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National Geographic’s Travelling the Trans-Canada, 1987
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I’m shitting at these tags
yea this is Montreal, do you want to know how bad Montreal drivers are? only on the island of Montreal, is it illegal to make a right turn on a red light. because they don’t fucking look. it’s the only place I’ve ever been that has lost it’s “turning on a red light” privilege
but yea powdered snow is slippery af and the island is hilly and full of narrow streets. not designed for wheeled vehicles.
I need to reblog myself because I just found this on the gov of Quebec’s website
rippleskip
This is so funny. That’s one of the bus routes I take. I literally take this exact bus
I hope your bus has seatbelts.
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Petition for Canada to stop arming Israel
In case you haven’t seen it yet: here’s a petition for Canada to stop arming Israel. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-4745
Here’s a proper link to the petition. And some additional details:
- This is not a random change.org petition that’s not going to be seen by anyone important - this is a petition authorized by a Canadian member of parliament that will be reviewed by the Canadian House of Commons.
- You must be a citizen or resident of Canada to sign.
- Petition closes on February 24th, 2024.
update: the petition closes on february 19. dont forget to check your email to confirm after signing!
as a reminder, a previous petition calling for a ceasefire was followed by canada changing its vote at the UN. these signatures are not going unseen.
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everythingeverywhereallatonce
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Let’s salute potato!
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fleshdyke
always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada
WAIT HUH??? IM CANADIAN????? WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARS ABOUT THIS UNTIL NOW??????
fleshdyke
two gay men got arrested for fucking in a public bathroom but they argued since you had to pay for it it was a hotel and it was fine. their defence worked and we dont have to pay for bathrooms anymore
Ok guys I know we want to celebrate victories in queer history but
1. Googling "Canada gay sex pay toilets" just brings up a bunch of reblogs of this post
2. There does not seem to have been any sort of norm of public toilets in Canada charging money to use in the 20th century
3. I am neither Canadian nor a lawyer but I find it extremely hard to believe that there is any jurisdiction on earth where charging money to use a public toilet makes it legally constitute a hotel room and therefore OK to have sex in.
fleshdyke
thats because i lied about this
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Here is a sketch comic I made called Ducks, in five parts.
Ducks is about part of my time working at a mining site in Fort McMurray, the events are from 2008. It is a complicated place, it is not the same for all, and these are only my own experiences there. It is a sketch because I want to test how I would tell these stories, and how I feel about sharing them. A larger work gets talked about from time to time. It is not a place I could describe in one or two stories. Ducks is about a lot of things, and among these, it is about environmental destruction in an environment that includes humans. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
-Kate
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It has literally always been a lie. These lies have killed millions of Americans over the years. It has cost the US Trillions of dollars in lost efficiency and higher healthcare costs over the years. It has helped drag down the life expectancy of the US, meaning, ultimately, that Americans have lost hundreds of millions of years from their lives.
It was always a lie.
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[id: The first six images are a twitter thread by Wendell Potter @ wendellpotter on June 25 2020. Thread reads: “Amid America’s #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spend big $$ to push the idea that Canada’s single-payer system was awful and the U.S. system much better. It was a lie & the nations’ COVID responses prove it. The truth:
Canada’s doing much better than the U.S. when it comes to #COVID19 testing and treatment. On a per capita basis, more Canadians are getting tested & fewer getting sick & dying. This may shock Americans who still believe the lies I told about the Canadian health care system.
Here’s the truth: Our industry PR & lobbying group, AHIP, supplied my colleagues & me with cherry-picked data & anecdotes to make people think Canadians wait endlessly for their care. It’s a lie & I’ll always regret the disservice I did to folks on both sides of the border.
In Canada, no one gets turned away from doctors due to lack of funds. In America, exorbitant bills are a defining feature of the system. What about Quality of care? When it comes to #COVID19, there’s been ~21 deaths per 100,000 in Canada, versus 34 per 100,000 in the U.S.
Remember, in Canada there are no co-pays, deductibles or co-insurance ever. Care is free at the point of service. And those laid off in Canada don’t face the worry of losing their health insurance. In the U.S., millions are losing their jobs and coverage, and scared to death.
You learn a lot about a healthcare system when a global crisis hits & different nations have different results. Canada’s single-payer system is saving lives. The U.S. profit-driven corporate model is failing.
I’ll regret slandering Canada’s system for the rest of my life.” End thread.
The final image is Wendell Potter’s twitter bio. It reads: “Former VP, @ cigna. Whistleblower and reformed insurance propagandist. President, @ M4A_NOW, @ BusinessM4A. Media inquiries: [email protected]” and gives his location as Philadelphia, PA and his website as wendellpotter.com. End id.]
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- Canada just took a major step forward in ensuring rights and protections for its transgender citizens.
- The Canadian Senate passed Bill C-16 on Thursday, a new law that expands the Canadian Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression, NBC News reported.
- The new law will also change the criminal code to extend protection from hate-speech to trans and non-binary Canadians.
- The bill will become law as soon as it passes royal assent, a “formality” that is expected to happen sometime this week, according to NBC News.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted out a celebratory message after the bill passed on Thursday night, saying “Great news: Bill C-16 has passed the Senate – making it illegal to discriminate based on gender identity or expression.” He added the hashtag “#LoveIsLove.” Read more (6/19/17)
Source: bit.ly
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I Grew Up in a Different Canada
- I grew up in an entirely different Canada than you did.
- I grew up in a Canada where being a rez child was an embarrassing thing because I’m not allowed to act or speak like other native kids and still be liked by my mostly white school.
- I grew up in a Canada where if my school did have a large native population we fought until we were crying to learn and get good grades for our work, but never received them because we’re too stupid to learn, too stupid to deserve books on the same level as the white students, too stupid to ever be anything but the charity case in the class.
- I grew up in a Canada where my accent was made fun of so drastically that I no longer have it.
- I grew up in a Canada where I have to marry a nice white boy because I’ll never be recognized or amount to anything if I don’t.
- I grew up in a Canada where my mother and I had to share a bed while my father slept in the living room because my Native parents couldn’t secure large responsibility houses unless they paid up front because Native people don’t pay for things. (I got my own room when my mother moved us to the Rez).
- I grew up in a Canada where a man tried to massacre my entire family on my sixth birthday party via rifle and there wasn’t any news coverage because we weren’t worth it. (We survived even though all police aid was 6 hours away from our tiny reserve).
- I grew up in a Canada where I couldn’t be native because I didn’t have a native nose according to my white friends *Squishes nose flat onto face*
- I grew up in a Canada where I hated my parents for not being white, because it meant I wasn’t white.
- I grew up in a Canada where I get stopped by police who suspect I’m drunk for no other reason than the fact that I’m Native (6 times total, once when I was 9 or 10).
- I grew up in a Canada where my mom continuously tells me I’m lucky I’m not as dark as her because her teachers used to make her wash her hands until they were bloody for being *dirty* and not pale enough.
- I grew up in a Canada where my parents were taken away from their families and put into institutions designed to educate, beat, and breed the Native out of the children.
- I grew up in a Canada where I get followed around grocery stores on a regular basis no matter how nicely I dress.
- I grew up in a Canada where even in University people are hoping I won’t show up to Aboriginal Awareness classes so they can speak their racist minds.
- I grew up in a Canada where the FN/Inuit suicide rate is 2-11 times higher than the national average. (Greater for Inuit populations).
- I grew up in a Canada where Native women go missing at an alarming rate and the Conservative Government did nothing to help us.
- I grew up in a Canada where I’m agnostic, brought up atheist because my father refused to succumb to the religious assimilation, but we’re totally fucking weird because of it.
- I grew up in a Canada where Native parents had zero hope of saving up for post education, but we’re on easy street even though there would probably be next to no Native students in school if we weren’t granted that opportunity.
- I grew up in a Canada where I totally don’t have to pay taxes and I wish someone had told me. Do you think the government will give me back all the taxes I’ve paid since I turned 18? *sarcasm* (May be substituted in for fishing/hunting without a license).
- I grew up in a Canada where I’m responsible for white guilt.
- I grew up in a Canada where our students don’t know that the Canadian Government committed cultural genocide against my people.
- I grew up in a Canada where my mother lost two siblings because the hospital wouldn’t admit Native people, and they died as a result of it.
- I grew up in a Canada where a white man I went to school with attacked my very dark skinned brother outside of a bar with a 2x4 that had a nail hammered into it. (He admitted it was a hate crime).
- I grew up in a Canada where the cultures of hundreds of First Nations bands lost almost all of their culture and are fighting to keep it alive.
- I grew up in a Canada where I personally saw multiple angry white people attempt to run over peaceful Native protesters for our right for clean drinking water.
- I grew up in a Canada where the Settlers named some of our mountains after Native stories because they thought the words sounded cool when those stories were about rapists or men who murdered women.
- I grew up in a Canada where Welfare/Social Assistance is referred to as “Indian payday” when we aren’t Indian, when Indian should never be a derogatory term, and where the less fortunate should be ashamed of themselves for being less fortunate.
- I grew up in a Canada where we live in ugly houses with nice cars because we weren’t allowed to secure mortages for nice houses, and cars were easier to obtain. Our ugly, dirty, run down houses are probably older than your grandparents.
- I grew up in a Canada where I’m supposed to get over it.
- I live in a Canada where companies are built over Native burial grounds and their workers take the skulls of my ancestors as fancy ash trays
- I grew up in a Canada where our regalia are still considered fit for costuming.
- I’m living in a Canada that’s trying to make things right on some levels, but I’m not going to just get over it because you can’t buy back all the hurt I’ve experienced.
There are plenty more things I could add, but I feel pretty emotionally exhausted right now.
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PLEASE DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS! DONATE, REBLOG AND SPREAD THE WORD.
Even if you can’t donate, just reblog this; everyone needs to reblog this. DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS, it will take you 5 seconds to reblog and no matter what your blog type is, this is so important.
Donate money online:
- The Red Cross has started an emergency appeal for help. To donate $5 by phone, text REDCROSS to 30333. Text FIRES to 45678 to donate $10. Both the federal and provincial governments will match donations to the Red Cross.
- The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is accepting donations through PayPal on its website.
- The Salvation Army is also collecting financial donations online.
Emergency shelter:
- Airbnb has activated its Disaster Response Tool to help provide free shelter until May 21. Residents in nearby areas can list their properties on the website.
- Those able to provide accommodations can also sign up on website YMMfire.ca.
Displaced pets:
- The Fort McMurray SPCA is working to reunite displaced residents with pets they were forced to leave behind. They are accepting donations to help efforts.
- The Edmonton Humane Society is preparing to accept animals left without owners, and provide temporary shelter to pets with owners who have left their homes.
Social media efforts:
- Facebook group Fort Mac Fire Donations is crowdsourcing donations for items such as toiletries, socks and pillows, as needed.
- On Twitter, people are offering help through hashtags such as #ymmfire and #ymmhelps
Thanks for posting this! Please spread the word, so many of these evacuees have been left with nothing. I also heard that RedCross has received 12$ million to help the evacuees. A provincial fire ban has been put in place as well, so please respect this and stay safe!
Donations are up to $30 Million and it’s amazing! So many of my friends have lost their homes and I just was notified my older sister and her husband lost theirs. Every little bit helps!
raisehelia
Please help if you can!
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was officially sworn in on November 4th, 2015, gives a very simple answer as to why he decided to have 15 men and 15 women on his cabinet.
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Alberta, Canada
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nativevoice
“Stop sending expired food”….”fried chicken 64.99”
IQALUIT, Nunavut — A head of cabbage for $20. Fifteen bucks for a small bag of apples.
A case of ginger ale: $82.
Fed up and frustrated by sky-high food prices and concerned over widespread hunger in their communities, thousands of Inuit have spent weeks posting pictures and price tags from their local grocery stores to a Facebook site called Feed My Family.
dolgematki
Holy hell.
WHAT IN THE FUCK? This shit is not okay.
dumbthingswhitepplsay
ughhslfkajsdlf gross gross gross
64.99?????
girljanitor
biyuti
Reblogging for the extra articles.
Also… I might show up to this protest and support them.
mattachinereview
Pay attention to this stuff, please, followers who haven’t heard about this! This kind of thing is completely erased in news media.
dirtybrian
This is really fucking important.
This is why I don’t respect anyone who blindly supports the anti-sealing protestors. Because for a lot of people, it’s the only affordable option.
It’s not just Iqaluit. In Nain, Labrador this problem has been going on for ages and nobody does anything about it. $47 for a ham and $17 for a block of cheese. In Rigolet, Labrador, a loaf of bread costs $7. Here’s another picture of an Iqaluit food price changing before your very eyes.
The NNCP is starving people, reducing their food choices, and keeping people on EI poor. This is so, so wrong.
thewitchylibrarian
How can we help? I joined the group and checked out the website, but I didn’t see anything that can be actively done (other than raising awareness, which, of course, is great).
dirtybrian
Excellent question! If you read through the group (which is here, for anyone who missed it), there are people talking about some ways to help.
- Look at the latest news on the Feeding My Family website to see what the priorities are and how you might be able to help.
- If you’re Canadian, call your local MP and ask to discuss this issue and express your concern.
- Look up ways to support putting pressure onto airlines to charge fair rates (a $1000 plane ticket should be from one coast to the other, not a few hundred miles).
- Research and learn what you can about food sustainability. For a start, how about learning square foot/metre (French intensive) gardening or container gardening and starting to practice it yourself? Share these techniques with friends and family. Get good at it so you can teach them to others who have poor food security in your own area.
- For the love of God, stop signing “anti-sealing”/”anti-hunting” petitions and supporting Greenpeace’s actions without understanding the complicated, nuanced situation in the North.
- Watch the FB group, because people there mention direct donations and ways to help the organizations actually on the ground there.
- For example, one person is starting up a donation project/fundraiser.
- Look at what organizations like FoodShare are doing and support them.
There is so much to be done. Sharing news articles and stories, lists of resources, donation and fundraising pages, and knowledge about food security is critical, but there’s a lot more work of all sorts.
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tanninginparadise-deactivated20
See this picture? This comes from a town in Canada where a 24 pack of water bottles is 104 dollars and formula milk for a baby is priced at 55 dollars a pack. What’s more, a pack of diapers is 95 dollars and one head of lettuce is 26 dollars. Inuit people are starving in a country known for it’s generosity.
If you don’t believe this is true, you can find more images like this here. This is the only grocery store these people have in their small towns, and many people are going hungry & elderly are dying faster.
You’ll send aid to foreign children that are starving, so why won’t you pay a little extra to feed the people in your own country who work hard & still can’t afford the prices for healthy food for their families?
Please have a heart and reblog this photo to raise awareness that even in our own countries people are starving, join the movement and show the government that we won’t sit by and watch people starve.
If you think this will make your blog ugly you’re wrong. Children in a first world country are getting sick & starving, and nobody is even aware it’s happening. You can let people know by reblogging and showing you care. People I am close to, my friends and future in-laws are going through this.
littleojibwe
Love how little attention this post gets from my beach blog followers.
acacophony
Ok I didn’t think this could possibly be for real, but I found a news source on the matter. This is insane.
YES, this is real.
vworp-goes-the-tardis
the way the Canadian government treats the native people here is actually disgusting. The reserves sometimes have a lower life expectancy and the general living quality of third world countries. This isn’t common knowledge and it needs to be.