Reply #27: There would still be plenty to talk about ...

[frazzled]

if people did a little research before posing a question. In fact, the conversation would be a lot deeper and richer and more satisfying. I'm not saying this applies to this particular OP: it's a good question. But it could have been a better question, perhaps, if they'd boned up for 2 minutes and then asked a bit more specifically about treatment of aboriginal peoples in Canada.

But I marvel sometimes at the questions people pose here that are very narrow and could be answered by a simple google first. Like, "what time does such and such start?" Even when there are a dozen threads already discussing the event already in existence. At other times, the issue is that people have not bothered to do a few minutes research on the authors of an editorial or blog post they are passing on. Then, to their embarrassment, they have to be told by other posters that the piece comes from an extreme right-wing source. Always check your sources, always count to ten before asking a question to which the answer could easily be found ... and then ask interesting and provocative questions, like the one that has been posed in this thread.