I believe he said, "Fuck Nate Bargatze and fuck this stupid bit"

Actual footage of @steveboots.bsky.social shutting down people who are purposely ignoring his completely rational and logical point...

He said, and I quote, "Louis Riel really got screwed over!"

I almost fell off my chair. If my 65 year old father, that was taught in school that Riel was a traitor, can change his mind, others can too.

Education is a powerful thing. Unfortunately it sometimes take Herculean efforts to reach some.

People can change.

When I was growing up, I remember my father reacting to a news story on Riel with the words, "F***ing traitor!".

Years later, I was having a meal with my parents in McDonald's when they mentioned that they had visited the Batoche National Historic Site during a visit to Sask...

I now live in Winnipeg. This city dominates the province and I think it has much more eastern Canada influence in its history than the Prairie cities further west, so Manitoba ends up in some respects more like Ontario, and therefore culturally somewhere in between.

Other than that, Manitoba just seems more "middle of the road" in its politics. While we elect Progressive Conservative governments, they lose when they diverge from the centre.

I was amazed to find out that the Saskatchewan Act that created Saskatchewan actually guarantees that separate school board (same in Alberta). I've become convinced since that the literal constitutional document that created the province having religion baked in has affected the society differently.

It was also weird to have a city with a whole separate Catholic school board. In Manitoba most schools are "officially" secular since the early 20th century, with religious schools existing but being the exception.

It was definitely a more "conservative" place, and that's not to say that Western Manitoba isn't fairly conservative.

One place that it eally showed was that in 1999 they were still debating about school prayer. The last prayer I heard in school had been the early 80s.

I had the same experience on Twitter back in the day when I suggested that maybe those of us on the left should not be as loose with our words as many of those on the right.

Getting roasted for something you didn't say, in one case I said almost the opposite, is infuriating.

I was raised in Brandon. Spent two years living in Saskatoon. Just learning the differences between two cities and their surrounding rural areas, only a 6½ hour drive apart, was eye-opening.

It's just a tad concerning