Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #CancelCanadaDay
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Calls to reconsider celebrations of Canada Day have intensified ahead of the July 1 holiday, in light of the announcements from B.C. and Saskatchewan First Nations that they’d located hundreds of unmarked gravesites at former residential schools.
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#CancelCanadaDay has trended on Twitter and some local governments are scrapping their plans. Some cities including Victoria and Fredericton are replacing Canada Day events with events focusing on reconciliation.
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But not everyone is happy with these decisions. Other cities are going ahead with celebrations and the debate over Canada Day is more heated than ever.
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The Canada you grew up in is not the Canada I grew up in.
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I was born in Lynn Lake, a town at the end of highway 391; a land exploited by the Sherritt & Blackhawk mining companies for nickel, zinc & gold.
#215children #Indigenous #CancelCanadaDay #Genocide
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I was born in Lynn Lake, a town at the end of highway 391; a land exploited by the Sherritt & Blackhawk mining companies for nickel, zinc & gold.
#215children #Indigenous #CancelCanadaDay #Genocide
The mining corps made a fortune, didn't pay taxes, and left 21m tonnes of toxic tailings behind; buried on play grounds, under houses, and in the water supply.
Everyone knew.
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Everyone knew.
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And so Lynn has been under decades long boil water advisory while disproportionate rates of cancer continue to ravage her residents.
A modern day @ErinBrockovich story in Indigenous Canada, but without the hero to hold the bad guys accountable at the end.
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A modern day @ErinBrockovich story in Indigenous Canada, but without the hero to hold the bad guys accountable at the end.
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