Via the #TimesColonist, Feb 07, 2025
The appointment of singer-songwriter #BuffySainteMarie to the #OrderOfCanada has been terminated by Governor General #MarySimon
The move comes after a #CBC report in 2023 questioned Sainte-Marie's #Indigenous heritage, saying it found a birth certificate that indicated she was born in 1941 in #Massachusetts.
Family members in the U.S. told CBC that Sainte-Marie was not adopted and doesn't have Indigenous ancestry
Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.
"Give more respect to those unhoused
I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.
I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.
Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.
These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.
Chris Holiday
Victoria"
#YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas
#Nanaimo school built for 1,400 has a current head count of 1,657 #timescolonist
“Rather than producing resilient ecosystems our obsession with efficiency-proxies is producing fragile monocultures, potentially vulnerable to catastrophic failure.” Former Dean, UofT Rotman School of Management #RogerLMartin
https://twitter.com/Economicgarden1/status/1379547430279020552
The #Winter #storm sweeping across southern #BritishColumbia has created #supply #problems for local #grocery stores and #gas stations.
#VancouverIsland #vanisle #VictoriaBC #yyj #snowmageddon2022 #SupplyChain #StayHome #BePatient #PrepareBetter #TimesColonist #YYJnews
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