gapper wrote:If you are the typical arrogent little prick that I have witnessed comming out of the flight colledges, stay the hell away from Thompson.It will be far too small and "bush league' for you. If you are a hardworking young pilot that truly appreciates the opportunity to learn about aviation from some really fine oldtimers of northern flying,then you may very well find Thompson a warm and friendly place. You may also find Thompson not to your liking if you are a racist biggot.

Not liking Thompson has little to do with racism. It has to do with rampant alcoholism, drug abuse, unpunished crime, and STDs, and 3 levels of government that are unwilling or unable to solve these problems. If that's your thing, you'll love it regardless of the friends you make. Otherwise, choose your friends wisely, and you'll be fine.

grimey wrote:They got it a couple weeks ago. Crystal's Diner closed down, and re-opened as a Robin's. I'm probably gonna have a heart attack because my office is right next to it.

gapper wrote:If you are the typical arrogent little prick that I have witnessed comming out of the flight colledges, stay the hell away from Thompson.It will be far too small and "bush league' for you. If you are a hardworking young pilot that truly appreciates the opportunity to learn about aviation from some really fine oldtimers of northern flying,then you may very well find Thompson a warm and friendly place. You may also find Thompson not to your liking if you are a racist biggot.

phillyfan wrote:If you college kids like STD's, drinking alone and "bone chugs" from toothless aboriginal's then head on up.
If you like your health, your sanity and money, then don't.

Canadas reserve system is no different from South Africas former apartheid system.

North Shore wrote:Quote:
Canadas reserve system is no different from South Africas former apartheid system.


C'mon, ., that's BS!
I'll agree that, perhaps, the results are similar - but the systems are vastly different. Where is it required in Canada that, by law, Aboriginals have to live on their reserves, have to have passes to walk around the rest of the country, aren't allowed to attend the same schools, etc...Nowhere.

AntiNakedMan wrote:Funny someone brings that up; When the government of South Africa was looking at implementing apartheid they used the Canadian Reserve system as their model.

The history of the Indian people for the last century has been the history of the impingement of white civilization upon the Indian: the Indian was virtually powerless to resist the white civilization; the white community of B.C. adopted a policy of apartheid. This, of course, has already been done in eastern Canada and on the Prairies, but the apartheid policy adopted in B.C. was of a particularly cruel and degrading kind. They began by taking the Indians' land without any surrender and without their consent. Then they herded the Indian people onto Indian reserves. This was nothing more nor less than apartheid, and that is what it still is today.

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South Africa is not the only country where the Native population has been set apart legally, geographically and economically on a purely genetic basis. Canada also used a variety of strategies to methodically remove Native people from their lands to make way for immigrants, including actual physical extermination.

Newfoundland for example, Beothuk were completely extinct 1829, in part because of a bounty system that encouraged systematic massacre. For those who shy away from the suggestion that parallel exist between conditions in Canada and South Africa, it is important realize that "simply because the framework of apartheidism is not written into a constitution does not mean that it is not a component nor a reality nation."

Although the laws and policies of the two countries are not the same as the existence of racial repression which allies them, and not the degree or extent to which it occurs. While the intensity of personal oppression varies considerably, the result is the same as in South Africa: "The native population has been herded on to reduced territories in order to make way for others."

If you are the typical arrogent little prick that I have witnessed comming out of the flight colledges, stay the hell away from Thompson.It will be far too small and "bush league' for you.