Yet Another 'Pretendian' Outed in Canada-Why is it Always Women Anyway?

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Give one group special privileges and the thieves line up often around the block especially in Canadian academia here's another it runs out her 'indigenous great granma wasn't speaking Cree it was Czech-Read It & Weep!


Health scientist Carrie Bourassa on immediate leave after scrutiny of her claim she's Indigenous

University of Saskatchewan, CIHR place Bourassa on leave over lack of evidence


The bitch calls herself Morning Star Bear FFS.

Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan professor and the scientific director of the Indigenous health arm of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is on leave from both institutions following a weekend of online outrage stemming from CBC's investigation into her claims to Indigeneity.

Bourassa, who has headed up an Indigenous research lab at the U of S and the CIHR's Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health, has publicly claimed to be Métis, Anishnaabe and Tlingit.

CBC found there was no evidence she was Indigenous, despite her claims many times over the past 20 years. When asked, Bourassa hasn't offered any genealogical evidence to back up her claims, but in a statement she said two years ago she hired a genealogist to help her investigate her ancestry, and that work continues.

Just last week, after publication of the CBC story, the CIHR issued a statement supporting Bourassa, saying it "values the work of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health under Dr. Carrie Bourassa's leadership." And the U of S also backed her, stating, "The quality of Professor Bourassa's scholarly work speaks for itself and has greatly benefited the health of communities across Canada."

However, on Monday, both institutions announced Bourassa was on immediate leave.

"Today I spoke with Dr. Carrie Bourassa, scientific director of the CIHR Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health (CIHR-IIPH), and we agreed that she will step away from all of her duties as scientific director of the Institute," CIHR president Michael Strong wrote. "As such, Dr. Bourassa will be on an indefinite leave without pay effective immediately.".

After the initial statements of support from the CIHR and the U of S, many people took to social media to condemn the move, arguing the organizations shouldn't stand by someone who falsified their own ancestry.

Outrage brewing after U of S and CIHR support professor who falsely claimed to be Indigenous

"I acknowledge the pain experienced by Indigenous Peoples as a result of this matter, and would like to underscore CIHR's absolute commitment to reconciliation and continuing to accelerate the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples in health research," Strong's statement said.

University launches investigation
U of S provost Airini announced Bourassa has been placed on leave and an investigation into her claims to Indigeneity has been launched.

"USask has placed Dr. Bourassa on leave and she is relieved of all her duties as professor in the USask College of Medicine in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology," the statement said. "Dr. Bourassa will not return to any faculty duties during this investigation."

The university said it made the move after new information emerged.

"The University of Saskatchewan has carefully reviewed the information in interviews and responses from Dr. Carrie Bourassa to recent articles challenging her Indigenous identity," the statement said. "The university has serious concerns with the additional information revealed in Dr. Bourassa's responses to the media and with the harm that this information may be causing Indigenous individuals and communities."

Bourassa has declined to comment, saying Monday, "My PR team will be in touch about any future conversations at that time."

The CIHR didn't announce any immediate plans to fill Bourassa's position.

"I will communicate a plan for the ongoing leadership of the Institute in the coming days," Strong wrote in his statement.

The university says it will expedite its investigative process.
 

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"I acknowledge the pain experienced by Indigenous Peoples as a result of this matter... Strong's statement said.

"The university has serious concerns with the additional information revealed in Dr. Bourassa's responses to the media and with the harm that this information may be causing Indigenous individuals and communities."

Gimme a break! When is whitey going to stop being outraged FOR other marginalized groups? Pain? Harm? Really?? I bet your average indigenous person is laughing at this woman...her gall...for being a con artist...etc. I doubt scores of First Nation individuals are losing a lot of sleep over this one.
 

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My father was always told there was Mi'kamq blood on his mother's side. If you saw old pictures of her, you'd believe it. My dad and most of my uncles had a native look to them and in summer dad always gets extremely dark.

Though one member of the family looked back in what records there were and didn't find any actual mention of any Mi'kmaq blood, the records only went so far (a fire at a church ended up leading to a dead end).

Then dad and mom did Ancestry's DNA thing.

The results showed no markers.

I don't think there should be any issue if someone claims to have First Nation's blood in their family, but once it's proven otherwise, then it's proven otherwise. That said this is a clusterfuck of stupidity.

If the Prof. found out she wasn't native in her background; say so and move on.

If she found out and pretended otherwise, sure, deal with her for lying.

But if the woman was good at her job, suspending her without pay is damn well stupid. Penalize her sure but removing her from a spot where she'd up until this was doing a good job does not make sense.

ETA: After reading the report CBC did on her now it's clearer to see why she was let go. It wasn't just that she lied, she *really* lied and dog herself deep into the persona of being Métis. So yeah, now I see why they nixed her ass.


To help clarify why it was done.
 
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Ron in Regina

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I’m confused by all of this in this story. So this University Professor Self-Identifies as a “Morning Star Bear”? Girls Self-Identify as Boys, & Boys Self-Identify as Horses, or Chairs? There’s 72 pronouns for gender the last I heard & these are strange & confusing times.

Why did the CBC do an investigation of this woman’s genealogy in the first place (?) & why does she have a PR Team to deal with the CBC investigation?? Why is this even a news story? What am I missing?
 

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It really is a bit bizarre, though.

You self-identify as 'non-binary'...not belonging to either gender, which is impossible by the way...and everyone is tickety-boo with it all.

But if you self-identify as an indigenous person, people run naked into the streets throwing grenades and drinking their own pee.
 

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I truly am half Scottish/ half Irish.

So my joke has always been that I'm a cheap drunk.

Not politically correct mind you, but if you can't laugh at yourself every now and then, then you might as well just be an American.
 

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I'm a card carrying Métis, and the only thing it got me so far is that when the covid vaccines came out aboriginals were the first group in line and then seniors..
 

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My father was always told there was Mi'kamq blood on his mother's side. If you saw old pictures of her, you'd believe it. My dad and most of my uncles had a native look to them and in summer dad always gets extremely dark.

Though one member of the family looked back in what records there were and didn't find any actual mention of any Mi'kmaq blood, the records only went so far (a fire at a church ended up leading to a dead end).

Then dad and mom did Ancestry's DNA thing.

The results showed no markers.

I don't think there should be any issue if someone claims to have First Nation's blood in their family, but once it's proven otherwise, then it's proven otherwise. That said this is a clusterfuck of stupidity.

If the Prof. found out she wasn't native in her background; say so and move on.

If she found out and pretended otherwise, sure, deal with her for lying.

But if the woman was good at her job, suspending her without pay is damn well stupid. Penalize her sure but removing her from a spot where she'd up until this was doing a good job does not make sense.

ETA: After reading the report CBC did on her now it's clearer to see why she was let go. It wasn't just that she lied, she *really* lied and dog herself deep into the persona of being Métis. So yeah, now I see why they nixed her ass.


To help clarify why it was done.
Don't be fooled by the DNA tests used by the online promoters. They are not properly done, but rely on probabilities. My wife is fairly knowledgeable about this and her family history, yet some of her family didn't show up in the report she got back.Apparently the test needed costs quite a lot more than the 23and me thing.
 

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People only identify with a certain group to get perks.

I mean, when is the last time you heard of someone self-identifying as a used car salesman?
 
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But let's revisit this so-called 'pain' and 'harm' that has been inflicted on the indigenous community by this imposter for a second.

We aren't doing First Nations any favours with this 'coddling attitude'. This isn't a group of 3 year old toddlers who need a lollipop and a hug for this woman's transgressions.

Our own poster here named T-Bones is a Lawyer fcs! Are you telling me he feels pain and harm by this farcical situation? I highly doubt it...he's got more important issues going on in his life I gather.

Whitey needs to stop the patronizing and treat First Nation individuals with more respect.
 

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But let's revisit this so-called 'pain' and 'harm' that has been inflicted on the indigenous community by this imposter for a second.

We aren't doing First Nations any favours with this 'coddling attitude'. This isn't a group of 3 year old toddlers who need a lollipop and a hug for this woman's transgressions.

Our own poster here named T-Bones is a Lawyer fcs! Are you telling me he feels pain and harm by this farcical situation? I highly doubt it...he's got more important issues going on in his life I gather.

Whitey needs to stop the patronizing and treat First Nation individuals with more respect.
Respect is earned not given. Though there are thousands of FNs worthy of it, there are far too many activists whose unreasonable demands only make it harder for the others.
 

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But let's revisit this so-called 'pain' and 'harm' that has been inflicted on the indigenous community by this imposter for a second.

We aren't doing First Nations any favours with this 'coddling attitude'. This isn't a group of 3 year old toddlers who need a lollipop and a hug for this woman's transgressions.

Our own poster here named T-Bones is a Lawyer fcs! Are you telling me he feels pain and harm by this farcical situation? I highly doubt it...he's got more important issues going on in his life I gather.

Whitey needs to stop the patronizing and treat First Nation individuals with more respect.
Tbones is a lawyer. He has no feelings except for money.
 

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Don't be fooled by the DNA tests used by the online promoters. They are not properly done, but rely on probabilities. My wife is fairly knowledgeable about this and her family history, yet some of her family didn't show up in the report she got back.Apparently the test needed costs quite a lot more than the 23and me thing.
I have looked into the whole DNA stuff. Ancestry is more reliable than most but it's still got lacking due to insufficient data from various sources.

My dad was pissed when the results said no native in him but unless we do a better test guess we won't know for sure.
 

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55Mercury

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I’m confused by all of this in this story. So this University Professor Self-Identifies as a “Morning Star Bear”? Girls Self-Identify as Boys, & Boys Self-Identify as Horses, or Chairs? There’s 72 pronouns for gender the last I heard & these are strange & confusing times.

Why did the CBC do an investigation of this woman’s genealogy in the first place (?) & why does she have a PR Team to deal with the CBC investigation?? Why is this even a news story? What am I missing?
ya got a point there. she coulda avoided all this by saying metis is her gender she identifies as. that woulda stopped the communist broadbashing corporation in their tracks!
 

55Mercury

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ya got a point there. she coulda avoided all this by saying Métis, Anishnaabe and Tlingit. are the genders she identifies as. that woulda stopped the communist broadbashing corporation in their tracks!

and who are you to say they can't have 3 genders? anything can fly nowadays!
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