The Latest Stuff

I’m sure everyone knows that I now have my next car.  It’s a 2003 AWD Toyota Matrix.  It’s white, and is in immaculate condition with 47,000KM when I bought it.

For those who don’t know… All Wheel Drive means that the four-wheel drive is controlled automatically by the onboard computer – if the back wheels are spinning at a greater rate than the front wheels, the 4×4 kicks in automatically.  Jolly good eh?
I bought one of those cheap $16 car vacuum cleaners and use that everyday, and I wipe down the insides once a day.  This car WILL be kept in top shape no matter what it costs.  It MUST last me at least five years.  Bearing in mind the extensive research into car models and manufacturers, I’ve complete confidence that all Japanese brands are AWESOME… not like the other north american crap being sold to millions across the world.

Lorraine’s feeling more and more pregnant every day.  I’m scared of having another child for obvious reasons… nervous… and elated all at the same time.

My ultimate goal in the area of careers seems to be changing – the options I want are below.

• Extremely wealthy and anonymous
• Famous and wealthy
• Actor
• Police Officer
• Owner of design firm

I’m having serious internal conflict and issues about the fact that I am none of the above.  DAMN IT ALL!

On a great note… there’s a movie being shot in Kenora.  The production company are renting space in our office… the movie’s called ‘Juliana and the Medicine Fish‘, with Jessica Amlee, Rob Schneider, Gordon Tootoosis and Alex Rice.  I’ve been foozing Jessica and it’s just awesome.  I can officially add that I’ve foozed a movie star.  BTW – Jessy’s 12yrs old hahahaha!

Nicolas is getting scratched, bitten and pinched by one of his cousins which I’m not happy about at all.  If it doesn’t stop, a few words in the cousin’s mother’s ear will be happening for sure!

Right Or Wrong

Colonisation in general has always been a favourite topic of mine. It’s happened on every continent in the world, and close to every single country in the world where the people are predominantly white.

Whilst I abhor colonisation for the effects of it, I truly believe it is meant to happen. I’m not sufficiently educated in philosophy to try and work out why.

For me at least, the issue is not so much with colonisation in general… rather the way it is done. The stealing of the Americas, and Australasia could have happened in a much gentler and less violent way. There’s never been any valid excuse for the blankets handed out with smallpox in the U.S… or any valid excuse for the chemical experiments upon Indigenous children in Nanaimo Indian School in British Columbia… or any valid excuse for the residential school systems in the U.S, Canada and Australia.

How can any civilised person look at how Indigenous people lived before the expansion of caucasian people across the globe, and how they’re living now, and not think compensation is justified?

It makes me sick to my stomach when I see the full extent of racial predjudice in Canada. The sheer amount of caucasian people in Canada with resentment or outright hatred of Indigenous people, black people, and asian people is sickening. Correct me if I’m wrong (with proof of course)… but it seems like at least 80% of white people in Canada either have ‘issues’ with non-white people in Canada or straight out don’t like other races.

Then you’ll get these fools who refuse to understand why Indigenous people are in some of the situations now. It bothers me that the Federal Government of KKKanada aren’t spending hundreds of millions of dollars in drives for racial harmony and education.

It bothers me even more when you have non-aboriginal people whining about having to pay certain taxes and aboriginal people not… or having to pay for medication and aboriginals not having to. What most people don’t realise is that life is a sloping playing field – in order for all to be equal, the ones on the lower end must be pushed onto the same level as the ones on the higher end. All these various little privileges that Indigenous people have are there because Indigenous people have so many other areas in which they’re far behind everyone else.

I’m an non-indigenous person in Canada with only four years here. I don’t resent paying taxes to give natives a better education. I don’t whisper under my breath when a Native person in the checkout line pulls out a status card and gets to pay less. Why can’t everyone try to understand what it’s really like to be black, or native, or asian?