On 2026-02-25 8:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2026501881258790912/vid/avc1/1080x1080/Qbzx3QOh3VV_o2SY.mp4
I posted a slightly different edit of that same acknowledgement a few
weeks back ;-) It happened at a Toronto City Council meeting. The
speaker is a regular at those meetings. He told an interviewer later
that some of the council members didn't even listen to him because they
were too busy looking at their phones.
I don't expect anything he said actually stuck with the councillors and
that the land acknowledgements will continue for many years.
I don't live in Toronto but I participated in an online seminar put on
by our region about diabetic foot care and had to sit through a land acknowledgement, even though our region is on property legally bought
from the local Indians; the land ownership is not contested by anyone as
far as I know. But I still see articles about proposed building projects
in our area where "indigenous groups" are carefully consulted to make
sure THEY don't mind if a new building is 30 storeys high; if they do,
that objection seems to be taken more seriously than others. It's
completely ludicrous.
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