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@the-sociologist
I just don’t think men understand how everything is different for us. I can think of a million examples from this week alone.
saddest part is that none of that feels exaggerated
Because it’s not. They really didn’t go overboard with any part of this episode. Even the payout that was offered the victim was, in corporate terms, totally viable.
It’s the rural Canadian version of ‘Point Break'
Authorities in Saskatchewan conducted a sting operation on an Indigenous man who sold a tiny amount of fish to an undercover officer because apparently they have nothing better to do.
The amount of fish their multi-year undercover operation caught being sold? Ninety-one bucks.
Think about that amount of money, it’s not very much in regards to “illegal operations”—that’s less than one good karaoke night, which is how we judge money at VICE Canada. It’s not like this was a small, short-lived project either by conservation officers, no, this went on for years and it seemed like it took up some serious resources. In all honesty, the whole thing feels like a Kids in the Hall sketch.
The target of the sting was an Indigenous man named Donald Iron who lived in Canoe Lake, Saskatchewan. According to the court documentsfirst reported on by the CBC, the conservation officers began investigating Iron after they received numerous complaints, dating back to 1997, that he was selling Canoe Lake fish illegally.
The sting began in 2016 with a conservation officer going undercover—which is something I didn’t know conservation officers did—and heading to Iron’s home. The undercover officer said that he was a scientist and that he needed to plant some “air-quality monitoring equipment” on Iron’s lawn. Seems a lot for one man selling small amounts of fish out of his home, right? Well, it gets wilder.
“The undercover officer visited Mr. Iron’s home once or twice almost every month between June 2016 and October 2017,” reads the court documents. “When he was there he would “check” the sham air-quality monitoring equipment and change its filters. He always made sure to pay Mr. Iron the agreed monthly fee of $20.”
If you do the math, you’ll notice that it’s 17 months from June 2016 and October 2017 and that if he paid him 20 bones a month, and the 25 up front, the province paid out $365 to Iron just through this little portion of the scheme. This—and remember it’s not counting what the officers were paid and the sham equipment cost—run over four times more than what they would eventually get Iron for.
Continue Reading.
Friendly reminder that the Saskatchewan government is going to be giving assault rifles to these same Conservation Officers (which worries a lot of Indigenous people for obvious reasons):
Sask. conservation officers to get AR-type carbine rifles
“The prospect of conservation officers armed with AR-type weapons is of “grave” concern to FSIN (Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations) Vice Chief Heather Bear, who said some officers “disrespect” First Nations jurisdiction and have run-ins with hunters pursuing their treaty rights.”
Saskatchewan is also where a white farmer was found not guilty of second degree murder for shooting a 22-y-o Indigenous man in the face
Wow it’s almost like the place is racist
Saskatchewan is also where cops love picking up indigenous people and taking them for starlight tours - dumping them outside the city limits without jackets on freezing nights and letting them die of exposure.
Yeah, SK scientists are super fucking mad about this too, because this conservation officer just singlehandedly made it that much harder for us to liaise with the public, especially Indigenous communities, who already have ample reason to distrust us.
Also in Saskatchewan, isn’t there a class action lawsuit - as of 2018 - by over 50 woman against Saskatoon Health Region for forced sterilization of indigenous women?
Yeah that’s happening too:
Sask. Indigenous women file lawsuit claiming coerced sterilization
Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer
OPINION: Campus media outlets are vehicles for free expression, something Doug Ford says he wants to defend. But his government’s new education-funding framework threatens their very existence, writes H.G. Watson.
During the 2018 election campaign, Doug Ford made a bold promise to protect free speech on university campuses. “We will ensure that publicly funded universities defend free speech for everybody,” Ford said at a campaign event in May 2018. Schools, he said, were placing too many limits on free speech.
In August 2018, Ford, by then Ontario’s premier, followed through on that promise: according to a directive from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, all post-secondary institutions had to introduce free-speech policies by January 1, 2019 — or face funding cuts.
Last week, the Progressive Conservatives announced another big change: a 10 per cent tuition reduction and the option for students to opt out of so-called non-essential fees, which include the levies that support many student newspapers and campus radio stations — important vehicles for free speech.
A reduction in student-generated revenue would come as a major blow to publications such as the Varsity, an award-winning University of Toronto newspaper that has a weekly circulation of 18,000 and has been around since 1880.
“The money we get from a student levy is instrumental for us to be able to not only produce and distribute a newspaper but also fairly pay the people that work for us,” says Jack O. Denton, the paper’s editor-in-chief. Revenue from student fees, he notes, accounts for the majority of its yearly budget and covers the salaries of 27 part-time employees and Denton himself, who is the sole full-time staffer during the school year.
THIS IS HAPPENING IN EDMONTON
More info: https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2019/01/25/wolves-of-odin-visit-to-edmonton-mosque-prompts-police-investigation.html
WOLVES OF ODIN HAVE TRIED TO ENTER THE AL-RASHID MOSQUE TO TERRORIZE MUSLIMS INSIDE.
They picked Al-Rashid Mosque for a reason: it’s the oldest mosque in Canada and is a symbol of muslim presence in this country.
@allthecanadianpolitics
Sharon McIvor has won yet another landmark legal victory for First Nations women -- this time at the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC).
Sharon McIvor has won yet another landmark legal victory for First Nations women – this time at the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC). On January 14, 2019, the UNHRC released their decision which found that Canada still discriminates against “Indian” women and their descendants in the registration provisions of the Indian Act. Despite the fact that Sharon had already proven her discrimination case at trial and on appeal here in Canada, the federal government refused to eliminate all the remaining sex discrimination from the Act. This meant that Sharon and her descendants still have lesser or no Indian status as compared to her brother and his descendants – simply based on sex. Sharon was therefore forced to bring a human rights claim to the UNHRC under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The UNHRC found Canada had violated Sharon’s human rights and directed Canada to provide an effective remedy for Sharon McIvor, her descendants, and others who have suffered the same discrimination.
It is important to note that Canada is bound by this decision. The ICCPR came into force for Canada on August 19, 1976 and Canada has agreed to be bound by the jurisdiction of the UNHRC to make decisions on matters coming before it. This means that Canada has chosen to be bound by the rights contained within this Covenant for the benefits of all those in Canada. In this case, the UNHRC found that Canada had violated Sharon’s human rights under Articles 3 and 26, read in conjunction with Article 27 of the ICCPR.
Article 3 guarantees the equal right of men and women to enjoy the rights contained in the ICCPR. Article 26 provides that all people are equal under the law and specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, birth or other status. These two articles were considered in conjunction with Article 27 which provides that ethnic minorities within States shall not be denied their right to enjoy their culture in community with other members of their group. The UNHRC found that Canada had violated Sharon’s rights under all three articles and directed Canada to do make “full reparation” to Sharon, her descendants and others in her position. Canada was directed to:
1. Register all those like Sharon and her descendants, under Section 6(1)(a) of the Indian Act;
2. Take steps to clean up any residual discrimination within First Nation communities arising from sex discrimination in the Indian Act; and
3. Take any additional steps necessary to avoid similar violations in the future.
Amazing posters from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s “Know the Line” campaign which aims to prevent and reduce the harm of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.
Check their page out at https://knowtheline.humanrights.gov.au/
Good!
The fact that nobody is talking about Secret’s new commercials pisses me off
This makes me so happy ☺️
Yesssss😭 I damn near cried
I LOVE THIS OMFG
YOOOOOOOOOOO THATS AMAZING!!!!!
Can someone help me understand I wanna cry to ..I feel something went over my head
The woman in the bathroom is trans and is scared that if she comes out of the stall the women that walked in will insult or harass her. but when she comes out they compliment her on her dress instead. The add ends with saying “stress tested for women.” It means Secret is including trans women in their definition of women.
I have reblogged this three times now, each one mentioning the fact that Secret not only included a trans woman, but that they /had the other women compliment her dress and treat her with respect/. I will reblog this every time I see it because it’s so important. More companies should involve trans people in their marketing - we do exist. Props to Secret for getting in on this movement. It makes me really happy to see more of the trans community represented in daily television.
A community firestorm has erupted over an alleged strip search of four 12-year-old girls at a New York middle school.
“A community group distributed a statement at Tuesday’s meeting saying the children were “ashamed, humiliated and traumatized” after being told to remove clothing Feb. 15.
Excuse the fuck outta me!?
happy columbus day :)
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again -
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
GLORIOUS
“People of Asian descent become the model minority when they are depicted to do better than other racial minority groups, whereas they become the yellow peril when they are described to outdo White Americans. On one hand, Asian Americans as the yellow peril embody ‘‘foreignness’’ and ‘‘masculinity’’ that threaten U.S identity as a White, Christian nation; on the other hand, Asian Americans who make efforts to succeed silently and diligently— without demanding or protesting anything —symbolize ‘‘the model minority’’ and ‘‘docility’’ or ‘‘femininity’’ and confirm colorblind ideology. Considering Lee (1999) and Okihiro’s (1994) arguments, it is possible to think that the construction of the model minority stereotype is tied to creating a less threatening face of the yellow peril.”
— Stereotyping Asian Americans: The Dialectic of the Model Minority and the Yellow Peril, Yuko Kawai (via eternal-dannation)
Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x
Welp
Well lookee here, the suspected Fredericton shooter apparently had a growing interest in warning about “The dangers of islam and muslim immigrants”.
Islamophobia and White Supremacy too often intersect with violent, white, male, mass shooters.
Context:
‘A huge tragedy for the whole country,’ Goodale says after 4, including 2 officers, shot dead in Fredericton
Also in case its not clear, the person pictured above is not the suspected shooter. Its the cafe owner where the shooter regularly attended.
Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-Hug
This really says a LOT
simpsons is so next level
This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.
The kid and her lawyer were about the only humans there. For fucks sake, they’re kids.
HERE’S THE LINK TO SUPPORT HER WORK
