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[atheostic]

@taboomonster123 That tag made me laugh out loud. When has Quebec ever been chill about anything

The Quebec government says it will table legislation to strengthen secularism in schools, following the latest in a series of reports about Muslim religious practices appearing in some of the province’s public schools. Premier François Legault says there are teachers introducing “Islamist religious concepts” into Quebec schools, in violation of the principle of secularism. His comments follow a report in La Presse that documented students praying in classrooms and hallways and disrupting a play focused on sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy prevention at a high school in Laval, north of Montreal.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[winnipegwinterpeg]

Protesters blocking the Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg say their resolve is even stronger after a man shovelled a truckload of soil and debris onto an MMIWG mural near the blockade Sunday.

The blockade went up last week after the province refused to fund a search of Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of two Indigenous women. The city ordered those blocking the roadway to vacate by noon Monday.

"Screw it. Who cares what they have to say? Who cares what they want? I'm not going to take no for an answer anymore," said Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be at another landfill outside the city.

She said Camp Morgan — which has been at the Brady Road landfill since December— originally erected the blockade to "send a message," not to entirely block the landfill, which has two entrances.

But after the man's act on Sunday, she and others issued a call on social media for more "warriors" to join those on site, who said they're ready to keep rallying for change.

Harris said she wasn't at the blockade Sunday when the man in a black pickup truck dumped soil on the mural, but she saw the video of it happen, which she posted on social media.

In the video, the man is seen shovelling soil and debris from the back of his truck onto the mural, while telling protesters to "Take care of your own people." After someone responds [“we are, you fucking dumbass”], he asks, "Then why are they dead?"

Harris questions how he got past the security on site.

"Why are you so angry to feel like you have to take that extreme of a measure of a hate crime?" she asked.

"You don't realize that you're talking to an entire group of people who have been pulverized their entire life through systemic oppression."

"I'm outraged. I'm enraged. I'm infuriated," said supporter Melissa Morrisseau, who said she was at the landfill Sunday to help give a voice to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and their families.

"I'm here till the very end," she said.

Florance Smith was also there to take a stand with the families.

"They need to dig for our women," Smith said. "They just think that we belong in the garbage."

Harris said she believes the province's decision to not support a landfill search shows that the government doesn't care, and she now feels she's been disrespected by all three levels of government. She said it shouldn't have come to measures like the letter sent by the city, telling protesters to shut down the blockade.

"I've never ever understood it, why this kind of trauma is our fault," Harris said.

The mural, a red dress with the words "for our sisters" written on the skirt, was painted on the entrance road to the landfill, Ethan Boyer Way.

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But after they realized the soil the man dumped contained cedar wood chippings, supporters decided to put them to use by sweeping the woodchips in a circle around the mural, she said.

"Cedar's our protection medicine, and we decided that we were going to include it into our art piece and circle her in protection," Bousquet said.

"We turned an ugly into a beautiful here. That's what our people are known for doing."

For Bousquet, it shows how resilient her community is.

"No matter what you throw on us … we're always going to create something beautiful," she said.

[intothestacks]

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[atheostic]

[paddysnuffles]

Two of my (elementary school) students were wearing Palestine flag tattoos this week to raise awareness for Palestine.

As one of them put it,

"My family and I support Palestine because what Israel is doing to it is not nice at all!"

[notunexpected]

[knifegrrrl1312]

"The union representing workers at Ten Ten Sinclair has filed a grievance regarding back pay and signing bonuses not being paid.

Workers at the non-profit program agreed to a new six-year deal in March following a strike that lasted three weeks.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees Manitoba (CUPE) confirmed to CTV News a grievance was filed on July 12. They said Ten Ten Sinclair had 45 days from when the new collective agreement was ratified to implement the agreement.

"The grievance is because the employer (Ten Ten Sinclair) has not fulfilled those obligations with respect to back pay and the signing bonus," a spokesperson for CUPE said in an email to CTV News."

@allthecanadianpolitics

[factoidfactory]

Autism Acceptance Month Fact #12

Canada allows people to commit assisted suicide solely on the basis of the person being autistic, even if the person is otherwise completely healthy.

[stephobrien]

If you're a Canadian who's sick of Canada's complicity in Israel's war crimes, please take a moment to sign this petition:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4661

[twowivestwoknives]

i NEED specifically Americans and Brits to understand how evil and facist and white supremacist a country Canada is, and how horrificly evil and violent Trudeau/our govt is.

PLEASE ask me abt it you Dont Know i promise and you Need to

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will take all federal dollars out of programs and facilities that use prescribed drug alternatives in perhaps his strongest commitment yet to roll back a Liberal drug program he claims is fuelling "chaos" on the country's streets. The Tory leader said his government would focus squarely on recovery, adding that there's no room to compromise on so-called safer supply facilities that he sees as the cause of the current state of the addiction crisis. "Am I going to give any more money to these agencies that caused the crisis? No. They're not going to get any more money. They've caused the mayhem," Poilievre said at a press conference Thursday at a playground in London, Ont. Safer supply is a term used by some advocates and officials for prescribed alternative programs, which along with supervised consumption sites are part of harm reduction strategies. Poilievre rejects the term and has previously said he would defund facilities that provide prescribed alternatives near schools and parks. Thursday's comment suggests a future Conservative government would be even more sweeping and expand that pledge to all areas.

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[winnipegwinterpeg]

Dozens of people outside Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill have built barricades and are signalling their unwillingness to leave, despite a noon deadline from the city to vacate the area and the possibility of legal action.

Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be in the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, is one of the people who called for the blockade to be erected and for others to join the demonstration at the Brady Road landfill.

The blockade of the city-run Brady Road landfill began Thursday after Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said the province would not support a search of the privately owned Prairie Green Landfill north of the city, where the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were believed to have been dumped last year.

"When you say you won't move forward with the search, you're telling my community that it's OK and that you condone the continuous dumping of Indigenous women," Harris said in an interview on Monday.

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Harris's aunt, Melissa Robinson, said what's happening is not acceptable.

"We're talking about our women laying in landfills. You don't put a dollar on that — absolutely not. I don't care if it costs $200 million, $300 million, they need to go and get them. I'm not going to have my nieces go sit at a landfill to visit their mom for the rest of eternity. It's wrong."

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Some members of the group of demonstrators at the dump moved to the Leaf — a conservatory in Assiniboine Park, where Manitoba's premier is hosting officials from seven provinces — on Monday afternoon.

Carrying drums and a megaphone, the people named missing women and chanted, "We are not trash," while demanding Stefanson reverse her decision.

After speeches were made by members of the group, they left peacefully.

The remains of Sue Caribou's niece, Tanya Nepinak, are believed to have been dumped at the Brady Road landfill in 2011, but none were found following a six-day search by police.

Caribou wants to see all landfills searched for the remains of missing Indigenous women.

"We want our loved ones home. We want closure," she said.

"No human being belongs in the trash."

[intothestacks]

Gift Idea for Library Lovers

Banned Books Motel Keychain - CAD $11.96

[atheostic]

We... We literally have a thing called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that outlines our rights.

He makes it sound like Canadians live in some dystopian hellscape, lol

Tell me you know nothing about your neighbouring country without saying you know nothing about the neighbouring country. xD

[paddysnuffles]

I used to be pro-assisted suicide being legal. I’m not anymore.

Why? Because it’s not used for just terminally ill patients. 

If you’re disabled? You’re pushed to sign up for assisted suicide. Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, told the Associated Press that Canada’s MAiD policy is “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

When I say that assisted suicide gets pushed on disabled people I’m not being melodramatic. One otherwise healthy veteran with PTSD was told by a caseworker that MAiD (Canada’s assisted suicide program) is better than “blowing your brains out against the wall.” It’s worth noting that the individual in question had not been looking into assisted suicide, he just wanted help dealing with his PTSD and other ailments. Dude was doing perfectly fine and lovin’ life until he was told that he should consider assisted suicide. The call bothered him so much that he left the country.

Paraplegic Olympic competitor corporal Christine Gauthier spent five years fighting to get a wheelchair ramp from veteran’s affairs. They kept refusing her requests, but they did say that they’d be happy to supply her with the necessary equipment to commit assisted suicide instead.

This year (2024) a perfectly healthy autistic woman in the next town over from where I live was granted the right to assisted suicide. Another perfectly healthy autistic woman in the Netherlands was also granted assisted suicide. 

If you’re poor? You’re pushed to apply for assisted suicide. In fact, one third of Canadians support assisted suicide as an option to combat homelessness.

And, if you’re poor and disabled? The Canadian MAiD hotline guarantees that they can have you dead in 90 days.

A study on the MAiD program has found that it’s extremely problematic,has a lack of oversight, and that assisted suicide is being proactively offered to patients as though it is one of many standard treatment options.

[eldritch-prettyboy]

Best thing Trudeau can do right now is push through ranked choice legislation with the NDP as quickly as possible, then resign as soon as it’s confirmed that 2026 will be conducted on a ranked ballot.