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"One of Canada's oldest institutions is grappling with how best to manage some of its youngest workers — and the negative perceptions some staff members have of them.

The Senate of Canada has a training course on offer titled "Working with Millennials." It's a webinar aimed at getting older Senate employees to confront their stereotypes about this age cohort — especially the belief that, according to the wording on the Senate website, millennials are "entitled praise-seekers who are easily distracted by technology."

The one-hour course, which was offered as recently as last month, is designed to manage what the Senate calls one of the "greatest challenges" in the workplace — "negative stereotyping in multi-generational teams" — according to the description posted on the Senate's human resources portal.

The Senate doesn't offer a similar course on how to work with other generations like Generation X — the cohort generally defined as people born in the late 1960s to the early 1980s — or the baby boomers, who were born after the Second World War.

But the "Working with Millennials" course does address the perception that these older workers are "risk-averse, inflexible or lacking in enthusiasm," according to the course description.

Senate human resources pitched the course as a way for employees and managers to deal with "an evolution of work environments" as both young and old staffers return to their offices and face-to-face interactions after a period of remote work during the pandemic.

The "millennial" generation is loosely defined but it usually covers people born in the mid-1980s to the 1990s — the first generation that grew up with the internet."

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"Familiarity Breeds Contempt," Toronto World. June 4, 1913. Page 3. ---- A scarecrow carrying the flag 'Senate Reform' is scaring away a crow marked Senate trying to eat the government corn...but more are on the way...

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Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

[nottodayjustin]

January 9th 2024 best hockey tweet of the day

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[goalhofer]

2024 IIHF Worlds Canada Roster

Wingers

#8 Michael Bunting (Pittsburgh Penguins/Toronto, Ontario)

#13 Brandon Tanev (Seattle Kraken/Toronto, Ontario)

#14 Dylan Guenther (Tucson Roadrunners/Edmonton, Alberta)

#19 Jared McCann (Seattle Kraken/Stratford, Ontario)

#38 Brandon Hagel (Tampa Bay Lightning/Morinville, Alberta)

#88 Andrew Mangiapane (Calgary Flames/Caledon, Ontario)

#91 Dawson Mercer (New Jersey Devils/Carbonear, Newfoundland)

Centers

#17 Jack McBain (Tucson Roadrunners/Toronto, Ontario)

#20 Nick Paul (Tampa Bay Lightning/Mississauga, Ontario)

#22 Dylan Cozens (Buffalo Sabres/Whitehorse, Yukon)

#71 Ridly Greig (Ottawa Senators/Lethbridge, Alberta)

#80 Pierre-Luc Dubois (LA Kings/Sainte-Agathe-Des-Monts, QC)

#98 Connor Bedard (Chicago Blackhawks/North Vancouver, BC)

Defensemen

#3 Olen Zellweger (Anaheim Ducks/Calgary, Alberta)

#4 Bowen Byram (Buffalo Sabres/Cranbrook, British Columbia)

#21 Kaiden Guhle (Montreal Canadiens/Strathcona County, Alberta)

#24 Jamie Oleksiak (Seattle Kraken/Toronto, Ontario)

#25 Owen Power (Buffalo Sabres/Mississauga, Ontario)

#55 Colton Parayko (St. Louis Blues/St. Albert, Alberta)

#78 Damon Severson (Columbus Blue Jackets/Melville, SK)

Goalies

#30 Joel Hofer (St. Louis Blues/Winnipeg, Manitoba)

#35 Nico Daws (New Jersey Devils/Guelph, Ontario)

#50 Jordan Binnington (St. Louis Blues/Toronto, Ontario)

[snakesanderson]

carter yakemchuk interview on the athletic!

highlights include:

ian mendes says he “exudes similar vibes to ridly greig”

v quiet and reserved

his whole family cheer for the miami dolphins because his brother just. chose them randomly

knows jake sanderson, their moms are friends and used to go on daily walks together cause they lived so close

his dad had 252 pims in 59 games in juniors lmao

used to wear oilers gear to school in calgary, big bouchard fan

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Islanders Secure Victory Against Senators

The New York Islanders entered tonight’s game off a come from behind win against Pittsburgh in a shootout. The Islanders continue to struggle on the power play (29th) and penalty kill (30th) while 24th in goals for on the season. The team’s fan bases is in an uproar over the way hockey operations and general manager Lou Lamoriello has built the team and his refusal to make meaningful changes to…

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[muirneach]

the hell is the difference between american house and senate

[stuffaboutontario]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Senate committee studying a bill to establish a criminal offence with respect to sterilization procedures heard emotional testimony from a survivor of coerced sterilization on Thursday.

"It's like you wiped out a generation," Nicole Rabbit, a member of Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice, an organization for Indigenous women who are survivors of coerced and forced sterilization, told the committee in Ottawa.

Bill S-250 an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures) would make forced and coerced sterilization punishable under the Criminal Code by up to 14 years in prison.

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“SOME VIEWS ON PENITENTIARIES.” Ottawa Journal. February 17, 1933. Page 6.  --- The views of Senator Lewis on the administration of Canadian penitentiaries are entitled to respect and consideration. If he would go further than most of us in the humanitarian treatment of convicts, if he is more convinced than most of us that convicts can be reclaimed to usefulness by kind methods, the credit - or blame - can be ascribed to his own humane spirit, perhaps to the predominance in this respect of heart over mind.

Senator Lewis moved in the Senate the other day that "full publicity should be given to prison discipline," presumably to news of disorders and corrective measures, and, further, "that the aim of discipline should be reform as well as punishment." To the second clause there can be little objection, so long as discipline is not permitted to become slack and soft in the pursuit of pious hopes. The first is in another class. There are grave objections to making a field day of a prison riot, opening up the avenues of publicity to all those forces which thrive on subversive propaganda. 

With much of what Senator Lewis said we agree heartily. Prisoners unquestionably should get "abundant physical exercise in the open air, whether at work or play." It is better that he should carry stones from one pile to another than loaf in sullen idleness in cell or yard. Prisoners should be encouraged, as he says, to read good books, occupy their minds. Corporal punishment of any kind should be "carefully restricted," and we imagine that is the practice, as certainly it is the theory. It would be unsafe to remove from penitentiary authorities this disciplinary power. 

But when Senator Lewis declares guards "should be enthusiasts for prison reform," when he proposes that they be recruited from "ministers of the gospel and teachers" and others who engage "in social welfare activities for the love of the work and would value the experience of prison life," we have to part mental company. The thought of making prison guards out of well-intentioned amateurs, putting preachers and teachers and social workers in charge of thugs, bandits, murderers, in the hope that their beneficent influence will reform such gentry, somehow does not appeal to us as a good thing. As Senator MEIGHEN pointed out in the same debate, penitentiaries are for the more violent class of criminals, repeaters, hardened offenders, and if the guards were "missionaries" the convicts soon would be in charge. 

Nor is Senator Lewis on better footing when he recommends "more publicity" concerning prisons, "more contact between the prison and the outside world." Rather, we think, there should be less publicity, less contact. What the prison reformers persistently forget is that unless we go to the length of abdicating society's right to protect itself against its criminal element the good of the majority must be the first-objective of the whole legal machine. It is, certainly, not in the public interest that a man committed to the penitentiary for an atrocious crime should be permitted to remain a rallying point of disaffection, or become an object of unthinking sympathy, by giving him. access to newspapers and public tribunals. 

Senator CASGRAIN summed up the situation in a sentence. He did not believe the prison should be made a desirable place for people to reside in. There will be criticism of prisons always. "They" will say conditions are terrible, that the poor law-breakers are down- trodden and abused. But most of the criticism is uninformed, much of it no doubt deliberately provocative, and men of Senator Lewis experience and judgment should not be misled.

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Ottawa trip in February

✅ see a live NHL game

✅ skate on the Rideau Canal

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Memorialising my trip to Canada wherein I saw a bunch of NHL games:

Ottawa Senators vs Vancouver Canucks (Rogers Arena, 2 January 2024)

San Jose Sharks vs Toronto Maple Leafs (Scotiabank Arena, 9 January 2024)

Colorado Avalanche vs Toronto Maple Leafs (Scotiabank Arena, 13 January 2024)

Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs (Scotiabank Arena, 14 January 2024)

Colorado Avalanche vs Montréal Canadiens (Bell Centre, 15 January 2024)

Montréal Canadiens vs Ottawa Senators (Canadian Tire Centre, 18 January 2024)

Winnipeg Jets vs Ottawa Senators (Canadian Tire Centre, 20 January 2024)

Ottawa Senators vs Montréal Canadiens (Bell Centre, 23 January 2024)

Winnipeg Jets vs Toronto Maple Leafs (Scotiabank Arena, 24 January 2024)

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Just leaving these articles here.

Feel free to reblog.

Not a big fan of the Japanese govt (due to their habit of supporting whaling and revisionism) but they’re right to call out Azerbaijan for their bullshit.

Reblog the shit out of this.

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Happy birthday bff thanks for everything you’ve done for me🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻