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October 28, 2021
Ms Rosin: Albertans have remained a generous member of our federation through boom years and bust, but we cannot settle for being treated as second-class citizens in our own federation any longer. The days of allowing other provinces to run multimillion-dollar surpluses with our money while simultaneously campaigning to shut down our industries and shut out our people must end. On October 18 the people of this province spoke, and now our government takes action.
February 23, 2022
Mr. Hunter: Weeks ago many courageous truckers and everyday Canadians decided to take a stand against government overreach that violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is completely irrelevant whether the Prime Minister agrees with the protesters or not. They have the right to peacefully protest decisions that they feel make them second-class citizens. These protesters are not the fringe minority that the Prime Minister repugnantly stated they were. Instead, they represent the silent majority of Canadians that are fed up with the changing goalposts.
Tumblr Comments, Broken
I've always found the ability to comment on a Tumblr post a convenient obscurity. I enjoy letting posters know I've read their heart warming/wrenching brain dumps, admire their skillful selfies, or just offer some friendly advice. It's a tool to strengthen online friendships. But there's also no easy way for a poster to give express their feelings on a comment without posting another one and tagging me in it (which, as hard as it sounds, @ro-mantik , @postcardsfromthebay , @092040 , and a few others are good at, btw). And then does their comment require another to acknowledge it? It would be so much easier if there was the ability to like comments similar to how Facebook handles them. Such functionality would require Tumblr to stop treating comments as second class citizens, though, which won't happen any time soon.
RT @NCLR: "No #Latino is going to support a policy that treats our community as second-class citizens." --.@UNITEDWEDREAM #NCLRCaps13
I don't know how people can take pride on the fact that we're the last fucking colony.
This is kinda random, yet not at all. I was arguing with my dad over the whole gay marriage debate a few days ago...I honestly don't see any argument against it. Well, I guess that's what happens when you raise a kid on spam and send him to military school. Anyways, I was so frustrated, and I wanted more than anything to show him this video, but I couldn't remember the name of it. It's almost 4 am and I finally came across the video. Of course, I've watched it about 5 times now, and I am subsequently bawling my eyes out...
As I was watching, I realized the segment Ellen brought up was about a boy named Larry being murdered...that made me think about Stylinson and now I am sobbing about 5 times harder because I was thinking about Harry's tattoos and listening to Make It Stop and all these feels I can't take this right now...
But that's not the point of the video.
To anyone that see's this, whether you're homophobic (not a likelihood on tumblr.com), gay, uninformed (like my father), or completely supportive, I just hope this teaches you something. Get some tissues.
Can't wait to show this to my dad.
Why I hate drivers: Because cager is a state of mind.
If you're behind the wheel of a car, I assume you're a cager until you demonstrate otherwise. And even if your current behavior indicates that you're an alert, aware, considerate, thoughtful, neighborly driver, I'm going to assume that can change at an instant's notice. Because cager is a state of mind.
The driver of the car filmed ploughing in to a group of cyclists on a Critical Mass ride in Porto Alegre in south eastern Brazil last Friday acted in the self defence of himself and his 15 year old son his lawyer told the Brazilian media today.
Ricardo José Neis an official of the Brazilian central bank handed himself in to the Porto Alegre police who have been looking for him since they recovered the car involved in the incident and identified Neis as the owner on Friday night. Luis Fernando Coimbra Albino the lawyer representing Neis told the Zero Hora newspaper that his client had his 15 year old son in the car with him and felt threatened by what he alleges was aggressive behaviour by the cyclists who he says banged on the car roof, Neis, says his lawyer feared that the cyclists would turn the car over.
"He felt cornered, he acted to protect his son who was in the car", said Albino.
Questioned as to how his client sought to refute the damning video evidence against him, Albino claimed that videos only show part of what happened:
"The images are powerful, but show only from a certain point, when he had started the confusion [sic]. They do not show the aggression that led him to flee"
Mr Albino may have his work cut out to make this defence stick all the films of the ride so far show a far from aggressive group of cyclists comprising many women, old people, children and even a lady with a dog on a trailer. Indeed, while the driver's alleged concern for the safety of his child is commendable any concern for the safety of children does not appear to extend to the children of others – a young boy can quite clearly be seen at 0:58 in the longer of the videos of the incident just feet from the front of the car as it is driven through the group of cyclists. Neis's concern doesn't extend to women either a number of whom he ran down in the incident. Far from being aggresive the cyclists in both films seem good humoured and don't appear to be holding up traffic to any great degree. There were also numerous witnesses to the incident both cyclists taking part in the ride and pedestrians watching it go by.
Indeed one witness had already come forward to say that he had seen the driver of the car acting aggressively towards the riders in from of him before he drove his car through them. Camilo Colling, told the Brazilian website Terra Brasil that he spoke to the driver just before the incident, asking him to be patient and stop behaving aggressively towards the riders in his path and warning him that there were children and older people taking part in the ride ahead. The driver allegedly replied "Yes but I'm in a hurry" before ploughing his car in to the group of cyclists in front of him.
Speaking to Zero Hora Neis's son said that his father had driven through the cyclists after arguing with riders at the back of the group and feeling threatened. According to the lawyer the riders damaged the car smashing windows leading Neis to fear for the safety of himself and his son. You can see a picture of the car here and while it is undoubtedly damaged that damage would seem more consistent with running down 20 cyclists than being attacked by them.
According to Albino contact between himself and his client was mediated through Neis's ex-wife and Neis has not surrendered to the police until now because of his emotional state. His client will co-operate fully with the investigation says Albino. If he is proved to have acted with intent Ricardo Neis may face charges of attempted murder.
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In response to much protest from the campus community, the UC Berkeley Police Department has decided to stop fining bicyclists $200+ if they fail to dismount in "no riding" zones on campus.
