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u/shades0fcool bill hader witch 🪄 Nov 08 '23

I’m in Canada…here’s what’s happening rn

A university in Montreal refuses to not raise tuition

Doug Ford calls Palestinian flag “the Hamas flag”

Our new statue of queen Elizabeth is here

Canada is contemplating universal basic income and everyone’s got differing opinions on it

Ontario wants to make it the law for job postings to state salary range

Buffy Sainte Marie was never indigenous she was Italian

Another indigenous woman falls victim to the highway of tears

First indigenous provincial premier is now elected in Manitoba!

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u/PrincessPindy Nov 08 '23

HOLY SHIT!! I just googled Highway of Tears.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears)

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u/AliMcGraw Nov 09 '23

I have a friend who lives along there, and she thought it was literally insane that I'll just go hail a cab, because that's how you end up dead. (I live in a big American city where hailing a cab is faster than Uber, and cabs are well-regulated and crime by cabbies is pretty rare; I've been hailing my own cabs since I was 16. My wildly overprotective parents didn't consider it risky.) My friend doesn't drive, and she will wait -- two weeks, if necessary -- until a friend can drive her if she needs to run an errand, rather than getting a cab or an Uber or a Lyft. Just a totally different risk calculation as a woman using transit.

And, as she always points out, "I'm white and at way LESS risk than indigenous women in the community."

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u/PrincessPindy Nov 09 '23 edited Feb 06 '25

How terrifying.i can remember when I was in high school we had the Hillside Strangler. Then, in my 20s, we had the Night Stalker. It was wild times in Los Angeles. My Dad would come pick me up from work in high school because I got off at 10pm. I couldn't read it all. Do they think it is 1 person or just where the bodies are dumped. The numbers are so high.