#canadian bias

[thedeafprophet]

I was gonna say I wanna make a french oc just to piss people off.... but I do already have Jamie's Ex lmao

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The commander of the RCMP in Nova Scotia delivered what he described as a long-overdue apology to the province’s Black residents on Saturday, acknowledging that the force’s past use of street checks did lasting harm to both individuals and communities. Assistant commissioner Dennis Daley issued the apology to African Nova Scotians and all people of African descent during a Saturday afternoon event in North Preston, a predominantly Black community northeast of Halifax. He said the RCMP had “disrespected” Black Nova Scotians through the practice of randomly stopping people and logging personal details about them and acknowledged the now banned practice — which disproportionately targeted young Black men — affected many facets of daily life.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[newsfromstolenland]

The largest Canadian newspapers have given disproportionate attention to the deaths of Israelis, portrayed Israelis in more humanized ways, characterized their deaths as more worthy of indignation, and more often identified who was responsible for killing them, a comprehensive comparison of reporting on the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians reveals.

The Breach analyzed thousands of sentences in coverage in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and National Post from Oct. 7 to Nov. 24. The study found that dozens of Palestinian deaths were required to merit just one mention in the newspapers, while there was one mention of Israeli deaths for every two Israelis who died.

The study shows a pattern of anti-Palestinian bias in Canada’s establishment media, sanitizing political violence against Palestinians and unequally stirring emotions about Israeli deaths.

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Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[slytherinshua]

I’m in love with mark lee

[wanderingmind867]

I think Superman and Batman really paint a picture of almost two different philosophies. Superman is Hope personified, he embodies light and positivity. Batman is like the personification of Cynicism and Pessimism, a man who's very dark and edgy and intimidating. A man who's paranoid, doesn't trust easily and doesn't have many friends. And let me just say: batman is the one who's more relatable, but he's also the one I dislike. Maybe that says something about me. Because I'm as cynical and pessimistic as characters like batman, that makes me gravitate towards Superman. I need that happy, hopeful feeling. I need it to ground myself. So superman is definitely the more important character to me.

[lil-shiro]

I'm wondering about how's lance's public perception in canada, I hope its good, because knowing how much hate he receive online I was pleasantly surprised that he was received warmly during his home race.

This is a difficult question to answer because i'm just a single data point, but i'll give my opinion.

Just for context though, I don't consider motorsports in general very mainstream in Canada (at least compared to other places). If you asked someone on the street who Lance was, maybe 2/10 people would know. Motorsports was bigger here until the gov made tobacco sponsorships illegal in 1988. After that there was (and still is) little corporate interest in supporting or sponsoring motorsport.

Anyways onto your actual question.

There are only 20 drivers on the grid, therefore having a driver who reps your own flag, feels good for the most part. I think that's a general consensus.

So, of course there are Canadians who cheer for Lance, or don't mind him just cause he's Canadian. Maybe they only really pay attention to him during the Canadian GP. But there's also people who don't give a shit about that and neg on him anyways.

In Montreal at least, I think he gets very good support. He always shouts out his favourite businesses, donates to charities here, and can actually speak french (this is big). So yeah he always gets a good reception at home which im really happy about. I can't really speak about other places. Overall I don't think it's mega negative though, majority are probably? neutral.

Maybe I sound like a hypocrite since I've mentioned before that i hate when people say im a lance fan just because im canadian. But i can't lie and say that the familiarity doesn't feel good. Like that tim's car and suit was everything i ever needed in life 😭 I really want them to lean into that type of marketing more.

I'll save you from myself ranting about this but idk lmk if you wanna know more about motorsports in Canada. It does exist outside of IndyCar and F1, just on smaller, lesser known scale.

[graceoutinspace]

what's your and the rest of the crew's favorite flavor ice cream? also will there be any ice cream on the space ship?

My favourite ice cream is really whatever is the most appealing at the time. It's the toppings that matter, to me. If there are no toppings to optimize my choice for, then something chocolatey.

Yáo says lemon sorbet. I don't think that's technically ice-cream, but I'll let it pass.

Ilyukhina says anything spiked. Otherwise, "the shitty kind of ice cream sandwich Americans lose their minds over -- and I get the appeal".

DuBois says something with caramel and/or coffee flavouring. Mocha fudge, for example.

Shapiro deadpanned, grabbed me by the shoulders, shook me, and repeated over and over "Moon mist. Moon mist! MOON MIST!" I'm not sure if that's an ice-cream flavour or a curse.

Stratt glared at me (again) and told me to get back to work (again). When pressed, she said "Eh, whatever's good. Get back to work!"

[iammadelinepod]

Canada Day is still such a problematic thing. Unless and until we treat first Nation communities with respect and inclusion and basic human rights supports and address race bias and the amplification that first Nation women experience on gender bias plus disabled first Nation person's experience over and above the usual nonsense (IE how with many disenfranchised and discriminated upon diseases like long viral diseases these communities are not even getting diagnosed). Also lgbtqia+ and two spirit first Nations experience an exponential amount of discrimination over and above the usual horror.

We have not yet met the bar of adequate on how we treat our first nation communities. The lack of addressing of gender, race, disability and disease bias within Canada must be recognized as being far over and above that difficulty for first Nation communities as well as people of color particularly, women of color.

It is nice to celebrate a long weekend, Canada has done some good things, but we think we're farther along our human rights accomplishments journey than we are. We have a long way to go. Until we do a Country-Wide *putting on of our big person underpants* and addressing bias in all of its forms within the education, bureaucratic, governmental, legislative, and corporate systems, I don't see how any of this changes, ever.

What's happening to me, the death March off a cliff of gender and disease bias is beyond horrific. But even in the midst of the difficulties I'm experiencing I can only think wow, how much harder it must be for racial discrimination on top of that especially for our first nation communities

The first 5 episodes of the podcast give you a synopsis of what's happening to me. And if you choose to listen remember how much worse it is for those POC communities (I'm not sure it's letting me properly post it via the link feature in Tumblr so I guess you'll have to copy and paste it if that's not clickable) https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/i-am-madeline/episodes/Ep--1---How-do-you-solve-a-problem-e110jks

Here's the latest episode, *Queen Of The Cranky Arses* https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/i-am-madeline/episodes/Queen-Of-The-Cranky-Arses-e2lbfaj

The GoFundMe has most of the news media article links and updates if you need more information(I think I put them in the pinned post of this tumbler as well. But honestly I'm so tired I can't remember). If you decide you'd like to donate the media pieces have links to the GoFundMe so you know that it's for real and it's me.

(but here's the last article for convenience sake https://ricochet.media/en/3991/Canada-MAID-policy-death-by-poverty )

https://gofund.me/cff39173

[justbackgroundnoise]

anyone who is still hung up on the Canada drone thing and continues to say Canada should have been kicked out of the Olympics because they have the “upper hand on all of their opponents” must not be people who have ever really played soccer, followed soccer, or are people who really understand how the game actually works. does the drone thing suck and is it so stupid that any coach would even try this? absolutely! but you can do all the prep in the world (in whatever that means) and it can ultimately be for absolutely nothing because soccer is a game of in the moment decisions and big emotions.

A soccer game is 90 minutes and it is unbelievable how much can happen and how much can change within even a fraction of that time frame. A player can get hurt and maybe a team’s star gets subbed out which leaves them without their number one goal scorer, someone gets two yellows or a straight red and a team goes down to ten men which changes how they attack and defend, someone decides they want to cross the ball to change the field of play but they give the ball directly to an opponent who gets a breakaway, a team can adjust their formation fifteen minutes into a match to account for pressure from attackers or a tight midfield that they didn’t anticipate, the goalie spills a ball and the other team scores on a rebound, etc. There is SO much happening and so much changing so quickly in a soccer game that this notion that Canada knows how to beat their opponents now because of “drone spying” is kind of silly. Yes it’s a team sport but players can make choices for themselves on the pitch that affect the game in ways no one but themselves can control or make up for and in this game things happen swiftly and unexpectedly most of the time. that’s just how soccer works.

I’m not making excuses for bad coaching and stupid choices and I’m glad the people directly responsible were penalized for it but don’t assume that because of all of that, the Canadian players have this incredible in depth advantage and can beat every team they play cause….that’s just not it lol

[qinwenzheng]

ok im late but, never in doubt <3

[supersoftly]

Reading local newspapers opinion pieces just invokes the Lucky Star OP, visually dancing over the page as it plays 'Out of Touch' in my brain.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision which found that the family of a Montreal man killed by police was harmed when the province’s police watchdog issued a biased news release.

The family of Koray Kevin Celik sued the agency, known as the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, arguing the news release harmed their honour and dignity and caused them psychological distress.

A provincial court judge ruled in the family’s favour in 2021 and awarded Celik’s parents and brothers a total of $30,000 in damages.

The provincial government appealed the decision, arguing the BEI, which investigates whenever someone other than an on-duty police officer is killed or seriously injured during a police operation, had done nothing wrong. Even if it had, the province contended, those faults hadn’t caused damages to the family.

The appeal court rejected both of those arguments.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[xbraveheartx]

Image credit to this youtube video of the song itself

Je t'ai rencontrée simplement | I met you simply Et tu n'as rien fait pour chercher à me plaire | And you did nothing to try and please me Je t'aime pourtant | Yet I love you D'un amour ardent | With an ardent love Dont rien, je le sens, ne pourra me défaire | Of which nothing, I feel, will be able to undo me Tu seras toujours mon amante | You will always be my lover Et je crois à toi comme au bonheur suprême | And I believe in you as in supreme happiness Je te fuis parfois, mais je reviens quand même | I run away from you sometimes, but I return all the same C'est plus fort que moi, Je t'aime | It's stronger than me, I love you

Interesting how this has been made to be the ending theme for the game, and in turn, the overarching theme woven through.

[rambunctioustoons]

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death road to canada au.

[starcures]

speaking up in defense of summer cause at least summer is too hot and stops there, i spend winter sweating and boiling indoors, and blinding myself and numbing my limbs outdoors

[miraclemaya]

i would think that, besides the general lack of need or interest in learning about the world that usamericans have its probably also geography. like north america as a whole is fairly far away from the rest of the world, save for mexico which is right near south america. canadians too but in my experience to a lesser extent