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 Happy Canada Day 2021 with a caveat... I was always very proud to be a Canadian, we have a good health care system and a goodly amount of freedom that was fought for by many, including my grandfather, and good social supports for most people. Our Indigenous People have had a very rough time of things.  In Canada, they were sent to Residential Schools to separate them from their parents and assimilate them into "Canadian Society".  There, they were abused and shamed, and they were not allowed to speak their original languages.  Now, hundreds and hundreds of children in these schools were found buried with unmarked graves.  It is a source of great distress for me.  The flag over the Parliament building in Ottawa is at half-mast today. I hope you will all say a prayer this Canada Day for them. One of my aunts responded to my blog with the following: "I have been wondering over the last few weeks what my Father would have said about all those little bodies at the residentia