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The legacy the brutality of residential schools is a big part of why contemporary Indigenous folks have such struggles. It's a generational trauma. The most basic parenting skills we take for granted were lost to hundreds of thousands of kids, all for the price of abuse, maybe death, and perhaps a grade 3-level education by the time they were finished at the "school". It's infuriating how Canadian society trivializes it. Even weepy Trudeau has basically failed to take any meaningful action despite the 2015 TRC recommendations and the aforementioned weeping.
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May 28, 2021 20:36
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Now I guess the apology Harper issued for residential schools makes more sense. People asking for relatively paltry sums to understand the scope of the crimes that were committed? gently caress that, how about some words worth $0 instead?
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May 31, 2021 17:49
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"It's silly."quote:The Canadian Energy Centre started a petition against the movie, urging people to send Netflix Canada letters saying the film villainizes energy workers and tells lies about the oil sector. That said the controversy apparently helped the film so perhaps the sequel will feature an evil Canadian premiere and his cabal in the Energy War Room rather than a Texas oil tycoon as the villain.
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Jun 2, 2021 16:19
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With time religion will go away on its own as a major cultural force. The Internet broke that spell I think, we're all way less religious than our parents. It would be nice to eliminate the special place the Catholic Church holds within Canadian society, though. Do they really need their own separate school board in Ontario, for example, given their history and contemporary irrelevance?
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Jun 10, 2021 13:53
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Especially weird because parliament already voted to make August 1st "Emancipation Day" to recognize when slavery ended in Canada. We don't need to coopt their day.
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Jun 20, 2021 11:04
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I do love how Alberta's heritage wealth fund is worth ~$17 bn. and Norway's is worth ~$1.3 trillion. Them commie socialists probably have shittier pick-up trucks, though.
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Jun 27, 2021 14:35
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infernal machines posted:Even if they believe it, I cannot fathom how anyone thinks "The residential schools were run with the best of intentions" is a thing that you should say right now. It's such obvious bullshit because we know that the quality of education the kids received was dogshit, too, with many graduating "high school" with elementary-level knowledge. The goal was to destroy their culture with the expectation they'd all be janitors or maids. Cursory knowledge of the schools disproves the "best intentions" stuff.
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Jul 15, 2021 18:35
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Well you're in a fridge so you're pretty much indestructible now. But for real stay safe, poo poo's wild.
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Jul 15, 2021 21:46
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You gotta pump those numbers up, Victims of Communism memorial. Our hypothetical Victims of Capitalism memorial would be able to get more names from just those nursing home neglect deaths alone.
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Jul 23, 2021 22:00
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Yeah, I volunteer for the federal NDP consistently but I don't waste my time with the Ontario NDP. It's pretty clear they aren't a serious party and are just cashing cheques.
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Aug 5, 2021 16:42
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Boom, no trial. At this point though there's no excuse.
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Aug 5, 2021 20:00
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I'm sure they'd prefer to take more valuable hostages before they can be evacuated if they can.
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Aug 13, 2021 20:25
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I don't know if Alberta's production would have allowed it to hit Norway numbers, but it is sort of amazing that despite Norway having modeled their sovereign wealth fund for oil after Alberta, Alberta only has something like $16 bn. in their fund while Norway has over $1.2 trillion now.
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Sep 14, 2021 10:34
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An app that'll probably be compromised in a few days and vaccine exemptions are just a note from your doctor/NP that nobody will ever verify. It's all just for show.
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Sep 14, 2021 18:26
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I'm sure the right-wing media machine is all geared up to blast stories of voters being turned away for "exercising their freedom" to not wear a mask, therefore the Liberals rigged the election. Voted. Cool that our local Christian fascism candidate had his charges for threatening to kill Kathleen Wynne dropped because the Crown couldn't be bothered, freeing him up to be irrelevant in another election.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:56
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Not even Wehrmacht conscript. The dude was Einsatzgruppen. They put entire villages into mass graves on the Eastern Front.
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Sep 24, 2021 00:38
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Aces High posted:they're saying he was conscripted and there's actual proof he was Einsatzgruppen? wasn't that one of the true believer arms of the Nazi party? They were the part of the SS that carried out mass executions and the like after the army moved through an area. All those pictures of guys in German uniforms about to execute civilians over mass graves tended to be an Einsatzkommando doing its business. Recruitment for them usually selected the most enthusiastic Nazis because mass murder of civilians was pretty difficult mentally (regular army soldiers sometimes executed civilians too but they found it bad for morale).
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Sep 24, 2021 11:27
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I'm not saying Canada had a choice really but it was not a well thought out, strategically sound move. By that point the Trump administration had thoroughly poisoned the well on a whole bunch of international dealings, and whatever your thoughts on China, a directly confrontational stance against them is not good for Canada and the US were the initiating party in this fiasco. She's pleading guilty, so I'm not sure we can say the extradition request was a complete political hit job. Given that, how does Canada refuse the initial request out-of-hand without violating its treaty obligations? Honestly I can't see how the fallout from that would have been less than it was from doing what we did and going through the legal process. Sucks to be a helpless pawn in the game but we probably made the right move.
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Sep 25, 2021 17:48
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Mr. Apollo posted:Ontario is pushing back on signing the federal daycare program (of course). And however-much they get no doubt the end product will be severely underfunded while the bulk of the money is quietly diverted to "balancing the budget", like that $2.7 bn. in federal COVID funding was.
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Oct 13, 2021 01:16
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Yeah they said the (easily forged) documents can remain a substitute for the QR codes. Because of course they needed a way to do a vaccine passport but not piss off their constituents, so they made it easy to circumvent.
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Oct 28, 2021 15:48
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ONDP are dead in the water because that's where they want to be. They didn't turf Horwath after she lost to Ford with the Libs having imploded -- the best chance they'd ever get to win. Keeping a loser like that around means aren't serious about winning elections and are just cashing cheques at this point. And yeah, any hospital worth a toss has already mandated COVID vaccinations.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:32
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infernal machines posted:Regarding the Queen of Canada telling her followers to kill healthcare workers, rest assured, the RCMP may have stopped in for a brief chat, which no doubt put the matter to rest. quote:But Didulo’s latest claims have received mixed reactions from her followers. Many questioned how a person they believe is the literal Queen of Canada, who can order military and rescue operations on a whim, could be picked up by RCMP officers and brought for a psychiatric evaluation. Honestly though when you have the Galactic Alliance in your pocket do you really even need JTF2 or CSOR?
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Dec 1, 2021 16:51
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Caedus posted:https://twitter.com/Tayrayerayeraye/status/1483291507503239172 She even registered the "Canada1st Party of Canada" in 2020. It's alllll just Trump fandom, a desperate desire to be a part of a fascist resurgence despite being a boring Canadian. Janky No Name brand qanon. Fortunately her insane followers are so far just threatening/harassing people so far, despite her trying to goad them into shooting hospital workers and the like.
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Jan 18, 2022 17:45
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That poo poo about "these days, straight white men are discriminated against!" was told to me so many times applying to medical school as a straight white guy. Conservatives love the idea that PC culture has run amok and being a straight white guy is as disadvantaged as you can get.
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Jan 21, 2022 18:36
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With the tens of millions, possibly even billions of enslaved truckers participating in these noble protests, is there even any indication of significant supply chain issues? Apart from what the protesters themselves are blocking at the Alberta border crossing, that is, it doesn't seem like enough actual truckers are involved for there to be noticeable issues.
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Feb 7, 2022 02:51
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Wow sounds pretty scientific!
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Feb 12, 2022 11:11
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The danger isn't a running street battle, it's a mutiny situation where the protesters resist and the cops on the street refuse to use any force against them because they're on the same side.
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Feb 18, 2022 00:32
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Gros Tarla posted:Tabarnak is a common slur in Quebec, just like gently caress, as you said. Tabarouette is a "gentler" way of saying it. For instance, if I were to stub my toe and start launching a tabarnak with my kid around, I may shift mid word to ouette in a futile attempt for my kid not to learn the actual slur. In this case, the "nak" was crossed and covered by "ouette". I suspect this is because at some point whoever is behind that sign realized that yelling you're here for the children surrounded by signs saying gently caress X,Y,Z probably looked a bit hypocritical. Francophones everywhere in Canada say it. It's quite common to hear in northern Ontario and elsewhere, along with the other hits like esti, câlice, criss, etc.. Also, noticing a a handful of people flying big Canada flags on their lovely pick-ups these days. Flag's a lowkey hate symbol now.
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Feb 20, 2022 22:55
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I wouldn't be surprised if they pull a Bismarck and actually go through with plans for dental/pharma care to an extent (half-assed, of course) if only so they can take credit for them while removing these rounds from the NDP's magazine. People do genuinely want programs like those.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:25
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I mean last time the cops supported them and they got various provincial governments do what they asked for. Why not keep doing it?
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Apr 30, 2022 01:56
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He's such a petty little idiot, calling it "criminal" of the physician to perform a double mastectomy on Elliot, let alone the anti-LGBTQ. That's right, in Dr. Jorp's ideal society they'd be locking up MDs for the heinous crime of removing breast tissue from someone. His right to ogle your chest more important than your right to sovereignty of your own body.
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Jul 4, 2022 04:27
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And maybe if those pure Albertan mothers have 8 or more kids the premiere can automatically be the child's godfather and they'll receive a medal from the Leader himself.
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Aug 9, 2022 14:31
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RCMP showed no mercy. Stabbing suspect died in custody due to "medical distress". RIP in piss, stab man.
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Sep 8, 2022 05:09
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I mean it's the RCMP. We're lucky no innocent fire halls were shot to pieces in the pursuit of this guy dying in their custody. And we'll just cross our fingers they even got the right guy.
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Sep 8, 2022 06:44
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Maneck posted:The death of a monarch who rained for 70 years is obviously big news, but it is still a sign of how calloused we've become to Quebec's xenophobia that we haven't noted Legault's little tirade here. I wonder if he remembers the country the Quebec Mosque or École Polytechnique shooters were from.
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Sep 9, 2022 20:33
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Nine of Eight posted:One thing the Quebec media has always been very surprisingly decent about was specifically *not* mentioning anything about the Polytechnique shooter’s ethnic background. I'm unaware of his ethnic background, just that he was from Quebec. I just think it's kind of incredible to hear essentially "Quebecois love peace, unlike those immigrants" when we have two pretty infamous mass shootings having taken place there committed by folks from Quebec, one such just a handful of years ago. And that one incited by similarly xenophobic comments.
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Sep 10, 2022 10:10
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Our only hope is that the NDP's desperate attempt to justify its existence might lead to the Liberals doing things people actually care about enough that the Old Stock Canadians' natural desire to embrace white supremacist fascism will be tempered by their self-interest. Otherwise, it's going to be Trump all over again and we, too, will discover one day that we're actually a lot shittier and more hosed as a country than we thought.
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Sep 12, 2022 23:16
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eXXon posted:I give thanks every day that my hard tack is free of weevils. Alternatively, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.
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Oct 11, 2022 22:46
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Hunting is a major part of Indigenous lifestyle in the remote northern communities. The annual goose hunt is huge culturally and as a source of year-long food among the Moose Cree, for example, and there are Inuit who almost entirely subsist off of food they hunt/fish. Food is so expensive up north for a lot of these individuals on fixed incomes that it'd be a pretty major thing if they lost the ability to hunt.
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Oct 22, 2022 14:27
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A good article. Being able to provide MAiD is one of those really profound privileges of medicine. And as someone who got to see the alternative through working as a nurse prior to MAiD being legalized and taking care of terminally ill folks, I'm really grateful it's at least an option for patients.
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Jun 6, 2023 00:34
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