check this out... i couldn't stop laughing. i can't stop watching either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UezWS6lKrtg





check this out... i couldn't stop laughing. i can't stop watching either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UezWS6lKrtg
Hmm... that really is typical for Winnipeg... dead serious... that city is nasty...





um, are you serious??? i think that was a HILARIOUS video.
LoL it is a hilarious video.. I was laughing my ass off cuz i've worked in Winnipeg enough to know that it really is a typical day in Winnipeg...heh...





This is total Winnipeg. Oh my fucking GOD. So accurate.
Thank Jesus I'm only here for another year.
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LoL Kitty... I think you n I danced for him at the Bal![]()





at least he was helping the plants to grow..





I'm having nightmares tonight for sure now. Sweet jesus.
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Haha, lol, omg. Soooo Winnipeg.
Yikes. Love the nintendo music!
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I actually saw a guy do that downtown once, but it was in one of the outside planters. It was probably the same guy....he's a serial public-defecator. He must be stopped!
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omg that is disgusting!!
There's a wild side behind every innocent face.
End violence against women.
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Lol did anyone notice or did they just not care haha.





Haha. That dood is doing something this very second whilst little does he know the hottest congregation of women on the web watch him pewp.



This is a common occurence on the downtown Winnipeg area! There are countless numbers of poverty stricken natives! The province holds a number of the largest native reserves in Canada.
Keep in mind... natives although considered poverty stricken....are subsidized by out government...up to $140,000.00 within the first 25 years of their lives!
I want to be poverty stricken!! I want new clothes every 4 months, a vehicle when I turn 18 and a house when I turn 21...and I want to gov't to pay for it.
I have a student with treaty status.....her band is covering the cost of her pole dance classes....it is eductional instruction for work..and is covered 100%!!
Sad...but true!
I was born in that city...thankfully no longer living there....although I did keep returning for work!!
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Eeewwww! Has this guy ever heard of public toilets? Just curious though-why is that a typical Winnipeg afternoon? I havta know...![]()





^^Well, I guess Alena answered that for me. We must have been posting at the same time!





It's actually pretty damn sad. The Aboriginal situation in Canada is why we've dropped from #1 to #5 or something on the UN list for countries to live in, or whatever it's called.
When I lived in northern Alberta, some people from the reserve would come to town, get drunk, and then try to walk/ hitchhike (12 miles) home. They'd often wear nothing but tennis shoes or jean jackets when it got down to -40 (that's the same in Celcius and Farenheit...magic number), they'd often be found frozen to death in the ditches. And it would surprise/ alarm no one.
Very sad. So yeah, all those subsidies are doing nothing. The kids are born to drug addicts/ alcoholics, and it just spirals downward. Not in all situations, but so many. The average life expectancy for a native in Canada is something like 55, whereas the rest of the population gets twenty more years.
The native situation in Canada is probably one of the most tragic things to come out of the last 200 years or so.
I have to admit that I didn't realize we were subsidizing them with houses, cars and crap! Anyone with even a wee bit of a brain should realize that this ain't gonna' do shit for anyone.
Over the last century or 3 the European's and their descendants (yes, I'm in that group) systematically wiped 95% of them off the face of the earth! Via outright killing in a lot of cases, and indirectly killing tens of thousands of others as a result of what was done. Now some clueless politician had a guilty conscience and decided that simply providing material things would somehow right what was done. Ya right...
We didn't simply kill people, or merely remove a couple of settlements that were in our way... We literally obliterated an entire civilization! We wiped-out places, people, social groups, acquaintances and families... We destroyed everything that mattered to them, or damn-near so!
Their civilization was around for over 10,000 years before we arrived. Those folks had everything they did, believed in, loved, cared about... destroyed in what amounts to a virtual heartbeat. Those who survived were herded into reserves. These amount to social prisons. What that says is 'we don't want you around, so go sit over there and rot'. Which is exactly what they're doing.
No one, and I don't care who you are or what you're made of... *NO ONE* walks away from that undamaged.
Molly summed up the state of things quite well. What was done to them is unfathomable to anyone who hasn't gone through it. Alcohol is a convenient escape. I'm sure most of us are familiar with the damage alcoholism can do, and we didn't have our civilization wiped-out. That trap, for them, is almost impossible to get out of.
If you want to read a bit about the situation in Canada right now, see
http://www.thestar.com/specialSections/atkinson
Warning: It's not light reading. So if you're depressed, don't go there.
NCL



Well...technically the caucasian man made the Indians what they are.
they gave them alcohol, money for their land belongings ( and nowhere near enough) they hoarded them into what was referred to as basic prison camps.
Enlightenment...... Not all reserves are wealthy...but Natives are GIVEN land free, they are GIVEN educations free(whether they choose to accept them or not), they are GIVEN 100% tax breaks, they are GIVEN subsidies that not even a single homeless mother can get, they are GIVEN more services centers than any other nationality, they are GIVEN homes and cars to distroy free...and then they GIVE them a new one...free!!
How long do they need to repay them...how long do they overlook a problem that WILL continue to get worse?? When are people going to stop patronising natives and actually help them? Answer....when the native starts to care. And most...not all... don't!
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What we did to the Canadian natives is known as GENOCIDE.
For the individuals involved, this is nowhere near as horrific as what happened to the Jews in Natzi Germany, but for the society as a whole it ended up being far worse.
My original post made it sound like the current generation of 18+ year-olds are responsible for their alcoholism and ridiculous suicide rate. They're not. But their ancestors had their civilization annialated. At the same time, they were presented with alcohol. Let's see... everything I've ever known, cared about or even had a remote interest in is now gone. What should I do? Live with this or go with the alcohol? Seems like an easy choice to me. That made many of their parents alcoholics. We've started a cycle that is very difficult to stop!
If you read the Toronto Star series on the plight of Canada's natives, it's not all bad. There are some success stories there. Not that many unfortunately.
What it shows is that if we jump in, we CAN make a difference! Enough of this bullshit helping out with subsidies, cars, homes and whatever. Let's start making a difference. What is happening to these people today has to stop.
We committed genocide... and it's damn well time we step up and do what we need to, to avoid having this end up as an absolute catastrophe.
I'm not sure I like the 'we' stuff when referring to the native genocide...who's 'we'? To what point am I supposed to claim responsibility based upon my skin tone? My ancestors were in Europe when it happened. Blame me for Viking rapes and pillages, maybe, but I'm not sure of the role my generation has played in causing the Native situation in Canada. Imo, the whole 'we' thing leads directly to a 'they' thing, which perpetuates the 'us' vs. 'them'. I don't think it's healthy.
So, NCL, what do you propose we do? I'd love to know of something I can do to help, but in years of pondering (I did my early undergrad in Native Literature, which obviously focused a lot on the Native 'plight'), I've come up with nothing.We committed genocide... and it's damn well time we step up and do what we need to, to avoid having this end up as an absolute catastrophe.
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I kinda feel the same way as you Scarlett. The problem is that it's so circular...children born to depressed/ addicted parents who can't raise them...
I read this book by a woman who went up to one of the more notorious reserves to try to 'do something'...She was a teacher at the band's elementary school. She describes children who were basically animals. They ran around and did whatever they wanted, like dogs (her words, not mine). She was trained in all kinds of child psychology, and she still couldn't deal. Nine year old kids would shit in their hand and throw it at her face.
And then you hear about five year olds committing suicide, or 'suicide outbreaks' that will kill half a dozen kids or more in a week.
And that woman who went there prepared to do anything ended up leaving six months later. She couldn't handle it and said that as awful as it sounded, the whole situation seemed beyond rehabilitation to her.
My grandma was Metis (which, looking at me, you think 'haha, you whiter than white girl, but it's true! lol). Her dad was an alcoholic who beat her and her sisters. She strove to overcome and make something of her self...she did...and then became an alcoholic/ agoraphobic herself. Her last thirty years were miserable and bitter.
So I dunno. It's just this tragic disease. Maybe not every problem has a solution.
Please don't take the 'we' thing personally. I know that most of us (probably all of us) had nothing to actually do with it. The 'we' is a convenient pronoun. I can't think of another one that would be any more precise. If anybody can suggest one, I'll happily use it.
As for a solution, maybe you're right and there isn't one. That would be unfortunate though...
If there is one, I'm not sure I have any idea what it might be. I guess I got a bit carried-away with the need for a solution, without actually thinking about how difficult it may/may not be...





A big part of the problem is that so much of the subsidization that is funded to the specific reserves gets grubbed out of the pockets of those who need it. Big contractors come and rip them off...and they don't know any better.
That is fortunately starting to change now as some band leaders who have been educated in business are coming back to enforce better budget handling.
Anyway. Not to get all political or anything. Just one of those things. My great-aunt, who's a nun, worked on Albertan reserves with Native children almost her whole life. She's told me a lot...
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