smoke sumthin bitch posted:

i spend 1200$ a year on milk

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Canada's top court to rule on Métis, non-status Indian rights

Could extend government's responsibilities to 200,000 Métis, 400,000 non-status aboriginal people

It's taken 17 years, but the Supreme Court of Canada is set to finally deliver a decision that could clarify the relationship between Ottawa and tens of thousands of Métis and non-status Indians.

Thursday's ruling could potentially extend the federal government's responsibilities to approximately 200,000 Métis and 400,000 non-status aboriginal people who are not affiliated with specific reserves and have essentially no access to First Nations programs, services and rights.

"This could be a turning point for many families," said Duane Morrisseau Beck, a Métis person who lives in Ottawa but whose family still lives in Manitoba.

"We're like the cousins that have none."

Métis and non-status Indians have long argued that because neither the provinces nor Ottawa have been willing to accept jurisdiction, they have fallen through the cracks. That's lead to poor educational outcomes, health problems, high unemployment and lack of economic development in Métis communities.

"This may change the landscape," Morrisseau Beck said.

Daniels Decision

The landmark case was first launched in 1999 by prominent Métis leader Harry Daniels — who was then president of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples — along with Leah Gardner, a non-status Anishinaabe woman, and Terry Joudrey, a non-status Mi'kmaq man.

But the case, known as Daniels vs. Canada, only went to trial in 2011 and final arguments were heard in 2015.

Harry Daniels died in 2004.

When the case went before the Supreme Court in 2015, his son Gabriel Daniels said he believes his father was put on earth for this case, to fight for the betterment of his people.

"One of the big reasons he was here was to do this," Daniels said. "It's really an honour to see it unfold and I just hope it goes the way we want."

Gabriel Daniels and the current head of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Dwight Dorey, will be at the Supreme Court when the judgment is released on Thursday.

Recognition

Métis groups across the country will be waiting for this decision as well.

In a press release, the head of the Métis Nation of Ontario said he expects the court to rule in their favour, which could open the process for federal comprehensive and specific land claims processes currently only available to First Nations and the Inuit.

"While a positive outcome in the Daniels case won't change this reality overnight, it will remove one of the last vestiges used by Canada historically to justify its inaction when it comes to dealing with Métis," stated president Gary Lipinski.

Duane Morrisseau Beck also plans to be outside the Supreme Court on Thursday and says Métis family and friends from across the country have been asking him to share the news as soon as he hears it.

And while he worries the government could still drag its feet while acting on the decision, he still feels it will be an important victory and one that cements the place of Métis and non-status Indians in the history of Canada.

"In my family and in many Métis families across the country, this is really more of a recognition of the many contributions that we've made to this country and what this country is really about."

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

i usually drink a 2l carton per day and they go for around 3.50$ here in quebec. my milk habit is quite expensive

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

i usually drink a 2l carton per day and they go for around 3.50$ here in quebec. my milk habit is quite expensive

Cultural Imperial posted:

are you fatter than sarah hoffman

Cultural Imperial posted:

By March 12, the stiffness was so severe that Ezekiel's "back was arched" and his parents called their family friend again, who came over to examine the boy with a stethoscope.

"According to Collet, their friend concluded that Ezekiel's symptoms could be from meningitis," the physician's report reads.

"Collet then looked up meningitis on the internet; specifically she mentioned looking at the WebMD website. She came across the Kernig and Brudzinski's test for meningismus and tried them on Ezekiel. She reports the tests were obviously positive, further indicating to her that Ezekiel was suffering from meningitis."

Ezekiel's parents then resumed the treatment with olive leaf extract, garlic and methylsulfonylmethane and used the eye-dropper method to ensure he received enough fluids, as "he would not drink on his own," the report reads. They also started giving him Total Reload, an electrolyte and amino-acid supplement.

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smoke sumthin bitch posted:

Is drinking that much milk a bad thing? I was always taught that milk was healthy and highly nutritious. Im not fat or anything I just like having 2 big glasses of milk with every meal. It tatses soooo good

brucio posted:

This would have more bite if Mulcair didn't support the sale during the election campaign.

PT6A posted:

See? You can't honestly tell me these parents don't deserve to be shot in the face.

Whiskey Sours posted:

Nobody deserves to be shot in the face.

PT6A posted:

See? You can't honestly tell me these parents don't deserve to be shot in the face. The capacity to allow your child to die in such a miserable, painful fashion without seeking medical help represents a level of depravity I cannot even comprehend. Even evil dictators usually off their family members in a quick and reasonably painless fashion.

I've changed my mind: we do need a death penalty. Not necessarily for killing someone you're really angry at, or even for capping some dude for shits and giggles, but for purposefully allowing a close family member to die an agonising death. gently caress these people so hard. Bonus: no issues of mistaken identity, as can be a problem in standard capital cases.

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He lost his faith around the age of five, when a baby died in his arms in the course of a failed healing. While elders prayed, Hoyt was in charge of removing its mucus with a suction device. He was told that the child died because of his own lack of faith. Something snapped, and he remembers thinking: “How can this possibly be God’s work?” His apostasy set up lifelong conflicts with his parents and church elders.

In just one incident, when he was 12, Hoyt broke his ankle during a wrestling tryout. “I ended up shattering two bones in my foot,” he said. His parents approached the situation with the usual Followers remedies – rubbing the injury with “rancid olive oil” and having him swig on Kosher wine.

Intermittently, they would have him attempt to walk. Each time, “my body would just go into shock and I would pass out”.

“I would wake up to my step-dad, my uncles and the other elders of the church kicking me and beating me, calling me a fag, because I didn’t have enough faith to let God come in and heal me, while my mom and my aunts were sitting there watching. And that’s called faith healing.”

He had so much time off with the untreated fracture that his school demanded a medical certificate to cover the absence. Forced to take him to a doctor, his mother spent most of the consultation accusing the doctor of being a pedophile.

He was given a cast and medication but immediately upon returning home, the medication was flushed down the toilet, leaving him with no pain relief. His second walking cast was cut off by male relatives at home with a circular saw.

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In Canada, since the beginning of European settlement on Indigenous land began four centuries ago, the economy has centred on primary sector industries. The transition to a new economy is therefore fundamental. Very large regions of Canada are dependent on primary sector industries. Leap’s emphasis on stopping pipelines makes the highest priority the blocking of Alberta oil from being shipped to markets across Canada. When the Notley government in Alberta struggles in a difficult economic situation to push both a green and an egalitarian agenda, the manifesto offers little common ground for dialogue. The economic decline in Alberta and the rising unemployment its people face should be addressed in ways other than implying that Alberta resources are the enemy.

The Leap Manifesto is much harder on the extraction of resources than it is on the growing inequality that is at the heart of contemporary capitalism. Inequality in wealth and wages has now reached levels not seen since 1928 in North America. This needs to be the starting point for a contemporary socialist statement of principles.

How do we build the new green economy? That is the question. How do we employ workers in every region to do this? And how do we create the new green industries that will be at the heart of the new economy?

How do we ensure that large corporations no longer set the economic agenda and that the rich pay their share of taxes? How do we move to the elimination of tuition at post-secondary institutions in Canada at a time when so many young people are blocked from attending or are saddled by debt?

These questions are given very short shrift in Leap. Instead, the document suggests that most new jobs will be created in a host of caregiving sectors. That may sound good if you live in the Annex in downtown Toronto. But what does it say to miners in Sudbury, steelworkers, autoworkers, workers in the energy sector in Alberta, and to the young on native reserves who have been abandoned by the larger society to a marginal existence?

And what about agriculture? Leap makes it sound as though we are about to shift to local agriculture directed at local markets. Have the people who wrote this ever looked at the agricultural sector in this country?

It’s no wonder that so many people are saying that Leap is a document for elites and not the majority of Canadians.

I don’t see the Leap as a manifesto of the left.

A political statement of the left would set out the predicaments people confront in Canada and the wider world. A good place to begin what would be a lengthy discussion would be to focus on the problems of a younger generation that is face to face with the increasing inequality that is their lot in life in contemporary capitalism.

vyelkin posted:

lmao I would quote some of this article but the entire thing is quoteworthy:

Justin Trudeau: So, so much worse than you thought he would be

Brannock posted:

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Things have started off rather ominously. For those who like to turn up their noses at warnings that a growing government always crowds into the space of Christians who want to raise their children in peace, consider this fact: The Liberal government has pledged to repeal Canada’s law allowing spanking.

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vyelkin posted:

lmao I would quote some of this article but the entire thing is quoteworthy:

Justin Trudeau: So, so much worse than you thought he would be

Brannock posted:

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Jonathon Van Maren is a writer and pro-life speaker who has given presentations across North America on abortion and pro-life strategy.

Jonathon first got involved in the pro-life movement after viewing a graphic abortion video in 2007, which convicted him to get active. He ran Simon Fraser University Students for Life as president from 2009-2010, while speaking in both the United States and Canada on pro-life issues.

Jonathon graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History. He is the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Guess what I am sharing at the office tomorrow?



Homemade cookies. Because I baked a batch up tonight because I was bored. DON"T YOU DARE JUDGE ME

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Notice that author described himself as "pro-life". So guess he's extra salty because the public really hated their poo poo.

Fun fact: I personally got over $3000 in donations from people who got their disgusting poo poo in the mail and gave us money as a protest against it.

vyelkin posted:

Buddy can't even spell his own name right.

Helsing posted:

The best thing that can be said about the Leap is that it's being discussed at a time when no one really pays that much attention. If we're actually going to have an ugly doctrinal fight within the party then I hope the left can muster something a bit better. -

bunnyofdoom posted:

Guess what I am sharing at the office tomorrow?



Homemade cookies. Because I baked a batch up tonight because I was bored. DON"T YOU DARE JUDGE ME

EDIT:

Notice that author described himself as "pro-life". So guess he's extra salty because the public really hated their poo poo.

Fun fact: I personally got over $3000 in donations from people who got their disgusting poo poo in the mail and gave us money as a protest against it.

THC posted:

Our rightwing commentariat is desperate to spin this as the death of the left, really it's a healthy process of renewal and discussion. We haven't embraced Leap, we've just agreed to discuss it and maybe consider incorporating its ideas into policy.

A Typical Goon posted:

You're a loving idiot

vyelkin posted:

Buddy can't even spell his own name right.

Helsing posted:

I think it's encouraging that we're discussing something like the Leap and that it got brought forward thanks to what seems to have been pretty a genuine grassroots effort. I just don't think the Manifesto itself is that great, for reasons similar to the ones outlined in that Laxler piece posted upthread.

PT6A posted:

Right, I forgot social justice mandates we need to have pity for a bunch of miserable ignorant cunts who let their children die out of pure stupidity.

gently caress you and everyone who thinks, like you, that the life and wellbeing of a child is less important than the beliefs of their parents. I hope you get hit by a semi trailer and get smeared across the pavement. Apologists for child abuse will populate the very deepest circle of hell.