Preparing for Election:

The left-wing media is preparing for a fall vote.

It's obvious. CTV managed to exhibit full frontal and profile shots of our young PM's handsome features at least a dozen times in the course of a half hour news cast Friday nite. No doubt CBC is doing the same. Exposure wins elections.

No shots of O'Toole.

On the provincial scene, every shot of Doug Ford was with full face mask while Andrea Horwath was shown posturing relaxed full length while delivering her message with teeth in full view.

Maybe we should stop complaining. This sort of partisan bias is less boring than still more Covid 19 infection statistics that fail to tell us if the few casualties were vulnerable elders or members of the general public. 

If they were of the vulnerable category, the decline in infections would be due not so much to the vaccinations, but because the virus has run out of vulnerable elders and has gone back into a dormant state until it is once again needed.

This leaves the medical community with the need to give up star status in the media and the media with the need to once again dig for real news to insert between their commercials. 

Who knows--they might even interview people who were in charge of some of those evil aboriginal schools to see if there are simple explanations or some logical perspective on what actually happened. 

This would allow readers to draw fewer media-hyped conclusions and implications of atrocities comparable only with Nazi population control.

Anti-Education:

 How dare anybody attempt to bring aboriginal children up to speed in a rapidly evolving society?

Why should they be deprived of the right to go back to the status of hunter/gatherers even though that lifestyle has been abandoned even by the Head hunters of Borneo?

Why aren't we hearing about the successful graduates of Indian schools? 

Surely they weren't all of the mental equivalent of those "students" who had nothing better to do with their education than to topple bronze statues of people significant to past generations.

Whoa! Not so Fast:

 Social media reaction to the announcement of the number of school children's bodies found in a BC residential school's grounds is probably premature.

Before we start comparing this with Nazi slaughters at Buchenwald and Dachau, it might be a good idea to see:

--Over how many years did these bodies accumulate? Is there a chance that this was the local burial site?

--Were there no previous enquiries from families? Why the sudden concern?

--What do the school records show? Did anyone in the mainstream media take the time to check?

This announcement has gone into political mode away too fast.

We know why the government sanctioned these schools for aboriginal kids. It was the most direct way to integrate them into modern society. 

The Catholic church was just one of the organizations that had the means to administer a project designed to give aboriginal children the opportunity to succeed in a rapidly changing society.

Depriving children of their native culture and separating them from their families is the political analysis. And we know by now what political analyses are all about.. 

The announcement prompted immediate drumbeats for apologies from junior-grade diplomats like Trudeau looking for ethnic minority votes. So far, nothing from the Pope.

Nor should there be. The schools were a political undertaking. And it was a good one.