Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.
The police wanted to investigate one of these vandalisms as a “hate crime” Yet when a guy in Thunderbay Ontario threw a trailer hitch at a Native Woman and shouted “Got One”, (the trailer hitch killed her btw) He only received 8 years.
The judge determined the murder of this woman “Manslaughter” and refused to call it a hate crime. Since “he didn’t mean to kill her” when the threw something like this at her:
Thunderbay has a lot of racisms towards Natives by the way, to the point were the entire police force was suspended on suspicions of racism because they refused to investigate the murders of first nations people.
But native people painting a building red? Oh man, that’s totally a hate crime.
For those of you who may be unaware, Canada has it’s own very recent history of genocide. This history has been known but unacknowledged by the government and religious groups responsible for too long. Now the extent of this tragedy is becoming more apparent to the rest of the world as we find the bodies of indigenous children who died while at residential schools in the “care” of government and religious groups.
In the next several months they will find more and more unmarked children’s graves using ground penetrating radar at the sites of these schools.
This is not ancient history. The last residential school in the province I live in now, closed in 1996. The families that these children were stolen from are very much still alive, as are the survivors of these schools. There is work being done to identify and bring the children home.
You can help by offering support to the indigenous people in your life; we will continue to see more emotional and triggering news in the coming months.
As the number of graves discovered increases we need to remember that they aren’t just numbers, they are children and siblings and cousins.
You can also choose to wear orange on July 1st (“Canada day”) in solidarity with the survivors and victims of residential schools. This is not a year we should be celebrating Canada, this is a year for mourning and justice.
“The oil and gas sector alone will cause Canada to exceed its Paris Agreement target of a 40% reduction by 2030, set by Prime Minister Trudeau at President Biden’s recent climate summit, and the net-zero by 2050 target in Bill C-12,”
the new federal climate accountability act now before a House of
Commons committee, the organizations state in their joint release.
I did the math on the Kamloops residential school controversy.
The school opened in 1890 as a work camp, and the Indian day school opened in 1893.
It ran until 1969 under the Catholic Church, and until ‘73 under the federal govt.
So if we divide 215 victims by the 76 years it was open, we get 2.8 kids per year. I think its safe to round that up to a solid 3.
Kamloops Indian Residential School killed about 3 kids per year, for 76 years.
This is Canada’s history. Don’t forget it.
And the number could be higher since they haven’t scanned the whole school grounds and that number doesn’t include children whose deaths were documented and buried by their families
I would also like to point out that many of the same kinds of schools were throughout Canada and the United States.
The documented deaths was reported as 50 to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee back in ’08 iirc
NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh uses Question Period to ask Justin Trudeau to stop arming Israel while it is committing human rights violations in Palestine.
So that was a no, in case anyone doesn’t understand.
[Audio Transcription:
JAGMEET SINGH: Violence in East Jerusalem is deeply disturbing. Demolitions, forcefully removing Palestinians from their homes, and blocking access to important gathering spots are all violations of human rights, and international laws. Instead of taking action to stop or to deal with the long standing illegal occupations, this Prime Minister is effectively supporting the status quo, and going as far as to sell weapons to Israel. Arming one side of the conflict, it is undermining the peace process and it is supporting the illegal occupation. So will the Prime Minister commit to stopping the sale of arms to Israel while they’re violating international human rights?
THE HOUSE SPEAKER: The Right Honorable Prime Minister.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: Mr. Speaker, we are following the situation with great concern. We call on all parties to end the violence, deescalate tensions, protect civilians and uphold international law. Rocket attacks against Israel are completely unacceptable, and Canada supports Israel’s right to assure it’s own security. Violence at Al-Aqsa is also unacceptable. Places of worship are for people to gather peacefully and should never be sites of violence. We’re also gravely concerned by continued expansion of settlements and evictions. Canada supports a two-state solution, and we urge all parties to renew their commitment to peace and security.]
people in the US my age and younger are posting about getting vaccinated and i’m pressed up against the metaphorical glass like an orphan child in a dickensian novel
A lot of people in the US don’t realize the extent to which Canadian mining interests dominate politics in South America like Canada is a very dangerous imperialist power to mess with and South America is increasingly becoming their fiefdom due to the amount of investment money the pour into the continent. Once you start looking at the activities of Canadian companies in South America closely, it gets very horrifying very quick
More than half the world’s mining companies are based in Toronto alone, “Canada” is a resource extraction conglomerate with global reach
Yes thank you! I didn’t have the sources at hand so thank you for adding so many. Just like the sheer mass of content available about it online always made me wonder why Americans had so little awareness of or interest in Canada’s resource extraction empire. It’s a very under-represented problem in The Discourse I feel like. Like the Canadian state and it’s allies directly intervene in foreign politics to help these mining companies. If I remember correctly the lithium mining company in question in Bolivia was Canadian, no?
I believe the lithium mines were a joint German-Bolivian operation, since Morales had nationalized parts of the mining industries in like 2008 they had majority Bolivian ownership with foreign partnerships in order to learn new techniques. There is still some Canadian gold mining in Bolivia and maybe some other metals, but i dont think the lithium was? I couldnt find any direct connections
To mark Black History Month, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute is focusing on Canada’s role in Haiti, a country born through a revolution that was central to liberating Africans from slavery around the world.
Today, Haitians are confronted with a different kind of subjugation, as the country’s impoverished masses face a ruthless U.S.- and Canada-backed dictatorship. It is time for Canadians of conscience to challenge the federal government’s policy.
In early February, a week before Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse extended his term in defiance of the constitution and popular will, CFPI organized a letter-writing campaign calling on Ottawa to stop supporting the return of Duvalierism in Haiti (Duvalier, father and son, ruled Haiti with an iron fist from 1957 to 1986). More than 350 individuals emailed new foreign minister Marc Garneau and other MPs.
Appalled by Moïse’s repression and inspired by the estimated 100,000 people demonstrating in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Feb. 14, the CFPI launched a public letter calling on the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti. Within days it was signed by Professor Noam Chomsky; broadcaster David Suzuki; author Naomi Klein; former UN ambassador Stephen Lewis; rock legend Roger Waters; poets El Jones and George Elliott Clarke; MPs Paul Manly and Leah Gazan; former MPs Svend Robinson, Libby Davies and Jim Manly; and over 100 other intellectuals, activists and artists.
The letter was delivered to Garneau’s office on Friday during a rally organized by Solidarité Québec Haïti and Mouvement québécois pour la paix.
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