[andyt]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/greyhound-passengers-left-stranded-on-highway/article1499562/

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Greyhound Canada apologized Friday after more than a dozen passengers were left on the side of a northern Manitoba highway in near-freezing weather.

The apology did little to soothe aboriginal leaders, however, who demanded an investigation.

“There used to be a time when we were asked to ride in the back of the bus. But to the side of the road? I have to question whether progress has been made,” said Eric Robinson, Manitoba's deputy premier.

Turns out that:

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Greyhound and the aboriginal leaders agreed on some aspects of the event. The bus was heading toward Cross Lake on Wednesday when, about 40 kilometres shy of its destination, the bus driver decided to turn around to pick up two passengers who had been forgotten in Wabowden.

Rather than face a three-hour round trip, some passengers — it's not clear how many — demanded to be let off the bus so they could find another way to Cross Lake. They got off near a hydro station and stood beside the road for about 10 minutes before Manitoba Hydro workers came across them and helped.

But of course natives are never responsible for their own decisions.

[GreenTiger]

andyt andyt:

strikes again: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/greyhound-passengers-left-stranded-on-highway/article1499562/

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Greyhound Canada apologized Friday after more than a dozen passengers were left on the side of a northern Manitoba highway in near-freezing weather.

The apology did little to soothe aboriginal leaders, however, who demanded an investigation.

“There used to be a time when we were asked to ride in the back of the bus. But to the side of the road? I have to question whether progress has been made,” said Eric Robinson, Manitoba's deputy premier.

Turns out that:

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Greyhound and the aboriginal leaders agreed on some aspects of the event. The bus was heading toward Cross Lake on Wednesday when, about 40 kilometres shy of its destination, the bus driver decided to turn around to pick up two passengers who had been forgotten in Wabowden.

Rather than face a three-hour round trip, some passengers — it's not clear how many — demanded to be let off the bus so they could find another way to Cross Lake. They got off near a hydro station and stood beside the road for about 10 minutes before Manitoba Hydro workers came across them and helped.

But of course natives are never responsible for their own decisions.

More PC BS News designed to make the what man look like a fink.

[Newsbot]

Title: Greyhound passengers abandoned on highway
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-03-13 00:16:15
Canadian

[tritium]

Big deal... they bitched they didn't want to go back, so they took the choice to get off the bus..

Walk, mofo's..

Cudos to the driver...

[andyt]

What's with the double posting?

The media is certainly spinning the story with the headline "driver abandons..." The passengers made a choice.

But the poor natives. All a white man has to do is look at them and they flee:

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"This one lady wanted to get off and the bus driver just got up and said, 'Get the F off my bus,'" Ross said. "Then he looked at all of us, so we just got off."

[PublicAnimalNo9]

YEah, I knew there had to more to the story than what was reported in the other thread.

[Public_Domain]

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Somehow we get blamed because of THEIR ridiculous decision-making process? Near freezing for 10 minutes??? IS THAT ALL? DO THESE PEOPLE NOT DRESS PROPERLY OR SOMETHING?? SERIOUSLY WHAT THE F**K GUYS?!?!?!?!

I'm angry now.

-J.

[Freakinoldguy]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

"There used to be a time when we were asked to ride in the back of the bus."

Did we have segregation on our buses for natives? It rings of bullshit to me, but who knows.

I don't know how old Mr. Robinson is but in Canada we never had a regulation that required Indians to ride in the back of the bus. If they did it was by their own choice not by law. So you hit the nail on the head when you called bullshit.


Mr. Robinson must either be an American, who got his history screwed up or is attempting to become Canada's version of Rosa Parks.

[SprCForr]