A readers comment that one has to agree with from Dawn Ferguson:
"From the article….“Some say it has just reopened old wounds, and some say they’d have preferred lump-sum payments.” That says it all!
They had laws about children going to school in the fifties! These people were from a foreign country and refusing to send their children to school. That was against the law! Was it handled the way we do things today? We know it wasn’t…it was a different time! I’m so tired of being beaten down by our own governments and made to pay for things that happened decades, if not centuries ago! We should accept our history for what it was ..bouquets and bruises! This is just another photo op for Mr. Eby and his socialist party, to show they “care "while another ten drug overdoses happen! It is a deflection and coverup from the NDP failures of today! MO"
I grew up in the 50’s. The Sons of Freedom terrorists were a regular topic in school and we were all aware of the bombings, arson and nude demonstrations. Apologies are out of place and just another example of pandering for votes.
Since the NDP/Liberal anti-Israel resolution passed in parliament I thought I’d check out the numbers on Statistics Canada’s Canadian International Merchandise Trade Web Application. Over the near-quarter century since 2000, Canadian companies exported a total of $14.5 million worth of military equipment to Israel. During that same time, total Canadian military equipment exports surpassed $28.2 billion. Which is a way of saying that, in the real world, the resolution is meaningless.
And it’s also worth noting how Canada imported $131 million in military equipment from Israel. We can easily see who the senior (adult) partner is in this relationship.
Terry is more succinct today. But the sad truth is this: no matter the subject, the liberals use the tactic of making revisionist statements as sound bites with no intention of answering to these statements.
Truth? A casualty.
In the meantime the state propagandist broadcaster quoted “ modeling”, (you will remember “ modelling” from the covid experience ) by an independent (!) policy think tank of climate change ( funded entirely by the liberal government ) that shows that carbon tax works to reduce pollution ( but heavy lifting is by industry ) and the conservative plan to replace tax by technology is “unproven and unlikely to reduce pollution “
So you see what’s happening here. Thanks to Mr Glavin for his good work we know more and can depend on truthful face based commentary. Stuff we may not even have known.
Reality is that the Trudeau administration is repeating falsehoods. Corrupting expertise with “ modeling ”. Presenting modeling results as undeniable fact.. And weaponizing the justice system .The result is the puerile hi jack of our current Canadian Westminster parliament. An authoritarian socialist cabal of weasels bankrupting our Canadian dreams. Screwed until
An interesting point - the ”tabloid journalist” who wrote Terror in the Name of God was Simma Holt of the Vancouver Sun. She was later elected as a Liberal MP.
While I agree a Freedomite widescreen spectacular in the Kootenays with lots of explosions and mass nudity would be a draw, the real story of Komagata Maru seems like it would have a more multidimensional plot, from the Imperial Sikh Lancers passing through Vancouver in 1897 on the way back from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, picking the area for retirement, Ghardar recruits arriving to join activist centers already seeded in Vancouver, Portland and Berkeley, their infiltration by the Anglo-Indian intelligence agent, William Hopkinson, assassinated on the Vancouver Courthouse steps, gun running expedition across the border to Sumas, wartime weapons rendezvous with German boats at sea, post WW1 absorption into the Indian Communist Party and eventually the world's deadliest civil aviation bombing. Should be serialized.
Indian Civil Service exam study papers like https://testbook.com/ias-preparation/ghadar-party and Wikipedia Ghardar and Stephenson entries have a much more plausible account and also illuminate the current Indian Govt concern with Canada's single minded Khalistani vote cultivation.
The CSE exam criteria are also really quite impressive for the breadth and depth of knowledge required. Wonder how it compares with ours?
I was a kid when some of the last Doukhobor actions ocurred in BC. Nude protests and bombings of buildings were in the news. My ten year old mind had a vision of airplanes, crewed by nudists, dropping napalm on the Kootenays. I still have that image when somebody mentions Doukhobors.
Born in 1958 at the other end of the country, I only heard a little about the Doukhobours, on around 1968-69. Mostly about their living out in the woods, with a religious requirement to get nude and burn things down. Shall look forward to a more complete view of history... Also had never heard about the Komagatu Maru business. Not surprised by the Italian internment story, which no, I wouldn't see as requiring any apologies, either.
Another possible sidelight on WW2 history...I remember being told by Nova Scotian relatives, that throughout the war, it wasn't uncommon for German subs to show up in Halifax harbour, and send crews ashore for shore leave, in discreetly unmarked uniforms. Usually pretending to be Poles, they said. This seemed to have passed without comment.
I live in the geographic heart of this and am distinctly out of step with the local polite opinion on the matter. “I dunno, sounds like the gov’t might’ve had a point on this one.”
The lack of respect for divergence in BC circa 1956-1964 is the sad remnant of the Doukhobor history. Communal property, disdain for material things, libertarian-type view of government not being involved in births, marriages, deaths were very unknown by non Doukhobor neighbours. Florence (aka Big Fanny) Storgoff was a Doukhobor spokeswoman and leader who became the target of ridicule based in ignorance others. The happy remnant of this history was the Kootenay- Columbia School District #20 development of programs available to parents for their children to learn Russian. The first research document I read was about a Russian immersion style program developed in the 80s and available to students. The School District currently offers a much reduced Russian language and culture program at one school for a limited number of students. There must have been many parents at one time who wanted their children end grandchildren to be able to learn Russian. That number would seem to have diminished. That acknowledgement of Russian culture and language might have been an important form of apology.
A readers comment that one has to agree with from Dawn Ferguson:
"From the article….“Some say it has just reopened old wounds, and some say they’d have preferred lump-sum payments.” That says it all!
They had laws about children going to school in the fifties! These people were from a foreign country and refusing to send their children to school. That was against the law! Was it handled the way we do things today? We know it wasn’t…it was a different time! I’m so tired of being beaten down by our own governments and made to pay for things that happened decades, if not centuries ago! We should accept our history for what it was ..bouquets and bruises! This is just another photo op for Mr. Eby and his socialist party, to show they “care "while another ten drug overdoses happen! It is a deflection and coverup from the NDP failures of today! MO"
I grew up in the 50’s. The Sons of Freedom terrorists were a regular topic in school and we were all aware of the bombings, arson and nude demonstrations. Apologies are out of place and just another example of pandering for votes.
Since the NDP/Liberal anti-Israel resolution passed in parliament I thought I’d check out the numbers on Statistics Canada’s Canadian International Merchandise Trade Web Application. Over the near-quarter century since 2000, Canadian companies exported a total of $14.5 million worth of military equipment to Israel. During that same time, total Canadian military equipment exports surpassed $28.2 billion. Which is a way of saying that, in the real world, the resolution is meaningless.
And it’s also worth noting how Canada imported $131 million in military equipment from Israel. We can easily see who the senior (adult) partner is in this relationship.
Terry is more succinct today. But the sad truth is this: no matter the subject, the liberals use the tactic of making revisionist statements as sound bites with no intention of answering to these statements.
Truth? A casualty.
In the meantime the state propagandist broadcaster quoted “ modeling”, (you will remember “ modelling” from the covid experience ) by an independent (!) policy think tank of climate change ( funded entirely by the liberal government ) that shows that carbon tax works to reduce pollution ( but heavy lifting is by industry ) and the conservative plan to replace tax by technology is “unproven and unlikely to reduce pollution “
So you see what’s happening here. Thanks to Mr Glavin for his good work we know more and can depend on truthful face based commentary. Stuff we may not even have known.
Reality is that the Trudeau administration is repeating falsehoods. Corrupting expertise with “ modeling ”. Presenting modeling results as undeniable fact.. And weaponizing the justice system .The result is the puerile hi jack of our current Canadian Westminster parliament. An authoritarian socialist cabal of weasels bankrupting our Canadian dreams. Screwed until
Fall 2025
Your insights and research are much appreciated, Terry.
An interesting point - the ”tabloid journalist” who wrote Terror in the Name of God was Simma Holt of the Vancouver Sun. She was later elected as a Liberal MP.
While I agree a Freedomite widescreen spectacular in the Kootenays with lots of explosions and mass nudity would be a draw, the real story of Komagata Maru seems like it would have a more multidimensional plot, from the Imperial Sikh Lancers passing through Vancouver in 1897 on the way back from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, picking the area for retirement, Ghardar recruits arriving to join activist centers already seeded in Vancouver, Portland and Berkeley, their infiltration by the Anglo-Indian intelligence agent, William Hopkinson, assassinated on the Vancouver Courthouse steps, gun running expedition across the border to Sumas, wartime weapons rendezvous with German boats at sea, post WW1 absorption into the Indian Communist Party and eventually the world's deadliest civil aviation bombing. Should be serialized.
Indian Civil Service exam study papers like https://testbook.com/ias-preparation/ghadar-party and Wikipedia Ghardar and Stephenson entries have a much more plausible account and also illuminate the current Indian Govt concern with Canada's single minded Khalistani vote cultivation.
The CSE exam criteria are also really quite impressive for the breadth and depth of knowledge required. Wonder how it compares with ours?
How long until we see an apology for the arrests and prosecution of Mormons for Polygamy and International Child Trafficking in Bountiful BC?
I was a kid when some of the last Doukhobor actions ocurred in BC. Nude protests and bombings of buildings were in the news. My ten year old mind had a vision of airplanes, crewed by nudists, dropping napalm on the Kootenays. I still have that image when somebody mentions Doukhobors.
Born in 1958 at the other end of the country, I only heard a little about the Doukhobours, on around 1968-69. Mostly about their living out in the woods, with a religious requirement to get nude and burn things down. Shall look forward to a more complete view of history... Also had never heard about the Komagatu Maru business. Not surprised by the Italian internment story, which no, I wouldn't see as requiring any apologies, either.
Another possible sidelight on WW2 history...I remember being told by Nova Scotian relatives, that throughout the war, it wasn't uncommon for German subs to show up in Halifax harbour, and send crews ashore for shore leave, in discreetly unmarked uniforms. Usually pretending to be Poles, they said. This seemed to have passed without comment.
I live in the geographic heart of this and am distinctly out of step with the local polite opinion on the matter. “I dunno, sounds like the gov’t might’ve had a point on this one.”
The lack of respect for divergence in BC circa 1956-1964 is the sad remnant of the Doukhobor history. Communal property, disdain for material things, libertarian-type view of government not being involved in births, marriages, deaths were very unknown by non Doukhobor neighbours. Florence (aka Big Fanny) Storgoff was a Doukhobor spokeswoman and leader who became the target of ridicule based in ignorance others. The happy remnant of this history was the Kootenay- Columbia School District #20 development of programs available to parents for their children to learn Russian. The first research document I read was about a Russian immersion style program developed in the 80s and available to students. The School District currently offers a much reduced Russian language and culture program at one school for a limited number of students. There must have been many parents at one time who wanted their children end grandchildren to be able to learn Russian. That number would seem to have diminished. That acknowledgement of Russian culture and language might have been an important form of apology.