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Tag Archives: bigotry
Canadian Kindness Trumps Captain Combover
Syrian refugee family to benefit from couple cancelling big wedding Samantha Jackson, Farzin Yousefian accepted donations in lieu of gifts when they tied the knot at city hall CBC News Posted: Nov 19, 2015 7:50 PM ET Last Updated: Nov … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, Brad Wall, canada, civil rights, Donald Trump, Farzin Yousefian, George Wallace, Kennedy, Muslim, Nixon, rightwing, Samantha Jackson, selfies, Syrian refugees, USA, Vietnam, war, weddings
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Racism is Alive and Well and Living in ….Canada?
‘A N*gger in Net’: Racism at the World Juniors from a blog posted in HuffPost on 12/31/2012 I used to be obsessed with hockey…I can remember, with great clarity, the first game I ever saw…it was in 1972, Boston and … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, canada, football, HuffPost, immigration, professional sports, racism, Subban, TVobsession, twitter, UjS, World Hockey
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Justice vs Collective Guilt-What Else is New?
Today in the CBC online media is an article about the quick response to a racist joke or two that appeared in a Legion newsletter; the perpetrator was quickly dismissed from his ‘volunteer’ job on the newsletter after complaints about these … Continue reading
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Tagged BC, bigotry, canada, First Nations, Legion, newsletter, racism, restorative justice
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Dis-honouring Our Homemade Monsters
Here’s a headline from CBC online today, talking about a sticker campaign to point out the hypocrisy of naming things after history’s deviates. In this case, the target is former Lieutenant Governor of BC Joseph Trutch..someone who purposefully practiced his … Continue reading
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Tagged BC, bigotry, Dunsmuir, history, hypocrisy, Imperialism, racism, sticker campaign, street names, Trutch, Vancouver
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