Pride before the fall
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Thunder Bay’s leading Pride organizations provide an object lesson in how not to practise solidarity.
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You can pretend your opposition to free transit is purely economic, but these types of decisions are about race, class, and power.
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A local organization called the Urban Abbey is allowing an anti-abortion film to be screened in its space. This is not about free speech. It's about bad decisions.
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Part of the system
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Being part of a racist system doesn't make you racist. Refusing to acknowledge and stand up against system racism is what makes you racist. -
Racist op-eds need to stop, kthxbai
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Another day, another racist article in my local newspaper, The Chronicle Journal. This time it isn't an ignorant letter to the editor, though—it's an ignorant op-ed from a retired judge.
I follow a lot of Indigenous people on Twitter, because I want to hear what they have to say. This article comes hot on the heels of a similarly stultifying piece from Conrad Black a few days ago, and it's one day after…
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Rocking the Fort (in our own way)
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No, I didn't go to Rock the Fort this year (you American people of course have no idea what I'm talking about, let alone you poor people in Britain, Singapore, Ireland, India, etc., but bear with me). However, today my friend Laura and I did take a trip out to Old Fort William Historical Park to take a tour and have some fun (and to laugh at our friends who were working out there).
For…