Interesting facts about slavery........

Re-printed from 'The Catholic League', by Bill Donahue:  

June 17, 2026

Slavery in America, imported by the British.

"Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the freeing of the last slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. It will be commemorated this year by elite colleges and universities across the nation. This is rich given that most of those who ran these institutions at that time owned slaves.

"The Northeast Slavery Record Index is an online site that allows the public to access a host of records on slavery. Last year it posted, “Slavery by Alumni of Colonial Colleges.” It provides information on college officials and faculty that owned slaves.

"It listed the following Ivy League schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania. It also listed five other schools tied to slavery: Rutgers, University of Vermont, Williams, Union (Schenectady, NY) and Bowdoin.

"It is striking to note that only one Ivy League school, Cornell, did not have any slaveowners associated with it. But that is not a tribute to the university—it was not founded until slavery ended in 1865. Here’s a look at the Ivies.

• Harvard slaveowners included political leaders and the heads of prominent families. Records show that the university continued to benefit from slavery even after it was outlawed in Massachusetts in 1783;

• Yale was named after slave trader Elihu Yale. Under his tutelage, the school benefited greatly from the slave trade;

• Princeton was home to slave-owning trustees—16 of 23 bought, sold and traded slaves; some inherited them;

• Columbia was run by ten men who served as president during the slavery years, and at least half were slaveowners;

• Brown was founded by a family of the university’s namesake. They not only owned slaves, they were deep into the slave trade, participating in two voyages to secure more of them;

• Dartmouth founder Eleazar Wheelock owned at least 18 slaves, and at its Hanover campus in 1770, slaves outnumbered the faculty, administrators and trustees; and

• University of Pennsylvania’s benefactors, trustees and faculty owned slaves. The founder, Benjamin Franklin, owned seven of them.

"Many graduates of these institutions—both the Ivies and the other five—are quick to condemn all expressions of racism, real and contrived, and will no doubt be beating their breasts over slavery on June 19. But few will mention their alma mater’s slave-owning legacy.

"If there is one man who flouts his interest in fighting racism, and is a graduate of one of these slave-owning institutions, it is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College.

New York Mayor Mamdani.

"Bowdoin received funding from benefactors who made their money from the slave trade. Most spectacular, in 1858 it awarded Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, an honorary doctorate.

"In 1972, it doubled down by accepting an endowed gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and established the Jefferson Davis Award. It took until 2015 before this award was discontinued.

"Mamdani graduated in 2014, before the award was nixed. Why didn’t he lead a protest against it? He had plenty of time to join organizations that sought to punish Israel.

"Today he is bellowing about the need of New York City to make reparations to African Americans. Where will he get the money? He says the money should be collected through a targeted tax on white people who live in the city today. But wouldn’t it be racist to fleece those who had nothing to do with slavery, save for sharing the same skin color of some of the slave-masters? (Note: free Blacks also owned slaves.)

"Given the slave-owning legacy of his alma mater, will Mamdani do something? To be specific, will he return his Bowdoin diploma, now that he knows it is soiled by the legacy of slavery?

"Will he dig into his own deep pockets—he is worth a fortune—and make reparations? He could begin by compensating every Black person in his employ. But it should not be up to him to decide how much—he should ask his African American employees how much he needs to pony up. If he is running low on cash, he can always ask his multi-millionaire Marxist parents to loan him the money (preferably interest-free).

"It is so easy to criticize dead people for not abiding by today’s standards, standards that will soon be deemed unjust by a new wave of left-wing zealots. It is much harder to swallow one’s own medicine. 

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Canada had approximately 4,500 slaves between 1671 and 1834.  In 1793, Upper Canada, now Ontario, passed the 'Act Against Slavery'.  While it did not free existing slaves, it prohibited the importation of new slaves, making it the first anti-slavery legislature in the British Empire.

This walked onto the pool deck

I kid you not, a very overweight, middle-aged man strolled onto the pool deck the other day wearing this:

No one needs to look at this first thing in the morning.

There's a reason I no longer wear bikinis, ya, that reason.  Not that I'm fat, but there are a few bulges here and there that modesty dictates I not display.  I even have a long-sleeve suit to hide my upper arms.  They too are not as toned and smooth as they once were -- even with all my swimming.

I envy the Big Dogs at the pool.  All in their sixties, Chris, Don and Dave are still ripped.  None wears a speedo.  Chris is the fellow lane swimmer who is the Canadian national champ and won four golds and one silver in the world games in Singapore.  He is amazing!

So, I'll keep plugging along and try to keep the old lady at bay for a couple more years.

   

A car tale

Hand washing at Bubbles.

The other day, B and I ventured down to southeast Calgary to 'Bubbles' car wash.  $498 later, we have a virtually new car.  That's what a detailing job will run you there, but it's worth it.  I guess.

But what I really want to talk about is Carney's unjustified "trade" trip to Ireland.  There he was, debarking from the plane with his why-was-she-there? wife.  Instead of going to Washington to try and get the Gordie Howe Bridge open, he's stumbling around in Ireland finding his roots.

And we're paying for this personal pub crawl!

The new bridge is not opening because the Maroun family, which owns the old Ambassador Bridge, has convinced Trump to block it.  What I should say is that it's the Maroun's money that is blocking it -- the family that has given Trump and other Michigan politicians millions, so naturally they believe there should be no competition from the new bridge.  

The tolls on the new bridge -- which Canada paid for, by the way -- are half what the Maroun's charge, so guess which bridge will be used?  Rhetorical.  Their wealth exceeds $1.7 billion, but I guess it's not enough. 

And where is Carney?  Swanning around Ireland.  Since he came on the scene, 85 major corporations have moved their head offices to the U.S. -- including his own, Brookfield!  That's what his "elbows up" schtick is getting us.  Nothing.  The only binding trade deal we have is with Indonesia.  That's it.  And we actually had to give them $1 billion to sign it!!!

Folks, Ireland is a personal boondoggle and we're paying for it.  When will Canadians rouse from their torpor and wake up??!!  It is to weep.............

   

A complete failure

Any leader of any country who has to give his citizens a grocery rebate to put food on the table is admitting he has been an abject failure.  Remember, "Judge me by the prices in the grocery aisles"?  Well, we have and you are.

To think, that Canada, with its vast resources, has to give people a few shekels to buy bread is a disgrace.

Of course, thanks to lunatics like Stephen Guilbeault and Justin Trudeau, our riches have been trapped underground, which means that's where our God-given wealth lies to this day.  Hence, we have to give alms to the poor for crumbs off the table.

He reminds me of Marie Antionette.  "Let them eat cake," she suggested, when food was scarce.  That's Carney to a tee.  He gallivants around the world, dining and gourmandizing in his sky palace, while the rest of his subjects have to skip meals and eat bologna sandwiches.  

Marie "Carney" Antionette.

Mark "Marie Antionette" Carney, surveying his subjects.

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His latest "trade mission" is to Ireland.  Really?  Why?  We have no issues with that country.  Oh, but wait, I just found out that while he's there in his spare time, wink-wink-nudge-nudge, saving the day, he's also going to re-trace his Irish roots in the county from which he hails.  Frankly, that's the real purpose of his trip, to mix with his ancestors and hoist a few at the local pub -- at your expense.  And just to add insult to injury, he's carting along his wife to double the costs.  What trade deals will she be negotiating, pray tell? 

It's unconscionable.

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So, FIFA is starting today.  Wanna guess what a seat in the final will run?  How about US $32,000.  That's right!  I am not kidding!  US $32,000!#@^*&^%$#!!!!

Naturally, Toronto and Vancouver are emptying out, as residents flee to saner climes.  And naturally, there is virtually no parking near any of the venues because everyone will have to walk, or take the tube.  That's the green way these days.  No ugly cars for you plebs.  You'll simply hoof it, like it or lump it.

So, folks, that's that state of this country today in my never-to-be-humble opinion  Phucked. 

 

Hard to argue these facts...........

Re-printed from 'The Catholic League', by Bill Donohue:

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June 11, 2026

"Attacking men, especially white, Christian, heterosexual men, is a popular sport enjoyed by left-wing pundits and activists. This is driven home every Father’s Day. Normal people do not get exercised over this special day, but these folks do.

"In New York State, there is a bill, supported by Democrats, to replace “father” with “non-gestating parent,” and to call a “putative” father, meaning a deadbeat dad, “an alleged parent.”

"Why the adoption of “neutral” terms? Who is offended by calling fathers “fathers”? Radical gays and radical feminists object. They have long been at war with nature so this bill does not surprise. But why?

"Radical gays, especially those who claim to be “married,” object that terms like “father” and “mother” are exclusionary, leaving people like them out of familial conversations and governmental policies. They are right about that. But it is not men—it is nature—that has excluded them. To be blunt, nature has determined that people of the same sex cannot reproduce. 

"The problem for radical gays is that they do not believe in human nature: they think everything that exists is a “social construct.” But male and female genital organs are not a “social construct”—they are an anatomical reality. Nature exists and they cannot change what it has ordained. It is a fight they cannot win. 

"Radical feminists deplore “patriarchy.” But there is a reason why it is universal. How so? Sociologist Steven Goldberg, who wrote a classical book on this subject, found that male dominance can be explained by hormonal factors such as the higher levels of testosterone that males have. As he noted, “the hormonal renders the social inevitable (italics in the original).”

"Radical feminists like to point out that Goldberg’s thesis was contradicted by anthropologist Margaret Mead. Wrong. “Nowhere do I suggest that I have found any material which disproves the existence of sex differences.” She even went so far as to say, “It is true, as Professor Goldberg points out, that all claims so glibly made about societies ruled by women are nonsense. We have no reason to believe that they ever existed.”

"In other words, radical gays and radical feminists can beat up on men, and especially fathers, all they want. But in the end, fatherhood is real and exclusionary. The radicals may not like it, but most women throughout history have never had a problem with any of this. It’s only those with a fanciful ideological agenda who complain about it.

"Happy Father’s Day!" 

Enjoy your day!

They were all wearing them

The Emperor's New Clothes.  I'm talking about the swearing in of the new GG, Louise Arbour, where every poobah was gathered to take part in a Monty Python skit, remember the "Minister of Silly Walks?"  Ya, that bunch.

The gang on The Hill today.

When I arrived at the pool this morning, the radio told me the ceremony was just getting underway.  I parked.  When I emerged, it had just concluded.

Thankfully, I had missed it and judging by B's reaction when I came home, I was glad I had.  "It was absolutely sickening," he said.  "I bet there were a lot of Indigenous, feather headdresses, throat singing and land acknowledgments, right?" I replied.  

According to B, the whole thing was given over to the natives.  Can I bear to watch it?  Probably not, but I will have to just to prove I was right.  My question is, why were the Indigenous featured to prominently when they accuse The Crown of such heinous crimes?  

That's the same question I asked when we attended the ceremony, hosted by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, when B was awarded the King Charles Coronation Medal?  Why were so many Indigenous leaders there to receive theirs?  Shouldn't they have refused?

Rhetorical.

When Mary Simon was appointed -- a ludicrous, affirmative action appointment in my opinion -- she went to Buckingham Palace to meet the King sporting pink and blue hair!  Feature that!

Well, she's gone, but sadly we have another leftie, human rights lunatic as the representative of The Monarchy in this country.  Sorry, but "We are not amused." 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

 

  

Just saved $700!

Good old Cochrane!  My rear taillight was out, so I took it in for a quote.  Naturally, you practically have to replace the entire car, not just the bulb, which meant the whole thing was going to cost $1,200 -- which is outrageous!  "But I'm going to call around and see if I can source it somewhere else," said James, the garage owner.

You can't replace just the bulb, you have to get a whole new unit!  That little piece of nothing costs $1,200!!

The darling young man just called and told me he had found a certified unit for $500, so I just saved $700 bucks!!  That's what a lot of little Mom-and-Pop garages do in this town, actually try to help the customer.  Naturally, I'm thrilled!  He also gave me a work order to keep in the glove compartment, so in case I get pulled over I can show I'm on it and hopefully avoid a ticket.  What a great place!

I have also contracted with a local landscaping company to have our grass cut front and back once a week, so things are getting organized around here!

Now, if it would just warm up a little..........sigh.........

Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

As you know, B's relationship with his offspring has been fraught since his divorce from their mother, 45 years ago.  

It's still fraught.  I am not going to dwell on what a disaster his son has been, because you know all about his self-made plight, but I do want to say a few words about his daughter's abominable, ungrateful and disrespectable treatment of him.

As I have blogged before, she never, ever calls him.  So he called the other day and left a message.  She called back and, as he is edging towards 85 years old, I thought I would send her an email practically begging her to call him again.  Here it is:

"Hi, Sarah.  I am so glad you spoke to Dad the other day.  He misses you and is sad that you never have time to call him.  Just a quick call every now and then would lift his spirits immensely.  As you know, Scott has completely botched his life up and he no longer has anything to do with Dad, nor Dad with him — especially since he owes us thousands.

"Anyway, Dad is frail, walks with a cane and no longer has a driver's licence, so it all falls to me to look after him in every way.  He would love to chat with Jack and Caitlin now and then too.  So, just a note to thank you and hope you will reach out now and then.  It would mean a lot.

"Regards,
Nancy"

Of course, Diary, she didn't reply because her disrespect of me is legion -- even though I raised her and paid for her entire life.  It all centres on money; her mother has lots and we don't, so guess who gets the attention and guess who has to be shunned?  Rhetorical.

Sad days as the runway gets shorter.

So, Diary, the sad state of affairs continues.  I'll keep praying and I thank God every day that we have my kids and grands here to love and cherish.

Signing off, 

Nancy

p.s.  I am blogging this so it will be published in my next book for posterity.  

  

Technical?

No, this Carney-created economic recession is real.  It's not "technical" and all of you who voted for this charlatan can clap yourselves on your self-satisfied backs for falling for his con.  We're the only G7 country in a recession and bankruptcies are at an all-time high.   Great job!  I actually see photos of some fb "friends" sporting huge grins, posing proudly with this quack.  What is wrong with them?!

B, who has a graduate degree from the London School of Economics via a tough-to-obtain Leverhulme Fellowship, has been saying this for two years, but finally even the Carney-friendly, drooling legacy media has to admit it.  Have a listen to political commentator Georganne Burke, senior VP at Pathway Group, on Marc Patrone's YouTube podcast, during which she called him a pathological liar -- among other damningly-accurate things.  She nailed him.  

Burke outlined the many promises he made during the campaign, which have been unfulfilled and which he has no intention of carrying out.  It's a long and depressing list.  Look at Mexico.  Trade negotiations with that country are humming along.  Canada?  Nothing.  I've been posting about this since Jan. 17, 2026, when I blogged "He finally uttered them".  Have a read because I said CUSMA was dead then.  And it clearly is.

Finally, 'The Globe and Mail' is talking about the mess we're in.

It's not a "spectre", it's real.

So, folks, you've been had.  Wake the f-ck up!

What in Gawd's name.....

....is Carney doing handing Latvia $100 million for its military??!!  Why??!!!  Our own military is starving and struggling, with vets living on the streets, and he's giving Latvia -- Latvia! -- $100 million!!!!  And all without any Parliamentary oversight or approval whatsoever.  

All this while our beloved Snowbirds are being grounded.  This is a national crime!  As I blogged the other day, Canada has three iconic symbols:  The Group of Seven, the Mounties and the Snowbirds.  And he's just grounded the Snowbirds!!

I can't stand this guy.  He is a disgrace to the country of which he is the prime minister -- something he seems to have forgotten, as he pursues his personal ambitions in Europe.  He has also given millions to dumps like the Sudan!  Sudan!!!  Why??!!  And billions to that crook Zelensky!!

And of course, he keeps poking a fork in Trump's eye.  His latest smarty-pants move it to buy an early warning system from Sweden, not the US -- even though all the experts and the Canadian military say they prefer the American system.  What's that going to get us?  His "elbows up" trade deal with the US?  Ha!  

The problem is his arrogance and the fantasy that he thinks he's still a can-do-no-wrong-I'm-always-right bank governor.  He's not.  He's just a garden variety, assh-le politician.

I'm sorry, but I can't handle Carney betraying Canada over and over again.  He said he should be judged on the prices at the grocery store.  Well, push a cart down any aisle, buddy.  You've failed miserably!!     

He needs to go!   

The arrogant, self-proclaimed King of Canada.

Surprise, surprise

I swim with a lovely guy.  I'll call him T.  He is silver-haired, handsome and charming and I thought he had said he was a lawyer when we introduced ourselves.  The other day, however, I learned he had been a social worker.  No wonder he doesn't agree with many of my blogs!  "But I like you," he courteously said the other day in the lanes.

Went and re-read a few and can't for the life of me discover what offends him?  Maybe he objects to the posts I do on the Indigenous? But everything I write is fact-based and numbers-driven and you can't argue with numbers, as B, my London School of Economics husband, has taught me.  

There's another fb "friend" on the other end of the spectrum who agrees on pretty much everything I post.  So, you never know what readers think?  I have few official followers, because anyone can read my blogs on the internet, but I get the stats from all over the world and it amazes me how many people read my random musings.  Thousands!  Go figure?!

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But what I really want to blog about are two dead beaus, who have popped up on the internet lately:  My two Brian's -- Smith and Watson.  Both NHL players, they were great guys and unfailingly polite and charming.  My Mother loves them.

Brian Smith, below, was a beau from 1968.  He took me to a Beach Boys concert that summer and we also hung out at The Chaud, where bottles regularly flew.  I remember him grabbing me and pulling me under the table more than once to escape injury  If my Mother had only known!  

He was gunned down in the CJOH parking lot in 1995 at age 54 by a lunatic who was hearing voices.  I was at the cottage when the news came on and I had to sit down.  It was so senseless.  Such a great guy, may he Rest in Peace.

Brian Smith, left.

My other beau around that time was Bryan Watson, who also played for Montreal, among other clubs.  Bryan got his old girlfriend "in the family" way and actually came to Toronto to tell me in person he was going to marry her.  What a class act.  

The summer of 1967, Bryan and I took a trip to his family cottage outside of his hometown of Bancroft, where we went to a barn dance.  I remember his girlfriend, Lindy, was there and was very upset that he was dating me.  Was that why she got pregnant?  Maybe.  Here is the great "Bugsy Watson" in the penalty box for fouling Bobby Hull.  

Bryan in the penalty box with Hull,

I am blogging this because when I get another volume printed (#15), it will be recorded as part of my legacy.  Hopefully, my grands will realize I was not just an old lady who made muffins!

  

Another national failure

Canada has three things that are unique:  The RCMP, the Group of Seven and the Snowbirds.  Soon we'll have but two because the Snowbirds are being taken out of service.  Why?  Because successive governments -- both Liberal and Conservative -- have failed to replace them and they are now too dangerous to be allowed off the ground.

Our beloved Snowbirds, soon to be grounded for years.

This is an appalling failure of leadership and a slap in the face to what's left of our withering Canadian identity.  

In a report released in 2003, when Jean Chretien was PM, our proud aerobatic squad was deemed to become obsolete by 2010.  Chretien did nothing.

In 2012, Stephen Harper rejected a $755 million proposal from the military for new Snowbirds.  Again, nothing.

In 2021, Justin Trudeau actually did one positive thing:  He approved $30 million to keep the Snowbirds flying until 2030.  (For a guy who boasted Canada was the first proud, post-national state (an oxymoron, BTW), that was actually impressive.)

So, for at least the next four Canada Day celebrations -- and probably much longer -- there will be no beloved, familiar, red and white birds streaking gloriously across the sky, celebrating the day.  

This is a wretched lack of leadership.  Even worse, they will be replaced with....wait for it....sit down....turboprops!  I kid you not!  Not jets, turboprops!!  At first I thought this was a joke, but no.  Canada's beloved Snowbirds will be travelling around the world to air shows in descendants of the Wright Brothers originals.  

We are an international laughing stock! No wonder Trump cancelled the Canada/US cooperation board.  I mean seriously.  The best we can do are turboprops!  

And don't expect Carney to do anything about it.  His secret recent meeting in Toronto with Soros and Obama makes clear his intentions to abandon Canada and turn us into some sort of global pawn in their international sabotage efforts.  The Snowbirds?  Who cares?!

Well, I do and I suspect so do all Canadians.  All I can say is, throw the bums out!    

   

Lanny

He needs no last name.  Lanny McDonald is a legend.  We met him in a Calgary restaurant the other day -- well, not exactly met.  We spied him enjoying his lunch and naturally went over and introduced ourselves.  "That's Lanny McDonald," I said to B.  "Go over and say hello," I urged him.  "Should I?"  Of course!  So he did and I followed.

We literally interrupted and him and his lunch-mate mid-bite, but Lanny immediately got up and extended his hand.  "Good afternoon, sir," he said so respectfully to B.  Could not have been more polite and accommodating to a couple of ancient fans, as he asked our names and immediately suggested a selfie.  Here we are:

The great Lanny McDonald.

"Thanks, guys," he said.  "I gotta go pick up my grandson."  "How many do you have?" asked B.  "Nine," said the devoted Grandpa.  Shamelessly trying to impress him with my past glory days, I told him about my two NHL boyfriends, both now deceased, and he said he had known them both well.    

Lanny is one of the greats.  He played for the Leafs, the Colorado Rockies and, of course, the Flames.  When he was traded to Colorado, fans set up a protest in front of The Gardens.  After three years there, he ended his sterling 16-year hockey career with the Flames, where he co-captained their last Stanley Cup in '88-'89.  That was the Flames pinnacle and swan song.  It's been crickets and disasters ever since.

If ever there was a great ambassador for the game, Lanny is it.  Before we let him go, he took off his HUGE Hall of Fame ring and suggested I try it on for another selfie.  What a great guy.

Me with my Hall of Fame memento.

 

Why does no one -- except me -- cover this corruption?

This appeared in my facebook feed and it needs to be shared, in my opinion, so I'm blogging it. By the way, I swim with a beautiful Indigenous woman from Stoney Nakoda. She is a retired RCMP officer and reads my blogs. "I completely agree with what you write about us and our leaders, but I can't comment because I'm Indigenous and we just stick together -- even when we know there's corruption going on."

So, folks, that's the problem right there and it's so dishonest. Here's the feed:

"Chief Allan Adam is the lead voice of the First Nations coalition that brought the legal challenge that killed the citizen-led Alberta separation petition. He went on CBC to celebrate the ruling. He called it a 'great win for Canada and for democracy.'

"But here is what CBC didn't ask him about:

"Chief Allan receives foreign interference money. The Tides Foundation is a left-wing lobby organization based in San Francisco who wired $55,000 directly to Chief Allan Adam's bank account to oppose the oil sands.

"Shortly after receiving that money, Adam flew to Toronto to sit on a stage next to Neil Young to publicly demonize Canada's energy industry.

"CBC themselves reported that various American funders contributed an estimated $40 million to Canadian environmental and Indigenous groups with one specific goal.... to landlock Alberta crude by blocking pipeline construction. Researcher Vivian Krauss attributed the cancellation of Northern Gateway, Energy East, Keystone, and Trans Mountain directly to this coordinated American-funded campaign.

"Chief Allan Adam was part of that campaign. He gladly took the money. This is real foreign interference in Canada's energy economy. And the same man who took American money to block Canadian prosperity is now the man leading the charge to block Albertans from having a democratic vote on their own future.
Meanwhile he REAPS the benefits of tax payer money from the very same industry profits.

"The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's own audited financial statements tell a story that Chief Adam did not mention once during his CBC interview.

"Combined with existing assets and real estate holdings, the band is sitting on close to $300 million. And the registered population of this band? 1,567 people total.

"With only 33 people living on reserve, that works out to roughly $9 million per person on reserve and Canadian taxpayers are still sending them $10 million a year plus a $100 million lump sum payout.

"Meanwhile this reserve has no public accounting of money spent since 2021. That's five years of missing financial disclosures. No accountability. No transparency. And the money keeps flowing.

"Chief Adam has been doing this for years:

"2018 — The National Post reported his complaints were complicating the Liberal review of the Frontier Oil Sands mine. The Alberta government publicly stated his concerns were about money, not environment.

"2018 — Despite publicly criticizing fossil fuel developers and hosting anti-oil activists including Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam signed a benefit agreement with Teck after what he described as positive negotiations. His opposition was for sale.

"2020 — Adam was stopped by RCMP outside a Fort McMurray casino for an expired license plate, resisted arrest, and publicly accused the officers of "racist" treatment. The RCMP was cleared. No evidence of misconduct was found.

"Chief Allan Adam did not vote against Alberta separation. He did not organize Albertans to vote against it. He went to court to make sure Albertans never got to vote on it at all.

"Over 300,000 Albertans signed that petition. They followed the law. They used the exact democratic mechanism the Legislature created for them. And a judge threw every one of those signatures in the garbage.

"A man taking money from foreign interference organizations who also massively benefits from Alberta prosperity is taking democratic rights away from Albertans. Yet he thinks this is a 'win for democracy.'

"Canadians you are being scammed in every way possible."

The chief after an altercation with the RCMP outside a casino.  Does anyone really think the RCMP would beat up such a high-profile, public figure for no reason?  Chief Adam loves publicity, so you gotta wonder what that was about?

Daughter's take on sports

This was posted by my daughter.  She has been an elite athlete for 30 years and her kids are getting there too!

"Life-long sport. This is where I’m sure I have succeeded. Here’s a bit of a reflection…

"Consistency, variety, fun, listening to your body, hard work, winning some, losing lots, go fast, but also take it slow and did I mention consistency? Over 30 years of high performance sport, it’s not glamorous, it’s not a secret, there are many ways to skin a cat (as I had followed many types of training along the way) but you have to keep at it.

"I once had a running coach tell me, my super-power was never being too far away from my top form. But that’s consistency! In all the sports that I’ve battled in, training hard to toe the line… swimming (varsity), water polo (provincial selection) triathlon (elite/pro carded) running (some pretty fast times across all distances) and now cycling (multiple disciplines and doing alright as a masters athlete), it has taken a good five - 10 years dedicated to that sport, to get to a point where I could say I was proficient and at a level that jived with my pride.

"This win @thesaltydogenduro was about me being 47 years old and needing to play to my strengths, (I can go long and strong like nobody’s business now) along with listening to the science on older women athletes.

Her fourth win in the Salty Dog Endurance Race in Salmon Arm. The winner is the one who does the most laps in six hours.  

"I’m like a dog with a bone, stubborn and driven! @c4xc_p_team families know that I take “life-long” sport as our ultimate goal! Although I call it my “spirit-training” it’s really about a lifetime of listening to my body and being consistent. I love to compete, but I’m truly loving sharing my knowledge with my athletes and seeing them grow and achieved!! #hardwork #consistencywins #lifelongsport "

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