A-Dub 🥝you'll never guess who proposed this: John bloody Burnside 🙄
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-city-council-motion-foreign-flag-ban-9.7137422
New Zealand women earning the median wage are losing $25.36 per week because the Government has not acted on pay gap reporting.
For wahine Māori, its $58.40 a week; for Pacific women it’s $76.40.
If the Government made gender pay gap reporting compulsory for large businesses, the gender pay gap would shrink by 20–40 percent.
a northern rock pools rāhui sounds like a good idea until ecosystems recover.
but JFC, Radio NZ, this article could definitely have been written without the trenchant anti-Chinese racism 😡
A-Dub 🥝i hate the U.K. more with every day they do more shit like this
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/britain-asylum-overhaul-9.6980717
#NoOneIsIllegal #FuckBorders #RacistNonsense #ViciousXenophobia
fuck this racist NZ conservative coalition government very much
"An Education Ministry report shows Stanford decided in October last year to exclude all Māori words except for characters' names from any new books in the Education Ministry's Ready to Read Phonics Plus (RtRPP) series."
and of course the racists (including racist politicians) are up in arms 🙄
"For the first time in Quebec, a judge has considered a pre-sentencing report known as an Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA) to help determine the sentence for a Black offender."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pre-sentence-report-systemic-racism-1.7604302
WestJet not only denied a First Nations elder aircraft boarding on the grounds that his ID was expired—which it wasn't—their telephone customer service staff didn't even know you can use a Status Card as federal ID for a flight, and their in-person staff treated him like shit
NZ PM sans backbone emits weaksauce 🤡
Moz@adub When they have Gerry Brownlee against them you know they've really fucked up.
His position seems to be "it would be a real shame if MPs filibustered the shit out of the government until they come to their senses. That would be *terrible*. Just terrible"
"A translation of this might be that the governing [conservative] majority of MPs are demanding that Te Pāti Māori [the Māori Party] will "Respect Mah Authoritah" by complying with the rules of Parliament as they see them as being, or else."
