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That’s it, just wanted to send it out there, hosers 🍁 🤗

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[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

O Canada! You will have my heart and gratitude forever ♥️

[–] xc2215x@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Happy Canada Day to all Canadians.

[–] jeffroeq@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Happy Canada Day from Canada South (aka Minnesota)!

[–] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Come back proud Canadians, to before we had tv. No hockey night in Canada, there was no CBC...

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I like the CBC

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[–] Chadsmo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Just going to leave this here.

Edit: bring on the downvotes, makes you bigots easier to block.

[–] awsamation@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're not helping anything. Shit like that just builds resentment.

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[–] dkbg@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I would tend to agree with everything in the article. Be careful about calling anyone who downvotes you a bigot though...sowing division is ultimately not helpful. Canada was and is built on a very ugly foundation and some people will have a lot of trouble accepting that, but the people need to unite as a collective to make it a better place, not polarise ourselves (i.e. like the US).

[–] ramplay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That article really just convinces me more that the cancel canada day movement is naive and misguided.

Don't take and sully our national day. Instead choose to enrich and improve it by making it more. There is room for both national pride on our Country and acknowledgement of past crimes.

Respectfully, fuck off.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

You're a fake ram

[–] Yunlee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thank you for sharing, I found that to be a good resource. I also recently learned that July 1st 1923 is when the federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act (link below). https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination/federal-exclusion-act#:~:text=Passed%20on%20July%201%2C%20Dominion,longer%20permitted%20to%20enter%20Canada.

I really wonder what life would be like here if Turtle Island wasn't violently and systematically colonized.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the link too, I had heard about the terrible treatment the Chinese were subject to in the US, but had not known (but not really surprised) that Canada was up to the same crap.

And yeah, I wonder that too. I think the best we can do now is listen to those who survived it despite the continued attempts to erase their cultures, and learn from them.

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