The meeting heard compelling — in some cases heart-breaking — accounts from children snatched away from their families, then shunted between as many as 20 foster home and group homes before “aging out” of the system at age 18.Not that I have a quarrel with Canada’s minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs...
Look, not my business, folks... but you might wanna ask the Hapsburgs about the end product of hundreds of years of inbreeding within a statistically limited gene pool. I will say, there are solid scientific reasons you don't continually marry people you're related to, over hundreds of years. Hell, maybe David Suzuki could explain it better.Or maybe the government?
"The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than for other children in Canada."**********
Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2002. Ottawa: Health Canada.
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"Demographics are often used to explain Western Canada’s relatively high crime rates. Alberta, for instance, is one of the youngest jurisdictions in Canada and the only province with more men than women."Gotta be all those dumbass cowboys, right?
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LAST WORD: In the bosom of their... sweet baby jebus...
Lucy Barney, a nurse-researcher at the Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia and co-author of the paper, said "people congregate in social networks where they feel safe - with their peers."
"This is a real problem when your peers are addicts and end up sharing needles."