I grew up on 110a avenue; and am a bit biased in my comments, as my Italian immigrant grandmother worked as a cleaning lady there & my parents volunteered there. I am also a former Fort Edmonton Park staff member; and am more than saddened to see any old building gone.
I know this TRUTH is gonna cause a lot of feelings; so please have be respectful & truthful if replying...
That being said, the abuse is not just the sole story; and erasing the painful terrible places & spaces of our collective, specific community & indivual traumas does only that. Painting each & every nun & priest that worked there as an abuser is the same as saying ACAB.
True healing takes place in transforming the negatives into positives: look at the Eugene resort in B.C. that turned their residential school into a hotel for tourists coming to drink wine from the vineyards that were once the yards that the stolen indigenous children played in (and were buried under).
Also to be noted, that this incredibly solid building was torn down during the Christmas Holidays-during the postal strike- with a absolutely no community consultation: meaning that that demolition crew made BIG money. I volunteer with the unhoused a couple times a week; and it is no secret that the genocide against the unhoused (who are mostly indigenous) is ramping up- especially in the time after Trump was elected (did anyone else notice the rampant EPS paddy wagons out the few days after the U.S. election?)... Has any attempt to begin building this supposed supportive housing started yet? NOPE. Could the Atonement Home have been desanctified, smudged, cleansed & repurposed for supportive housing MONTHS AGO during a housing crisis we have not seen since this building was built over a 100 years ago? I'll let you think about that next time you witness how many fingers the "dangerous drug addicted homeless" in the bus shelters & LRT stations have on their swollen frozen hands
This feels like a direct assault on ALL those who built & grew up in McCauley & the entire northside over the years; and especially an attack on the Catholic Church community there. Hurt people hurt people, healed people heal people: which one are you?
The large majority of people worldwide forget that Jesus/Yeshua/Issa was murdered by the Romans AND the Jews, his teachings erased, reversed & destroyed (check out the Dead Sea Scrolls) & a tax havens religion founded to worship the fake godhead of him by his murderers & betrayers; which he also said not to do. Christmas itself was created to erase the celebration of the North/Dog star, Sirius (which Jesus/Yeshua/Issa) said we are from; which is now celebrated around the world- even by indigenous people here on Turtle Island- as Winter Solstice (pagans as Yule).
Furthermore, for Rat Creek Press to write an article this one sided is not just extremely poor journalism: it also does an incredible disservice to each & every one of us who fight every day for every marginalized person. If one of us isn't free, none of us are. Please do better.
I welcome the board of directors, writers, vunteers, readers & everyone in the Rat Creek Press community to do more research next time; because we're all here now- indigenous, settler descendants, newcomers & those in between.
I grew up on 110a avenue; and am a bit biased in my comments, as my Italian immigrant grandmother worked as a cleaning lady there & my parents volunteered there. I am also a former Fort Edmonton Park staff member; and am more than saddened to see any old building gone.
I know this TRUTH is gonna cause a lot of feelings; so please have be respectful & truthful if replying...
That being said, the abuse is not just the sole story; and erasing the painful terrible places & spaces of our collective, specific community & indivual traumas does only that. Painting each & every nun & priest that worked there as an abuser is the same as saying ACAB.
True healing takes place in transforming the negatives into positives: look at the Eugene resort in B.C. that turned their residential school into a hotel for tourists coming to drink wine from the vineyards that were once the yards that the stolen indigenous children played in (and were buried under).
Also to be noted, that this incredibly solid building was torn down during the Christmas Holidays-during the postal strike- with a absolutely no community consultation: meaning that that demolition crew made BIG money. I volunteer with the unhoused a couple times a week; and it is no secret that the genocide against the unhoused (who are mostly indigenous) is ramping up- especially in the time after Trump was elected (did anyone else notice the rampant EPS paddy wagons out the few days after the U.S. election?)... Has any attempt to begin building this supposed supportive housing started yet? NOPE. Could the Atonement Home have been desanctified, smudged, cleansed & repurposed for supportive housing MONTHS AGO during a housing crisis we have not seen since this building was built over a 100 years ago? I'll let you think about that next time you witness how many fingers the "dangerous drug addicted homeless" in the bus shelters & LRT stations have on their swollen frozen hands
This feels like a direct assault on ALL those who built & grew up in McCauley & the entire northside over the years; and especially an attack on the Catholic Church community there. Hurt people hurt people, healed people heal people: which one are you?
The large majority of people worldwide forget that Jesus/Yeshua/Issa was murdered by the Romans AND the Jews, his teachings erased, reversed & destroyed (check out the Dead Sea Scrolls) & a tax havens religion founded to worship the fake godhead of him by his murderers & betrayers; which he also said not to do. Christmas itself was created to erase the celebration of the North/Dog star, Sirius (which Jesus/Yeshua/Issa) said we are from; which is now celebrated around the world- even by indigenous people here on Turtle Island- as Winter Solstice (pagans as Yule).
Furthermore, for Rat Creek Press to write an article this one sided is not just extremely poor journalism: it also does an incredible disservice to each & every one of us who fight every day for every marginalized person. If one of us isn't free, none of us are. Please do better.
I welcome the board of directors, writers, vunteers, readers & everyone in the Rat Creek Press community to do more research next time; because we're all here now- indigenous, settler descendants, newcomers & those in between.
Thanks for writing. I had no idea of the history or the place.