#canada strong

[delborovic]

Just more Val ;)

[tiger-balm]

[August 6th 2024] Your 2024 hammer throw medalists: Camryn Rogers (25, CAN) with gold,  Annette Nneka Echikunwoke (28, USA) with silver, and Zhao Jie (21, CHN) with bronze

[elitehanitje]

"Hey! Do I look like a translator to you? Get outta here!" - Tony Schiavone

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Sigh…

@thisismisogynoir @canthebest1

They know Tara looked very much like a white woman. She could maybe pass a Spanish woman but she ain’t passing a Lightskin black woman I’ll tell you that.

Again, this is the danger of constantly showing Black girls and black women as biracial or racially ambiguous mixed woman. It’s messing up the image of what a Black girl and woman is.

[canismajorfailure]

a snoot

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Demonstrators gathered in 40 locations across Canada on Saturday to voice their opposition to the Royal Bank of Canada's funding of fossil fuel projects. The protests, part of a nation-wide effort dubbed Fossil Fools Day, unfolded in cities including Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Halifax and Vancouver. One protestor said the demonstrations were intended to raise awareness of the bank's looming Annual General Meeting, scheduled to take place in Saskatoon on April 5.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[mrsbeef]

Canadian union actors have been locked out of commercial work by union-busting agencies for over 500 days.

Because a lot of people don't really understand what is happening here, I'm going to take a moment to talk about what a lockout is.

A lockout is like the opposite of a strike: in a strike, workers withhold their labour until employers agree to their demands for improved conditions, while in a lockout employers essentially starve workers of work-- and by extension, crucially, wages-- to force them into accepting unacceptable conditions.

In the context of a factory, it might look like literally shutting down the factory because the owner can afford to simply eat the short-term loss while they sit and wait for the workers to grow desperate. Or they may bring in what are euphemistically referred to as "replacement workers". You may know them by the more familiar term: scabs. Those who are willing to put up with more for less, and in so doing worsen labour conditions across the whole industry. This is economically advantageous to the employers, and they can just sit there in comfort while they wait for the union and its members to break.

A lockout is a cruel power play in what is already an unequal relationship. It is intentional infliction of desperation and psychological distress.

The Institute of Canadian Agencies' lockout of ACTRA members has been going on for more than 500 days. It has intentionally inflicted more than 500 days of psychological distress and existential threat on thousands of people. And in the midst of this the ICA has done little but employ DARVO strategies (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), when it has initiated this essentially in protest of not being given the freedom to slash union commercial actors' compensation by 80%. ACTRA has been ready and willing to bargain this whole time, but the ICA insists it's ACTRA holding its own members down.

The ICA's client companies are hugely recognised brands whose CEOs take home untold millions every year in salaries while the average ACTRA commercial actor makes well under 10k a year. Professional actors' work is important and needed-- if it wasn't the agencies wouldn't be bringing in scabs-- and yet they are forced into conditions where they literally cannot live. They cannot afford to put a roof over their heads and food on the table in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.

PLEASE share this and let union actors know you stand with them. Boycott these companies who hire union-busting agencies. Write to them and let them know why. This fight has been long and demoralising, and folks are exhausted and sad, and given all the attention that has rightly been on the striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA members (with whom ACTRA has been rallying together in solidarity), their Canadian sibling union needs your solidarity and support too.

[royalteachitchat]

1050 children missing so far and climbing. Media silent. 😡😭💔

[wejustvibing]

i'm of the mindset that i can be great at anything i put my mind to. when i brought niki up earlier is because i was doing these different things outside of racing and niki was telling toto, he's like "there's no way that he can be doing these things & racing!" and i flew from there to singapore and he was *not happy* and i've turned up and i did probably my best qualifying lap of all time and after that he's like "okay, he can do this" i make sure i showed up and did my job at the same time - lewis

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Rebecca Crosby at Popular Information:

Major corporations, including Mastercard, Meta, and Coca-Cola, are quietly sponsoring a Canadian conference headlined by Christopher Rufo, a far-right activist and crusader against diversity initiatives. Many of these same companies, however, champion diversity in their public communications.  Rufo is listed as a featured speaker for the Canada Strong and Free Regional Networking Conference 2024, which will be held in Alberta, Canada on September 21. The event, which was first highlighted by DeSmog, is billed as an “enriching exploration of conservatism in Canada.” On X, the organization promoted the event using a photo of Rufo with the text, “Fighting the left and wokism.” 

Rufo has been credited with creating the hysteria around Critical Race Theory (CRT) in educational settings. In 2020, Rufo appeared on Tucker Carlson’s former show on Fox News and called on Trump to end CRT training. Within days, the Trump administration released a memo outlining a ban on diversity training in the government, and Trump issued the executive order shortly after.

When it became clear that CRT is a complex legal theory that is not taught in K-12 schools, Rufo shifted his attention to lambasting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Rufo appeared with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) as DeSantis signed the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which limits workplace conversations about diversity and race. (That aspect of the law has been enjoined by a federal court as unconstitutional.) Rufo has also been a leader in the crusade to ban discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools. On X, Rufo insinuated that people were attempting to indoctrinate pre-kindergarten students with information about “gender transitioning, exotic pronouns, and simplified Queer Theory.” Rufo has also said that “parents have good reason” to be concerned about “‘grooming’ in public schools.” 

In 2023, Rufo was appointed by DeSantis to the board of trustees at the New College of Florida as part of a right-wing takeover of the liberal arts college. In his newsletter, Rufo bragged that New College was “the first public university in America to begin rolling back the encroachment of gender ideology and queer theory on its academic offerings.” In an interview with the New York Times, Rufo said that New College previously enrolled too many women, which turned it into “a social justice ghetto.” On X, in response to pictures of dozens of books at the college being thrown away, Rufo said, “We abolished the gender studies program. Now we’re throwing out the trash.”  Companies who claim to support diversity are sponsoring the upcoming event promoting Rufo and his ideological agenda. Mastercard, for example, prides itself on being one of the leaders for DEI initiatives among major corporations. Mastercard’s website states that “[d]iversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are what set Mastercard apart by making us more adaptable, more innovative and more creative.” Mastercard says that DEI “makes us better” and is “part of our core values and underpins everything we do.” 

Why are major corporations sponsoring an “anti-woke” conference in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada featuring right-wing paranoiac Christopher Rufo.

Rufo helped foment the manufactured crusade against “CRT” in K-12 schools, LGBTQ+ inclusion policies, and DEI in businesses.

[beebeetheclown]

The only thing I like about the cold during winter is that I get to pull out my huge winter jacket that goes down to my knees so I feel like this silly little man when I walk around lol

[kingoftheburger]

Wait a minute, Bobby's middle name is Jeffrey...is he named after Boomhauer?? Boomhauer's first name is Jeffrey and Hank says that Boomhauer has known Peggy longer than Hank has, so it would make sense if both of them have a strong relationship with him they'd want to give his name to Bobby

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Any headcanons about Matt and Zee? We've seen a lot about Matt and Jack and Alfred and Zee with Alfred and Jack but not much of Canada and Australia's Canada. 😊

Oooh. These two, oh my brain worms. What makes them similar is what separates them most. The absolutely foul imperialism that struck them into existence is similar. New Zealand came within inches of being French. The moment in history just before Zee hops into existence is one where France under the ancien régime and Napoleon and Georgian England are competing just as fiercely as they were when Matt came into existence. But it's a British flag that will be planted on Maori land. They both end up as fiercely dualistic societies. Matt as the result of two conquests, Zee as the result of a PR change in empire.

Settler colonies are settler colonies and empire is empire. The only thing that changed is optics made select and extremes slightly more distasteful in the Anglican evangelizing of the 19th century. Just because the British empire in New Zealand tended to wrap it's capitalist extraction imperialism in a gentler appearing veneer of civilizing and evangelizing doesn't make it any less fucking disgusting. Murder and conquest with a bit of etiquette for select people is still murder and conquest. It was still brutal and it was still evil. It just makes her circumstances, as a mixed Maori/Pakeha women in an empire, more complex than Matt's. Alfred and Jack both tend to look at themselves as a wholly new creation, a fresh start. "God's own Country" and "The Lucky Country." Zee and Matt live with more awareness of their concrete realities. Zee especially as she cannot move in the world without acknowledgment of who and what she is. They are always moving through time with the gravitational pull of dual identities.

But crucially, crucially, where Matt tries to find his balance in a sense of duty he has with the sometimes delusional hope it will preclude internal conflict, Zee ultimately rejects his method and instead finds it in her sense of self. Her behaviour, her dress, her manners and many aspects of what she shows to the world changes, she has too in order to navigate the patriarchal, white empire she's born into because of what she can't change. She has less recourse than Matthew does in so many things. The sexism and racism that tinge her existence can in some contexts (not all) be more subtle than it would be if she was male and thus harder to deal with. Matt's conflict, combined with his usually more masculine martial role that belies his much gentler personality, can result in more outright conflict. He can defend himself in more ways than Zee can.

Zee, for her part, faces all the audacity of empire and everything Matt does, all of those layers of imperial hypocrisy plus the feminine expressions of it. Back handed compliments, barbs over tea in the parlour, church ladies simpering. The white feminine bent to empire is just as dangerous. Her human British counterparts, married or unmarried, traditionally feminine or more boldly independent, believed and often still believe in the same inherent sense of white imperial superiority as their husbands, brothers and sons. There may be more of a polite veneer to it, simpering conversation, constant micro aggressions constrained by manners but the result does not change. The devaluation of humanity of those subject to the values of empire does not change in a feminine context. And as a result, Zee is quicker on the uptake, she has a sharper ability to fire back and armor herself. Her social skills are strong and they've had to be since she was small. She doesn't have as much room to collapse in on herself the way Matt does, and she carries more stress and irritation and even loneliness as a result. But under all of that, all of the complexities of the presentations demanded by gender, empire, race, status, and class, the question of who she is does not change. The blend of stark differences can be heavy, but she carries it as ballast and it steadies her.

[lyndentree63]

Oh NO I think I'm slowly falling into local politics and activism (falling? nah girl, you fell ages ago when you volunteered for a city council board) but anyways I've thought I don't have enough stick-to-it to be involved in politics in a meaningful way.

I underestimated my hatred of pickup trucks.

Well ok technically it's my love of being a pedestrian and like, being alive. But I'm starting to research how one would campaign against the increasing size of pickup trucks and SUVs and whoopsie, I think I'm doing an Activism.

(Anyways y'all should go watch These Stupid Trucks Are Literally Killing Us to know what I'm talking about.)

[bitchapalooza]

England: Canada? Are you here? No one answered the door—

Canada, carrying an entire fallen tree, turns in the direction England is and knocks him out with the tree: Hm? Oh, hey England.

Canada: ….England? Huh, guess I was just hearing things.

[quietblissxx]