native Nations can co exist and get along with one another. It would seem economically the Haida Gwaii have been the forerunner in recognition and tradition we need to include everyone.

• A reply on Conversation: How much do you know about First Nations Treaties and the Crown?

  Feb 18 2013: I don't believe any 1 entity can spare the wasteland that is happening we all have to gather and do it together. We also need to mature as a society without the use of force. Finally I think its high time we dispense of the have's and have nots. I don't know of any 1 country that hasn't been destroyed by the economy and we need to invent a new political economic structure that works and I think society is fresh out of ideas. We need a new age Einstein that quits repeating history. The wealth has exchanged hands over many many hundreds of thousands of years, but with each turn people get as leaders they make the same path, we need to forge something new. Traditions and treaties must be honored and protected but when it comes to world economy and environment something new must take place, we go from police state to military rule same structures different uniforms and people. I don't know who can come up with new ideas but what is clear what ever we do the use of force isn't the answer anymore. Jasper National Park has done some amazing things with the local natives preserving the environment, but look at the use of force by the United States who built the Ice Walk along the Columbian Icefields. No one in Jasper wanted that multi million dollar project built. But then again everyone protested the inception of the Canal in Ottawa as well.. The world is one big mess and I don't see anyone doing anything without excluding and or neglecting their neighbors. Little faith in one tradition fixing our future, it needs to come from all of us.

• A comment on Conversation: What happens when a child does not grow up with influence from movies or TV?

  Feb 8 2013: Greg Dahlen might be wrong I was so busy I didn't have time for tv and the kids would laugh when I didn't know who Stephan King was, but I was too busy to worry about Stephan King or the kids laughing. Blooty shameful when I husband or wife doesn't know how to sit at a dinner table but rather sit on the couch to eat and watch tv. Gross !
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  A comment on Conversation: Can you tell us your life story in one sentence?

  Feb 8 2013: I've skated on ice, flown up through the sky and with a flare landed tippy toe in the grass after skydiving, I've ran, walked, been on a train, plane, bus and automobile,and there is still so much left to do.

• A reply on Conversation: How much do you know about First Nations Treaties and the Crown?

  Feb 8 2013: There is a young gal in Sudbury fighting legislation to protect the polar bears as we speak, but even if you fix legislation regarding hunting anyone can find a polar bear on a good day down at the dump foraging for left over food instead of free ranging :(

• A reply on Conversation: How much do you know about First Nations Treaties and the Crown?

  Feb 4 2013: Yes there are Bison farms now different from hunting wildlife but that picture really explains why I dislike USA hunting in Canada today and they come here to hunt all the time I say go home and hunt on your own land gawd damnit !!

• A comment on Conversation: How much do you know about First Nations Treaties and the Crown?

  Feb 4 2013: Adam Beech applied for Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp was picked totally sucks got to wonder if they can't cast aboriginal celebs if the Disney story alters historical facts

• A reply on Talk: Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don't leave

  Feb 3 2013: Our Canadian Justice system still calls the Queen the victim I think. At any rate victim services apologizes that the court is not there to heal you it is merely there for bureaucracy and is heartless to either side of the party.