I won't have time to do anything more than water the baskets for the next three days so I'm glad the weather cooperated today. I cut the grass at the greenhouse as planned. Otherwise I'd be dealing with hay fields by Sunday.
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Blue Jays won a close one, 6-5 over the Yankees. They're still alive.
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Just found out that Mardi played traffic cop yesterday. Apparently, an 18 wheeler headed down Mountain Avenue and obviously (if you know that road) couldn't make the tight turn and reduce the height of the truck so it would fit under the bridge. He needed to reverse up the hill, but about four cars were backed up behind him. Mardi turned around and at the top of the hill jumped out of her car and turned traffic away. The truck did make it back up and the off duty cop who had showed up, and the trucker, thanked her for her effort.
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This has just happened:
OTTAWA -- The Federal Court has dismissed Ottawa's attempts to appeal a pair of rulings about providing services and compensation to First Nations children.
In September 2019, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled Ottawa didn't properly fund child and family services, which resulted in it "wilfully and recklessly" discriminating against Indigenous children living on reserve.
It ordered the federal government to pay $40,000 each to about 50,000 First Nations children as well as their relatives, but the Liberal government appealed the ruling.
The second legal battle stems from a separate ruling in November 2020 that expanded the scope of Jordan’s Principle, which is a rule stating when there is jurisdictional disagreement over what level of government should provide a service to First Nations children, Ottawa takes on the responsibility.
Opposition parties and Indigenous leaders have criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to fight both of these rulings, saying that’s not the appropriate course of action for a government committed to reconciliation.
In June, the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion brought forward by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh asking the federal government to abandon its legal challenges against First Nations children.
Just another disgraceful move by our righteous Prime Minister, fortunately overturned by a decent court.
And a final thought:
Tomorrow is Truth and Reconciliation Day. Please take some time to think about the children who "didn't matter".
Think about the massive recent effort to find the body of Gabby Petito. Then try to remember if you ever heard of such an effort to find any missing Indigenous women.
Think about what it would be like to have your children taken from you when they were five or six, never to see them again. And no explanation given. The church didn't even have the decency to inform the family that their child had died.
The churches supposedly tried to turn the children into Christians, for a profit, but treated them like animals. I know that many white Catholic children were also abused by the church, but how many were killed or went "missing" from their schools?
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Sorry for the lecture, but I need to vent. Tomorrow, I will wear, with pride, the orange shirt that Yancy sent me. Hopefully I will feel better.
Stay well.
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