Kashechewan evacuees welcomed by Thunder Bay residents

This is sort of a local thing and wouldn't normally bore anyone with it....but it appears our guests have a different way of showing their appreciation. Only days after arriving a number of them popped across the hotel parking lot to the Metro grocery store to do some shopping. Filled up their carts and headed back to the hotel without paying.........which led to a large number of police being called to herd some of them back. Oddly many of the food choices they made were not of the healthy variety. Meals are provided at each hotel so I have no idea why they would need more. Unless it has something to do with the parade of shoppers that cross the street to visit the LCBO.

shocked?? thought not. Coke, candy and chips.

So, what? You are saying that stereotypes sometimes are true?

Live on or near a rez....they aren't really stereotypes, they're observations. Same goes for small farming towns and most Asian drivers(Japanese are pretty careful)

Preaching to the choir Shep. I did some work in Hobbema for a while, and went to school with the current Chief of one of the local Reserves. I'm sort of surprised he made Chief, being such a lazy bastard and general asshole. But then again, he actually finished school . . .

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Preaching to the choir Shep. I did some work in Hobbema for a while, and went to school with the current Chief of one of the local Reserves. I'm sort of surprised he made Chief, being such a lazy bastard and general asshole. But then again, he actually finished school . . .


A neighbour/friend of mine here is a local who returned after 30+ years off the reserve, working the oilpatch and in the mines at La Ronge. He actually lives on the Crown land rather than the reserve. He's been fighting with the chief and council to try and get some legitimate business going here. The band took over the local store and gas station and they've been driving it into the ground using it as their personal piggy bank. He's been trying to buy it and expand services, promoting tourism and a livable community that people want to raise their families in. Interesting thing is, him, the village mayor and the chief are all first cousins, but they all head separate 'factions' within the community.

Tell me about it......

I spent the better part of a year (quite some time ago) living on the Mt Currie reservation.....10 km south of Pemberton BC. The one thing I remember, aside from it being a total shit hole, was when they opened the new recreation centre in town, big ceremony and Saturday night "dance". Monday morning the crew was there boarding up window in the place.......

Lots more stories, not many good ones though.......

Amen.
Lived near TWO freakin reservations for 12 years. You wanna see a group that thinks they're entitled! And then cry racism when you dare utter the truth. Hypocrite assholes.

I work at the holding cells on some weekends and evenings. Were they to be referred to in the same language that they go on about whites, there'd be news reports and inquests ad aauseam, ad mortem, ad infinitum about systemic racism from those who were having the insults hurled at them. I just close the view ports and let them kick the shit out of the steel doors and scream.....and have it driven home, why the kids in school are so poorly behaved

Victoria Inn?
Yup, there and the Airlane Travelodge. 100 yards smack in the middle of both..........LCBO. Last time some didn't want to go home.

Victoria Inn?
Yup, there and the Airlane Travelodge. 100 yards smack in the middle of both..........LCBO. Last time some didn't want to go home.

Thanks, supposed to be making a trip to the Bay before too long and while I'm sure all of the evacuees are not as poorly behaved as the Metro looters, I'd like to stay somewhere away from the trouble makers. Don't need the grief.

Not bored at all by this. It's all quite logical actually and makes perfect sense.

Like Shep said... observations.

If you stay at the BestWestern, you can get some popcorn and watch the show out the window.