I notice that City TV has started doing their pre-news station I.D.s with a fairly lengthy acknowledgement that the station is located on the former lands of several Indigenous bands. They then never mention it again, and go straight into their newscast. 

Every time I hear this, I'm of two minds - I suppose it's relatively harmless and is a nice thing to do to remember history and the people who were there first. But at the same time, it's also a useless statement that does nothing to improve the status of the very groups it's paying tribute to. 

I wonder what you guys think of this - a sincere attempt at noting what Canada's first inhabitants lost or an overly woke fit of virtue signaling? Frankly, I'm not sure what to make of it. In the end, I suppose it doesn't hurt anyone, so why not? But the cynic in me can't help but feel they're trying to manipulate viewers into thinking Rogers actually cares about such things.