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Tim Hodgson starts his press conference with another LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT Meanwhile, cities across Canada are quietly DROPPING them. Liberals will keep doing land acknowledgments… Until there’s NO LAND LEFT to acknowledge.

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The truth about land acknowledgments — and why it's time to end them Land acknowledgments have become one of the most common political rituals in Canada. They're recited in government offices, universities, legislative chambers, police press conferences, and even before the national anthem during children's school performances. We're told they're harmless. We're told they're simply about teaching Indigenous history. But as I explore in this report, many Canadians see them very differently. For starters, the history behind many modern land acknowledgments is often oversimplified. Long before European settlement, Indigenous nations fought wars, displaced rivals, expanded territories, controlled trade routes, and, in some cases, even practiced slavery. The Iroquois Confederacy displaced rival nations during the Beaver Wars. The Tlingit expanded their influence through warfare. The Haida famously took captives from neighbouring peoples as slaves. Yet no reasonable person would argue that modern Indigenous Canadians should be burdened with inherited guilt, or that their connection to Canada is weakened because of what their ancestors did centuries ago. And yet non-Indigenous Canadians are increasingly expected to sit through, repeat, or affirm statements suggesting they occupy "stolen" land and possess a lesser claim to the country they call home. Some are even being punished for speaking out against such compulsion. Lara Yates, a B.C. mother of four, was banned from her child's school after speaking out against a land acknowledgment before a school performance. Catherine Kronas, an Ontario parent council member, was suspended from her duties for refusing to participate in one. And four UBC professors have gone so far as to take legal action against the publicly funded university's sweeping use of land acknowledgments, arguing that the rituals force faculty and students to conform to the institution's political views. The concerns don't end there. Some Canadians oppose land acknowledgments because they believe they promote a form of racism, one that assigns moral guilt, victimhood, legitimacy, or authority based not on individual character, but on ancestry. And with elected officials such as BC NDP MLA Rohini Aroura, using legislature time to label the majority of her constituents “settlers” and “colonizers,” it’s no surprise that many Canadians feel that land acknowledgments have become about racial division rather than reconciliation. And with Aboriginal title agreements and court decisions raising legitimate concerns about property rights in Canada, land acknowledgments declaring Canadians to be living on "stolen" or "unceded" land go far beyond symbolic statements and now carry political and legal risk. Enough is enough. If you believe all Canadians are connected to this land, that no Canadian should be assigned inherited guilt because of their ancestry, or that publicly funded institutions should not pressure citizens into affirming political beliefs they do not share, I encourage you to sign our petition at REPORT by Drea Humphrey:

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Bring them home. They were taken from their homes They are hurt and all alone There’s just one thing to be done Bring them home 💔 On Monday, November 20, the world will mark World Children’s Day, but right now there are children, toddlers and babies being held hostage in Gaza away from their families. This beautiful song by talented Israeli artist Dikla and the Ariel Youth Group, is a tribute to the 240 men, women and children being held hostage by Hamas. We hope that this song and our prayers for their safe return reach them wherever they are. Lyrics: Reach out your hand, there’s a dream, there’s a land We have no other place This is home. Over the sea. Take my hand, follow me To our land that’s strong and free. Bring them home. They were taken from their homes They are hurt and all alone There’s just one thing to be done Bring them home Bring them home To the ancient promised land God has given his command Now their faith is in our hands Bring them home. To the ancient promised land God has given his command Now, their faith is in our hands Bring them home. Answer our prayers ‘Cause our people out there Need your help with your heart Bring them home. Turn not away It’s the time, it’s the day To put feet to your prayers Bring them home. Bring them home. To the ancient promised land God has given his command Now their faith is in our hands Bring them home. To the ancient promised land God has given his command Now their faith is in our hands God has given his command Bring them home. To the ancient promised land God has given his command. Now their faith is in our hands Bring them home To the ancient promised land God has given his command Now their faith is in our hands

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Here’s a problem. When a Black political leader whose entire career is built upon the slogan of “land expropriation” stands in front of White landowners and reassures them that only unused land will be taken, while “productive” land will be spared, he’s not fighting dispossession. He’s managing it. He’s saying: It’s okay for you to keep the land, as long as you’re extracting value from it. In that exact moment, land stops being a site of justice or historical redress. It becomes a productive asset, judged only by its economic output, not by how it was acquired or who was dispossessed to make it “productive” in the first place. That’s not radical. It’s violent capitalism. And in a country like South Africa, where the entire architecture of land ownership was violently constructed around White supremacy, “productive land” just means White-owned land. So protecting “productive land” is functionally indistinguishable from protecting the status quo. With this line of argument, the dispossessed aren’t being offered land. They’re being offered food security. They’re told to wait a little longer, for “growth”, for “partnerships”, for jobs, for benevolence from their “bosses”. In fact, this logic says: if you’re a current landowner, all you need to do to avoid expropriation is start farming harder. That’s it. Just produce and there will be no land redress. This is not land reform. It’s land perform. It’s a theatrical gesture of justice that leaves the underlying power structure untouched. Worse, it launders morality: White landowners are cast as generous “partners”, while the dispossessed are still left begging, just more politely. This isn’t revolution. It’s reconciliation with capital. And it’s very unserious.

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