Tired of the "We Stole Their Land" Rhetoric I keep seeing

 Date: January 30, 2025

    Every time you turn around nowadays, someone brings up the argument that Canada is built on "stolen land".  People say we "stole land from the Indigenous".  No one has shown, to my knowledge, any kind of paperwork or deeds that shows the Indigenous own the particular land that's being questioned.  The consensus is that "they were here first".   Yeah, I'm sorry, but that does not depict ownership.  Show me the deeds that said they owned the land.

    I don't care who "settled first" - be it Indigenous peoples, or European Settlers from back in the day.  Back then, people went to a body of land and found a location and settled upon it.  There were no deeds or titles, so therefore, no one "owned" the land.

    I am sick and tired of people saying we owe the Indigenous. I'm sick of the talk of how "they were slaughtered". What about the white European settlers who were trying to settle on new land that the Indigenous "slaughtered"?  No one cares about what happened to the white people.

    I wish people would understand how progress works, that we have moved beyond the point of going on to a plot of land and staking claim. There is a process of how it works these days; and that is what we should be focusing on - period.  If there is a title land deed that says the land belongs to X, then Y should not be allowed or able to question the ownership. It should be simply "sorry, the deed says X owns it. You can speak with X to see if they wish to sell the ownership to you, but otherwise, ownership stands with X".   "But we were here first!!" uh.. that's not a valid argument in 2025.  Who settled first stopped mattering the moment land ownership deeds became a thing.

    Time to move on people. Time to grow up. Time to stop being so damned entitled.

January Woes - 2025 starting off rough

 Date: January 25, 2025

    So the year 2025 has started off pretty rough for me. On January 2025, I managed to slice the corner of my thumb off on the slicer at work. I have been to the hospital and to receive the plastic surgeon. Thankfully I don't have to have any surgery but the negative part is there forcing me back to work as of Monday the 27th. Both the hospital and the surgeon suggested that I take time off for a while to get my hand to heal. The hospital put a note of 14 plus days off in order to heal my hand. The plastic surgeon agreed with that because it is my right hand which I am right hand dominant so they want to make sure that I don't smack it or hurt it somehow. When I explain that to work I was told that the longer I am on WSIB, the higher the premiums go for them.

    So basically, work is telling me that they don't care about my hand or my health and all they care about is the money that goes out for the premiums for the Workers' Compensation Insurance. Although they're giving me light modified duties, going back to work early has me worried because I know that I'm probably going to bang my hand while working, and I want to make sure that my hand heals. I'm going to give it a try on Monday, but if things don't work well or I feel uncomfortable, I'm going to bite the bullet and I'm going to tell Tracy just to put me on vacation for my follow-up appointment. Either way you want to look at it, work has screwed me out of money. First they cancelled my workers comp because they want to force me back to work with light duties. And then if I can't do the job that they expect me to do due to the problem with my thumb, I'm going to be forced to go on vacation and that's going to mean I get zero pay.

    On top of all of this, I have been dealing with some depression lately. I already deal with very low self-esteem. And now I find myself sitting here looking at my injured hand and wondering how the hell I was so stupid to allow myself to get hurt like that. I suppose part of it was due to the fact that my mind was elsewhere. The day before my car had died at work and I was looking at needing to have to have a new battery. I had called to CAA to come tow my car and take it over to Ricky ratchets so that they could repair what was probably a battery. I was doing prep at work and thinking about how CAA was coming, and about the work that would need to be done on the car. When I was slicing the tomatoes, for some reason I do not understand, I reached out with my right hand to hold the plate down rather than the left hand I usually do. So when I shifted my hand, my phone got in the way and that's when it connected with the blade.

    The one good thing that happened out of this injury, is the fact that I was given a sign that Mom is watching over me. When I had hurt my hand at work and I was getting ready to go home Dianne helping me get ready. I got my jacket on and she took my hot and put it on my head, pull it down over my face and then pushed it back so that my face was exposed. She then said "Oh there she is!" and I heard my mom. That was such a mom thing to say. It let me realise that my mom knows that I loved her and that I cared for her until the very end. She does not hold any grudge against me, or died thinking I hated her. I know that my mom is at peace, and I know that she is watching over me.

    Hopefully in February when I go see the doctor, I will find that everything is healed properly and that I will be back to normal more or less. I also hope that the rest of my year can pick up. I had great plans to get my finances back in order. I had planned to rebuild my savings that I have gone through, and be able to get back to where I was. The situation with my hand has thrown a bit of a wrench into that. I've missed one week of pay, though I hope that workers comp will pay for part of that anyway. I have had to spend the money on cabs to get to and from the hospital, which comes out of my savings. And now with this stuff going on with my hand, I'm thinking of telling them I need that 2 weeks off to get myself healed, which means no pay for me and another dipping into my savings.

    At the end of December I left Facebook. I was sick with the way of the Facebook was behaving, and I was sick of the treatment of the people on Facebook. But I have to admit, that I actually miss being there. I miss having updates from my friends, a place to write my thoughts or my feelings down, and just a general sense of not being alone. I made a decision when I close my Facebook that if I decide to return, it will be under a different name. I won't use Cheri Foster. I may use CL Foster for a new Facebook if I decide to open it, or maybe I'll just do something different. I thought of maybe doing something with my mother's maiden name and putting that as my last name and then picking a different name. Maybe I'll do CL Mitchell or Lyn Mitchell to incorporate the name. For now though, I'm just going to stick to being alone.    

    So I guess we'll see what the rest of the year holds for me. Honestly my hope is pretty bleak.

General Babble

 January 14, 2025

I can't believe it is now 2025.  There have been so many changes in my life since I last posted on Blogger..... 

• My mother passed away on March 23, 2021 from a massive cardiac event (heart attack)
• I sold the house my mother and I had lived in and moved into a condo on September 16, 2022
• I left Facebook on December 31, 2024 because I found the place to be very grim. People were always rude and attacking, the platform itself was always auto refreshing so I missed things and it frustrated me when it would auto refresh in the middle of reading something.
• I joined Threads just after (Maybe January 1st, 2025) because a friend on Facebook had recommended it.
• I left Threads shortly thereafter thanks to being bullied and harassed by Indigenous and their supporters (another repeat of what happened to me on Twitter. No thank you!)
• I tried BlueSky in 2024 because it was supposed to be a great platform. There were too many creepy people on there (those ones that seem to flirt with you but you know are a total sham - that are "military people" -- scammers, all of them)
• President Joe Biden left the race for President (the new election was in November 2024) and Kamala Harris took his place.   Donald Trump was running as the Republican opponent.  Trump won. 
• Donald Trump became America's first convicted felon President.  He was convicted of 34 counts that had to do with tampering with the 2016 Election, and hiding hush money to the porn star (Storm Daniels) who accused him of rape.   He is also guilty of inciting violence on the Insurrection of the Capitol (the riots on Capitol Hill) on January 6, 2021 when he didn't win the election in 2020.   He is also a convicted rapist (though they say it was sexual assault; later defined as rape), and has attacked several women.
• Donald Trump reversed the Roe V Wade decision that legalized abortion.  So now abortion in the USA is illegal - regardless of the reason for it (health of the mother, health of the baby, rape, etc - essentially telling women they do not have a right to say what happens to their bodies)
• Donald Trump has stated he is going to put 25% tariffs on Canada when he gets into office January 20, 2025.  Donald Trump has also stated he wants Canada to be America's 51st state, wants to obtain Panama Canal and Greenland - using military and economic force if necessary (which is a declaration of war against a Sovereign Nation)
• Justin Trudeau stepped down as the Prime Minister of Canada on January 6, 2025.  There will be a new leader for the Liberal party chosen, and there will be an election for the Prime Minister of Canada.  I have a horrible feeling it will be the Conservative Party, lead by Pierre Poilievre - which will be a very bad thing for Canada.  Poilievre is like the Canadian version of Trump; and his supporters have been dubbed the MAPLE MAGA (MAGA being Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan)

The world nowadays is far more self-entitled, and full of more a-holes than ever...  at least that's what I'm finding.  Everyone expects more and are rude and just don't care about that. It's rather crazy.

In 2024 I made a trip to Calgary, Alberta and visited my niece. I've never been west of Ontario so that was interesting. I got to see mountains; and even hiked to the top of Sanson Peak in Banff when my niece and I went to the Banff Gondola.  I got to see the West Edmonton Mall - a mall I have wanted to see since I was a kid!  I got to see the Calgary Stampede, which was pretty cool (though I'd have liked to see the part with the rodeo. I saw the night show with the chuck wagon races.  The concert after was amazing though.)   The worst part was the fact that my niece is vegan and refused to let me have non-vegan food in her apartment. (I asked for "regular cream cheese" and bagels and she bought me vegan cream cheese (which was disgusting))  I understand that it's her place; but I feel she should have taken in to account the fact that I am not a vegan a little more.  When she comes to visit me, I usually make sure that we have vegan-friendly stuff.  I just think it would have been a little nicer to have been considered, rather than forced into her lifestyle.  IF I go to Calgary again, I think I will get myself a hotel - maybe a rental car. I won't stay with her again, though it did save me some money. I just think I would have been more comfortable in a hotel.  Ah well.

December 28th, my boyfriend and I celebrated our 14th anniversary.  We started going out in 2010.  It's a very long relationship - the longest I've ever had - and it's an online one.  We have gone through a Pandemic where we didn't see each other for 2 years due to COVID.  I figure if we can survive that, we can survive anything haha.   Now he just has to hurry up and win "the big one" so I can retire from work and enjoy life as a retired lady who spends the winters some place warm.  Haha!