Contents
- A BRAND-NEW STADIUM
- Hold Your Peace
- 24 HOURS of Feminist Solidarity
- The truth is always an offence
- FAIR and Decent
- School D a z e
- QUEEN (for Reena Virk)
- True Story of the Murder of Reena Verk
- Thanksgiving.
- Long Way Down, Prince
- . . . on what poor all means
- Who owns knowledge?
- KATRINA
- Eating Without OIL
- Genocide as Religious Philosophy
A BRAND-NEW STADIUM !?!
Thursday, October 13, developers announced plans to land a stadium on the shore next to Crab Park, on top of the train tracks, and in full view of the DTES, and likely obliterating some of the mountain views.. This stadium idea, either at the originally proposed False Creek flats site or the Waterfront is really bad planning and smacks of major disrespect and worse to our community.
What's disturbing is that City Councillor Jim Green and all senior staff have been involved in this for some months.
'Green said the Whitecaps had presented initial designs and a full development application to city planners [in July] for a site on Coal Harbour and the. land and waterfront is being gobbled up. Kenneth Chan (Sun) reported this, and that Greg Kerfoot, Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club owner, had completed the purchase of waterfront property just east of the Seabus terminal & was already tendering the building contract This news came via Intrawest sources, a property management/development firm that handles large scale land transactions and owns the Whistler-Blackcomb and Mont Tremblant ski resorts. '
How many of you have been officially or quietly informed? Bladerunners, an agency that gets people on-the-job training/apprenticeships at construction
sites has apparently been quietly included (as a sop to us?), The Public Relations schtick:. "Show your support now and you can reserve Season's Tickets down the road..." They are clearly going over the heads oflocal people. A 15,000 seat stadium BOOM right in our neighbourhood and we squabble for crumbs!
There are a variety of opinions. If you are dead . against it, then your language would be easy to write If you conclude we may not stop it, then forcing concessions is another thing. Language on this tack w_uld be about welcoming development that respects the local population and includes us in planning. providing employment, facilities, and improving our quality of life. We could ask the Whitecaps and their development partners to consult - engage the community in advance of going too far.
I fear if we are not on this immediately, it will gather such momentum that it is unstoppable.
Vancouver is being designed as a "resort city" but the question remains, do we retain our community character and control? The precious little waterfront remaining must be planned for the benefit of the majority of local people, with dynamic use which preserves heritage while providing employment, recreation, culture, and housing for all.
We reject the notion that we must be surrounded by entertainment zones 1ike Plaza of Nations, casinos, Molson Indy, Canada Place, BC Place, GM Place... all sandwiching our neighbourhood into oblivion for the entertainment of middle class audiences from outside our community.
Our Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is at a critical time with massive gentrification in fullswing, and we require consultation and dialogue about what is in the best interests of local residents.
Neither CPR, Vancouver Port Corporation, nor land developers will decide our community's future. We stopped a casino and we will stop a stadium.
Hold Your Peace
Ancient cosmic egg
Serenity civilization
Once in the land of solemn peace.
Earth, bleeding with blood
and tribulations
Wars and rumours of wars
Nations rise against nations
Hypocrisy and iniquity abound
Humanity created hell
and is now crying for
heaven and peace.
People shall only this obtain
When peace reigns like
a mighty stream.
Man is guilty of his own
many inventions,
to annihilate the human race.
Man’s creation is upon himself.
No new tricks for the old dog!
Talking about peace with drunken lies
Hold your peace;
the rest is of man’s fantasies,
till his own wrongful and
dubious decisions
bring him down to damnation.
The time is nigh
so hold onto your peace.
Ayisha
24 HOURS of Feminist Solidarity24 HOURS of Feminist Solidarity
to Overcome Poverty!
The Canadian Women’s March 2005 Coalition is linking with local and global actions to eliminate poverty & violence against women in
Angela Regnier of the Canadian Federation of Students states that: "In
The Canadian Women’ March Coalition is also looking for legislation to support pay equity, child care and women’s equality from this federal government.
Marie Clark Walker of the Canadian Labour Congress says, “It is about reminding him [the Prime Minister] that the cuts to social programs he made in 1995, as finance minister, have resulted in additional economic insecurity and poverty for women”.
The Vigil on Oct. 17th will mark both the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the end of the World Relay for the Women's Global Charter for Humanity. The charter was launched by the World March of Women on International Women’s Day (March 8th, 2005) in
The Charter, created and agreed upon by 6000 women’s organizations worldwide, is based on five core values; equality, freedom, solidarity, justice and peace. It is a feminist vision of a world free of exploitation, poverty and violence.
Women and Men in
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The truth is always an offence
One thing I know about mankind
The truth is always an offence
I sit on the fence
Watching man disputing
and pulling truth to one side.
Truth, a sacred obligation,
is to deny others.
Organized, man-made
devices to manipulate the truth.
Corruption and propaganda.
Cold-eyed souls,
ignorant heart and mind
deviating the truth from
the needy and the heartthrob
The truth is always an offence
To the wicked and the weak-hearted.
Ayisha
FAIR and DecentFAIR and Decent
I am a volunteer at the Carnegie Community Centre and I would like to say a few things about how some of the volunteers are treated and how the volunteers treat the people that come here to use the facility.
I volunteer in 3 places: The computer room, Second floor reception and The kitchen
I would like to start with the computer room. From personal experience, I have been treated pretty badly by some of the people who use the computer room. I have been called nasty names, people have yelled at me because they don't like the rules of the room etc.
If you don't like the rules or how the room is being run, either don't come in and use the facility or take it up with security or an employee of Carnegie. Don't take it out on the volunteers. We are just donating our time to keep the centre open and running.
I have seen and heard some of the volunteers be rude and nasty to the people that use the room; some of the people who come and use the computers are the same way but two wrongs don't make a right. Be nicer to the people It just makes you and the centre look foolish.
When I am serving or doing the cash at the concession, I have had some customers be extremely rude and nasty to me and others. One time I was serving and this gentleman came up and ordered a lunch, I served it up and handed to him, he took his meal and sat down to eat it. He came back 20 minutes later and yelled at me by saying "DON'T EVER SERVE ME HARD, DRY RICE WITH MY MEAL AGAIN, BITCH". So I said, “Well I’m sorry but it sometimes can't be helped. If you have a complaint or problem, please take it up with the cook or whoever is in charge of the kitchen. We are just volunteers, we don't get paid to do this job, and we're donating our time to help. “
We don't have to do this but some of us like to volunteer and we do not need the crap some of you hand us. I want to volunteer my time and do not need the crap that some of these people give. Listen People, Please be nice to us volunteers, we make the centre run and if it was not for us, the centre would not basically be running,. GIVE US SOME SLACK. What in the world give you the right to treat the volunteers like crap, even though we are here to make things work so you all can have a place to come and eat, socialize, use the library, the computer room, have dances and karaoke nights etc.
Some of you are just grumpy and may be having a crappy day, but don't take it out on us volunteers. I am asking you, please stop.
Thank you,
Ally L
School D a z eSchool D a z e
It was a week ago on a sunny, cloudy, breezy Sunday morn. We were to meet at
It had all started back about a month ago. Late August was when we first met this older gentleman. He had been introduced as our architecture instructor. (Say that fast five times.) He wanted us to take a good look at the buildings and see things which are normally ignored as we trudge thru our daily lives.
He was to teach us for two evenings in early October and had wanted us to take a little tour before he sat us down to learn something. And he was right, there is a lot to see if you just take the time to stop and look.
There are all sorts of fancy designs on the buildings, especially the older ones in the ‘hood. I think the best one is the Ice-cream building at the corner of Burrard and Hastings. It’s better known as the
Arthur said the inside was also very unique but because it was Sunday we wouldn’t get a chance to see it today. Another fine building is the Royal Bank on
It’s early on a Sunday afternoon and I have an assignment to go out and draw some of the stuff I had seen the prior Sunday. Now I’m not any thing close to what you might want to call an artist but I thought I’d give it the old college try. So, armed with paper and pencil and something to draw on, I ventured forth to do my duty.
Draw a building. Doesn’t seem like much of a task until you try it. People come up and talk to you and want to see what you are doing. When you are as bad at drawing as I am you don’t really want to show anybody but you don’t like to be rude so you let people look. You should see some of the expressions people give. But I did get a compliment or two. Maybe it was just my imagination but people sure are friendly.
I ended up having a sort of satisfying time for a murky rainy Sunday afternoon. I went home laughing because of my artistic ability or actually the lack of it. I guess best of all is I learned something that day. If you’re feeling sad or down, take a piece of paper and a pencil and go out and draw a building. People are naturally curious and in no time you will have someone talking to you. All you have to do is act like an artist and people will be attracted to you. It’ll make you smile if not downright laugh.
I guess this is where I thank Arthur Allen for showing me some of the attraction of architecture. Thanks Mr. Allen.
-hal
QUEEN (for Reena Virk)QUEEN
(for Reena Virk)
Reena, Queen of Sorrows
Star of that November night
when a falling Russian satellite
flooded the
illuminating the tragedy
of your violent baptism
under
In your agonal breath
You inhaled eighteen tiny pebbles.
You exhaled and a flood of
bubbling red roses grew
out of your mouth
to encircle your tormentors,
your captors, your frends;
the murderers standing above you
holding your head under water.
Reena, Queen of the
You hold up a mirror
We gaze into it and see
the savagery of our children
and our society
and the dignity
of your family
and yourself.
By mary duffy
True Story of the Murder of Reena VerkA review of
UNDER THE BRIDGE: THE TRUE STORY OF THE MURDER OF REENA VIRK By Rebecca
Godftey / HarperCollins
Eight years ago on November 14, 1997, 14 year-old Reena Virk was brutally beaten up by 8 other teenagers - 7 girls and 1 boy - under
Rosemary Godftey took over six years to research this non-fiction novel - attending the trials, going through police transcripts and interviewing many of the young people involved. She has a real gift for reaching and portraying the mercurial world of troubled youth. She skilfully recreates the story and the "players" in this tragedy. Her writing is evocative, even poetic as she tells this horrific story.
It ends with Kelly, the unrepentant psychopath as remorseless as she has been at the beginning. But it is not really Kelly's story that Godftey tells us; neither is it Reena's, despite her name being emblazoned on the cover. It is mainly the story of many teenagers who surrounded Reena on her last night, the night they all remember as "The Night of the Russian Satellite.”
She tells the story of Warren Glowatski, Kelly's accessory who was taken in by police a week after the crime and convicted of second degree murder almost immediately. It is the story of Syreeta , his first love and loyal confidante. It is the story of Kelly's best friend, the almost equally psychopathic Josephine (not her real name).Josephine's key role in instigating and orchestrating the beating is fully revealed. She tells their and the other teenagers’ stories without judgement and with a great deal of insight and compassion.
But what about Reena!?
Her brand of beauty is not the kind valued by this current time and culture. Is Godftey buying into that beauty myth or is she just trying to drive home the fact that these "beautiful" young people might have felt a sense of entitlement in unleashing their furies on someone society would consider not as lovely?
Despite the title this is not Reena's story. Yes, there are chapters on her and her family and the author praises their incredible dignity and remarkable ability to demonstrate stamina, courage and forgiveness through so many trials over so many years. But, in an early chapter on Reena's Grandfather, Godftey repeats a parable he had written in his copybook and even ends the chapter on him with the phrase echoing: "it takes two to make a quarrel" I hope I am wrong in feeling that somehow, subtly and subliminally, Reena is being set up here.
Stealing another girl's phone book and making a few crank calls was the trivial reason these young people had to justify their savagery. Maybe it’s because WE subtly and not so subtly every day with our media, our computer games and our wars give our children the message, the permission to let their furies reign.
Rosemary Godfrey writes that the name Reena means Queen or mirror. In this book she holds up a very polished mirror to show us the brutality of our children and ourselves.
By Mary Duffy
Thanksgiving.
Teeter totters and catholicks
I'm teetering on a stone
That's too small for my chair
While children try to talk to God
In those little phone booths
With priests as the middle man
Who talks to God?
Who takes a cut?
She must be disgusted, no dignity
When holy water is in the streams
Not for sale
In a collection plate
The Holy Ghost died of exhaustion
From too many stations
To cover
Ghosts haunt the confessed
As they sin again
And again, 'til Sunday
When priests cut them off
Sentenced to repetition
Beth Buchanan
Long Way Down, PrinceLong Way Down, Prince
Knew a man who lost his faith
Blamed everyone around him but his own sweet self
gave up trying to get better, gave up on himself, just
let the drowning waters rise up to wash his life away
got so lost in the crack cocaine what a shame
he didn’t see his family and friends turn away
got so bad they couldn’t stand to watch
him slowly tumble and turn into dust
he gave up on himself and on those who loved him
couldn’t see that you have to love yourself
before anyone can love you and, without the love,
all you got is the dope, the one thing that fills in the cracks the fissures and breaks it takes
more than dope to make life worth living
he got so lost, deluded in his self-pity
couldn’t see the ghost in front of him
when he looked in the mirror
Al Loewen
. . . on what poor all means. . . on what poor all means - can we differentiate?
My children and I are poor - financially poor, that is, since we live well below the legislated poverty line!
However, I consider ourselves rich and wealthy when it comes to ethics, values, friends, emotional and spiritual interests, quests and findings. I think in a society such as ours where we know that we need to shift our material thinking, it is imperative that we start by looking at qualifying terms like rich and poor, and whether the world of material goods is the end-all-be-all!!
Thanks!
Maria Walther, Administrator
100 Mile House & District Women's Centre Society
Who owns knowledge?News from the Library
Still Missing Sarah
In 2003, Maggie de Vries published Missing Sarah : A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister, the story of Sarah de Vries, one of the missing women from
Carnegie Centre, Third Floor Gallery
Friday, October 21, 7.30pm
Writers’ Interviews at the Carnegie Centre
On Friday, October 28, Maggie de Vries, Vancouver Public Library’s writer-in-residence, will be at the Carnegie Centre to meet with emerging writers.
We are going to schedule 4 hour-long interviews. Maggie may also be available for drop-in questions from 5pm onwards. Maggie de Vries’ main areas of expertise are: writing for children & teens, creative non-fiction, and fiction.
If you’d like Maggie to take a look at your work, please contact Beth or Mary at the library by Friday, October 21. If you are selected, you’ll need to submit some writing (maximum 50 pages) typed, double-spaced and in hard copy in advance of your interview. This can be a finished work or works-in
progress.
New Books for October:
More books to help you with your writing have just arrived in the library. These include Oxford Dictionary of Slang (427.09 AYT), The Book of Eulogies (808.88 THE), and How to Write About Yourself by Alison Chisholm & Brenda Courtie (808.07 CHI).
Or maybe you want to go a step further and become a bookseller yourself? A great place to start is Andrew Laties’ Rebel Bookseller: How to Improvise Your Own Indie Store and Beat Back the Chains (070.5 LAT). The book aims at nothing less than to spark a grassroots revival of community bookselling, challenging book-lovers to improvise the wildly imaginative indie stores of tomorrow.
Your librarian recently went on a shopping trip to Banyen Books and picked up some great books. The Naturally Clean Home: Over 100 Safe and Easy Herbal Formulas for Nontoxic Cleaners by Karyn Siegel-Maier (640.3 SHE) has recipes for cleaning products that are good for the environment, good for your health and help to save you money! BC The Organic Way by Marya Skrypiczajko (641.31 SKR) has basic information about organic food, including how to “stretch your organic dollar”, and a list of stores, markets, dairies, restaurants, festivals, and farms across BC. Laura Josephson’s A Homeopathic Handbook of Natural Remedies (615.53 JOS) is a good introduction to homeopathy. The book covers a variety of ailments and remedies, and includes common-sense measures (don’t lift anything heavy if you’ve hurt your back!) and tips on when to consult a professional. Finally, The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden (635 HIR) is a fabulous guide to growing, harvesting and cooking with more than 75 vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. It’s simple enough to appeal to those of us who can kill a plant just by looking at it, but interesting enough for
green-thumbed experts, too.
Once you’ve polished up your writing, maybe you want to publish your own work? Check out Dan Poynter’s The Self-Publishing Manual (808 POY), available in large print, and Self Publishing in Ca
ada by Suzanne Anderson (808.02 AND).
Beth, your librarian
Speak Up: Who Owns Knowledge?
October 24 - 29, 2005
Vancouver Public Library's Speak Up series encourages public dialogue on important issues. A forum that brings together many voices, perspectives,
and experiences, Speak Up draws participants from the community and provides an opportunity for you to share your point of view, to listen to others, and to
develop solutions to community concerns.
Who owns knowledge?
We live in a time of unmatched scientific achievement and growth of knowledge, but who benefits?
Who owns knowledge is one of the most important questions of the century. Should the essence of life, our genetic structure, be owned by anyone? What drives the drug industry? Do corporate sponsorships influence the development of new knowledge? These issues seriously affect the cost and quality of your health care, access to information, education, and your future.
Who Owns Your Genes?
Tuesday October 25, Central Library at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday October 27, Oakridge Branch at 7:30 p.m.
Explore the ethics and the future of biotechnology and discuss what it means to you.
Gene research and therapy offers the promise of better health. Public dollars are invested in research grants to develop new ideas and to discover new genes. But who owns these important discoveries? What is the future of genetic engineering? Should businesses or individuals have the right to patent your unique genetic structure and own patents on
traditional seeds, genetic codes, or new life forms?
Featured panelists: Dr. Patrick Rebstein, Dr. Ed Levy, Brewster Kneen
Drugs for Profit or Health?
Thursday October 27, Central Library at 7:30 p.m.
Friday October 28, Oakridge Branch at 7:30 p.m.
Your money or your life? Patents and profits before patients can be a bitter pill to take.Join us for a powerful discussion about the impact of the drug industry on the cost and effectiveness of your healthcare.
Each year hundreds of millions of dollars support the development and testing of drugs. There’s a lot of controversy about the costs of new drugs, drug safety, the openness of testing, and profiteering by drug companies that want to keep control of drug sales. How can we encourage drug research while ensuring the greatest benefit for the public?
Featured panellists: Dr. Tom Perry, Colleen Fuller, Dr. Garry McCarron
Selling Universities
Wednesday October 26, Kitsilano Branch 7:30pm
Friday October 28, Central Library at 7:30 p.m.
Speak Up on the pros and cons of corporate sponsorship at our universities.
Universities are widely viewed as a sanctuary for independent thought and objective research and teaching. However, some fear that corporate donations for buildings and research allow businesses to have too much influence on our universities. How do we ensure a vibrant university that serves the whole community?
Featured panellists: Dr. Claire Polster (Monday only), Dr. Bill Bruneau, Dr. Charles (Chuck) Williams, Robert Clift (Wednesday only), Angus
Livingstone
When Is There Too Much Copyright?
Monday October 24, Renfrew Branch at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday October 26, Central Library at 7:30 p.m.
Examine and discuss the burning issues of intellectual property laws and who owns your ideas.
Changes and challenges to copyright laws in
What will be the impact of new copyright legislation and what effect will it have on what you can read, write, listen to, and download on your computer?
Featured panellists: Dr. Rowly Lorimer, Paul Whitney, Andreas Schroeder
Open or Closed: Software and Information
Monday October 24, Central Library at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday October 25,
Join us as Speak Up explores the options available for creating and sharing technology and information.
Some say that collaboration is the answer to making better (and less expensive) technology and information available to the public. Currently, information technology is controlled by a small number of companies that use software to dominate the marketplace, but Open Source Software is changing the way we compute. Publishing research information
is also controlled by a limited group of publishers. With purchasing costs skyrocketing, can Open Access to Information offer faster and more equitable distribution of research?
Featured panellists: John Willinsky, David Porter, Brian Owen
Who Owns Knowledge? A Final Discussion
Saturday, Oct 29, Central Library, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Now it's your turn to Speak Up!
VPL's Speak Up: Who Owns Knowledge? series has raised a number of questions about the ownership of genes, copyright, cost of drugs, selling
universities, and the value of open source and open access information technology. Join us for a final, full-day program to discover and discuss what you think about these issues
Go to www.vpl.ca/speakup for more information.
KATRINAKATRINA
Like a pirouetting ballerina, you arrived Katrina,
To show up that mighty power.
Oh how you toppled its tower
Like great
The world, Katrina, you let see then glower
Their poor in vast numbers for all the world to see.
In a country that spouts the attributes of Democracy
How the poor and their poverty prevail
And how the best their society could offer is jail.
How opportunity is never open for the poor
No chance to flee to a place of security.
Let the buses sit idle instead.
Let the buses drown in water filled with the dead.
But don’t move the poor to higher ground.
Look around; look around.
Let the poor sit for five days with no water or food
Let the media show their desperation to the nation,
See them ‘looting’ for water&food, for salvation,
See the police trying to mute their survival mode,
Coming down hard with the criminal code.
When you catch them lootin’ orders are shoot ‘em.
The world stands by to silently watch the collapse
This once great nation is no longer.
In their desire to make corporations stronger
They have turned their backs on the population,
They have turned their backs on mother earth
They scatter the cream of their youth to global war
Even when their people cried out WHAT FOR?
They have turned their backs on their people,
especially the poor,
Katrina, you showed us, this is no longer a great
nation.
President Bush refused to sign
“The American way of life can’t go for
Corporate scientists: ‘It’s a myth the globe’s warming
There is no need to heed any warning.’
‘It’s only mother nature having woman problems,’ they implored,
‘Her hot flashes are to be ignored.’
To this Mother Nature answered swift and hard
Katrina she aimed at this patriarchal nation
She showed the world how well off greed left the majority of its people –
She toppled their church steeple
She hit oil refineries hard, stopping the flow of gas
Only then did corporations take time to pause ‘n ask
Who Rules?
She attacked with thunder and tore down their mast
Their ship, hell-bent on destruction, arrested at last.
Just to make sure the message was complete
She sent in Rita for one more good blast.
The moral of my story is this, my friend,
No matter how great you think you are
Be you a person or a nation
You are always under Mother Nature’s subjugation
Mess with her and you’re bound to meet your end.
Colleen Carroll
Eating Without OILEating Without OIL (crude that is)
How do you eat?
Pray tell me my sweet,
Is it with blood, sweat and toil?
No, Dude, I eat with crude!
Tractors in the field, powered by oil.
Chemicals for fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides,
Irrigation systems – run on oil.
From the field to the factory processor,
the packaging and delivery – all it takes is oil.
It is oil my friend
Good old fashioned sweet crude, Dude
That keeps you and me well supplied with food.
How will you eat my friend,
when oil comes to an end?
Do you have a plan, man?
A plan ‘B’ that will feed you and me?
Or is that oil stuff all you’ve got?
Need a plan ‘B’?! What a lot of rot
Oil and gas forever is what we’ve got.
Then why are gas prices going up day by day?
How much more need we all pay
Before realizing oil can’t be the only way?
It may not be years
Before we must again get food with blood, sweat and tears.
Colleen Carroll
Genocide as Religious PhilosophyGenocide as Religious Philosophy
When our September guest, Kevin Annett, suggested that Christianity can be so intolerant that it becomes genocidal, he spoke with considerable personal insight. Annett was raised a Christian, studied theology, and was for several years an ordained United Church Minister. Over the last ten years, however, Annett's unauthorized search into his church's past left him highly critical.
Many of us know of the dark spot in Canadian history that are the residential schools for aboriginal people. To Annett, these institutions represented nothing less than an instrument of genocide. The original definition proposed in the wake of the Holocaust defined genocide as any act that leads to the eradication of a people and the imposition of the ruling culture. This included killing, creating conditions of extermination, physical and mental violence, stopping births, and the mass transference of children. Although the politics of the early United Nations initially limited the definition to physical acts of violence only, the original, broader definition describes what happened in residential schools across the
Annett understands this atrocity and the role of churches in them as a sort of modern crusade. Ever since early Christianity joined forces with the fading
Annett provided us with a little history. When Indian agents in the late nineteenth century questioned the need for dedicated "Indian schools," Canadian missionaries were quick to argue in their support, and were able to persuade government officials to agree. Steve Newcombe, a Cherokee scholar, refers to a "Christian Superior Dominion" that gives higher status and rights to Christians, providing a moral and legal right conquer other people. Such a perspective has a long history in Christianity, dating back at least to 1095 when Pope Urban II offered indulgences – spiritual cleansing – to crusaders with blood on their hands. A divine sanction absolves one of moral responsibility. Such an attitude allowed modern "crusaders" to force North American aboriginal people to abandon their identities and their cultures to become Christian Canadians.
Much of Annett's presentation is supported by current scholarship into the abuses of the residential schools, but he goes further than others by insisting that this history should be taken as genocide and brought to the attention of the
