No, you've seen a SIN card right? It was just that except not embossed, yes children, the old ones were embossed, the newer ones aren't and they did away with them entirely a few years ago.
So it was plastic, had the border, had the type-font, but....look, I give our Government crap for a lot of things, but the spelling and grammatical errors weren't really needed for me to know it was fake as all hell.
There is no such thing as a 'Tax-Free' card and we all know it. One can adamantly disagree as much as they like. But its BS. I know its BS. They know its BS. Lets just move on.
Do I have to McBain you or am I McBaining myself with this post?
I'm completely changing my views on this, because if it's a cause I'm aligned with, I think it's ok. But then I realize that all sorts of dip####s will do the exact same thing that I condone for the more legitimate gripes people have, and they will use it as a tool to grind society down to a halt and piss off people just trying to go about their day as a way to feel a sense of purpose.
The guy trying to walk home from work should be able to do so, every day. "Oh, but it's only a minor inconvenience and ____ group we're protesting about have it way worse, so he can suck it up". Yeah, maybe. But the woman in the wheelchair trying to navigate snowy streets, and the mom with the sleeping baby in the stroller, the guy with really bad knee pain all really have less capacity to "suck it up" than you do, by moving off the ####ing sidewalk.
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When I hear about these "protests" and how the police allow them to occur (despite the lack of any actual agenda item to protest about), it makes me believe the police are largely involved and supportive of the convoy agenda.
Perhaps not active participants. But tacitly encouraging.
If it were native groups (for example), they would have brought out the tear gas and dogs by now.
When I hear about these "protests" and how the police allow them to occur (despite the lack of any actual agenda item to protest about), it makes me believe the police are largely involved and supportive of the convoy agenda.
Perhaps not active participants. But tacitly encouraging.
If it were native groups (for example), they would have brought out the tear gas and dogs by now.
I hope I'm wrong. But I sort of doubt it.
It is the very definition of "systemic". Different responses to similar actions depending on the cause, race, ideology, etc. The bias is baked into the system, and those that benefit from it are the loudest when another segment of the population does anything even slightly similar.
Imagine anyone other than angry white-wingers doing anything remotely close to what we saw in Ottawa, Coutts, every weekend in the Beltline during Covid, etc. The response would be swifter, more forceful, and more applauded.
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It is the very definition of "systemic". Different responses to similar actions depending on the cause, race, ideology, etc. The bias is baked into the system, and those that benefit from it are the loudest when another segment of the population does anything even slightly similar.
Imagine anyone other than angry white-wingers doing anything remotely close to what we saw in Ottawa, Coutts, every weekend in the Beltline during Covid, etc. The response would be swifter, more forceful, and more applauded.
I said the same thing during covid/freedumb convoy.
A lot of these asshats were pretty cheesed when this stuff was happening Idle No More.
It is the very definition of "systemic". Different responses to similar actions depending on the cause, race, ideology, etc. The bias is baked into the system, and those that benefit from it are the loudest when another segment of the population does anything even slightly similar.
Imagine anyone other than angry white-wingers doing anything remotely close to what we saw in Ottawa, Coutts, every weekend in the Beltline during Covid, etc. The response would be swifter, more forceful, and more applauded.
Can you give recent examples where this has occurred? Where non-white folks protested on public land and were deal with swiftly, forcefully and applauded?
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I mean, the CIDA was created basically because of the 2020 pipelines and railway protests and solidarity protests in Calgary and Edmonton, of which many protestors were indigenous. In that year, the protests were being disassembled after about one week of protesting.
Can you give recent examples where this has occurred? Where non-white folks protested on public land and were deal with swiftly, forcefully and applauded?
Not exclusively non-white folks, but the protest was related to Black Lives Matter.
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When I hear about these "protests" and how the police allow them to occur (despite the lack of any actual agenda item to protest about), it makes me believe the police are largely involved and supportive of the convoy agenda.
Perhaps not active participants. But tacitly encouraging.
If it were native groups (for example), they would have brought out the tear gas and dogs by now.
I hope I'm wrong. But I sort of doubt it.
Orders from above should come to clear that crap out or fire cops who disobey. Individual officers should not be making those decisions.
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Three men accused by the Crown of helping lead and coordinate the COVID-19 protest blockade at Coutts, Alta., in 2022 have been found guilty of mischief.
Jurors deliberated for three hours Tuesday night before finding Alex Van Herk, Marco Van Huigenbos, and Gerhard (George) Janzen guilty of one count each of mischief over $5,000.
Gasps of surprise were heard in a courtroom packed with supporters of the trio when the verdict was announced.
