{"id":89,"date":"2017-10-31T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/manitoba-migration\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-10-31T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:53:37","slug":"who-are-the-nice-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/manitoba-migration\/2017\/10\/31\/who-are-the-nice-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the nice guys?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An old copy of the Manitoba Free Press, now the Winnipeg Free Press<\/p><\/div>\n

By Kieran Murphy<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud that we\u2019re not Donald Trump.\u201d That was the immediate reaction of Winnipeg Free Press publisher Bob Cox when asked about Canadian political identity. He adds that there is a marked difference in policies related to immigration and refugees. Canadians like to think of themselves as the \u201cnice guys,\u201d he says. Nowhere is this contrast more evident than in Winnipeg, where until months ago, Haitian nationals were streaming across the US-Canada border because their temporary protected status was ending in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Advertisement pages are printed at the Winnipeg Free Press at a rate of 30,000 per hour.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Student journalist, editor, and photographer extraordinaire Francesca Billington snaps an action shot of the Winnipeg Free Press print room.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kit Muir, a Winnipegger and journalism student at Red River College, echoed Cox\u2019s sentiment. She noted that in her experience, Americans have a reputation for unfriendliness, a Twitter-happy leader, and poor relations that she is happy to avoid as a Canadian.<\/p>\n

Muir acknowledges that Canada has its own problems not so different from America\u2019s, but she believes that on the whole Canada has done better on these issues than the United States. While we were discussing race relations in America, she likened the racial history of African-Americans to that of indigenous people in Canada. She noted that \u201cFirst Nations in Canada are where black people are in America,\u201d whereas everyone else \u2013 recent immigrants included \u2013 more or less stood on an equal playing field.<\/p>\n

Bashir Khan, a lawyer we spoke to on Sunday night, believes that indigenous people and refugees are both almost exclusively \u201cothered\u201d in Canada.<\/p>\n

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The set of APTN National News, minutes before broadcast.<\/p><\/div>\n

Karyn Pugliese, Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) added more examples. We toured APTN, Canada\u2019s only nation-wide television channel focusing on indigenous people, and asked Pugliese if she believed that having an aboriginal television station only served to ghettoize aboriginal people. She responded \u201cWe are already ghettoized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of our speakers brought up the guilt that many non-indigenous Canadians have for the way indigenous people have been treated. But all acknowledged that efforts to atone for grievances committed are too little too late.<\/p>\n

For college student Muir, \u201cacknowledgements,\u201d a common practice at the beginning of official Canadian events noting that the event is taking place on indigenous land, seem like empty gestures without concrete action to rectify atrocities toward indigenous people. Pugliese felt the same way about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/p>\n

Muir also noted that Manitoba\u2019s government refuses to call acts committed against indigenous people \u201ccultural genocide,\u201d a label that in her view, would be simple, accurate, and according to the wishes of the First Nations in Manitoba. This refusal invites comparisons to the refusal of many in the United States to say \u201cblack lives matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deep-seeded issues in Winnipeg don\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

A flood five years ago still leaves hundreds of poor residents homeless. Educated youth are leaving faster than people are having children. A race problem that lurks below the surface to many people is all too obvious for others. The more I talked with Winnipeggers, the more Winnipeg seemed to face many of the same problems as small towns in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kieran Murphy \u201cWe\u2019re proud that we\u2019re not Donald Trump.\u201d That was the immediate reaction of Winnipeg Free Press publisher Bob Cox when asked about Canadian political identity. He adds that there is a marked difference in policies related to immigration and refugees. Canadians like to think of themselves as the \u201cnice guys,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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