20 Replies to “Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?”

  1. “You give something and now that they don’t like it they take it back.”
    There’s a phrase to describe that. Now what is it? Oh, never mind…

  2. Notice the complete lack of research in this story?
    Would it have taken too much time or energy to report when the last time police were called to the property now that mamma is in the can?
    The only thing unexpected is that the CBC didn’t find a way to blame PMSH for the whole thing.
    Must be a long weekend and they wanted to get back to doing nothing for the rest of the day. No time for a drive by slander of PMSH.

  3. sheila, there are also a couple of songs by that title, though I could only find one, by the 1910 Fruit Gum Company, I believe there is a more countrified song too, about a little heartbreak teepee.

  4. Too bad PMSH doesn’t turn around and tell Freida that she no longer has a reserve,as they are all banned as ghetto slums.Hey.I can dream,can’t I?

  6. Would “Aboriginal Foreclosure” not be the more politically correct form of that phrase?
    Especially in this case!!

  8. NO! God in politically correct heaven, no!
    It would have to be ”First Nations Giver”,which means nothing since the First Nations give us nothing, but heartache.
    This case is just another fine example of what happens when you give huge amounts of money and power to people who are completely unqualified to manage either.

  9. I understand the concept of private property “ownership” was a machination of the treacherous white devil. The band council reacted in the typical fashion of aboriginal collectivist governance – which is allegedly superior to the private property greed of the white devils.
    CBC needs to tell the whole story before they hope to have their emotive pleadings go unsuspect.

  10. We need to be respectful of native traditions. The chief gets all the power, and anyone the chief doesn’t like gets to suck it.

  11. Why the CBC would bother to cover this story has to be part of their agenda to blame Harper for all the messes on Indian reserves. This is nothing new or spectacular, it’s closer to a way of life. As long as reserves for Indians exist we as Canadian taxpayers are slum landlords who get no rent or respect for the property.
    It’s difficult to have any respect for a people who constantly take and give nothing in return to the country they expect support from. These same louts are telling us they own our lands, lands we’ve developed and cared for over the centuries.Without the “white” man the Indians would have been wiped out due to diseases and through fighting and wiping out whole tribes.
    They can never repay what they owe, we need a government with the guts to end the madness once and for all, shut down all reserves would be a start.

  16. marc, you could have included:
    “Pinard noted that on Aug. 25, 2008, council passed a resolution to pay $1.188 million of band funds to members of, or persons associated with, the November 2002 council, and over $600,000 was paid to Chief Martselos.”
    Injust Justin says it’s none of our business to care about these matters.

  17. Tried as well but forgot Curtola’s name. After I remembered it I “Youtubed” his name and it popped up along with his other hits.

  18. home/land ownership, such a novel idea, we white faces only get “rite to use” of the land we inhabit….thanx PeeAir Turd’Oh

  19. “Where to begin …” indeed! This little story opens so many windows on life in so many First Nations communities.
    We don’t actually see the “big screen TV”, but we do see the satellite dish, which we may surmise is not connected to a 12″ black-and-white Korean television. Interestingly, Mr McKay, we are told is “working full time”, which, in and of itself, may generate substantial suspicion and resentment among other members of the “First Nation”. We learn that Mrs McKay is in jail, that, as she herself says, she is disliked by her neighbours, and that her behaviour has resulted in many calls to the police.
    The article raises the issue of private property on reserves and “First Nations governance”. The band in 2012 had four new houses constructed; we don’t know how they decided who would get those houses, although it would be surprising if the decision were made solely on the basis of need — that’s one thing that First Nations people share in common with the rest of our multicultural mosaic. So, Mr and Mrs McKay obtained an advantage that their neighbours didn’t, a real poison pill on almost any reserve. The former chief said that the family signed a tenancy agreement which contained some vague promise of “rent-to-own” scheme that would last “about fifteen years” but we don’t know the details, if any, of that agreement. It appears, however, that the new (current) chief changed the policy — although we have only the testimony of Mr McKay and the former chief — and a band official informed Mr McKay that title to the house would be transferred to him directly and that he no longer had to pay his monthly rent. We see that the “band CEO” who conveyed this information is no longer in her position.
    The information from other contributors above suggests that the band has a history of money mismanagement and generous pay-outs to the chief and band officials. It would be interesting to know if the band exhibits a pattern, very common among the smaller “First Nations” reserves, of family rivalries and resentments leading to sudden granting of and withdrawal of privileges and benefits, often based on conflicts totally unrelated to the issue at hand.
    Some have expressed surprise that the article did not default to blaming Prime Minister Harper for the problem, but I suspect that we haven’t heard the end of this yet. Mrs McKay, from the comfort of her jail cell, warns us: “We need somebody’s help,” she says. “If he ends up losing that house, you’re gonna have five people that are gonna wind up being homeless.” And who might be this “somebody” whose help the family believes it needs and is entitled to? Clearly, the family went to the CBC to create pressure to get this “help”. Do they really believe that the CBC has much drag with the chief and council?
    This is just another reason why we *must* have a national public inquiry into the issue of “MMAW” so that the reserves can get more funding to conduct their business.

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