c'est la vie

Meghan|22|Canada|Film Student

[allthecanadianpolitics]

NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh’s statement on the recent deadly racist violence perpetrated in Canada and the USA towards Black and Indigenous People:

https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1266386186152656896?s=20

[roboticutie]

He is the only politician that I have heard say black lives matter

[jewelsrulz]

I really hope this man is the next Prime Minister of Canada. He is fantastic!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

What’s the other side of the Regis Korchinski-Paquet story? It may well have been a suicide. It’s easy to blame cops in the midst of everything that’s going on, but this is also why we have due diligence and review of cases, right? Emailing Tory and saying “so-called officers of the law” when we don’t yet know what actually happened IRL isn’t likely to get anyone anywhere. Let’s wait for an examination of further updates on the story. I’m just as committed to Black lives as anyone else, but pls.

[westformiles]

When the police arrived, they found Regis Korchinski-Paquet and her mother + brother in the hallway outside her apartment. Ms. Korchinski-Paquet said she needed to use the washroom; her relatives were made to stay in the hallway while several officers escorted her into her apartment. Shortly thereafter, Ms. Korchinski-Paquet was heard screaming for her mother to help her, and moments after that, she was lying dead on the ground outside the building. 

Even if hell’s frozen over and this isn’t a case of murder-by-police, why would multiple officers follow a woman in crisis into her home ‘for her safety’ only to stand back and let her jump off a 24th-floor balcony? And why would she have been calling out for help if she planned to jump? Remember, these are the sort of individuals that take terrorist mass-murderers into custody alive and get them takeout on the way to the station if they’re white but claim that unarmed Black people die by suicidal gunshot while their hands are cuffed behind their backs. 

[mooonbride]

Cops murdered a black girl in Toronto this week too but Canadians are too up their own asses about how we’re “Not the racist ones! That’s only America! We’re the nice ones :)” to acknowledge it or do anything about it

[mooonbride]

Cops in Canada are just as racist and evil please Canada wake the fuck up

[honeybite]

Her name was Regis Korchinski-Paquet, she was a 29 year old Afro-Indigenous woman. She was pushed off of her own balcony by the Toronto police and fell to her death. They are reporting it as a suicide.

Say her name. Do not let them cover this up.

If you are able, you can donate to her family’s legal and memorial fund here.

And here is a google doc with contact information for the local representatives with a template email/phone script.

[rage-steel]

@allthecanadianpolitics

[sixpenceee]

“My camera captured lightning over this abandoned house in rural Nebraska” via reddit user erikjohnsonphoto

[harasielite]

Is this where Courage lives

[lilchaoswitch]

This is where I live

[bob-belcher]

[dotapolka]

Blood drop/cut throat pearl necklace by Hell’s Belle designs.

[mr-styles]

♫ just let me adore you, like it’s the only thing I’ll ever do ♫

[mr-styles]

Lights up Music Video by Vincent Haycock

[katyazs]

[annasource]

“Anna, you are the most extraordinary person I’ve ever known. I love you with all I am. Will you marry me?”

[tvandfilm]

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), dir. Henry Selick

[thebelchers]

[stars-bean]

The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

[thebelchers]

So, should we watch something else? Wha-What do you want to do?

Bob’s Burgers, Land of the Loft (S10E07)

[humorblr]

Before the sun sets on the third day, you’ve got to get dear ol’ princey to fall in love with you. That is, he’s got to kiss you. Not just any kiss — the kiss of true love.

The Little Mermaid (1989)

[sixpenceee]

Truth.

[kitchentable]