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I hope Boris is keeping it zipped. That one's dangerous.
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Is she complaining about this, Ilanaaq? What's wrong with this lady?
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I say good for her. Because after reading the comments below her article in the Telegraph I want every one of those pretentious boobs to date her and know what misery really is. They won't be high-fiving her when she's destroyed their jobs and they're taking out a restraining order.
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The reason they're using an Inuit symbol is because Canada has to still keep up the myth that we didn't try to exterminate our native populations like our neighbours to the south. In typical Canadian passive-aggressive style we just had the Hudson's Bay give them smallpox infected blankets. No Indian Wars for us, by the time our superior Europeans made it out west, the native population was virtually wiped out.
Jesus its not enough that she's a racist but like a lot of my fellow countrymen, she a STUPID racist (Ive noticed you have the same problem) Shame she went and fucked some American with some juice or she would still be knocking back some Labatts in Sarnia or whatever pimple on the Canadian Shield she's from.
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Go us!
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I didn't realize you could win a medal for "THE WINTER GAMES". That must be quite an event.
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Who was it that said 'a foolish consistency...? Was it a friend of yours?
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So you're 1 for 2. Although when you factor in how you're a titanic fucking dickhead, I don't really know what that does to your score. Maybe 1 for 73? That sounds about right.
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Lots of Summer gold since then, tho.
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HBC didn't hand out smallpox-infested blankets; that was practiced by the British Army (specifically, General Jeffery Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet) in response to Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years' War, better known to Americans as the "French and Indian War."
The uprising was focused on what is now Western Pennsylvania and Lower Michigan, specifically Forts Detroit and Pitt, and directed at traders and settlers coming from the American colonies. At that time, Detroit, Montreal and Quebec had just been captured from the French, and aside from the trading posts on Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes, there was no European presence in what is now Ontario and the western provinces.
HBC relied too heavily on the First Nations for its prosperity to engage in biological warfare against them. After all, its only source of income was the fur trade, and no natives meant no furs. True, smallpox and other diseases endemic to Europeans followed the fur traders into native settlements with devastating results, but to call that a deliberate act of biological warfare is utter bullshit. I refer you to an article from the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases [www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov] for more background and a first-hand account.
Canada's treatment of the Métis provides some sobering reading, but there's general agreement that the Indian tribes of the Canadian Plains had a much easier time of it than their cousins to the south. Tribal leaders such as Sitting Bull were able to take refuge behind the skirts of the Great White Mother when the firepower of the US Army under Sherman and Sheridan proved overwhelming.
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I have to say, though, even though the facts weren't quite correct, at least topsy isn't one of the many, many Canadians who don't recognise that awful things have happened to our First Nations people.
There is a LOT of racism out there.
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Yes, there is far too much racism, but it exists among people of all races. Two wrongs never make a right, as my great-grandmother from Sarnia would have said.
I think you're too generous to topsy, since the only thing that s/he got right was Canada's disappointing medal count at Calgary.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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But remember I am watching you, Foster Kamer. Always watching...
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Who even publishes Marsden anymore? Certainly nobody in Canada will touch her with a 10 foot pole strapped to a 10 foot pole. I guess she has to go overseas, to a british blog, to get any press at all. And who hired her over there? Any self-respecting editor would take five minutes on google and never talk to her again.
There's a personal connection here somewhere, probably. I wonder what it is.
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