Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Vancouver police responses to deaths of young Indigenous women, girl under investigation
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    2 days ago

    My mum was at a party a few months before Pickton started being investigated, he was there and invited her to an after party at his. Luckily one of her friends knew his reputation for having Native women disappear from his property and warned her not to go.

    When people say that the FN community feels hostile or standoffish to them, suspicious of them…they never seem to remember that we’re still actively being oppressed in a lot of ways. There’s almost never an admission to the wrongs still being committed against the First Nations people in Canada and the US.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoCanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
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    3 days ago

    Canadian Association of University Teachers for the curious. Full text is below, emphasis and bracketed commentary is mine.

    Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
    In addition, CAUT recommends that academics who fall into the following categories exercise particular caution:

    • Citizens or residents of a country identified in media reports as likely to be subject to a travel ban.
    • Citizens or residents of a country where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S. (so everyone)
    • Travellers with passport stamps evidencing recent travel to countries that may be subject to a travel ban or where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S.
    • Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
    • Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration.
    • Travellers who identify as transgender or whose travel documents indicate a sex other than their sex assigned at birth.

    Academics should carefully consider what information they have, or need to have, on their electronic devices when crossing borders and take actions to protect sensitive information where necessary.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Liberal government's high immigration policy created housing crisis: report
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    3 days ago

    suspicious coming from Conservative owned media

    Postmedia, of which the Toronto Sun is a subsidiary, is majority owned by Chatham Asset Management. The founder of CAM is a well known GOP supporter. Postmedia group articles should be considered, at best, pro-American interest propaganda…if not outright election interference.
    We have Stephen Harper to thank for opening the loopholes that allowed Postmedia group to be wholly owned by American VCs.

    The Total Fertility Rate(TFR) of Canada hit a historic low of 1.33 national average in 2022.
    Here’s a Kurzgasagt video on why TFR below 2.1 is actually really bad. There needs to be more support for immigrants, and don’t fool yourself that Canada, or even most “1st world countries”, will be fine without immigrants. In 30 years Canada, without a regular injection of people, would be top heavy on the age demographic graph. 100 years and the US wouldn’t have to try hard to annex us, there’d be almost no one left young enough to actually put up an effective resistance.
    I live in Scotland, the TFR here is even lower, with a lower base population, and more people buy the Tory and Reform propaganda about armies of illegal Muslims outbreeding law abiding white folk.
    I hate to agree, even tangentially, with the Elongated Muskrat…as a whole, humans do need to figure out how to at least maintain our current population. A great way to do that is for people in high population countries to move to lower population countries. Are there going to be problematic people? Sure, I guess. There’s already people who are problematic born in Canada, or the UK.

    I know this is a bit of a rant, sorry for unloading. Built up frustration with people willingly sticking their face in the leopard’s mouth…