#cancel canada day

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Hundreds of people clad in orange shirts marched through downtown Winnipeg late Friday afternoon to honour Indigenous children who died in residential schools.

The crowd left the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street at 5 p.m., and arrived on the grounds outside the Manitoba Legislative Building as a rally called "Cancel Canada Day" got underway.

Winnipeg police urged motorists in the area to choose an alternate route or expect delays during the march.

It's the second year that rallies were held in Winnipeg on Canada Day to call attention to the painful legacy of the country's residential schools system.

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#cancel canada day #Canada Day #colonialism #Winnipeg #cdnpoli #canada #canadian news #canadian politics #canadian #Manitoba #Racism #Indigenous #First Nations #Metis #Inuit

[revenge-of-the-shit]

Happy Humiliation Day, everyone.

On this day, 99 years ago, my people were banned from Canada solely because of their race for 24 years. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 remains the first and only Canadian law to forbid people from entering Canada because of their ethnicity. For decades, thousands of families were separated; hundreds of Chinese Canadian men lost their lives to sinophobic hate or to suicide as they were forced to live in isolation in a country surrounded by colonizers who hated them.

On this day, we also remember the Indigenous people. When Chinese immigrants first came to Canada, it was the Indigenous peoples that took them in, sheltered them, and created communities (and families) with them. Beyond that, we are the ones who live on their land; we live on land that was stolen from their communities. We live on a land built on blood and genocide. In the past few years, tens of thousands of bodies of the Indigenous children that had been ripped from their homes have been recovered from the residential schools that stripped them of their identity, their culture, their dignity, and their lives.

For more actionable items, donate to Indigenous-led charities, buy from their creators, or educate yourselves on history (and don't just do it today - find ways to support them throughout the year if you're able):

Link to list of Indigenous artists and shops

Action you can take

Donations to the Indian Residential School Survivor Society

The Native Woman's Association of Canada

#Non sw #canadian history #Suicide mention #Racism #Genocide mention #Cancel Canada day

[birdmomblogs]

tw: canadian residential schools and genocide

if you live on “canadian” territory and participated in canada day celebrations today, i want you to seriously reconsider your point of view as a settler in Turtle Island (North America). remember last year when there was such a huge outcry for the #cancelcanadaday and #noprideingenocide movements following the recovery of 751 unmarked children's graves? (notice how i didn't say discovery because indigenous peoples have known that those graves were always there?)

yeah well anyways, where's that same energy this year when the truth and reconciliation report is estimating there are over 3200 unmarked graves out there? i KNEW that everything that happened last year would mostly end up being false allyship. most of the canada day events were cancelled because of covid not because people gave a damn about mourning indigenous trauma.

if you were an actual ally, this would have been front and centre of your minds today. if you were an actual ally, you would have worn orange and black instead of red and white. if you were an actual ally, you would have donated your money to indigenous organizations instead of purchasing frivolous Canada day products.

celebrating canada day celebrates colonialism, genocide and stolen land. end of story.

if you are one of my followers and have no idea what i am talking about i encourage you to read more about residential schools in canada and the 60s scoop as a starting point! support indigenous organizations and businesses if you are able!

i'm not going to sit around here today and let this slide without saying anything. i'm not celebrating canada day and never will, not after the canadian government institutionalized to "kill the indian in the child." not after knowing what my grandmother would have experienced in those institutions.

#cancel canada day #no pride in genocide #canada day #canadian history #indigenous history #residential schools #60s scoop #indigenous genocide #genocide #colonialization #colonialism #stolen land #birdmom posts #vent

[hellbentrapture]

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE Over 10,000 Graves

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RESOURCES: • Idle No More • Settlers Take Action • Truth and Reconciliation Report

#no pride in genocide #every child matters #unmarked graves #residential schools #canada day #kkkanada #colonialism #white supremacy #leftist feminism #cancel canada day

[evelynstarshine]

#no pride in genocide #cancel canada day #noprideingenocide

[seventy5th]

good kkk-anada day movie

You know for a movie set in India RRR also makes for excellent viewing on colonial holidays in north america.

Its got

a child successfully rescued from kidnapping colonizers and returned to her mother

acknowledges that figuring out how to work with and not against each other can be complicated as fuck

but when you do it can be very successful and rewarding

excellently dramatic

a dance battle

a mission from the previous generation fulfilled

lots of music

intense fight scenes and good pacing

Wildlife being used to help raid a palce/rescue the kid

lots of cool fire and water visuals

the sense that there is a rich history and stories being referenced and built on

#rrr #cancel canada day #colonialism

[randomtwospirit]

Fuck Canada Day and in a few days fuck America’s day too

Only 2 calls to action fulfilled

no Red Dress Alert despite ongoing MMIR crisis

60 Canadian réserves still have no clean water

SCOTUS ruled the US doesn’t have to fix their clean water problem

Pierre fucking Poilievre is still in parliament

Justin fucking Trudeau is still in parliament

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There is def more I’m just kinda brain dead rn

#indigenous #cancelcanadaday #cancel canada day

[hidingmurklins]

Celebrating Canada Day when the children's graves had just begun to resurface last year was like celebrating your neighbour's anniversary after finding out the wife was telling the truth when she said her abusive husband was torturing her and the kids, because the gardener found them buried in the back yard and alerted the authorities. This was not a proper marriage, and celebrating it as his crimes against her were unveiled was despicable. We all need to do better.

#cancel canada day

[whattfisausername]

I’m having a lot of thoughts on Canada Day and whether or not to celebrate it. I didn’t celebrate last year, the discovery of the children’s bodies was too recent and shocking to feel right doing so. This year my family isn’t doing a formal celebration, but we’re also not *not* celebrating if that makes sense.

On the one hand, I completely understand and support people who choose not to celebrate, especially Indigenous Canadians who are still grieving the children, culture, and childhoods lost in the residential school system and other times of Indigenous genocide in our history.

On the other hand, Canada has done some great things that one might want to commemorate on this day, such as our efforts in the World Wars and how we took in people after 9/11. Additionally, some immigrants might want to celebrate Canada Day out of gratitude for the freedoms and opportunities they now have here.

The question to be asked is, can we have both? Can we honour the good things our country has accomplished while also acknowledging what we’ve done wrong and what still needs to change? I honestly don’t know. I don’t want to celebrate the genocide Canada was built on, but I am grateful to live in a country not currently being ravaged by war and where I can marry whoever I want.

I also recognize that as a white and middle-class individual raised in a technically Christian household, I am incredibly privileged and don't have the experiences or connections others have that would lead them to choose not to celebrate Canada Day. My conflicting thoughts on this issue are also tied to my conflicting thoughts on cancel culture, which I might make a post about in the future.

So I guess where I land on this, for now, is to celebrate if you want, don’t if you don’t, but be intentional with your choice. That being said I would love to have a civil discussion on this issue so please add your own thoughts in the comments and reblogs.

#canada #canada day #fuck canada day #cancel canada day #residential schools #discourse #discussion #im conflicted

[anotheronechicagobog]

I didn't celebrate Canada Day today because I couldn't, not in good conscience. Not with how Canada and the Canadian government have treated our First Nations peoples and made little to no real effort for reconciliation and basically done everything they could to rug sweep.

First Nations peoples deserve restitution.

First Nations peoples deserve to be treated well and fairly by the government and law enforcement agencies.

First Nations peoples do NOT deserve racism, cultural appropriation, or hate.

First Nations women should not be going missing at the rate they are and their cases should be treated with much more seriousness and urgency than they are.

I stand with Canada's First Nations peoples by supporting them and their goals, signing petitions, attending protests, contributing to First Nations charities and businesses, contacting my house of commons representative in support of First Nations issues, and checking myself and my privilege.

#canada day #canadian problems #first nations #cancel canada day #the image is not mine

[missegyptiana]

cancel canada day and july 4th. #noprideingenocide

#cancel canada day #cancel july 4th #indigenous #residential schools #tw genocide #canada day #july 4th

[scand757469]

#cancel canada day #indigineous people #moment of silence

[sunbackeddog]

I finally completed the first leg of my holy grail.... It only took three years

#oingo boingo #they might be giants #rem #caw caw #i feel the need to state the tmbg st was. ... fate #we walked past the record shop on vacation and i went 'oh we need to go in i am looking for tmbg st!' #and it was just. there. in its original shrink wrap glory #gracing the new arrivals rack #and people still argue with me over the existing of reckoning #literally my fave rem album and people dont know it exists...... #and dead mans party was a preorder red re-press i thought was lost for good because i couldnt get into the acct i ordered on #and i thought they just cancelled it #turns out it got stuck in the post because i used half my address in canada and half the address of my gracious record-keeper in the usa #(cheap shipping) #anyways i do have other holy grails i have gotten in the quest for these three! #i got the holo frogstomp for example #and the dont let the devil take another day set #on the same day that i found a carnavas re-press and your ex lover remains dead #new holy grail: bummer on blue and black 💙🖤 #existence*** let me edit tags on mobile you sick fucks

[seventy5th]

#canada day #cancel Canada Day

[corneille-moisie]

i might have just convinced my partner to watch cybersix *w*

#you should all watch cybersix tbh #its only 13 episode long cause it was canceled before they finished it but #its a good introduction if you want to read the comics #and also gender fluid cyborg with a panther as best friend who fight fascism 👀 #the fascism part is diluted from the comics iirc 🤔 #they are reaaonably easy to find online too #back then i had torrented it but that was 10ish years ago so idk whats the state of that #also my partner convinced me to watch dai no daibouken so the least he could do is watch these 13 episodes 😂😂😂 #oh also its available easily both in english and french so thank canada for that ? lol #cybersix #a tv show post

[writeouswriter]

Streaming services hate me specifically because almost every time I start watching something, they take it off like a week later and this is why DVDs are my personal heroes and I will never forgive the industry for pushing them into near obsoletion

#on that note for the love of god does anyone know where i can download s2 of A.P. bio in canada #without jumping through a million hoops #streaming services my beloathed #streaming services #netflix hates me prime despises me #prime actually took 5 separate shows i started off it that i can think of #it's not even my account i leech off my sister but it just senses that it is me #i add to watchlist and next day gone no warning #once it just removed season 2 of the show i was watching just season 2 no other seasons #as i just happened to finish season 1 #netflix #netflix my beloathed #give me back the show i was watching #also stop cancelling things #not writing #ignore me #im infinitely bitter