#🇨🇦canada

[astrowarr]

this has already been mentioned on here but im thinking about the gem and etho dynamic. they've only really gotten closer this season and gem just beats the shit out of him as she pleases. he logged on, got into a punch fight with her, and logged out when he started losing. and then theres mumbo who has been on the same server as etho for 8 years now (almost 9) and is self-admittedly afraid of him. it makes me giggle

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Have I ever posted this? I feel like I have. I don't remember.

Anyways, Canadian Breakdown.

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Celebrating 100 years of the @RCAF_ARC, and the F-35 will ensure Canada is at the forefront of deterrence for many more to come. 🛡️ #AbbyAirshow

@TheF35 via X

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Pedro Pascal on filming HBO’s The Last of Us in Canada (etalk) +

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Peter McKinnon

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JESSIE FLEMING 🇨🇦

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Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

[go-see-a-starwar]

Hayden is just so fuckable no matter what movie role

It’s true, and I humbly offer the following gifs as proof

[idkhowtoread-ink]

Sooo i started watching Hetalia a while ago and I'm enjoying it!

But I was just wondering, why do all the other country's have diffrent accents but Canada doesn't? Why doesn't he have a accent?

But then i remembered, I'm Canadian.

The reason Canada "doesn't have an accent" is because the accent sounds normal to me..

I'm a dumbass

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Olympics Paris 2024

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HRH Royal Highness The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence visited beautiful British Columbia this past weekend.

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“𝕃𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕝𝕖𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕟 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕤” 🧣🍁 Great Gray Owl 🦉 Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦

📸 Lisa M Jones Photography

Yes, I know its still summer, but I can feel a touch of Autumn in the air. I have noticed the leaves slowly beginning to change colour, 🍂 and the overnight temperatures have gotten cooler. As much as I enjoy summer, I can’t deny that I look forward to the colourful beauty of the Autumn season. 🙌

Here’s hoping that I can capture gorgeous subjects like this great gray owl, in the stunning fall landscape this season. 🤞🫶🏼..

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2Day...

...In Toronto,🍁Canada🇨🇦

[xariarte]

☕️ something that YOU have been wanting to yap about, but haven’t had the floor. Until now 🤞🏽

…that's a dangerous question anon…why would you give me this power…

...also this is going to be a little long so hold onto your bananapants. 🤔

I’ve alluded to Brooks being wholesome off court many times despite him being a Certified Cunt™ on court but I've never talked about it in detail. Partially because I wasn’t sure how, and I wasn’t sure if he would behave for a whole season (he did…mostly). 

So anyway with that being said, let’s go all the way back to October/November. It was a cursed time, and somehow I stumbled into reading about this villainous guy: more here. But I was intrigued as to why Brooks was Like That and what he was *really* like off court...and I do love researching things. 😭💀

The first time I bumped into wholesomeness was this post-game conference (linked to exact time), where he talks about his favourite holiday being Xmas and goes on about his favourite holiday movie and how he loves this cinnamon roll-ish recipe. I was like, “Hm...that seems too wholesome for you.”

But...he's often smiling in a lot of Grizzlies photos with teammates and with other Canadian and/or Oregon Duck players (who he sometimes swaps jerseys with).

And while on the Rockets, Vanessa Richardson, Rockets sideline reporter, described him as the nicest (at 1:13), while grumpy VanVleet put in a nice word for him to the Canadian reporters (who all love Brooks btw). Even Team Canada's GM (aka RJ's dad), Rowan Barrett loves him and don't even get me started on all his coaches. 💀

...but then I went into his Twitter account.

He doesn’t use it anymore, so it’s like a fun little archive in there. When I first went in there, I thought it would be like Morant or Dray’s Twitter, with quote tweets of wanting the smoke and delusional statements. Nah. He’s just a little guy in there... 😭😭

I didn’t have this guy wholeheartedly supporting his teammates and his old college teammates and his Canadian teammates and my beloved Toronto Raptors team on my 2023 bingo card. Also, if you weren’t convinced that he’s Canadian, going down his old Twitter will convince you.

His rookie branding was Being Canadian in Memphis. He loves Canada SO MUCH. 🇨🇦✨

here is Dillon on the Canada's Court podcast while hosting a basketball camp in New Brunswick...while wearing a Home is Canada sweater, bc of course he is 😭

Here he is making poutine. Here’s an interview he did with Canadian Grizzlies’ sideline reporter KJ Wright where he talks about Canadian stuff. Why are all of his quotes about all the Canadian players so wholesome? Did you know he was Canadian? Maybe I should link another Canadian themed article just to make sure! 💀

I would go on, but I won’t. The wholesomeness is a jarring experience — even my mutuals are like, “What the heck?” when I inevitably satisfy their curiosity about this guy. Even now, it's still jarring - although I'm more used to it now.

And yes, he's still evil to me, and still obnoxious and at times delusional, but I do enjoy that he is this wholesome off court. I love that he’s that Canadian, and that he prefers to work with Canadians and do mostly Canadian interviews. Even though he’s unfortunately from my city, I enjoy that he loves that place anyway.

Hopefully in the upcoming season, he smiles a little bit more, but he will probably continue to be menacing and be a villain most likely.

That’s fine. I’ve always enjoyed a good villain anyway. 🤷🏽‍♀️