April 2013
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A man is sexually assaulted by four women. Rosie... →
stfusexists:
Enquiring minds are eager to know what the heck befell a young man who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of women in downtown Toronto.
**Trigger Warning: Rape culture, victim blaming - exercise caution before clicking the link or reading further**
After a man - who is alternately referred to as a teenager - in Toronto reported to the police that he had been the victim of...
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“The new application form is 10 pages long. Only those directly affected by the...”
– Hey Canada! Want to participate in a public hearing on a pipeline project happening near you? Get ready to do some serious paperwork. And unless the pipeline is going through your very own backyard or you have credentials and documentation, the National Energy Board doesn’t want to hear from you.
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“My question is: why? Why is immigration so scary? In the first place, for...”
– Why the fear around “ethnic enclaves” and fewer White faces in Metro Vancouver? by Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra a response to an article in the Vancouver Sun about demographic changes predicted to occur between now and 2031.
Both articles are worth a read, and i found it good to read the...
March 2013
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MPs criticize Flaherty's mortgage move →
jakke:
Okay so the Minister of Finance called up Manulife and told them to change the interest rate on mortgages. Which they did. This comes just a couple weeks after he called up BMO and tried to get them to change their interest rate. (Which they didn’t.)
WHAT ARE YOU DOING BUDDY
YEAH OKAY MAYBE THE BANKS WILL JUST FOLD THAT IN WITH THEIR DECADES OF EXPERIENCE DETERMINING OPTIMAL MORTGAGE...
February 2013
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Anti-gay religious group gets CIDA funds to work... →
jakke:
PARDON ME
BUT WOULD YOU MIND
IF I TOLD YOU
HOW WE DO IT IN CANADA
Seriously I’m increasingly eager to get the fuck out of this country because we are spiralling in a really pathetic direction.
ugh. because nothing backs up condemnation of homophobia in Uganda like giving money to homophobic religious groups.
yep. Things are going awesome.
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Patrick Brazeau may be held overnight after... →
Senator Patrick Brazeau could stay in police custody overnight, CBC News has learned, after he was arrested following an alleged domestic assault and removed from the Conservative Party’s caucus.
Brazeau, who has weathered several controversies since his appointment in 2009, will continue to sit in the Senate as an Independent.
Police said Thursday charges have not yet been laid against...
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Canada's Marijuana Laws Upheld by Ontario Court →
TORONTO - Canada’s ban on marijuana was effectively upheld Friday when Ontario’s top court struck down an earlier court decision that said Canada’s laws related to medicinal pot were unconstitutional.
In overturning the lower court ruling, the Court of Appeal ruled the trial judge had made numerous errors in striking down the country’s medical pot laws.
Among other...
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January 2013
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IF YOU HAD OSAP BETWEEN 2000 and 2006 CALL THE...
From McBek - Important for ANY Canada Student Loan Recipients unless you are in Quebec, Nunavut, or the North West Territories!- Mei
Can you signal boost this please? HRSDC lost at on of personal information and JUST released the fact that it happened on the 11th. All OSAP recipients between 2000 and 2006 should call the The National Student Loan Center to find out if they were effected. The...
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Important clarifications.
apihtawikosisan:
Harper did not offer to meet with Chief Spence. He offered to meet with the AFN, essentially. Chief Spence is an elected Chief and is going to attend the meeting, but Harper did not mention her, and did not offer this to her personally.
A meeting is not enough. What needs to come out of this meeting is a commitment to actually working on resetting this relationship: owning up...
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Spence to join Harper meeting with Chiefs Jan. 11 →
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she will join a “working meeting” between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a delegation of First Nations chiefs, but is not ready to give up her hunger strike.
Spence made the announcement from Victoria Island just north of Ottawa, where she has been conducting a hunger strike that is now in its 25th day.
“To all the supporters and the...
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jakke: ayiman: I’ve seen income disparity figures... →
ayiman:
I’ve seen income disparity figures being reblogged a lot, but they’re limited to the US and despite structures in Canada and the USA being fairly different, they’re not so different that these figures have found their way into my discourse.
I was linked by a fellow I follow on…
This is something rarely discussed.
December 2012
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6 Niqab Legal Controversies in Canada →
I don’t think I’ve ever heard people talk more about our “Canadian culture” than when they are talking about the threat of the niqab. It’s very convenient, though no one can quite clarify how the Canadian culture prohibits the niqab.
(Except perhaps that the oppression of women is against Canadian culture, to which I say, forcing a woman to remove clothing is a...
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SIGN THE PETITION to stop Islamophobic... →
tomhiddlestonswife:
lalondes:
I’m sending this petition out on behalf of Suzanne Chybli, the owner of Alena’s. I’ve been in contact with her for the past few days, and she asked me to create this petition and spread it on Tumblr.
Suzanne Chybli is the owner of Alena’s Boutique and Bridal, a store which caters to the needs of the women in Calgary’s Muslim community. In the past, Alena’s sold...
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Idle No More on CBC's The Current →
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What you need to know, Idle No More!
apihtawikosisan:
Faye Morning Bull, LLB, has put together a very clear summary of the various pieces of legislation and Senate Bills that Harper has been trying ram through as quickly as possible. These documents are hundreds of pages long in some cases, and figuring out how they impact indigenous peoples is a daunting task…a task Morning Bull has taken on! In a few brief pages, she clarifies...
STFU, Sexists.: Today is the National Day of... →
socialistunicorn:
stfusexists:
Today we commemorate the 14 women who were murdered in cold blood at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal 23 years ago today. Besides those women, the murderer injured ten others before turning the weapon on himself. In his suicide note, he blamed feminism for ruining his life, and told his victims that he was fighting feminism.
It’s not something that I heard...
November 2012
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Snippet of Black Canadian Women Putting in Work: →
blackcanadians:
Zanana Akande. The first Black female to serve in the cabinet of the Government of Ontario. Marie-Joseph Angélique (ca. 1709-1734). A desperate slave who fought for her personal happiness, but was hung in Montreal after allegedly starting a major fire.* Jean Augustine. First Black woman elected as a federal Member of Parliament. Addie Aylestock. Canada’s first female Black...
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Nova Scotia protects transgender rights in... →
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School Board Fails to Discourage Racist Behaviour... →
faineemae:
Two non-South Asian girls from a local high school decided to dress up as people of colour (PoC) for Halloween. They blacked their faces, made beards, wrapped turbans on their heads, and even found fitting outfits. They, and the supporters of the pictures that the girls posted on Twitter and Facebook, continued the “effect” further by making racist and stereotypical comments about...
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Providing Muslim Women with Support and Advice:... →
thepoliticalmecca:
For the first time ever, a helpline has been established in Canada for Muslim women. Also known as the Women’s Resource Center in Ontario, this facility focuses on empowering Muslim women by providing them with peer-counseling services in order to ensure that they become successful women in all facets of their lives.
Their website says that by “facilitating knowledge,...
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That awkward moment when you reblog a post for the personal blog to the political blog.
And it takes like 20 minutes to figure it out.
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Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination... →
apihtawikosisan:
queernonywolf:
On September 4th the Harper government clearly signaled its intention to:
1) Focus all its efforts to assimilate First Nations into the existing federal and provincial orders of government of Canada;
2) Terminate the constitutionally protected and internationally recognized Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights of First Nations.
Termination in this context...
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Dirty water, dirty secrets: water insecurity in... →
apihtawikosisan:
Recently a grad student in journalism at Concordia University contacted me to ask a few questions about the state of drinking water in First Nations communities. I’d been meaning to eventually write a piece on the issue, but her shock at what she had been learning reminded me yet again that many Canadians are totally unaware of conditions that most native people are all-too...
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Watchdynamicafrica:
blackfilm:
Remember Africville
A documentary on the Black neighborhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada known as Africville.
Having been residents of the area for almost two centuries, the Canadian government scheduled Africville for relocation between the 1940’s and 1960’s. Without any consultation or input from the residents, some moved from their homes after coercion,...
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That awkward moment when you move 10 blocks and realize you’re in a new riding with an MP of a different party.
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“The American media has falsely convinced its viewers that Malala was shot...”
– Orbala - How Not to Talk About Malala Yousafzai in Tanqeed magazine.
An excellent article by Orbala who argues that while criticizing US drone strikes is extremely important, one should not forget to criticize and bring attention to the ongoing attacks by the Pakistani military in the tribal...
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Oilsands crippled by soaring costs, memo says →
jakke:
A confidential government memorandum obtained by CBC News warns that soaring costs of developing the Alberta oilsands could put the brakes on the massive project, stalling one of the main engines of the Canadian economy.
The booming oilsands industry supports tens of thousands of Canadian jobs, and pumps billions of dollars a year into the national economy.
The memo written by Mark...
October 2012
9 posts
“I can confirm to you that the PBO will be filing and serving legal notice on all...”
– Meanwhile in Canada: the federal government has announce massive spending cuts but has kept the content of those cuts a secret. Like, money is getting cut but no one is allowed to know what that means in terms of service provision. So the Parliamentary Budget Office is suing all the departments to...
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The fact I missed making a big deal out of my 666th post makes me very sad.
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Best thing about the tumblr outage: The link which was meant to give details on the error message which subsequently led to the error message because, yes, the servers were that hosed.
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Psst. Hey. Everyone.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
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Non-Christian prison chaplains chopped by Ottawa →
The federal government is cancelling the contracts of non-Christian chaplains at federal prisons, CBC News has learned.
Inmates of other faiths, such as Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jews, will be expected to turn to Christian prison chaplains for religious counsel and guidance, according to the office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who is also responsible for Canada’s penitentiaries.
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I am so totally stealing “for the love of niblets”.
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Threats against a mosque in P.E.I have a Muslim... →
A spokesman for the Muslim community in Charlottetown says a series of threats that include a bottle of gasoline left on the front steps of a mosque have created fear and uncertainty.
Zain Esseghaier, who leads prayers once a week, says worshippers arrived early Thursday morning at the Masjid Dar As-Salam mosque and found the bottle of gasoline with a note that read: “Defeat Jihad.”
I’m...
September 2012
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Motion to study rights of fetus defeated in... →
93 for. 203 against.
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Canada is following our lead, and it's NOT in a... →
stfusexists:
I just received this submission:
The Conservative Party in Canada is trying to criminalize abortion through a backdoor trick. The article to which I have linked includes relative articles and a petition against the legislation.
Please read up on it, sign it, and reblog it. It’s the same kind of stuff they’re doing here, and it’s not okay in any country.
Just to clarify: the...
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Study on when life begins gets Jason Kenney's... →
One of the government’s most prominent cabinet ministers has come out in favour of studying the Criminal Code’s definition of when life begins, two days before MPs are set to vote on a motion to make it happen.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says he will vote in favour of Motion 312, put forward by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth, to create a parliamentary...
