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Remember when the blonde Roma girl was seized from her parents because people are stupid and assumed that she was kidnapped… until they did a DNA test and gave her back? People are dumb. Also I follow a lot of Canadian Indigenous Twitter folx and its been enlightening to say the least.

You know this story? Its a fucking travesty and I don’t know how she keeps it together.
https://twitter.com/TamaraMStory/status/953786669139886080

They keep censoring her and threatening her because she’s tweeting about it.
There are more First Nations kids in care NOW than there were in the 60s scoop.

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If all people see in that image is a cartoon Pocahontas, that says more about them, than her. That is a woman dressed in a sweater, and jeans, like a lot of women dress, without raising eyebrows, she doesn’t look at all like a model for the character.

If the first thing you think of when you see a young Native woman is “Pocahontas”… Check your own issues.

Can we maybe ask people first, before we try to turn them into victims?

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On a lighter note, some good Canadian news.

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Pity it’s from the Beaverton. They’re probably spoofing this:

http://www.cbc.ca/1.3922286

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On the other hand, it’s funny 'cos it’s true.

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https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/957390238946594816?ref_src=twcamp^copy|twsrc^android|twgr^copy|twcon^7090|twterm^1

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That intersection isn’t the same without the “BElieve in JESus” dude.
He’s been there so long he has his own Yelp rating, 4/5
https://www.yelp.ca/biz/jesus-guy-at-dundas-square-toronto

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If you aren’t all following Dr. Jen Gunter on twitter, you really really should.
She’s single handedly taking on Gwyneth Paltrow and GOOP and her pseudo-medical nonsense.

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After lunch we started with a couples therapy session and the therapist, Terry Real, was quite engaging and provided us with something that had been missing all damn day, common sense. A married couple took to the stage to talk about their communication issues with Terry and GP in front of a room full of strangers and it was the least fucked up thing we heard all day. He never mentioned God or nature or Goture once. Thank you Terry.

You could say that he brought Dr. Gunter back to…

(•_•). ( •_•)>⌐□-□. (⌐□_□).

The Real world.

Honestly, though, this reminded me of nothing more than the old Peanuts cartoon where Lucy badgers another character to pay for advice at her “Psychiatric Help” booth, and when the character gives in and pays the nickel, Lucy’s advice is “A fool and his money are soon parted.”

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It is, and it isn’t.

Dr. Gunter has been calling out GOOPs woo for while now because they make super dangerous snake oil claims that are harmful to sick and dangerous people.
See list here: Bad GOOP Advice – Dr. Jen Gunter

AND because GOOP went after Dr. Gunter

Yes, buyer beware, but in America, the land of insecure healthcare, being sold snakeoil by a mega wealthy health “expert” is a special kind of evil.

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Not so special, I’m afraid. From Oprah and her friend Dr. Oz, to Tom Brady, to Alec Jones, to Prince Charles, to the CEO of any pharmacy that allows homeopathic C200 “remedies” (a.k.a. pure H2O) on their shelves (which, even in Canada, is every pharmacy I’ve been to).

Selling snake oil is an entire industry; GP deserves her fair share of blame for GOOP, but certainly isn’t the only problem here.

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I need to talk about this. Its horrible. Trigger warning: serial killer, homophobia

Toronto’s gay village has had a serial killer for the past 15+ years.
Everyone I know that lived or worked or visited the gay village has known about it.
During Pride they hand out flyers warning visitors to be extra careful because men have been going missing from the village for 15+ years.
Its been going on as long as I can remember.
If you went to a bar or restaurant in the village, you’d see missing posters everywhere.
We all knew there was a serial killer, we’ve always known.

They finally caught the guy.
And its bad.
OMG its so bad.
They don’t know how many victims.
They’ve recovered and identified the remains of 5 men, and he has charges for two more but no remains yet. And the list of missing is long you guys, OMG its so long. (One of the id’d men wasn’t reported missing because he was homeless, that makes the list of potential victims even bigger, I can’t even.)

There have been two special investigations into missing men from the village.
The first found no evidence, it was written off as “gay men go missing” I guess?
The second has led to the arrest.

I am so angry. So horrified.
This is happening here, in my city, in my home, by my work, literally by my house.
AND WE KNEW!

And they did nothing. I am so upset. Its so bad.

I’m not going to link to much, the details are horrible.
He was a landscaper. They’ve found human remains at the bottom of planters he installed at a clients house. He’s been a landscaper the whole time.

https://twitter.com/dailyxtra/status/958000929848152064

I am agog at the incompetence and homophobia of the police.
And I am so so so angry.

Canada’s two largest cities were home to the most prolific serial killers we’ve ever seen and the police knew, and did nothing. I don’t know how to reconcile this guys, I really really don’t…

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It’s like Robert whatsis it in BC – they prey on marginalized people and so they get away with it. Or Jane Doe, where the cops deliberately didn’t tell the neighbourhood there was a serial rapist with a very specific MO and victim profile on the loose.

Maybe if he’d killed a rich and famous gay man it would have gone faster.

But 15 years – that’s about when marriage equality came in. And still.

Really horrible.

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Picton.

And yes, exactly like him.
Apparently First Nations women and gay men just go walkabout.
Its grotesque and we need to do better. So so so much better.

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Montreal had a major serial murder case in recent years that the cops didn’t take seriously? I’m getting out of touch.

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Vancouver (Picton).

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Okay. (Phew.)

Just a word to the wise: Montreal, both the city proper and the metropolitan area, is still quite a bit larger than Vancouver. You had me wondering what I had missed. (I’m just as glad that there was nothing. A trifecta of all three of our largest cities would have been too much to bear.)

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Uh oh, Ontario:

https://twitter.com/dmrider/status/958024090580848641?ref_src=twcamp^copy|twsrc^android|twgr^copy|twcon^7090|twterm^1

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Yup. And we’re still recovering from Harris.

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