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Plan

Is there no plan showing the extent of the Indian reserves? McPhail (talk) 13:09, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Unceded land" statements

I've noticed—here in Canada, at least—that many non-First-Nations people are now going to special trouble to acknowledge that they're living, working, or doing other things on "unceded land". This, of course, is a quick, guilt-minimizing way to say "land we took away from the people who used to live on it."
As my dad would've said, "That and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee." (Well, about 1/10th of a cup these days, but I digress.) Saying it doesn't change anything. In fact, I often wonder if saying it is worse than not saying it. By degrees, it seems compulsory, condescending, smug. But it's obviously something someone somewhere started doing, and it caught on.
It's so pervasive now, I was surprised to find no WP "Unceded Land Statement" article. Is this a reasonable place to suggest one? I'd start it myself—but as much editing as I've done here, I've no idea how to do that. – AndyFielding (talk) 21:40, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Land acknowledgement is the article you are looking for. Indefatigable (talk) 03:24, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The obsolete term "Her Majesty"

Most of people alive today have lived all our lives with Elizabeth II as the head of state of many countries, but at this point that she is dead, the syntagm "Her Majesty" is simply not an appropriate term to be used in contracts at all right now.

Even though I think it is a pity Canada has not opted to be a republic (however complicated it may be to get all provinces and territories to vote for it), nowadays Canada has a king. The text (and probably all other texts) should be changed accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoddessWrath (talk • contribs) 23:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]