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Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is promising to escalate her party’s attempts to overturn a ban on wearing the keffiyeh inside Queen’s Park when legislators return at the beginning of May. In a video posted to social media, Stiles said that if Ontario Premier Doug Ford did not push to overturn a ban on the Arab headdress, she and her entire caucus would defy the rules. Speaker Ted Arnott banned the keffiyeh, a black and white checkered scarf typically worn in Arab cultures and often used to symbolize solidarity with Palestinians, this spring. Arnott decided it was a “political statement” and therefore violated the strict rules that stop MPPs from using props or clothing to send a message while sitting inside the house.

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#Ontario NDP #keffiyeh #Palestine #Ontario #Doug Ford #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #racism #islamophobia

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Every morning, Indigenous men at the Waseskun Healing Centre north of Montreal gather for a healing circle, where they smudge, share stories and sometimes gain spiritual guidance from elders.

The centre is the equivalent of a minimum-security prison but here, the men are called residents, rather than inmates, prisoners or offenders. [...]

Waseskun is among 10 healing centres across the country that are funded by Correctional Service Canada and reserved for Indigenous offenders serving time in federal custody. The lodge, one of the oldest in Canada, sits amid the tall pines and rocky land of Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, 100 kilometres north of Montreal.

It is the only federally funded healing centre east of Manitoba and is one of six in the country that is Indigenous-run. Waseskun, which has been singled out by Public Safety Canada as a success story, serves only men and has 22 spots reserved for those who were sentenced to terms of more than two years. [...]

Zinger said there’s an urgent need for more and better-funded Indigenous-led healing centres to provide alternatives to conventional prisons. Almost three decades after the creation of the first healing lodge in Canada, there are only 139 beds across the six community-run healing lodges in Canada. Lodges run by the CSC provide another 250 beds. [...]

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#cdnpoli #Indigenous persecution #healthcare #mental healthcare #budget plans #there's 10 of them how are you underfunding them fucks' sake

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Lawyers for Ron Barlas and the Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation (LKDFN) met by video in a Yellowknife courtroom Tuesday, for a hearing in the alleged fraud case against Barlas.

Legal counsel for the First Nation continues to push the court to settle the lawsuit without a trial. LKDFN has accused Barlas, the suspended CEO of Denesoline, of misappropriating almost $12 million dollars of its money for personal gain.

Lawyers for the First Nation say Barlas needs to be removed from power, contracts torn up and properties liquidated. The only trial they want, lawyers say, is to figure out damages.

"A court does not need a trial to deal with a case as obvious as this one," said Matthew Sammon, the lawyer representing the Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation. "There's oppression at every level of the CEO's functions." 

Barlas continues to deny the allegations. Earlier this month, his lawyers argued his defence in the civil suit, saying LKDFN lawyers had massively overstated their case, taken evidence out of context and downplayed exonerating evidence. [...]

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Notes from the poster @el-shab-hussein: For the record, this lawsuit has been going on for years. Over 14 million $ stolen from this Dene community.

#cdnpoli #Denesoline #Indigenous persecution #Indigenous politics #colonialism #Łutsel K'e Dene Nation #Yellowknife #Northwest Territories

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It's funny except it's not.

https://thebeaverton.com/2024/04/everything-freedom-loving-conservatives-have-banned-canadians-from-doing-in-recent-years/

#submission #satire

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Times have changed and waiting until retirement to enjoy life is no longer the milestone Canadian millennials and Gen Z strive for, according to a recent survey. A Leger survey commissioned by Canadian investment service Wealthsimple found that nearly three-quarters (74 per cent) of Canadians between the ages of 25 and 44 feel the conventional approach to retirement — to stop working at 65 years old to then enjoy travelling, leisure and time with family and friends — is an outdated concept. The online money management platform says the study reflects ambition among millennials and Gen Z Canadians for "a modern form of retirement" that lets them pursue personal and professional passions throughout their adult lives.

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#Workers Rights #Retirement #millennials #Gen Z #Work culture #capitalism

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A hand full of people drink raw milk in the states and recently there have been outbreak of TB in raw milk. Do we have stricter policies here?

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/milk-infant-formula/raw-or-unpasteurized-milk.html

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Fridays for Future Yukon will host a climate strike outside city hall this Friday “to show city council that Whitehorse residents care about climate action.”

The strike is being held in light of the City of Whitehorse developing its Climate Action Plan “to ensure this plan is effective and works for all Whitehorse residents,” the group said.

“We need this plan to be strong, comprehensive and meaningful so that we can effectively tackle the impacts that climate change will have on our Wilderness City.”

Recently, Fridays for Future Yukon organizers met with the project manager and gave input into the plan.

“We know that Whitehorse has an opportunity to be a leader for municipal climate action across the North and around the world,” the group said. [...]

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#cdnpoli #Yukon #Whitehorse #climate change #environment #environmental racism #environmental activism

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Three years after declaring child sexual abuse in the territory had reached a crisis level, Nunavut’s Representative for Children and Youth  says nothing more has been done since then to solve the problem.

Jane Bates made that accusation Tuesday, speaking on the second day of a two-day televised hearing of the legislative assembly’s government oversight committee, reviewing her office’s annual report for 2022-23.

Bates noted that the Family Services department director’s annual report on family wellness for 2021-22 reported 518 referrals of child sexual harm that fiscal year, or about 10 per week.

In March 2020, the then-Family Services minister said her department was receiving about two calls per week regarding child sexual abuse. [...]

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#cdnpoli #Nunavut #children's rights #sexual abuse #child sexual abuse

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Raymond Cormier, a career criminal and the man police believed killed Tina Fontaine, has reportedly died and “took all the answers with him” said Fontaine’s aunt Thelma Favel. “No, it doesn’t give me closure,” says Favel, who raised the 15-year-old girl who became the name and face of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls crisis when she was found wrapped in duvet and weighted down in Winnipeg’s Red River in August 2014. Fontaine had been missing for a month when her body was recovered. A cause of death was never determined but police charged Cormier with second-degree murder, relying on the controversial Mr. Big method of gaining a confession.

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#Tina Fontaine #Raymond Cormier #MMIW #missing and murdered indigenous women #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics

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A school trustee in western Manitoba is facing calls to resign, and the province says it's launching a review, after a presentation in which he made comments decried as hateful, including questioning the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools. Paul Coffey, a trustee with the Dauphin-based Mountain View School Division, gave a roughly half-hour-long presentation during a board meeting on Monday, ahead of an anti-racism training session Wednesday. During the presentation, the trustee — who said he went to day school and has European and Indigenous ancestry, including Assiniboine and Chippewa roots — said the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was "causing division amongst people," and questioned the funding reconciliation and inclusion initiatives get from government. "Residential schools — they were good," Coffey said. "They're essential for reading and writing and arithmetic. Also enforcement of schools, school attendance.… This was realized by all, like even the people on the reserves," he said during his presentation, which was streamed online and viewed by CBC News. "It was all nice until its well documented and openly expressed intention to use schools to assimilate, eradicate Indian languages, cultures and spiritual beliefs. So it started out as a good thing and now it turned out not very good."

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#Residential Schools #Genocide #Paul Coffey #Manitoba #Indigenous #First Nations

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The family of an Inuk man who went missing in Ottawa but was found dead last week in Gatineau, Que. is criticizing the Ottawa Police Service for what they say were failures in searching for him.

Tommy Agnetsiak, 30, originally from Pond Inlet, was reported missing in Ottawa in February, his father Robert Agnetsiak told Nunatsiaq News.

On April 6 at around 11 a.m., police in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from the nation’s capital, received a call from someone who reported seeing a body on the Quebec side of the river, the department’s spokesperson Officer Patrick Kenney said in an email. [...]

“He was missing for a long time and nobody ever saw him ever since. Nobody took it seriously,” Robert Agnetsiak said.

Tragedy has hit the family hard in the last few years. Earlier this year, his daughter overdosed while lying on a couch in an Ottawa apartment and another daughter took her own life a couple of years ago. Tommy was Robert Agnetsiak’s last living child.

Robert said he wants what happened to Tommy to be a warning. Indigenous people are being killed, overdosing, and there needs to be a change. [...]

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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Please avoid scrolling down to the comments. A lot of victim blaming going on there.

#cdnpoli #death #overdose #drug abuse #Indigenous persecution #suicide #Inuit #Ottawa police service

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Hay River, N.W.T., residents can no longer have outdoor fires, except ones that are contained in an outdoor fire pit. 

The town announced the fire ban in a Facebook post Tuesday evening. 

"Due to dry conditions around town and the current unknown risk rating, the Town of Hay River has issued a partial fire ban," the town wrote.

It also means any previously approved fire permits are now revoked. 

Fort Smith announced a similar ban community on Monday. 

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#cdnpoli #Hay River #Northwest Territories #fire #public safety

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The B.C. government is putting its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with some of the largest social media platforms to make people safer online.

Premier David Eby says in a joint statement with representatives of the firms Meta, TikTok, X and Snap that they will form an online safety action table, where they’ll discuss “tangible steps” towards protecting people from online harms.

Eby says the social media companies have “agreed to work collaboratively” with the province on preventing harm, while Meta will also commit to working with B.C’s emergency management officials to help amplify official information during natural disasters and other events.

“We have had assurance from Facebook on a couple of things. First, that they will work with us to deliver emergency information to British Columbia in this wildfire season that (people) can rely on, they can find easily, and that will link into official government channels to distribute information quickly and effectively,” Eby said at a Tuesday press conference.

“This is a major step and I’m very appreciative that we are in this place now.” [...]

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#cdnpoli #British Columbia #public safety #social media #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian

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Police in White Rock, B.C., say they are increasing patrols along the city's waterfront area after a man was stabbed to death Tuesday night, two days after another man was stabbed and injured while sitting on a bench in the same area. Family members have identified the victim in the fatal stabbing as 27-year-old Kulwinder Sohi of Surrey. White Rock RCMP says it received a report of a man suffering from apparent stab wounds around 9:30 p.m. PT in the 15400 block of Marine Drive, a few blocks east of the White Rock Pier.

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#British Columbia #Crime #White Rock BC #canada #canadian news

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Hey, it looks like the link the the Canadian Politics Discord isn't working. Can we get a new one?

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Please, please tag the financial assistance posts you share. I get wanting to help boost, but some of us are barely or not scraping by and the brief moments of peace we have on tumblr shouldn't be filled with posts that just make us feel crappy about being poor. I don't want to have to give up one of the only reliable news sources left in Canada that's not behind a paywall but my mental health cannot handle being bombarded with stories of people drowning under capitalism when I myself cannot breathe

I did tag mine, but one of my blog helpers didn't tag theirs.

I've tagged theirs now. Sorry about that.

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Six health-care worker placement agencies are no longer eligible for Quebec public contracts for the next five years, Radio-Canada is reporting.

According to information from the Autorité des marchés publics (AMP) obtained by Radio-Canada, the agencies are now registered with the Registre des entreprises non admissibles aux contrats publics (RENA) because they do not meet integrity requirements. 

The AMP oversees public contracts in Quebec. More than 2,400 companies are currently banned from contracting with the government.

Several major agencies that provided hundreds of nurses and orderlies to hospitals and CHSLDs in Quebec are among the list of ineligible companies.

After the AMP conducted audits, it found that three companies — 24/7 Expertise en Soins de Santé Inc., 9272-4095 Québec Inc. and 9159-2634 Québec Inc., doing business under the name Confort Élite — had, through their respective managers, participated in a scheme to submit strategically defined prices with the aim of encouraging an award and award of contracts favourable to them. [...]

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#cdnpoli #healthcare #privatization #Québec #rare Québec w