That’s it, just wanted to send it out there, hosers 🍁 🤗
Just going to leave this here.
Edit: bring on the downvotes, makes you bigots easier to block.
Shit like that just builds resentment.
Only in people who would resent others for wanting equity and equality (in their country!!!), so you’re saying much more about yourself there than you are about me, while helping absolutely no one (apart from perhaps the people who published that article, because you do prove them right, so not entirely useless I suppose), so as is always the case with bigots, your stance seems to be projection all the way down.
That article really just convinces me more that the cancel canada day movement is naive and misguided.
Don’t take and sully our national day. Instead choose to enrich and improve it by making it more. There is room for both national pride on our Country and acknowledgement of past crimes.
Respectfully, fuck off.
I would tend to agree with everything in the article. Be careful about calling anyone who downvotes you a bigot though…sowing division is ultimately not helpful. Canada was and is built on a very ugly foundation and some people will have a lot of trouble accepting that, but the people need to unite as a collective to make it a better place, not polarise ourselves (i.e. like the US).
Thank you for sharing, I found that to be a good resource. I also recently learned that July 1st 1923 is when the federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act (link below). https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination/federal-exclusion-act#:~:text=Passed on July 1%2C Dominion,longer permitted to enter Canada.
I really wonder what life would be like here if Turtle Island wasn’t violently and systematically colonized.
Thank you for the link too, I had heard about the terrible treatment the Chinese were subject to in the US, but had not known (but not really surprised) that Canada was up to the same crap.
And yeah, I wonder that too. I think the best we can do now is listen to those who survived it despite the continued attempts to erase their cultures, and learn from them.
Come back proud Canadians, to before we had tv. No hockey night in Canada, there was no CBC…
In 1812 Madison was mad, he was the president you know. Well he thought he’d tell the british where they ought to go. He thought he’d invade canada, he thought that he was tough.
Instead we went to Washington and burned down all his stuff!
And the white house burned, burned, burned. And we’re the ones that did it, It burned, burned, burned. While the president ran and cried, It burned, burned, burned. And things were very historical, And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies Wah-wah-wah… In the war of 1812.
Happy Canada Day! Cobra Chickens represent.
HAPPY CANADA DAY TO YOU ALL!
Indigenous Canadian here. I advocate for my community and my family on all the things that Canada has done to us in the past. I remind people of all of that and some of it is terrible history.
I’ll still remind people today … but at the same time I do know that this is a great country and many people are trying to come to terms with the past. I’ve been to many countries in the world … over 30 countries … so I know that we live in a great country.
My dad attended residential school and he was miserable and terrorized there … but before he died and all through his life, he always enjoyed Canada Day because it was a day to make it fun for us kids. We can remember the politics but we can still celebrate the significance of what this country is and continues to be.
SO HAPPY CANADA DAY TO YOU ALL!
Thank you for your perspective. This day is still celebratory to me but it definitely invites more reflection and awareness than ever before. I hope fellow Canadians are also pausing today to reflect on our past, both good and bad, and the values we want to hold as we move forward.
For my first post as refugee from reddit, I wish you all a Happy Canada day!
