About two seconds in, the officer controlling the top half of Rukundo’s body brings his right shin across the side of Rukundo’s head. One of the officers says “stop resisting or you get f—–g tasered.” The officer leaves his shin in place for the remainder of the video.
An Edmonton man taken to the ground and restrained beneath an police officer’s shin is speaking out after video of the 2018 arrest was made public this week.
Jean-Claude Rukundo, 32, was arrested at the scene of a traffic collision involving his then-partner on July 27, 2018. A 14-second clip of the arrest shows an officer striking Rukundo in the head with his shin and holding his head to the ground for at least several seconds while he and another officer apply handcuffs.
Rukundo’s partner posted the video publicly for the first time Tuesday morning. Rukundo said she was upset about the death of George Floyd, a black man who died last week after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
As of Wednesday afternoon, a Facebook video of Rukundo’s arrest had accumulated more than 28,000 views.
“They just want to show people that you have to be aware — don’t just say, ‘See this happened in the U.S.,‘” Rukundo said of the decision to post the video. “This happens everywhere.”
me: *just joking* hehhe shut up
cancer: if you know how i feel why would you say that like you put me in such an uncomfortable situation like you know I’m not happy
"It has to stop, this killing of innocent people at the hands of police, not only in the U.S. but also Canada as well," said Marie-Livia Bea
"Organizers of an anti-racism demonstration in Montreal don't want their message to be lost after a protest that drew thousands to the streets ended in looting by a smaller group of people, once the march had officially come to a close.
"It has to stop, this killing of innocent people at the hands of police, not only in the U.S. but also Canada as well," Marie-Livia Beaugé, a Montreal criminal justice lawyer who helped lead the rally, said Monday.
The march was held following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in Minneapolis last Monday.
Video showing a white police officer kneeling on the man's neck for minutes has sparked outrage and protests across the United States, as well as several cities in Canada.
Thousands took part in the Montreal march, far more than organizers had anticipated in the middle of the pandemic."
I need everyone to know they attacked us while we kneeled and chanted peacefully. The looting started after they gassed us in the crowd WITHOUT WARNING, and then some random kids took advantage of the confusion to loot Rolex, Steve's, and Footlocker. Canadian police forces have always been violent but white Canadians have tried silencing us. Just last week there were 5 video recorded instances of brutality towards Black people in Montreal. There was one the morning of the protest.
They’ve donated just 1 per cent of the wealth they’ve gained since March to recovery efforts
Billionaires in the U.S. are making out like bandits amid the COVID-19 crisis, but what of the super-rich in Canada?
Thanks to a new report released today by TaxCOOP, a Quebec-based non-profit dedicated to promoting international tax cooperation, we now have some answers.
Canada’s five richest billionaires — David Thomson, Joseph Tsai, Galen Weston, David Cheriton and Mark Scheinberg — saw their wealth increase by 9 per cent between March 16 and May 16, 2020, an increase of $5.5 billion. In this same period, cash donations to fight COVID-19 from these five billionaires represented 0.09 per cent of their wealth.
That means Canada’s richest billionaires have donated roughly 1 per cent of the money they have made during this pandemic.
Reminder that Thomson Reuters, the media corporation that David Thomson chairs, helps US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) track and detain migrants.
fun (half-remembered) fact: they invented this extra-long circus intro for when the episodes were too short! So if you see this into, you know they didn’t have enough material
It could be the coolest new neighborhood on the planet—or a peek into the Orwellian metropolis that knows everything you did last night.
In Toronto, Sidewalk sketches out a picture of a neighborhood where intelligent “pay-as-you-throw” garbage chutes separate out recyclables and charge households by waste output; where hyperlocal weather sensors could detect a coming squall and heat up a snow-melting sidewalk. Apps would tell residents when the Adirondack chairs on the waterfront are open, and neighbors would crowdsource approvals for block-party permits, giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down based on the noise the gathering was expected to produce. Traffic signals could auto-calibrate to ease pedestrian congestion during public events, or to ensure a smooth rush hour. The data from such systems would feed back into the city, which would constantly learn, optimizing its own operations from month to month, year to year. Sidewalk promises “the most measurable community in the world.”
jesus fucking christ this is such a nightmare lmao
As the media remains silent on the New Democrats’ work on behalf of Canadians, whether that work translates into a bump in the polls remains to be seen, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues through its second month.
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has received most of the press from the economic response to the COVID-19 lockdown, another federal actor has received far less credit from the country’s right-wing media for the major role played in shaping those measures: Jagmeet Singh, leading the charge for COVID-19 economic support with his New Democratic caucus.
The tepid initial measures announced by the Liberal Party immediately came under criticism by the New Democrats – particularly surrounding direct financial support to working-class Canadians. While the Liberals were prepared to make major payments to the tar-sands industry and to big business, pressure was required to ensure Canadian workers and working class families had needed support. That pressure was effectively applied by the New Democratic caucus – leading to the major suite of government intervention actions taken by the Liberal minority government.
Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats were crucial in establishing the $2,000 monthly Canada emergency response benefit, which has permitted Canadians left jobless by COVID-19 to maintain some degree of financial stability in the face of record unemployment. The NDP has also been responsible for pressing the expansion of that benefit to more Canadians, along with a smaller benefit for Canadian students. Singh has even pressed the Liberals to go further, and turn the CERB into a universal basic income for Canadians – an idea with wide support among the Canadian public.
For small businesses and those employed in the face of the pandemic, the NDP was instrumental in pressing for the 75% wage subsidy that has permitted scores of employers to keep workers on staff, and off of the employment insurance rolls. Initially set at 10%, it was pressure from the New Democratic Party that saw the meaningful expansion of the program to a 75% subsidy. However, while the NDP has pressed to support Canadian workers and small business, the NDP has also aggressively fought against unfettered corporate welfare, and sought to pull bailout money from companies that stock away slush funds in foreign tax havens, to avoid paying Canadian taxes – while the Liberal government has refused to pull taxpayer dollars away from those companies.
What a great article. Unsurprising that it’s from the same province as Tommy Douglas? This bit:
However, economic experts have suggested that the way to pay for the unprecedented government intervention in the economy should resemble measures taken in the post-war “golden age of capitalism”, when government nationalized major utilities and resources and kept the profits for the use of public programming, and top marginal tax rates were set for the ultra wealthy at ninety percent. Working to eliminate hoarding and keep public services and infrastructure funded led to massive prosperity in the western world – although years of tax cuts and bailout dollars for the wealthy have had precisely the opposite effect over the past four decades, permitting western infrastructure and services to crumble, and government debt to spike, since the dawn of Reaganism in the United States and Thatcherism in Britain in the 1980s.
Repeat, repeat, repeat. Especially that bit about all that prosperity being ruined by Reaganism and Thatcherism.
In case anyone needs a reminder that Canada is literally a fascist state, they are now banning some arrested land defenders from speaking out on social media after their release.
Canadian mining in Latin America: Almost half of the world’s publicly listed mining companies are from Canada, and almost half of Canadian mining company’s assets are located outside of Canada and in the Americas.
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From Canadian federal government [Natural Resources Canada]:
Hmmmmmm ….
Check out Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Panama, Brazil, Peru, Hispaniola:
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From federal Natural Resources Canada:
“Canada is home to almost half of the world’s publicly listed mining and exploration companies.”
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