#Ontario;Brantford

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Michelle Charles says she has worked six days a week at the Metro grocery store in Brantford, Ont. for the last 19 years.

Earlier this year, while Metro made record profits, Charles said, to make ends meet, she had to sell her home, where she lived for 27 years. 

"I can't afford to shop at Metro," she said. "It's ridiculous that I had to sell the house...honestly, I needed about $200 or more a week, and I probably could have kept the house."

In 2022, Metro's net earnings were $922 million, the highest profits the company has ever recorded in its history.

Charles, a single mom of two children in their twenties, said when she lost financial support from their father earlier this year, she sold their home in June and found a more affordable place. [...]

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Immediately after the passage of the September [1918] orders-in-council, the police began using their new authority in a series of raids aimed at getting the Reds off the streets. In Winnipeg in early October, Michael Charitinoff, a Russian Jew and former editor of the Russian-language weekly Robotchny Narod (Working People), was arrested for possession of illegal literature. Security forces had targeted Charitinoff as Lenin’s “ambassador to Western Canada,” supposedly sent to Canada with a $7,000 bankroll to foment revolution. Police magistrate Hugh John Macdonald, the sixty-eight-year-old son of Sir John A., the former prime minister, and a former Manitoba premier himself, sentenced Charitinoff to three years in prison and a $1,000 fine, though the editor won release on a technicality. Charitinoff was one of more than 200 people convicted of political offences—possessing banned literature, belonging to an illegal group, or attending illegal meetings—across the country between October 1918 and June 1919. Fines ranged up to $4,000, though most were much lower, and prison terms ran anywhere from a month to five years.

In Ontario, police stormed the offices of several of the banned organizations, seizing correspondence, books, and pamphlets, and arresting dozens of people in Toronto and other, smaller communities. Eighteen Finnish-Canadian militants were arrested in Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. In Brantford, the local police chief, testifying at the trial of Andra Tretjak, a young Russian immigrant found guilty of conspiracy, claimed that the town was “the headquarters of Bolshevik advocates in Canada,” the centre of a vast distribution network of seditious literature. The police enjoyed fear-mongering about alleged conspiracies; the previous summer they had uncovered a nest of Russian conspirators in Windsor, Ontario, who, they told the newspapers, were at the centre of “a continent-wide plot to overthrow lawful authority and establish a similar regime to that instituted in Russia by Trotzky and Lenine.”

In Toronto, police descended on the offices of political and ethnic organizations across the city, arresting dozens of people, all of whom were alleged to be “active Socialists and Bolsheviks.” They carted away stacks of mail, flyers, pamphlets, books, and magazines. Among the twenty-two arrestees at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party on Queen Street West were Isaac Bainbridge, secretary of the SDP, and Alfred Manse, the circulation manager of both the Industrial Banner and the Canadian Forward, the party newspaper. Bainbridge, who was a thirty-eight-year-old stonemason and the editor of the Forward, was all too familiar with this kind of harassment. During the previous year and a half, he had been arrested three times on charges of sedition and spent a total of four months in jail for promoting ideas that were considered anti-conscription.

Detainees appeared before magistrates, several of whom took very seriously their self-appointed role as the last bastions against Bolshevism. In Stratford, Ontario, where police arrested twenty-two militants, the case of Arthur Skidmore, a machinist and a member of the local trades council, attracted the most notoriety. He was sentenced to thirty days in jail and a fine of $500 for having in his possession a copy of the Forward. Following appeals to the government from his fellow union members, he was released after twelve days. Magistrate Makins, who had sent Skidmore to jail, chided the government for overruling his decision. “Skidmore’s release is having the effect of making these men very bold and defiant,” Makins told the Toronto Daily Star. “I feel that a stand will have to be taken in the near future against just such men.” And in Toronto, Magistrate Kingsford handed out a three-year prison term in the Kingston Penitentiary to Charles Watson for distributing a variety of books and leaflets that three months before had been perfectly legal. As a large deputation from the Carpenters’ Union massed in the street outside the court in protest, Kingsford declaimed from the bench:

Free speech has always been and is the birthright of every British subject; but free speech is not license [...] Sedition will not be tolerated [...] Persons of British birth or descent above all should not forget the orderly traditions of their race. It would be a disgrace if they associated themselves with the propaganda of foreign cut-throats.

Kingsford went on in his condescending manner:

Theoretical discussions about Socialism may do no harm even if, in the hands of uneducated men, they lead to erroneous ideas of political economy. But when they are publications which advocate in so many terms, robbery, plunder, and other crimes against public order and safety, they become a menace and must be dealt with accordingly.

- Daniel Francis, Seeing Reds: the Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. p. 52-54.

[oldshowbiz]

Canadian vaudeville comedians from Brantford, Ontario: James Fax and Reuben Fax.

[muirneach]

peoples understanding of indigenous culture and politics and history is honestly piss poor like read a couple wikipedia pages read the newspaper read tribal websites and editorials god

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

The criminal investigation into the deaths at the Mohawk Institute residential school in Brantford, Ont., has become a coroner's investigation, at the request of survivors from the school.

The investigation was launched in late July 2022, after Mohawk Institute survivors and Six Nations Chief Mark Hill called for the entire site, which is now the Woodland Cultural Centre, to be scanned as part of a criminal investigation.

A multi-jurisdictional task force was created with Six Nations police, Brantford police and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to investigate the deaths.

Laura Arndt leads the Mohawk Institute survivor advocacy group Survivor's Secretariat. She said the investigation has found there is no one alive to be criminally charged with the deaths at the school. 

She said the decision to switch gears from a criminal investigation to a coroner's investigation was made by the Secretariat's board of Mohawk Institute survivors. [...]

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“POLICE WILL CLEAR GANG FROM CORNER,” Brantford Expositor. May 25, 1932. Page 5. ----- Rowdy Gathering of Young Men in Holmedale Will Be Stopped ---- ‘If I have to sit up every night in the week and do it myself, the gang that gathers at the comer of Grand River avenue and Chestnut avenue will be cleaned up,” Chief of Police Harry Stanley stated this morning. "I have received numerous complaints from that section and they are not petty complaints either. They are serious. It is habit of the gang to make sneering and lewd remarks to young ladies who pass and that is a punishable offense. They will be brought before a magistrate and I will press for a conviction.”' 

The young men gather around the corner and sing, shout, and swear with abandon, and something will be done about it, Chief Stanley said. The "ganging up” has been going on for months and the time is ripe for police to step in and make sure that women citizens will not suffer insult every time they walk down past that particular corner, the chief commented. 

It would be a very wise plan far the young men to correct the condition themselves before police do take action and a warning is issued to that effect.

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