LostWon

The two matters aren't mutually exclusive and ultimately their motives don't matter as much as the effect. Getting riled up and indignant about some people's racism is useless and even counterproductive-- especially compared to focusing on the source.

Racism being systemic means there are barriers to overcome at every income level. Everyone has already bought into it at varying levels, so you can't just go "See, look, they're racist!" Outside of a few like-minded people, the typical response would range from shoulder shrugs to annoyance at best. Many will even perceive the accuser as acting superior.

If we're talking about racism on a systemic level, exposing that there IS someone who benefits is necessary to get people invested in societal healing. Most people are constantly tired and from their perspective, don't have the energy to care about what they perceive as other people's problems. Make it their problem too, and maybe something will change.

Campaigns and general influence by wealthy people who want poorer folks attacking their fellow poor folks and not them. Same as racism in general.

Thanks for the update. Although they just could have said so if this is the case, it’s occurred to me since earlier they also might have had trouble notifying the closest family members first.

Were you thinking environmental pollution? That was my first thought, but then I remembered it could likely be due to the health care crisis there due to catastrophic understaffing of medical facilities. Recently some technicians for cancer screenings were even speaking out to say it definitely causing death from missed or delayed screenings. It's likely other health areas are similarly affected.

Incidentally, I find it gross they just put it beside homicide rate and don't explore anything else.

Yeah, private ownership concentration is a huge problem leading to monopolies, lack of innovation, and worsening treatment of both customers and employees in general. As I understand it, all funds have increasingly gone to parasitic shareholders more than ever since CEO pay has shifted more and more to pay in company stock.

I’d love more publicly-run utility and transportation networks as you said, but in other less critical areas we could probably benefit from a more competitive system of small-to-medium-sized cooperatives that could (ideally, in a perfect world) replace corporations entirely. I would love to see support for worker groups with solid business plans to receive government grants (or at least forgiving loans) to help them buy their private sector workplaces for conversion to a democratic business model where employee-owners don’t get treated like serfs and businesses have to win over customers to survive, rather than trapping them and getting complacent.

*edited to add that last bit in italics

deleting because I replied to the wrong comment!

I saw part of the press conference live stream with Premier Kinew and at least one other official on CBC. I trust they're doing what they can, but it was interesting how not a lot could be discussed about how the two that died were found, or specific details on how the fire in the Lac Du Bonnet area started. Apparently this is still under investigation by RCMP, so of course more details will come out later. So far it's been released that particular fire was human-caused.

I had to actively seek sources out for my own sanity. The people compiling it don't cover every area I'd like, but there's good news happening too. Two sources I know of are Sam Bentley and Good News.

Yikes, proper waste handling could use more attention in the news, despite the seemingly endless flow of other problems. (Lots of good news too, but that gets even less attention.)

Before job shadowing through any persons you know (or can set up meetings with) that would help, consider the kinds of things you liked to do/imagine for play as a kid, and what it is about those things that you really loved. For each one type of play or role-playing you truly enjoyed as a kid, you can probably tease out several connected options. Then figure out which is most realistic to you, narrowing it down according to your present preferences.

Also, on the off chance your parents were so dismissive as to make you feel deep down like you can't do anything or nothing you do matters, they were wrong-- you can and it does. Fight long enough that the story ends at the good part and not during the temporary disappointments along the way.

Well, there have been consistent drops in the number of returnees each month. So as such, our absence INTENSIFIES.