Canada General Discussion (2019-)

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Canadian inquiry calls deaths of indigenous women 'genocide'

The 1,200-page report, which resulted from an inquiry launched by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in 2016, blamed the violence on long-standing discrimination against indigenous people and Canada’s failure to protect them.

It also made sweeping recommendations to prevent future violence against indigenous women.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police revealed in 2014 that 1,017 aboriginal women had been murdered between 1980 and 2012.

Yeesh. Sobering stuff here.

On point, will we see any shifts in the First Nation vote this election, from Liberal to NDP? Also, does the Canadian Greens capture any of that electorate at all.

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Someone should change the title to reflect the new decade

Anyway, the protests by the Wet'suwet'en are heating up

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Why are protests over a pipeline resulting in protesters blockading railway lines?
Is there connection between railway owners and pipeline owners?

They’re trying to get attention to their cause and are hoping that the civil disobedience causes the pipeline to be canceled.

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Wet’suwet’en and ministers agree tentative deal in land dispute
Looks like the conflict is close to being finished.

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How have the parties reacted to all this?

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Canada police arrest 20 and bring hundreds of charges in violent tow truck turf wars

Police in Canada have arrested 20 people and brought hundreds of charges – including first-degree murder – in their latest attempt to disrupt violent turf wars between rival tow-truck operators.

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“We allege that the competition for control of the tow market has resulted in murders, attempted murders, shootings, assaults, arsons, threats and property damage,” said the superintendent, Mike Slack, in a video announcing the arrests.

We don’t bring up in Anglophone discourse of the dark underbelly of Canadian society at times, filled with violence and corruption on par of what stories you hear coming out the US on organized crime.

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First Nations chief shown being punched by Canadian police in video

Canadian police tackled and punched a prominent First Nations chief in the parking lot of a casino as they accused him of resisting arrest.

On Saturday, Chief Allan Adam of Fort Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta alleged he was assaulted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) during the incident in early March. It began over an allegation of an expired licence plate but quickly escalated into what Adam claims was a clearcut instance of excessive force.

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We lost the Security Council vote.

On?

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Is the Indigenous anti-pipeline protests happening again? Weren’t they on the road to a deal or what?

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Is the Indigenous anti-pipeline protests happening again? Weren’t they on the road to a deal or what?

I don't even know anymore, the whole thing is just a clusterf***. There are many disputes: between provincial and federal governments, between governments and First Nations, between tribes themselves and within them. Many tribal leaders ignore what their people want, if we can even say that there's such a thing as "what people want" - Indigenous people aren't a monolith and have many different opinions. To top it all off, the federal Liberals' approach is somewhere between "pretend we're going to stuff their mouths with money until they shut up", "pretend to listen and then completely ignore what they say", "ride roughsod over whatever was agreed on previously" and "run around with hair on fire". But then, it's not like the alternative would be any better. Scheer's reaction to the Wet’suwet’en protests was one long Just watch me.

So Crown-Indigenous relations (as the official term goes) continue to suck under Lil' Justin despite all the cute apologies and whatnot. Though, to his credit, he isn't trying to legislate First Nations out of existence like his father.

By the way, it's not just oil. White Nova Scotia fishermen are currently pretending it's 1860 and trying to, ehm, manifest their destiny over Mi'kmaq fishermen. This is one hell of a headline: Mobs are attacking Indigenous fisheries in Nova Scotia. Here’s what’s going on.

Settler Colonial states always behave like this. It truly sucks that there’s no political movement that actually cares about indigenous rights, looks like there issues are cast to the fringe unlike the French.

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Is Annamie Paul governing anyway differently than Elizabeth May?

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"governing"?

Of the party

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Even Elizabeth May doesn’t like Annmarie Paul, and she worked against others to proclaim her as GP successive president.

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https://twitter.com/CanadianPolling/status/1404863944079155203

Pure self-immolation at this point.

Honestly, props on them for doing so.

I agree with the comments made by Frank that putting Elizabeth May back in charge is the only way to save the party.
To think I thought Annmarie Paul would excise the left faction and sweep seats from the NDP a few months ago.

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Like always on the anglophone generals, major news pieces are left out by those who want to hide the truth

Canada’s Indigenous communities brave police violence to block pipeline project

Indigenous groups in Canada resisting a multi-billion dollar pipeline are yet again facing a crackdown. On Thursday, November 18, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested 15 people and attempted to disrupt an Indigenous-led blockade of a drill site. Among those arrested were two community elders, three legal observers and a journalist.

The latest crackdown comes just days after the Gidimt’en clan members of the Wet’suwet’en tribe sent out a notice to the employees of TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline, on November 14. The stand-off between CGL and Indigenous protesters also led to several workers being stranded at the drill site.

Clan members and elders have for weeks been holding a blockade at the drillsite at Coyote Camp, which falls within the Indigenous Wet’suwet’en lands. After the evacuation notice was handed out, CGL was given eight hours time to vacate Wet’suwet’en land.

But according to Gidimt’en activists, who have been manning the blockade at Coyote Camp, not only did the pipeline company request a two-hour extension as a stalling tactic, they also did not inform their employees of the situation, leaving them stranded. The RCMP was also kept in the loop about the evacuation and also the two-hour extension that was granted to CGL for a peaceful exit.

Stop the invasions on the land. Stop Trudeau’s anti-indigenous agenda and the sellouts at the LNG “Alliance”

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Like always on the anglophone generals, major news pieces are left out by those who want to hide the truth

Canada’s Indigenous communities brave police violence to block pipeline project

Indigenous groups in Canada resisting a multi-billion dollar pipeline are yet again facing a crackdown. On Thursday, November 18, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested 15 people and attempted to disrupt an Indigenous-led blockade of a drill site. Among those arrested were two community elders, three legal observers and a journalist.

The latest crackdown comes just days after the Gidimt’en clan members of the Wet’suwet’en tribe sent out a notice to the employees of TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline, on November 14. The stand-off between CGL and Indigenous protesters also led to several workers being stranded at the drill site.

Clan members and elders have for weeks been holding a blockade at the drillsite at Coyote Camp, which falls within the Indigenous Wet’suwet’en lands. After the evacuation notice was handed out, CGL was given eight hours time to vacate Wet’suwet’en land.

But according to Gidimt’en activists, who have been manning the blockade at Coyote Camp, not only did the pipeline company request a two-hour extension as a stalling tactic, they also did not inform their employees of the situation, leaving them stranded. The RCMP was also kept in the loop about the evacuation and also the two-hour extension that was granted to CGL for a peaceful exit.

Stop the invasions on the land. Stop Trudeau’s anti-indigenous agenda and the sellouts at the LNG “Alliance”

What is anti-Indigenous is to recognize those self-proclaimed "traditional" governments instead of the governments elected by the Indigenous themselves.

The participants are not just the tribal chiefs but many who don’t want to drink poisoned water. Clearly there’s disconnect between the many politicians who sell out to forces responsible for the environmental pollution on indigenous lands and those who shielded the murder of those forces into boarding schools.

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Well, Trudeau is hiding in a bunker away from the protests.

This day will go down in infamy as did the beginning of the Malheur incident. Instead of the Canadian government standing their ground, they are passively letting it get worse in hopes it dies down to a more manageable state. This cowardice will just embolden them there as they did here. Just take the pain and solve it right then and there by getting the truckers out of Ottawa immediately, because it is now too late to just block them from coming.

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Well, Trudeau is hiding in a bunker away from the protests.

This day will go down in infamy as did the beginning of the Malheur incident. Instead of the Canadian government standing their ground, they are passively letting it get worse in hopes it dies down to a more manageable state. This cowardice will just embolden them there as they did here. Just take the pain and solve it right then and there by getting the truckers out of Ottawa immediately, because it is now too late to just block them from coming.

He is mainly hiding because some members of his household have COVID.

This matters why? It is inexcusable that he is absent in wake of a national disturbance. He could just have the staff team care for them in an isolated wing of the house.

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I have full faith that electorally Trudeau would be fine, the FPTP system in Canada and Liberal strategizing in getting conservative haters to vote for him is a slick machine. I’m concerned more about conflict in Canada’s exterior given many secessionist and fascistic parties don’t need majorities, or even that many MP’s, to be dangerous. The fact that even the Canadian government sees this as a problem with previously banning the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers shows similar concern.

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Normally I would be sympathetic to protesting against vaccine mandates, but not one’s led by fascists and wannabe US proxies.

I support the government of Canada critically against these petty people

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A very apt live by the sword outcome if true

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Absolutely disgusting, and the false equivalencies and downplaying by Ben Frank in his quest to defend the Liberals really is something.

This is what happens when you open your arms to fascists and refuse to do self-reflection.

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Absolutely disgusting, and the false equivalencies and downplaying by Ben Frank in his quest to defend the Liberals really is something.

This is what happens when you open your arms to fascists and refuse to do self-reflection.

1.It is not a false equivalency
2.The reality is the Soviets were neutral if not supporters of the Axis powers until the Soviet Union was attacked by the Nazis in 1941. For the people in nations like Poland and Finland and erstwhile nations like Ukraine, the reality is a lot more nuanced than the simplistic way it's being portrayed here.

I have not defended the government here, only that it will be useful to know more about this person before supporting easy grandstanding.

1. lmao it is
2. Soviet foreign policy did not differ from capitalist nation's policy on the Nazis and it was never a treaty to last. I understand many now would have loved for a mass culling of asiatic communists as was displayed in Parliament, but most residents of the USSR had other plans

The Liberals are going to lose, not by this but moreso by the housing crisis Trudeau refuses to address, and any wringing otherwise isn't going to stop the largely brought upon MAGA loon government to come.

Sad to see the virtue signaling Canadian Liberals go full Nazi.

Given Christie Freeland is herself a collaborationist cold warrior hellbent on fulfilling daddy's dream of a fascist state for muh heritage and to own the Mobik orc horde, this is just a foregone conclusion

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Does anyone believe that Trudeau has more competency than Pedro Sanchez or even Chris Hipkins?

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Alright, with everything that’s been happening I have to say it

Canada is a liberal hellscape