INDIGENOUS PRIDE

"You can apologize, but you can never take back your words."

Former prime minister Steven Harper made a formal apology to Indigenous people abused in the residential school system.

Member of Parliament, Pierre Poilievre commented on the apology, "Some of us are starting to ask, are we really getting value for this money (compensation to victims), and is more money really going to solve the problem? My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance."

Harper was furious with Poilievre who apologized the next day but the damage and hurt had been done. "You can apologize, but you can never take back your words."

“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” Chances are you heard this wise advice from your Mom when she reminded you that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Turns out…

Broken Group Islands, British Columbia

Vancouver Island British Columbia

"For five days, Rachelle Packwood removed mounds of Styrofoam, rope and tires that had collected along the remote shorelines of the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound.

It was the first beach clean-up Packwood had participated in and she hasn’t stopped talking about it since.

“I feel really good about what we did,” she said. “Knowing how many tons of debris we took off that Broken Group is astounding. I have a sense of pride.”

The initiative was part of the West Coast Vancouver Island Coastal Improvement Project, which aims to support large-scale marine shoreline clean-ups and derelict vessel removals along British Columbia’s coastline."

Indigenous rainbow prophecy says that: “There will come a day when people of all races, colors, and creeds will put aside their differences. They will come together in love, joining hands in unification, to heal the Earth and all her children. They will move over the Earth like a great Whirling Rainbow, bringing peace, understanding and healing everywhere they go.”

Perhaps this is why some fear the power of the rainbow

“I was probably in my 20s when I finally knew I was going to be an astronomer,” Laure Rousseau-Nepton explains. Growing up, becoming a scientist or astronomer wasn’t on her radar. These days, she is an astronomer who works in the Canada France Hawaii telescope, an observatory located on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii and a sacred site for native Hawaiians."

Laure has a supportive family.