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A.C. Strip has long understood the significance of the diary his older brother kept as they fled the Holocaust with their parents. He turned it into a self-published book that he gave to his brother as a 90th birthday gift.

But Strip never considered the diary to be an important historical document. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is making him rethink that.

Strip’s brother’s journal is one of more than 200 diaries written by Holocaust victims and survivors the museum hopes to digitize and make available to the public with the help of its first crowd-funding campaign. The museum is seeking $250,000 for the project and will begin soliciting donations through Kickstarter on Monday, the birthday of the most famous Holocaust diarist, Anne Frank.

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“When Fred Lee was just one year old, his father said goodbye to him and his mother in China and returned to Canada. He wouldn’t see him for the next 18 years, prevented from joining him by a racist Canadian law.

“Unless you experience growing up without a father figure, without someone to love you and protect you — I can’t explain how it feels after the fact,” said Lee, who is now 86 years old and lives in Halifax.

“I can’t express the feeling when I first saw my father.”

While July 1 is celebrated as Canada Day, for many Chinese-Canadians it is remembered by another name — “Humiliation Day.”

On July 1, 1923, the Chinese Immigration Act or “Chinese Exclusion Act” was passed. The law stopped all Chinese immigration into Canada and divided hundreds of families like Lee’s for years. It was only repealed in 1946.

Lee’s father had emigrated to Canada before the law. After the legislation was put in place, he travelled back to China temporarily and then returned to Canada. But his new family was forbidden from following and he left his young son and wife behind.

Before the exclusion act was passed, the government collected tax on every Chinese person who entered the country. The tax started at $50 per person but shot up to $500 as more Chinese began moving to Canada.

By 1923, the government of Canada had collected over $33 million in head tax.“

@allthecanadianpolitics

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As Canada spends a half-billion dollars celebrating its 150th year since confederation, it appears more than 150 drinking water advisories still exist, most of them in First Nations communities.

Of the 153 advisories listed on the federal government and British Columbia’s First Nations Health Authority websites as of Thursday, most occur in Ontario (86), including the oldest boil water advisory, which has been in place since Feb. 1, 1995 (8,184 days) in Neskatanga First Nation.

Some communities have more than one advisory, as water treatment isn’t centred in a single hub. That’s the case for Kinonjeoshtegon and Pinaymootang First Nations in Manitoba, where 15 boil water and do not consume advisories are listed.

For Shoal Lake 40 First Nation—which straddles the Manitoba-Ontario border and provides Winnipeg with access to clean drinking water—2017 marks 20 years (7,436 days) since boil water advisories began.

Chief Erwin Redsky said his community of about 270 people never thought it would take this long to resolve the situation. Youth have grown accustomed to only drinking or using bottled water to wash dishes, cook and do chores.

“It’s just mind-boggling, it’s not right. Every Canadian should enjoy clean drinking water,” Redsky said.

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in school/at work: can’t cope because it’s all too much, too many things craving attention, longing for some sweet alone time without school/work: can’t cope because no schedule, also Boredom™, if i spend one more minute alone doing nothing i’ll lose it

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I think this might be the first editorial I’ve seen from a non-Canadian publication that’s openly critical of Trudeau.

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I wanna be that person who just radiates nice energy like, I wanna be that person who you’ve never spoken to before but you think of me as a friend already. I wanna be that person you feel that you can come to for advice whenever, or someone who makes you feel better by just talking to you. I’m gonna try really hard to be that person.

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Happening right now on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.

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