What's going on Canada?
π Meta
πΊοΈ Provinces / Territories
ποΈ Cities / Local Communities
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
π Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Curling
Hockey
Soccer
π» Schools / Universities
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
π΅ Finance, Shopping, Sales
π£οΈ Politics
π Social / Culture
π Other Relevant Communities
Rules
Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.
Provide sources when making a claim. Do your research or google it doesn't cut it. The one making the claim is responsible for backing it.
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Screaming about masks during Covid, hiding behind them during MAGA. So brave.
Hey Canadians,
You guys need to snuff this flame out now. Whether through serious jail time, or even feeding them to the bears
Donβt let the weed take root, otherwise youβll wind up like the U.S.
It's too late now, we already showed them they could march across the whole country and terrorize a city for weeks without repercussions. We need to take more action, absolutely, but I wouldn't call this one a small or easy flame to take out anymore.
Legalizing violence against conservative terrorists would solve this kind of bullshit instantly.
It should be legal for anyone to punch a nazi.
With a baseball bat. Right in the nose.
Imagine refusing so hard to take responsibility for your own life that you will blame all minorities instead of looking in a fucking mirror.
The Big Three news outlets in Canada pretty much ignored this story until the Kamloops local paper and social media picked it up. Now they're all over it, pretending they were there first.
And they're all missing the crucial point.
Second Sons are working very hard to stick to the rule of law, while instilling fear. They're showing up in groups like this in smaller communities. They're not in Calgary or Toronto or Vancouver, they're north of Edmonton, or Orillia or Millarville.
They show up, dress to intimidate, act to intimidate, but don't actually threaten. They post overt dogwhistle slogans, "Je me souviens d'un Quebec blanc" or "Indian trucks kill canucks") which they could plausibly explain away as something else, if forced to stand on trial.
They're getting bolder, which means they're going to try to goad their victims into acting. They'll obey the RCMP or local police (if the force is sufficient) without hesitation because as long as they keep showing up, as long as they keep scaring people, as long as they are able to avoid consequences for their actions, they'll be able to hurt some people and recruit others.
They need to be driven out by the people every time they show their...well not faces, but cowardly masks. They need to be not shot or injured, but maybe detained until the police can unmask and identify them by name.
We need to publish their names. We need (and I can't believe I would ever say this) to doxx them - to make them fear for their lives if they keep threatening society.
We need to break the back of their movement, and the media isn't helping one goddamn bit.
Rachel Gilmore does fantastic journalist coverage and a great job of calling out specific names and people associated with it. She has been threatened quite brazenly for it, but she's also a badass that continues to do it. We need more Rachels.
Euro here: what is truth and reconcilliation day? (And why do these masked asshats even exist,...but I digress)
Settler violence reached abhorrent, crimes against humanity level of evil when the Canadian government, aided by the Catholic church, abducted indigenous children from their homes and forced them into residential schools in an attempt to force their (indigenous people generally) complete assimilation into western norms and culture. Many sufferred horrific abuse while there, many died; the trauma is generational.
These degenerate losers deny it or embrace it.
TRC is a day we set aside to remember them and our need to heal.
Minor detail, but it wasn't just the Catholic Church. It was all Christian denominations.
Just to add to Brilliants comment, these residential schools were not shut down completely, until 1996.
Somebody replied with what happened already, so I will add that this day (Sept 30th) is Canada acknowledging the crimes of the government and church with Truth and hopefully Reconciliation of those events with the Indigenous people..
But heres the Truth: Our government didn't make it a federal holiday, so only some provinces treat it as a holiday where you can go and watch an indigenous celebration. When it was instituted our Premier (Trudeau) was in British Columbia on the Holiday and rather than meet with the Indigenous leaders at a celebration, he went to his island home to chill out. To me this showed exactly how much Canada cared about Reconciliation.
The town of Kamloops was where one of the most recent unveilings of atrocities of the residential school system. It was a program to "help" the indigenous people adjust to the colonial usurpation of their lands and way of life.
What it actually resulted in massive mistreatment, atrocities, genocide, and erasure of the students in their care.
A site in Kamloops recently(inside the last 15 years) was revealed to have found another 50 ish bodies that were hidden.
The holiday truth and reconciliation was created a few years ago to acknowledge the problem and it was a big deal because it also was the first time the government of Canada officially acknowledged it
All masked up.
Curious...
(Fuck nazis BTW)
And not a one of them looks in the least bit imposing. Do you think they go home at night, look in the mirror, and feel inadequate? I bet they do.
Lmfao them wearing all black but then going out of their ways to wear white skimasks is so fucking pathetic
What a bunch of cowards
The shitbag neo-Nazis are afraid of COVID, eh.
I hate Illinois Nazis
Unrelated thought process. You know those youtube videos that are like "how many dinner plates does it take to stop a .50 BMG" and they start with like a .22lr and work up. Yeah, but not related at all to the lined up nazis.
ππππππππππππππ
They look a lot like bowling pins, if someone has a truck.
I know a guy with a raised F-250 with dual rear wheels and upgraded suspension. Unfortunately he's in the photo and you're going to have to ask to borrow it.
You can tell how brave and proud they are by how they hide their faces
They should grab up all of those nazi's and force them into a federal re-education camp! Also, sterilize each and every one of them! Maybe they won't be so quick to protest once they've learned a bit of history.
They have always been angry. They hate minorities, change, acceptance, reason, etc. You can protest corruption, stagnation, crime, illegal immigration, etc without masks, without fear, without intimidation. These people are not healthy or normal for a functional society.