Tina Fontaine would have graduated high school by now. She should be alive, making decisions about her future, exploring the world around her. Instead she is dead, and her killer walks free. I am so sick and tired of Canada being called an innocent and sweet country. It is a terrorist state. It murders its own. She was a child. 15 years old when she was brutally murdered. Canada has failed her. Canada has failed all of the missing and murdered indigenous women, and it does nothing to fix its mistakes besides constantly repeating over and over how âwe need to do betterâ without actually doing anything. No child should fear for their life. No child should be neglected by the system.
How can we reconcile when Indigenous people are afraid to go outside now?
How can we reconcile when our loved ones are suffering, when our communities are grieving, when our people live in fear?
How can we reconcile with a government that lets thousands of our mothers and sisters and daughters go missing and be killed, only for jurors to acquit the murderers?
How can we reconcile when the genocide against us hasnât stopped?
i love that one old timey 1910s trans dude who has a tiny wikipedia page for himself that he earned entirely due to him starting fights in bars and being the cityâs hottest casanova
i mightve remembered it wrong but it still feels like half of this page is âIâm A Man For Fucks Sakeâ and the other half is âThat Motherfucker Is In Jail Again And Also Bit A Copâ
He was a vagrant street kid and Seattle girls were all over this guy, to the point where it caused a moral panic. Thereâs a famous anecdote about a women proclaiming her love in Denny Park and then trying to shoot herself, but most of these reports were falsely worded in a way that suggest his female admirers were âupset about being deceivedâ when really they were upset that he was wooing other women, or trying to get his attention by being as extra as possible.
What you also should know is that back in the day âseductionâ was a literal crime that could put you in prison (unless you married the woman you seduced) but since he wasnât cis they couldnât really CHARGE HIM with anything. Legend.
I especially like âSeattle Woman Appears in Menâs Clothes Because She Says Her Features Make it Possible.â I canât imagine anything but someone going âHey! You canât dress like that!â and him responding âOh yes I can. You see, I look very good.â
âyou canât love anyone until you love yourselfâ ok but i literally cannot love myself until someone else loves me first and proves that i am lovable at all lmao
Other trans ppl: My chosen name was my great grandfathers middle name, it means glory and bravery. I also have two middle names, one is a character from my favoyrite book and one has a very deep personal meaning.
David Suzuki is pissed. He says for B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver, âpolitics comes before principle,â Prime Minister Justin Trudeau âwould be a wonderful Governor-General,â and that our entire political system is âcompletely broke.â
âWeâre not going to make itâ
Q: It seems like weâve passed the high point of the environmental movement. Big victories like the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols happened decades ago. Whatâs the state of environmentalism in the Trump era?
Paris was an incredible achievement. The Canadian ambassador asked to meet us when they were planning for the conference, I said, âLook, this is the 21st [climate] conference. What have you accomplished in 21 meetings? If all Paris is going to do is continuing on what was done in Copenhagen and all these other places, forget it!â And he said, âNo, Paris is going to be different.â And to his credit, he was right.
Paris really did set a target, a very strong target, and the means for everyone to get there, and they got the whole world to sign on. Except for Yemen and Grenada, but they have now signed on. So the United States under Trump is the only country that has threatened to pull out.
But the reality is that hundreds of mayors of cities, Governor Jerry Brown in California, theyâre saying, âWeâre going to hit the Paris targets. To hell with Trump.â
Q: And you think weâll make it?
DS: No, weâre not going to make it. Trudeau was like, the sun came out and we praised him to the skies. He was fantastic in Paris. Not only did he say, âCanada is back,â but he said, âWe aspire to keeping it as close to 1.5 as we can, rather than 2 [degrees].â He set a very hard target.
Q: Do you talk at all to the Prime Minister?
DS: I emailed him after he signed and asked, âAre you serious about what you just signed?â And he emailed back and said, âI am very serious.â We celebrated, we praised him, but the easiest thing to do is sign a document, especially when the end isnât for years and years. He knows bloody well that heâs not going to be around in 2030. Thatâs what all politicians do. You can make a flourish and sign and claim but youâre not held accountable. And thatâs a problem. We donât have a way of holding people accountable.
So when Trudeau approved the pipelines, Kinder Morgan and [Enbridgeâs] Line 3, I emailed him and said, âYou know, you set a hard target of 1.5 degrees. Thatâs your target. To meet that you know 80 to 85 per cent of those reserves have to be left in the ground. We canât burn them. Why the hell are you investing in a project that is going to cost billions dollars and then, in order to get your return, that it has to be used for 25 to 30 years? This doesnât make any sense!â I said, âWhy did you run for office? Youâre in a position now to do something that is going to affect the future for your children. Youâre a father first.â
And you know what his answer was? He didnât answer. Up to that point he always answered my emails but he stopped answering them. The problem is, heâs a politician, and heâs a father, but If he wants to play the political game, being a father is irrelevant.
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