Now that the far right in British Columbia is attacking Indigenous rights and fear mongering about DRIPA with misinformation and the NDP is waffling, it’s time to know the facts about DRIPA, from dripafacts.ca 🧵

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon at United Nations to talk Indigenous rights Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and other Indigenous leaders are heading to the United Nations on Monday to stress the importance of its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This could have been awkward...

"crime" is down so the police created SoCiaL DiSoRdEr and told the public they should fear the people our very nice society has abandoned and of course call the police frequently because only the police can make everything ok and keep giving the police all the money

Court hearings begin as First Nation fights to halt Alberta separation referendum | CBC News A First Nation in Alberta will be in court today seeking to shut down a petition urging the province to quit Confederation.

Unconstitutional!

"The Treaty 8 First Nation is alleging a failure by Alberta, Canada and the province's chief electoral officer to uphold treaty rights."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How First Nations’ Treaties can hold back the tide of Alberta separatism ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith pledged to hold a referendum on separating Alberta from Canada. First Nations in the province are going to court this week to argue that she has no legal right to do that

Years before Alberta even became a province, First Nations signed Treaties guaranteeing their rights to the land in perpetuity.

A century later, and First Nations are in court this week, using their Treaties to mount one of the strongest challenges to Alberta separatism, writes @readtheorchard.org

Kind of sad that 10 years after the TRC, this edition had to include a section on what residential school denial is.

Karl Marx getting up and you hear him yelling in German from the next room while his wife goes in to try to calm him down

Wild you only get to have rights until it's inconvenient

Last week, Alto’s CEO confirmed that “real construction” won’t start until 2030, a year later than the Liberals originally announced in December. He also confirmed that it would take seven years just to build the section between Ottawa and Montreal. By comparison, the entire Canadian Pacific Railway, which linked the country from coast to coast, was built in just four years.

And...... *how* was the entire Canadian Pacific Railway built in just four years, Pierre

Union launches petition to restore funding for lifeguards at Vancouver beaches The union representing lifeguards working for the City of Vancouver has launched a petition asking the park board to overturn its decision to remove lifeguards from five of the city’s 10 beaches this summer.

Union launches petition to restore funding for lifeguards at Vancouver beaches

Fontaine’s defining characteristic is that he just seems to hate everything about New West.

“Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.” Image of a walkable coffee shop in Brooklyn, via the Urban Truth Collective

Some people and corporations out there really want you to be scared of having more things you need close by.

Why do you think that is?

#UrbanTruth

Remember in 2024 when there were no trans women at the Olympics to bash so they just made one up? Really indicative of the whole transphobic backlash: elite panic about a problem that couldn't be more imaginary

Imagine the timeline where Greg Lee wasn’t replaced on News Radio after the pilot.

This is a terrifyingly fascist outcome that not many people are talking about. A Texas court, a jury selected in secret, a judge citing Waco against protestors, found anti-ICE protestors guilty of all the insane charges including providing material support to terrorists

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Fascism.

How is Running Man not the eventual outcome of this stuff?!?

Patiently waiting for an Indigenous brand to make a "Chillax, Bud" hoodie...

This is a fine example of the proper use of an exclamation mark.

In case there's any doubt, despite the obvious work to create them by Chretien.

For every statement of denialism, there are reams of historical documents to refute it. One doesn't have to be a PhD or an ex-PM to access those facts.

#IndianAct #ResidentialSchools denialism #cdnpoli

Our tax dollars were being used to save children and now they are being used to murder them

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said Thursday in Halifax he is disappointed that he's found so few Canadians are willing to speak positively about the United States. 😬

Self awareness is really not his strong suit 😂

Every Silver Cross Mother from Canada’s mission in Afghanistan should get to punch him the face at least once.

Elxn call just after easter so it's all wrapped up before May long.

I'm sure this can be addressed if some more social services are cut for a huge TPS budget increase.

Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

NEW FROM ME:

While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran

I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game