No; More Canada Day Fireworks!!

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

How long before there is a movement to end Canada Day? There is a movement to do away with Australia Day in that country. It’ll happen here too.

Already happening. I remember a slew of articles about 'Abolish Canada Day' around this time and early July last year. Even one talking about 'get rid of fireworks on July 1'.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

You know who else had excessive national pride? Nazis.

There, now you can add it to the list.

Appreciate it. Felt like something was missing and that might’ve done the trick.

[Wormius]

Fuzz is on a Godwins roll, and it’s not even noon.

[ZedMan]

I'm kind of fascinated that arguably the least culturally Canadian part of Canada day (the part we half-ass copied from 4th of July) is apparently the last bastion of Canadian culture's fight for survival.

[Muta]

Maple syrup will be next! Enjoy your pancakes and waffles now before it's too late

[monkeyman]

The city’s on a roll, really working on the important things like no fireworks, city bird, fighting bills in other provinces, and free alarm systems.
Lol, so funny. Talk about out of touch.

[undercoverbrother]

All this talk of dogs being sacred of fireworks makes me thing Sliver might be right, wait it was dogs he wanted to exterminate right?

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Muta

Maple syrup will be next! Enjoy your pancakes and waffles now before it's too late

Have you seen the levels of sugar in syrup!?!? Way to perpetuate the obesity epidemic.

Disgusting.

/s

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Have you seen the levels of sugar in syrup!?!? Way to perpetuate the obesity epidemic.

Disgusting.

/s

This non-biased site says it is a superfood

https://puremaplesyrup.co/blogs/news...up-a-superfood

[Ashes]

Me and my neighbors on Canada Day

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

How long before there is a movement to end Canada Day? There is a movement to do away with Australia Day in that country. It’ll happen here too.

It already started in 2021. It probably existed before that but 2021 was a majority catalyst for cancelling Canada Day. I don't recall do active the movement was last year but I'm sure they had various rallies/marches/protests leading up to the holiday. There was a protest in Parliament Hill in 2021 calling for the cancellation of Canada Day.

[Leeman4Gilmour]

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/indigenou...-day-1.5970217

Not a lot of context in the original link, but the call to revisit the fireworks celebration started last year.

I personally don't think this accomplishes anything.

What needs to happen is some answers as to what happened at those residential schools. The answers are going to be terrible, but there has to be closure

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

This sounds pretty weak to me but what do I know as an old, white guy when it comes cultural sensitivity? As an aside, don't Chinese people love fireworks and set of fireworks on New Year's to scary aware evil spirits or something?

How easy or difficult is it going to be to get access to this mainstage area for the new show this year?

I'm pretty sure the Chinese invented fireworks to begin with.

[FlamesAddiction]

Was is mentioned why a light show was less culturally insensitive than fireworks? Is it because fireworks represent cannons and gunfire?

[RogerWilco]

Originally Posted by Muta

Maple syrup will be next! Enjoy your pancakes and waffles now before it's too late

No, we will still be able to use pearl milling company syrup until the trees are renamed.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by fotze2

When my dog gets scared by lightning....its bloody hilarious. Likewise when it humps things like my kids. We all laugh our asses off. There is no way people don't like fireworks because of their dog, that's ridiculous.

Why are we giving special treatment to people with dogs? I immediately demand pet reparations to make me whole!

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour

What needs to happen is some answers as to what happened at those residential schools. The answers are going to be terrible, but there has to be closure

Is it a mystery, though? My understanding is the church ripped indigenous children away from their parents in order to indoctrinate them into Christianity. Once in the schools, many of them were humiliated, taught a bunch of utter nonsense (kinda like what Christians continue to teach people today), and abuse and murder followed. That's what happened.

There should be reparations for those crimes as the trauma continues to reverberate through indigenous communities to this day.

But...we can't apologize forever without being forgiven (especially since it literally was nobody under a certain age...say 60?...who had anything to do with any of it). Nevertheless, I am willing to take responsibility for the past, but I don't think my children should have to and I don't think them apologizing for existing in Canada before each assembly is helping anything.

I'm at the stage where I want to know specifically what indigenous people want for us to bury the hatchet and move forward together. Onesie twosieing weird things like nonstop land acknowledgements, no fireworks, and every other measure is not going to get us there. If our apologies and our willingness to pay reasonable reparations are not acceptable, then let's just stop doing them. It's a waste of our energy and resources if there is no end and at some point we need to take a firm stand and draw the line that people born after a certain date are not obligated to apologize any longer.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Why are we giving special treatment to people with dogs? I immediately demand pet reparations to make me whole!

I think the working theory in this thread that we are letting the aborginals and chinese take the heat to protect any backlash against pets and their owners.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Nevertheless, I am willing to take responsibility for the past, but I don't think my children should have to and I don't think them apologizing for existing in Canada before each assembly is helping anything.

Where is this happening? I'm personally not a huge fan of territory acknowledgements for a number of reasons, but if you think they're being done as an apology then you're missing the point.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Is it a mystery, though? My understanding is the church ripped indigenous children away from their parents in order to indoctrinate them into Christianity. Once in the schools, many of them were humiliated, taught a bunch of utter nonsense (kinda like what Christians continue to teach people today), and abuse and murder followed. That's what happened.

There should be reparations for those crimes as the trauma continues to reverberate through indigenous communities to this day.

But...we can't apologize forever without being forgiven (especially since it literally was nobody under a certain age...say 60?...who had anything to do with any of it). Nevertheless, I am willing to take responsibility for the past, but I don't think my children should have to and I don't think them apologizing for existing in Canada before each assembly is helping anything.

I'm at the stage where I want to know specifically what indigenous people want for us to bury the hatchet and move forward together. Onesie twosieing weird things like nonstop land acknowledgements, no fireworks, and every other measure is not going to get us there. If our apologies and our willingness to pay reasonable reparations are not acceptable, then let's just stop doing them. It's a waste of our energy and resources if there is no end and at some point we need to take a firm stand and draw the line that people born after a certain date are not obligated to apologize any longer.

God, you're such a ####ing bigot.