A message for free subscribers and other readers

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Dear free subscribers and other readers,

After over 10 months of non-stop posting of original and republished opinion pieces and essays — minimally two or three every week (or over 150 in total) — about important Canadian indigenous issues, especially the Indian Residential Schools, all at my own expense, I will soon be strapped for funds to keep paying for the many newspaper subscriptions and other mounting expenses I have had to accept to support these efforts.

To expand my work, I also need funds to purchase pricey online newspaper and journal subscription services as well as to fund occasional professional archival and publicity services.

I would also like to offer an honorarium to the other writers keen to publish their views on my site.

As as retired professor living off a pension that has not increased for 18 years, I simply don’t have the means to go forward without your kind support.

Yes, I have long written many opinion pieces and essays for other media but given the increasingly competitive nature of print and internet media, I have received not a cent for doing so in recent years.

Absent your assistance, I will have to close down this site — the only one on the internet devoted entirely to challenging the established but false narrative that Canada is a thoroughly racist and genocidal society when it comes to the treatment of our indigenous people — perhaps by the end of the year.

If this happens, I would have to confine my efforts to writing about what is Canada’s most important public policy issue — the present and future place of indigenous people in Canadian society — for various media, as I have been doing for over 20 years.

I wrote very little about indigenous issues — always a side research issue for me — until the following May 27, 2021 Kamloops announcement:

May 27, 2021, Kamloops – It is with a heavy heart that Tk’emlúps te Secwé pemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir confirms an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented by the Kamloops Indian Residential School. This past weekend, with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth
of the preliminary findings came to light – the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Most of these other media, including the mainstream media that accepted this announcement as gospel truth, require a pricey subscription fee to access their material. Conversely, all of the posts that have appeared here since early January, based on my own and other people’s writings, have been free. They continue to be available at no extra cost to all paid subscribers.

In short, I have now monetized this site with a modest fee of $5.00 for a monthly subscription and $50.00 for an annual one — the minimum allowed by Substack — and will close it down if there is not enough support to continue my efforts.

But I don’t have the time or expertise to manage individual contributions: they must all be made by accepting the secure Substack payment options.

Also, bypassing Substack would unfairly penalize the company. Publishing is free – no matter how many subscribers I have — and there are no annoying adds. All their revenue comes from paid subscriptions: they charge 10 percent and there is a three percent credit card fee charged by Stripe, their payments processor.

Of course, if you wish to contribute more than the minimum I chose, as some have already done, please do so.

Keep in mind that the rapacious Indian Industry has been given billions of public dollars to support their destructive propaganda and policy efforts.

As for me, I lack both the financial means and political capital to counter their self-serving and deliberate efforts to keep ordinary indigenous people poor, idle, marginalized, and dependent until the end of time.

With your support, I will work harder than ever to emancipate indigenous people from the bondage of their special status and preferential rights — especially their treaty, Indian Act, Constitutional, and ancillary rights — that have too long hung around their necks like a dead man’s noose.

Conversely, I promise to use all these funds to strengthen my research efforts and will turn the paywall off as soon as there are enough funds available to support my indigenous liberation and equality efforts for the next couple of years.

The choice is yours.

Many thanks!

Hymie