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Global News I remember when Harper did his apology on behalf of Canada for residential schools, it bothered me for a long time. I realized later on it was because it did not acknowledge what happened in the residential schools as criminal. It was a "mistake" rather than anything intentional. In other words, Harper's apology was a non-apology apology: "Sorry you all suffered but Canada was trying to do the right thing." No, acknowledging it as genocide is the right thing to do. What would be steps for Canada in showing its sincerity in this acknowledgement? Reviving the Kelowna Accord? I should think with inflation, what was initially pledged should probably be bumped up to $15 or even $20 billion over a similar time frame. I think originally, it was $10 billion over ten years pledged to on-reserve development. A criminal investigation committee with prosecutorial, subpoena, and sentencing power is another thing. These were actual crimes of genocide. The broadcas

Medicare for all, a contentious issue in the United State of America. There are some who'd have the whole system replaced wholesale, and some fewer who'd leave it in place as is forevermore. The former though are seemingly powerless against the votes of the latter, as proven by Sanders' loss to Biden in the Democratic Party primary, as both embodied the systems they wanted to bring about or leave alone. One is now president, and the other relegated to near obscurity in the Senate, destined to serve out the remainder of his term neutered and forgotten. Sanders was the Medicare for All advocate in the Democratic Party's primary, and on this issue he very nearly won. However, against the power and money of the current leadership of the party, he faltered midway, and so the battle for victory for medicare for all was delayed yet again. Perhaps as Ted Kennedy before him, he may likely pass on from this life without ever having fulfilled his lifelong goal of bringing to Amer

I read an article commenting on demographics. The decline of fertility rates in Western nations. I think of myself, of course; I always wanted a family but could never bare to think of entering into a relationship without financial stability. To find a perfect woman, and just live a nice life, and have some kids. But, I have never in my life felt financially secure; I have always felt anxious about what I would be doing in a week or a month or a year from now. I have never wanted to enter into a relationship feeling I would be dependent on my partner, and now that I have a university degree, in turn I would not enter into an unequal relationship. But it took me twenty-two years of my adulthood to get to this point. My best years for starting a family are behind me. Anyway, that's all anecdotal in regards to the following consideration: the decline of Western fertility rates seems to have more to do with financial security than anything else. The luxury of having children seems a go