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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Am I the only one?

The entire front page of today's Globe and Mail was given over to a drawing of Tina Fontaine, the native girl found dead in Winnipeg a few years ago.  The man charged with having killed her was found not guilty a couple of days ago and people have gone insane. 

Am I the only one who reports on the actual facts of this case?  Apparently.  I have yet to read or hear anything that covers what really happened, that she was in the care of her mother at the time, who didn't notice she was missing for a week.  A week!  This is the same mother deemed unfit to raise her from the time she had been born.

But the capper was CTV's interview yesterday of Perry Bellegarde, chief of the AFN.  Not answering a single question, all he did was rail against the system.  "We need more indigenous lawyers.  We need more indigenous judges and jurors.  We need more indigenous crown prosecutors!" he ranted.

Really?  Where are you going to find them?  Certainly not on the remote reserves, where you insist they remain so you can get money.  Living in Upper Rubber Boot Saskatchewan, the only jobs open aren't doctor or lawyer -- just Indian chief, as the rhyme goes. 

Today's journalists are a very unprofessional bunch.  They are lazy and don't bother to get the whole story.  To think that 'The Globe and Mail' is part of this crowd is outrageous.  Man, have they slipped.     

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