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OTTAWA – In light of renewed attention to the horrors of residential schools, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that he will be taking immediate action on reconciliation by beginning all land acknowledgements with a shorter and slightly less meaningful land acknowledgement.
“Before I begin this land acknowledgement, I want to start by acknowledging that I am making this land acknowledgement on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory,” said Trudeau, speaking at a recent press conference. “In my upcoming land acknowledgement, I will acknowledge that this is the ancestral home of the Algonquin people, and I’ll try to find something nice to say about them, like acknowledging them as the past, present and future caretakers of this land. I think that sounds pretty good, right?”
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Whether it is saving someone’s life, bringing a dangerous criminal to justice or safeguarding a vulnerable victim, it really is a job like no other. And this is also true of so many of our public services, not just policing.”
Ali Livingstone has penned a new book about his life in policing and his mental health breakdown
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After leaving the constabulary, Mr Livingstone took up a role as a pastoral officer at a local high school.
He added: “I still can’t quite believe that my book, Broken Blue Line, is out there and people are reading my story. I wrote it when I was very poorly, so it is a very honest account of my career and then my mental health breakdown.