Tag: canada

icedcatte:

fandomshateblackpeople:

fandomshateblackpeople:

There’s now a US and Canada recall on red/green lettuce and cauliflower from that same farm of the romaine lettuce one. God, I fucking hate this country.

https://www.abc15.com/news/national/farm-linked-to-romaine-ecoli-outbreak-also-recalls-cauliflower-other-lettuce

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/canadian-food-industry-recall-cauliflower-red-green-lettuce-1.4948254

December 15th and 16th, 2018, just so everyone knows the dates of these recalls

Click here to support The Jacob Family and Webequie First Nation organized by Webequie First Nation c/o Dorothy Wabasse and Ida Troutlake

allthecanadianpolitics:

Webequie First Nation in northern Ontario is appealing to the public for support as they face the heartbreaking loss of Braiden Jacob (Eagle Man of the Wolf Clan).

Braiden was visiting Thunder Bay last week to access counselling services for trauma and grief when he went missing late on December 5th, 2018. His family began searching for him when he did not return to his hotel room in Thunder Bay and he was reported missing on December 6th. On Saturday, Thunder Bay police released further details of Braiden’s disappearance, such as what he was wearing and that he was last seen early Thursday morning in the Limbrick area. His body was found by a passerby on Sunday morning, on the golf course in Chapples Park less than 3 km away. No charges have been laid and the investigation is ongoing.

Braiden’s death comes in the wake of the loss of multiple other indigenous youth in the City of Thunder Bay over the last 18 years, including another young man named Jordan Wabasse from Webequie First Nation.

This Go Fund Me page has been created to support the Jacob family and the community of Webequie during this devastating time. All funds will go directly to Webequie First Nation’s Family Support Fund which is dedicated to helping community members during times of crisis and immense need. Funds will go directly to supporting the Jacob family while they are in Thunder Bay awaiting the post-mortem results, charter flights to bring Braiden’s body and his family back home to Webequie, funeral costs in the remote community, as well as immediate grief and trauma counseling for the family and community members and other associated costs. This funding will also enable traditional healing ceremonies in Webequie to support those in need.

We are asking for support from the community of Thunder Bay, the province of Ontario, and from all of Canada. We hope that this fund will bring some peace to the family so that they may focus on their healing. Please hold the Jacob family and the community of Webequie in your hearts. Braiden was a kind, gentle young man who loved his family and friends deeply. He will be remembered as an avid athlete, incredible dancer, loyal son, brother, uncle, and a true friend. His death has left the community of Webequie reeling.

Meegwetch for your love, prayers, and support during this heart wrenching time. All donations, big or small, are deeply appreciated and will help to bring some healing and balance to Webequie First Nation.

All inquiries can be directed to Chief Cornelius Wabasse at corneliusw@webequie.ca.

Click here to support The Jacob Family and Webequie First Nation organized by Webequie First Nation c/o Dorothy Wabasse and Ida Troutlake

iinnii-antifa:

A few things about eugenics/sterilization in Canada from someone who knows too much about it for their own mental well being

(content warning for ableism, violence, misogyny and racism): 

– Involuntary/coercive sterilization was one part of a multifaceted strategy of eugenics that included restrictive marriage laws, immigration restrictions, and segregation of people considered unfit for public space in institutions. Canada is still chock full of these structures of power, so it comes as no surprise that involuntary/coercive sterilizations continue.

 – The biggest proponents of eugenics in its earliest form were political parties associated with “progressive” causes, including the “Famous Five” suffragettes and Tommy Douglas, who saw it as essential to preserving the integrity of the Canadian social safety net.

 – Sterilization without consent was perfectly legal in Canada for 44 years, mainly in the Western provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. In Alberta alone, under the Sexual Sterilization Act, of the total number of individuals sterilized, 64.7% were women, 49.8% were from rural communities, 40.6% were unemployed, 20.55% were characterized as housewives, 25.7% were Indigenous (a disproportionately high number considering Indigenous people made up only 3.4% of the total population in Alberta at the time), and 70.6% were under the age of 20. Most of the individuals who were sterilized were characterized at the time of being approved for sterilization as being “mentally unfit”, but a number of cases involved patients “recovering from retardation” after sterilization. 

– Eugenics emerged in the midst of a moral panic about sexual relationships between Indigenous women and white settler men, and exaggerated hysteria about Indigenous and “feeble minded” women engaging in sex trade work. 

– The Alberta Eugenics Board disbanded in 1972. Many of the people who served on the board are still alive. There is no record of them ever facing any professional consequences for what they did, even though the Alberta government and apologized to some of the victims after Leilani Muir’s lawsuit. This includes John M. MacEachran, who co-founded the Canadian Psychological Association and was co-founder of the department of Psychology and Philosophy Department at the University of Alberta. Until 2003, an award in his name was given out by U of A, “honoring his accomplishments”. 

I’m saying all this because the horrors of involuntary sterilization and colonialism are not an accident. They’re a part of Canada’s national fabric. They’re a part of what made Canada a state. And the fact that they continue today, long after the laws supporting them were formally struck down, should come as no surprise. 

Concerns mount over federal government’s Indigenous housing contest

wetwareproblem:

allthecanadianpolitics:

The Canadian government will launch a contest this fall for First Nations communities to win $30 million toward innovative housing projects on reserve.

The Indigenous Homes Innovation Challenge has been billed by the federal government as a national competition designed to help close the housing gap for First Nations people on reserves.

But the concept is drawing some negative attention from the public — it’s been referred to as the “Hunger Games of on-reserve housing,” by advocate Arnell Tailfeathers.

“This issue of housing and poverty is not to be relegated to something as demeaning as a contest in order to win prize money,” said Mary Teegee, chair of the Delegated Aboriginal Agencies Provincial Forum.

“I do believe that, while however well-intentioned it may be, it absolutely misses the mark of dealing with the issues, which is really that housing issues within First Nations communities, they’re at a crisis point.”

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“I mean, sure, $30 mil is only a drop in the bucket and doesn’t even begin to touch the constructive neglect we’ve treated you with for centuries, but dance for your scraps or we’ll let you starve.”

Concerns mount over federal government’s Indigenous housing contest

Tribe Called Red dancer says she ‘just felt disposable’ after being chased, refused taxi ride

allthecanadianpolitics:

An Edmonton woman says she’s still in shock after being refused a cab ride when she asked a Duffy’s Taxi driver for help Monday night.

Angela Gladue, who was in Manitoba to perform at the Winnipeg Folk Festival last weekend, said she was being chased down Portage Avenue by a strange man when she hopped in a cab for refuge.

Gladue said she was taken aback when the driver asked for cash upfront.

“I said ‘Yes, I do have money, but you have to go now. I will pay you, just start driving — there is a man coming and I am really scared,’” said Gladue, a powwow dancer who dances with the Ottawa electronic music group A Tribe Called Red.

“He was, like, ‘Give me $10.’”

Gladue said she was in fear for her safety and couldn’t think of anything else but getting away.

She said she has been asked to pay upfront by Edmonton taxi drivers in the past and has done so, reluctantly.

The driver wouldn’t go, even when the man who was chasing her caught up and began pacing back and forth beside the cab, she said.

“I was, like, ‘Are you refusing me service right now? My life is in danger,’” she said.

“Then I brought up missing and murdered Indigenous women and what he was doing felt like racism toward me, and I told him that.”

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She explained to the second driver what had just happened and said he told her to walk the four blocks to the Fairmont hotel.

“I had to beg him, and I started crying-by this point, I was just in tears because I just felt humiliated,” she said.

“He finally let me in. He drove me the four blocks, and then I gave him $10.”

Tribe Called Red dancer says she ‘just felt disposable’ after being chased, refused taxi ride

I keep on seeing people retweet that “NO ONE GOES BANKRUPT DUE MEDICAL BILLS IN CANADA” tweet and it kinda pisses me off because our lack of pharmacare still means people have to choose between their medication and essentials up here. Most people doing so are well meaning, but it’s just another example of our (false) reputation as a utopia obscuring the serious problems we still have

pom-seedss:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Also dental-care is not covered or vision-care, both of which can be expensive.

Some speciality services like Orthodontics also aren’t covered, and those can run into the thousands of dollars in cost.

In Canada people can and do go bankrupt (and/or live in poverty) because of  medical expenses. I hate that chronically ill and disabled Canadian experiences are always discounted in those kinds of statements.

Though, I find recognizing the difference in impact and scale is also important. Canadians aren’t going to go bankrupt with one hospital visit, for example.

I just wish folks wouldn’t take those “no one goes bankrupt because of medical expenses in Canada” with the grain of salt they deserve, but I am frustrated that so many people cling to that statement though it were entirely true.

As a struggling disabled Canadian facing the specter of bankruptcy, I know that people do take it literally and it allows problems with our medical system to be swept under the rug.

Our healthcare system is good, but it still fails many Canadians and it is vital that we acknowledge that.

Usually when those sorts of statements are made by Americans I’ll give them a little bit of leeway because all they have to go on is our reputation which seems to be squeaky clean as long as we stand it beside their tire fire. But when Canadians absorb those messages and believe them true and tout on about how great the Canadian healthcare system is I just… get so frustrated.

Especially after Harper and especially after Ford is done with Ontario.

Our system used to be better. But our complacency has allowed it to become worse.