Okay, well I'm over that last rant. I'm still annoyed but what can I do? Those people have always existed and it doesn't seem to me that there is an end in sight.
Anyway - Kris and I were discussing something yesterday and I feel the need to share it. There are a few things that are better about living in Ontario than good old SK (i.e. higher wages and taco bell). But people in SK are way nicer, far more genuine and much more modest (as we all know now this is an important quality for me). The one thing that has really struck me out here is the lack of any kind of integration with First Nations communities. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of diversity here but, in terms of the Aborginial population, it's just not apparent. Which brings me to my real point. In SK, there are obvious problems with racism and I certainly don't need to list the examples. But at least it's out there. People talk about it and there are real attempts to reconcile things like inhuman policing decisions and establish a community that participates in real dialogue. I just don't see that in Ontario. In fact, the only time anything pertaining to Metis or Aboriginal communities comes up in the media, it's about "Native Blockades". And the province doesn't want to deal with this stuff because First Nations relations is very much seen as Federal issue. It's not about community building at all. I don't really know where I'm going with this. I guess, I just think the for all the problems with race relations in SK, at least the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities are integrated at some level. It is very apparent out here that they're not and it seems very bizarre to me.