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How bad is it getting over there? My boyfriend is a medic and he’s going to be sent over there I think in the New Year to help treat injured civilians.
I wouldn’t call it welcoming as much as just being around people. Many Jamaican immigrants moved into working-class areas of Toronto so if you were a white person growing up in one of those neighborhoods, you probably had a lot of Jamaican friends as a kid and picked up the accent and patterns...
You mean how Trump sluffed the dealing with the Huawei exec on Canada resulting in Canadians being jailed in China (facing execution) and then hurting our economy in order to get us to break our own laws?
Yeah fuck Trump and anybody who supports him.
Yeah, strong against the Chinese you won't get from Trump. He loves dictators. Wouldn't surprise me if Trump hasn't had Xi Jinping's cock in his mouth already.
i don’t know, maybe not start a culture war about virus safety? Seriously.
but that’s all Trump and his supporters have, is culture wars. No substance whatsoever.
The Toronto accent does have some Jamaican influence, with the odd Somali word thrown in there just to throw you for a loop. For example, the Somali word kawal, which means "to make crazy", in Canada means to trick or deceive somebody. For example, if you forge a doctor's note to get time off...
I tried out an augmented reality horror movie (if you can call it a movie). This is what happened:
1. It scared the shit out of me
2. I haven't slept in 2 days
3. I went to get groceries, when I came home it was dark, I was afraid to walk from my car to the house
4. I sat in my car for 20...
Well, we have a crisis of mental health here, getting more acute during the pandemic due to more people being under financial stress and being unable to have the human contact they need because of social distancing, but actually the situation of Yazidi refugees and their struggles with mental...
Well, Canada could be a good country to start a new life, if our capacity for treating mental health issues was much better. A lot of these people are so traumatized by what they have been through that they are unable to do basic things like hold down a job or go to school, which makes starting...
Jesus. Yazidi people can’t get a break. It’s sad.
I mean, I hate to sound like a bleeding heart liberal snowflake or whatever but the stories of Yazidi people who came to Canada as refugees, especially the women, and the trauma they went through, breaks my heart.
Heard a story of a girl who...
wait... I thought they went into the wrong house?
Either way she didn’t deserve to die and the cops should be held accountable. Kind of unacceptable to kill innocent people.
The Nazis only paid lip service to left-wing ideals to attracted left-leaning people to their cause, but they were right-wing through and through.
Most people are neither left nor right. And I agree, extremism in politics does not work. I think that is why the US is so gridlocked right now...
BTW I would disagree on strong nationalism being a product of the far-right, or the right, there is left-wing nationalism too. Left-wing nationalism is big in Africa for obvious reasons, but, Canadian nationalism is left-wing too. I am a Canadian nationalist and a person of the left (well...
I know, I am from Canada. A lot of Canadians view multiculturalism as part of our national identity, and a byproduct of this is that our far-right is a motley crew of multiracial right-wing nut jobs who import the far-right rhetoric from the old country and mix it with the far-right rhetoric...