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Hey, Guess Which Pipeline Sprung A Leak Recently

EDIT: NVM, this is from last year X| Let this be an Important Lesson on the necessity of triple-checking dates :T :T

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Céline Caron and Yves Tessier devoted their lives to protecting soil health long before regenerative farming became mainstream.

A story of a Quebec couple’s pioneering use of regenerative agriculture techniques to promote soil health and bring back insect populations.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/04/18/news/days-when-im-worn-thin-climate-crisis-i-try-recall-joy-yves-and-celines

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Sounds far-fetched, doesn’t it? That a racialized group, even if interested, could get away with leading such a violent insurrection in Ottawa, in Canada, in 2022? Why, then, has this sequence of events been permitted when the vast, vast majority of perpetrators are white? With Nazi and Confederate flags in the air? With more than 400 calls already made to a police tip line dedicated to hate crimes?

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Given the ease with which it has taken over, the taste of power for those convinced of their own exceptionalism, it is clear that even if convoy members can be persuaded to leave they will inevitably return. They will find a cause. Because when you’re driven by white supremacy and white grievance, as I would suggest this convoy ultimately is, you can always muster up an excuse. Whether in politics, media or society at large, Canadians have a hard time saying the word “white,” with the term deemed especially taboo by those who could be described as such. But failure to note precisely what convoy members are rallying behind, to instead give weight and legitimacy to reasons that cannot support it, is perilous at best. That we are in an era of white grievance, if we’ve ever existed outside of it, cannot be seriously disputed. The election of former U.S. President Donald Trump, who as recently as last month told rally-goers they were being denied COVID-19 treatment because they’re white, has only furthered the false victimhood among a group that nonetheless gets away with behaviour those who are Black, Indigenous or people of colour never could, regardless of which side of the border you’re on.

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That excuses for the convoy will be made due to its whiteness is inevitable.

We’ll be told this has nothing to do with race. That it’s really not so bad. That these people are individuals who can’t be held liable for a whole group, even as people of colour are continually treated as monoliths responsible for entire communities.

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Canada has seen at least some racial progress in recent years. A survey released in November by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation said there is greater awareness of systemic racism within the country today, following the murder of George Floyd, the locating of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School and attacks on people of Chinese descent during the pandemic. There is, however, a price to pay for racial progress, no matter how minute that progress may be. That the convoy has chosen this period to stop the world, to re-stake its claim to it, to use whatever grievances it can to hold the streets for another day, is hardly a coincidence. It has rapidly become cliche for political and corporate leaders announcing a new race-based initiative to acknowledge the inadequacy of their own efforts, to say that “more work” needs to be done even amidst their back-patting. But the level of and tolerance for white supremacy in this country is not a problem that is going to be fixed through one’s organization finally posting a job for a head of diversity and inclusion. This convoy situation. This is it, or at least part of it. This is the “more work.” Is Canada up to the challenge?

Because if time has taught us anything, it’s that this problem is not pulling away on its own.

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After massive investments, Trudeau government puts public transit on track

By Carl Meyer in News, Energy, Politics | April 11th 2018 #12 of 12 articles from the Special Report:Canada’s Clean Economy Commuters board an OC Transpo bus from the Rideau Centre in downtown Ottawa on Dec. 18, 2017. File photo by Alex Tétreault Salwan Bahia smiled warmly on a cold winter day. “It’ll be a lot more convenient,” said the 18-year old…

After massive investments, Trudeau government puts public transit on track was originally published on TheBulletin.ca

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Not that it doesn't still illustrate a point, but the oil spill report is from LAST year. They even published an article addressing the confusion among other things today.

GAH! You’re right, that’s from 2016. I guess my brain either edited that to 2017, or just flagged it as Legit regardless :T Thanks for catching that for me though!

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James Hoggan Now A Contributor at National Observer

James Hoggan, author and longtime PR practitioner is now contributing on Canada's newest big online outlet, the National Observer. James Hoggan is the author of two books, Do the Right Thing and Climate Cover Up. He has a new book coming out this spring titled, Im Right You're an Idiot.

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