With ya, Peace and bankley. I've seen too much crap perpetrated by the OPP to trust their take on any incident.

And on the subject of First Nations in Canada generally, I would like to see the federal government mount an informational campaign about First Nations people and communities across the country. Most Canadians, particularly our large urban population, only ever hear about conflicts and poverty and substance abuse. Unless you live close to successful, hardworking FN communities, like we do here in Nova Scotia, you'd think the worst.

Yes there are problems, here too, but most of those problems stem from generations of persecution by white assholes and bad decisions and inaction from stupid governments. I could tell some personal stories, but this isn't the place.

Thanks for the background and sources, bankley. Means I'll have ammunition next time some clueless entitled twit says something stupid about the present incidents.

Several First Nations communities in this province have been building really successful big and small businesses over the past twenty years and more, and wherever that happens, you see a lot of problems reduce themselves to what you'd expect of any community of the same size.