Juno News - Manitoba First Nation bans hunting on Crown lands

00:00:00.000 waterloo police say a viral video showing several thieves stuffing hockey bags with liquor is part

00:00:11.480 of a province-wide organized theft trend a first nation community in manitoba has unilaterally

00:00:18.680 declared a ban on non-indigenous hunters from entering crown land which they say is their

00:00:24.640 traditional territory a toronto elementary school teachers union handed out more than a dozen awards

00:00:31.360 this year honoring outstanding contributions but not one of them was for excellence in teaching

00:00:37.880 without an activist lens hello canada it's thursday august 28th and this is the true north daily brief

00:00:45.040 i'm cosmon gerja and i'm clayton demaine we've got you covered with all the news you need to know

00:00:51.800 let's discuss the top stories of the day and the true north exclusives you won't hear anywhere else

00:00:57.720 a viral video showing thieves stuffing hockey bags with liquor at a kitchener lcbo is part of a

00:01:08.520 province-wide organized retail theft trend police say the video shows staff and citizens standing by

00:01:16.260 as several unmasked men filled several duffel bags and other containers with liquor before exiting the

00:01:23.540 store and escaping in a vehicle waterloo regional police services confirmed that the video was taken

00:01:29.780 on saturday at around 4 30 p.m at the lcbo store on pioneer drive in kitchener and that the incident is

00:01:38.340 under investigation cherry greenough a spokeswoman for the force told true north that police received

00:01:45.060 a call to the location that six males walked into the lcbo store and began filling large bags with

00:01:52.260 bottles of alcohol greenough told true north quote most of the alcohol that they put into the bags was

00:01:58.500 scotch estimated to be worth approximately eight thousand dollars this was on such a scale that the items

00:02:04.820 that they took were obviously not for personal consumption just after filling their bag they fled

00:02:10.740 the store in a vehicle she confirmed that no arrests have been made but that wrps are working with its

00:02:17.780 policing partners the lcbo and other jurisdictions as they believe it's related to similar thefts and

00:02:24.500 trends occurring across ontario greenough added quote this was a brazen coordinated and organized

00:02:31.700 theft committed on such a scale that the items taken are obviously not for personal consumption

00:02:38.020 the suspects showed little concern for the safety or wellness of staff and patrons inside the store

00:02:44.100 and we are currently reviewing evidence including video and photos to identify those responsible we

00:02:50.020 are committed to identifying them arresting them and holding them accountable for their actions

00:02:55.940 the kitchener theft prompted an unsolicited rant from ontario premier doug ford at the end of a press

00:03:02.340 conference on wednesday condemning the theft wave ford further celebrated one instance that was recorded

00:03:09.380 from last year of a man who stood up to some thieves only backing off when fellow customers warned him to

00:03:15.380 back off as one of the thieves began brandishing a knife we gotta catch these guys and throw them in jail

00:03:21.300 they just do not care they go in there they start loading up loading up and loading up and you know

00:03:28.100 what's ironic it's the taxpayers money the lcbo and so they're stealing off the taxpayers but i have

00:03:35.540 confidence they're going to be they're going to be caught and the judges have to keep these guys in bill

00:03:42.020 so i think the police spokesperson here is accurate uh when they call this brazen and unfortunately these

00:03:48.900 brazen acts are becoming more common almost every week you see a new video coming out of you know

00:03:57.060 thieves entering a shopping mall or grocery store and stuffing their bags full of valuable items

00:04:04.580 presumably for resale what do we know so far about these instances of thievery you know whether they're

00:04:11.620 coordinated and has anybody been held accountable yeah cosmo and so uh those videos you're talking

00:04:18.980 about this is also what ford was talking about he mentioned even just a recent instance of uh gentlemen

00:04:27.540 smashing these glass cases of jewelry in them and stealing the jewelry in the toronto area and it's

00:04:35.460 almost common at this point to see a new video of uh like typically immigrant appearing men ransacking 0.88

00:04:42.820 ontario's provincial alcohol stores and other shops in the gta but in march true north reported that

00:04:50.580 five men were arrested and charged by peel regional police in connection with an alleged organized theft

00:04:56.980 ring at the time there were two men who were still wanted by police and by june they too were picked

00:05:03.220 up and arrested six of the seven men were of no fixed address but police didn't report the immigration

00:05:09.780 status of any of the individuals however five of the seven arrested had the last name singh the others

00:05:16.500 were kumar and cesra between the seven of them an estimated around three hundred thousand dollars of

00:05:22.660 booze was stolen from the lcbo and of course all seven of the individuals were held for bail hearings

00:05:28.980 though it's unclear whether or not they were granted bail or not and this is really just adding to a

00:05:34.500 lot of fatigue that people are experiencing with mass immigration it's not just the numbers the backlogged

00:05:41.060 social and health services or the overwhelmed court systems and low-wage job market but canadians are also

00:05:47.700 getting fatigued and shocked by the brazen and open crime things like this uh sexual objectification of

00:05:54.420 women and young girls and also things such as uh you know canadians washing themselves in public pools or

00:06:00.820 defecating in public areas a first nation community in manitoba has unilaterally declared a ban on

00:06:10.420 non-indigenous hunters from accessing crown land sparked by accusations of over hunting and mismanagement

00:06:17.620 of the moose population blood vein first nation several hundred kilometers north of winnipeg posted

00:06:23.620 no trespassing signs at several entry points to its community saturday claiming all non-indigenous

00:06:30.260 people would be turned away during a press conference on saturday chief lisa young said quote

00:06:36.340 today we take the opportunity to erect signs that say quote no trespassing on our traditional territories

00:06:44.580 for thousands of years we practice hunting trapping and fishing as a means of our culture

00:06:50.740 with the national resources transfer act in 1930 it states that we are allowed to use our unused crown

00:06:58.260 lands for those purposes and we are expressing our rights to preserve these lands for our traditional use

00:07:05.860 to sustain ourselves during hunting season and fishing seasons young went on to say that the community

00:07:12.180 only had quote one successful hunt in the previous season and they've seen quote non-indigenous 0.63

00:07:18.820 vehicles parked nearby invading their area young said quote you can see on the banks of the rivers

00:07:25.780 the waste that's left behind antlers taken as trophies and one hind quarter leaving the rest to rot

00:07:32.500 that could have fed our community the chief said she had already turned away two non-native hunters over 0.94

00:07:40.740 the weekend who were attempting to scout for moose however the manitoba wildlife federation has called the

00:07:47.780 blockade quote unlawful adding it quote will only cause a greater deal of division within our province

00:07:56.100 so we're we're disappointed with this um we're asking the government for some leadership here

00:08:01.460 so it is our understanding that moose populations in this area are stable uh the government has completed

00:08:08.020 the big game draw and surveys across the province um they have allocated uh all the licenses for our 2025 hunting

00:08:16.260 season based on what we believe scientific data um so although the government has yet to release

00:08:22.660 the survey data uh we have asked multiple times repeatedly um for them to release this data so we

00:08:29.060 can so we can see it um but in any event we do hope that the province stands behind the licenses that

00:08:35.540 they have issued to date and those in all across manitoba but those areas specifically

00:08:40.900 so cosmon we've been hearing a lot about uh different indigenous movements in canada and how

00:08:46.900 the various provincial governments are dealing with that or accommodating them in in recent weeks even

00:08:53.540 is this the land back movement ideology coming home to roost if every first nation began this sort of

00:08:59.300 action how sustainable would it be for canada cosmon well look i think what we're seeing here is a very

00:09:06.260 slippery slope in the direction of balkanizing canada to some degree and it's also a abuse of the

00:09:14.260 interpretation of the natural resources transfer act which actually wasn't just one piece of legislation

00:09:20.740 it's several uh laws that came into effect but if every first nation community started putting up no

00:09:28.820 trespassing signs on crown land we wouldn't really have a country left in any practical sense of the

00:09:36.500 word these lands they were transferred to the provinces specifically under the natural resources

00:09:43.540 transfer act and associated laws nearly a century ago and they're supposed to be managed for the benefit

00:09:52.020 of all canadians indigenous and non-indigenous alike with provisions of course for traditional hunting

00:10:00.820 sustenance etc so i want to point out that conservation is important and nobody really wants to see moose

00:10:08.740 herds depleted but that's why we have provincial wildlife officers and hunting quotas in the first place

00:10:16.260 canada is first class in the world when it comes to maintaining populations of endangered species and

00:10:24.260 making sure that you know over hunting doesn't happen poaching is extremely illegal and comes with hefty

00:10:31.380 punishments so when one community decides unilaterally who gets to hunt and who doesn't it undermines the

00:10:40.020 rule of law and and it sets a precedent for what i just called balkanization because it in a sense it is

00:10:48.900 we have these competing pockets and if we look at first nations relations in this country it is a form

00:10:55.780 of balkanization so to me it isn't just about moose it's about whether we're going to have one set of

00:11:01.940 rules for everyone or whether we're going to drift towards a patchwork of these little sovereign

00:11:08.820 disputes that's simply not sustainable for a country as big as canada

00:11:18.900 the elementary teachers federation of ontario has handed out more than a dozen awards but not one

00:11:25.380 recognized classroom excellence in teaching math literacy science or pedagogy without emphasizing

00:11:32.180 a progressive activist lens this month the union announced its 2024 2025 award recipients honoring

00:11:41.860 quote outstanding contributions every academic category from curriculum development to children's

00:11:48.420 literature was tied to activism equity or social justice a closer look shows that the quote academic

00:11:55.300 or creative awards were overwhelmingly for work that embedded activism into academics literature

00:12:02.020 awards went to projects advancing social justice themes curriculum awards highlighted equity focused

00:12:08.580 resources and even environmental education was framed through climate justice elevating union aligned

00:12:15.380 activism as the highest professional achievement roughly two-thirds of all awards celebrated work in anti-racism

00:12:23.060 anti-oppression dei or other initiatives while the rest were awarded for service to the union

00:12:29.700 no recognition was given for improving literacy numeracy or classroom learning outcomes teachers unions

00:12:36.420 exist to protect the labor rights of members as such their core responsibilities to collective bargaining

00:12:42.260 safeguarding against unfair discipline and lobbying for manageable class sizes and working conditions

00:12:49.060 in ontario the etfo has brought in that role into one that functions as a political and cultural actor

00:12:55.460 inside the education system its public campaigns professional development programs and awards now consistently

00:13:02.660 emphasize anti-racism anti-oppression lgbt issues climate change and decolonization recognizing traditional

00:13:11.780 teaching skills was not on the agenda true north asked the etfo why none of this year's awards

00:13:18.100 recognized classroom excellence in math literacy science or pedagogy unless explicitly tied to progressive

00:13:25.620 political causes the union did not respond clayton it seems like unions and not just teachers unions have

00:13:33.780 overextended themselves into almost every aspect of their members lives but especially in terms of political

00:13:42.740 thinking are unions even pretending to stand up for the labor rights which is why they were created

00:13:50.420 of their members anymore or has it become about something else entirely yeah it doesn't appear so

00:13:56.580 cosmic just looking at this union alone the etfo uh the group has been protested for passing a motion

00:14:04.740 to develop a resource on anti-palestinian racism for their members jewish rights advocates have noted that

00:14:12.020 the anti-palestinian racism definition is often one that comes from the arab canadian lawyers association

00:14:19.620 and that definition essentially would label anything that questions palestinian narratives and perspectives

00:14:26.900 as racist and it also notes questioning the so-called nakba would be considered racist and without going

00:14:34.260 too deep into the nakba that's a big can of worms in itself but it's a highly disputed perspective

00:14:40.900 of history involving the mass migration of palestinians from the state of israel the point being by doing

00:14:48.020 this the union clearly chose to side with anti-israel politics a deviation from that original mandate

00:14:54.980 to fight for labor rights um for its members to say the least during the coven 19 pandemic there was

00:15:02.740 only a handful of canadian unions that actually fought for their members who were told if they didn't

00:15:08.420 take one of the four um mrna shots they would be fired and you'd think the termination of someone's

00:15:15.060 employment would be as good a time as any any for a union to stand up for its members um but that was

00:15:23.780 rare and then we have qp uh the the public sector union in canada and it's essentially just releasing

00:15:33.220 communist style manifestos at this point and they've dedicated themselves almost entirely to

00:15:39.780 pushing for ndp politicians socialism anti-israel and woke activism um and just as true north has

00:15:48.180 covered in the last few years that's it for today folks thanks for tuning in you can stay on top of

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Juno News - August 28, 2025

Manitoba First Nation bans hunting on Crown lands

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