Tuesday's Ride - HMS 'iron Duke' & Other Warship AKA HMS Iron Duke (1914-1918)

School Lunch in Japan - It's Not Just About Eating!

Get inspired to see how Japanese students operate their lunch period! You can see why "lunch period" is placed as a learning period in Japanese schools. Directed, edited and filmed by Atsuko Satake Quirk, Cafeteria Culture's media director. Visit 

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Monday's Ride - F-22 Raptor in th Mach Loop

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After 10 years of prostituting themselves to Stephen Harper the Mainstream Media is now whining about not being invited to travel with Trudeau

Statement by Chief Erwin Redsky on the occasion of the visit of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation

STEVE BELL·SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016

This past thursday, Justin Trudeau made the trek to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation and spent the whole day there with the community. The media were kept off the reserve so he could experience the community and their joys and hardships without having to posture and pose. He hauled water into people’s homes, he rode the mud-slick roads in the back of a rez truck, he spent time with the youth, he and Stewart Redsky toured the site of aqueduct intake that has caused such terrible suffering, and he spent time in the Museum of Human Right’s Violations (which is open to visitors btw.) “He’s got good bones,” said my friend who was there. “But he’s going to need a lot of courage and support to do what he hopes to do. It’s vital that he not only knows the facts, but that he feels them.”

Good leaders lead by example. Obviously it’s too early to judge Prime Minister Trudeau’s tenure, but this is an indication of the quality of leadership I’ve been praying for for a long time. I hope newly elected Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister will make a similar trip before he is too far into his term. Canadians, post TRC, are developing a taste and moral capacity for just reconciliation with First Nation’s peoples. I suspect history will remember leaders from this era as having either led us forward, or backward on this particular issue. Below is the speech Chief Erwin Redsky gave at the close of Justin’s visit. It is well worth reading (several times.) —SB

https://www.facebook.com/notes/steve-bell/statement-by-chief-erwin-redsky-on-the-occasion-of-the-visit-of-prime-minister-j/10154092163003555

Stop the whining and start listening

While the PMO certainly could have handled the exclusivity of this visit with more tact, the outrage shown by traditional corporate media at being excluded suggests we have a long way to go on the road to reconciliation.

Jefferys: Covering indigenous communities is a privilege, not a right

Many of us will someday tell our children about this apparent tipping point in our collective nationhood: when “reconciliation” between indigenous and non-indigenous communities came crashing on to the public radar and the news media and government suddenly grew a conscience. We all want to believe that reconciliation is a process that’s begun to unfold.

Indeed it has, but only just.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent private visit to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation (which straddles the border between Manitoba and Ontario) is indicative of this change, as was the mainstream media appetite to cover it.

But VICE Canada was given exclusive access to the trip in order to generate footage for an original series it is producing on indigenous youth in isolated reserve communities. VICE has produced a number of investigative works, including a documentary on the lack of water in many reserve communities, and a provocative piece showcasing the work of volunteers searching for bodies in Winnipeg’s Red River. As an online publication, one could argue, it has paid its dues.

http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/jefferys-covering-indigenous-communities-is-a-privilege-not-a-right

So while the PMO certainly could have handled the exclusivity of this visit with more tact, the outrage shown by traditional corporate media at being excluded suggests we have a long way to go on the road to reconciliation.

Dipping one’s toe into the indigenous file only when it’s on the boil (right now, obviously) or convenient to do so feels like residual colonial practice. Of course the media are frustrated in losing privileged access to a leader’s visit to a region experiencing abject poverty. However, this region and others are also entitled to their privacy.

In fact, VICE says it pretty much let the community dictate how things would go. “The community of Shoal Lake 40 drove all of the decision-making for this documentary,” said VICE Canada’s Michael Gruzuk. “It would be disrespectful to this community had they not set the terms in how (our visit) unfolded. Ultimately Shoal Lake 40 had final say on everything, not the PMO (or VICE).”

Here is what reporters, real reporters that is, do for a living..... thanks VICE

April 29 - We Spent the Day With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...On today's Daily VICE, footage from our day with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he meets with the young people of Shoal Lake 40, a remote Indigenous reserve that has been on a boil-water advisory for 20 years:

 http://bit.ly/1VWSdSF

https://www.facebook.com/VICE/videos/vb.167115176655082/1270639632969292/?type=2&theater

Redskins Drop Offensive Name

 

 

The  Washington Redskins finally drop offensive name: 

Dan Snyder,  owner of the NFL Redskins, has announced that the team is dropping " Washington" from the team name, and it will henceforth be simply known  as "The Redskins." 

It was reported that he finds the word  'Washington' imparts a negative image of poor leadership, mismanagement,  corruption, cheating, lying, and graft, and is not a fitting role-model  for young fans of football.

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Why the West can't compete with China

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TRAVEL PLANS FOR 2016 & 2017

And we don’t even have to leave home!

TRAVEL PLANS FOR 2016 I have been in many places, but I've never been in Kahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Kahoots with someone. I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there. I have, however, been in Sane. They don't have an airport. You have to be driven there. I have made several trips there thanks to my children, friends, family and work. I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I'm not too much on physical activity anymore. I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to visit there too often. I've been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm. Sometimes I'm in Capable. I go there more often as I'm getting older. One of my favourite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenallin flowing and pumps up the old heart!  At my age I need all the stimuli I can get! I may have been in Continent, but I don't remember what country I was in. It's an age thing. They tell me it is very wet and damp there. Thanks Ivan

Masculine Moments YouTube

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To My Wine Tastin' Friends

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Sunday's Ride - 1947 Pontiac

Great read from a former Conservative MP

The Duffy affair — and what it’s like living under the PMO’s bootheel

Author: Brent Rathgeber

Brent Rathgeber was the Conservative MP for the riding of Edmonton—St. Albert from 2008 to 2013, when he resigned from the Conservative caucus to protest the Harper government’s lack of commitment to transparency and open government. He ran and lost in the 2015 federal election to a Conservative candidate. He is the author of Irresponsible Government: The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan's law school and a member of the Alberta bar. www.brentrathgeber.ca View all posts by Brent Rathgeber

http://ipolitics.ca/2016/04/27/the-duffy-affair-and-what-its-like-living-under-the-pmos-bootheel/

Wintersleep - Amerika (Official Video)

Michael Jackson on Beer Bottles

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