Monday, June 10, 2019

SO AM I 
Never forget: Yes, there was a genocide. Why don't we correct the wrong now? | rabble.ca
Today, Canada has a choice. We can continue to look away, or we can decide to be courageous and brave and start decolonizing our institutions.









A peek inside some of the most colorful, dangerous and bizarre celebrations in modern Japan 👹 — including that 🍆 festival.
Tokyo argues that the organization’s appellate body, which makes final judgments, does not effectively settle disputes and has called for change.



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New research from OECD Watch and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre shows that 64% of reprisals from companies against activists challenging their impacts on the ground occur in the land-intensive extractive and agriculture sectors ➡️ http://farmlandgrab.org/28984
IT MUST BE TRUE ITS ON TRUMP TV
Conservatives who are attacking Justin Trudeau for admitting that the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Commission was correct to accuse Canada of genocide in its treatment of Indigenous women are pretending that this is the first time that a Canadian prime minister made such an admission.
That's false. Paul Martin was first. He was no longer prime minister at the time that he spoke out on the matter. But the fact remains that he had served as our prime minister and after assessing the evidence before the Truth and Reconciliaton Commission, concluded that the intention of the residential school system was "cultural genocide."










Water is destiny, as I have been telling my readers for a decade now. If you live in one of these cities, I would plan accordingly.

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ALBERTA WILDFIRES
"The Company continues to monitor the wildfire situation with local officials and is restarting operations today, ramping production back up in a safe and controlled manner in these areas to approximately 65,000 bbl/d over the next week or so, barring any changes in the current wildfire conditions."



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