09 November 2021

NO MORE THEATRE - LET'S TALK FACTS

BIG SMOKE ON THE REZ:
-- "BRANTFORD - Survivors of the Mohawk Institute are demanding the release of all federal and provincial documents related to the former Brantford residential school. 'No one can analyze and assess the records more quickly and accurately as the communities themselves'.” -- 
YOU MEAN THESE COMMUNITIES?
-- "Statistics Canada calculates that more than half of native kids are living in poverty; ¾ drop out of school before completing Grade 12; the incarceration rate of aboriginal men is 11 times that of non-native men; of women, it is 250 times the rate for non-native women." --
And no more pleading poverty...
-- "At least 80 aboriginal chiefs and band councillors made more money last year than Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and at least 200 were paid more than their provincial premiers, according to newly released federal figures." --