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By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: An independent casting company is looking to recruit a CBC Kids Host of “any race except Caucasian”. The company, Larissa Mair Casting & Associates, has since… The post DISGUSTING: Casting Call For CBC Job Says Whites Need Not Apply appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. The Canadian Progressive: Extraordinary Political Interference: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview[View the story "Canada Police State Confirmed: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview " on Storify] We recommend:Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay Said Canada Should Bring Omar Khadr HomeHarper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”Statistics Canada: Crime rate reached its lowest level in 40 years in 2011Confirmed again: “Canada may use information obtained [...] The post Extraordinary Political Interference: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week “Accidental Racist”, the new duet by country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J made a lot of people uncomfortable. Angry even. It caused an online backlash. A pop music critic with the Toronto Star said: ‘Accidental Racist’ makes Brad Paisley and LL Cool [...] The post NOT Offended By Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s “Accidental Racist” Lyrics appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. This is a good response to Yellow Peril rhetoric: People who read this page, also read: Rising rhetoric of a new “yellow peril” The Most Racist Thing I Have Ever Seen Published As I have written here before, and as many others realize, racism against Aboriginal people is one of the only areas where it seems that open bigotry is still accepted in out society. Racism is regularly directed at the First Nations people, and far from being ashamed of their opinions, the racists seem to spout these ideas with pride – the same way old people do when they rehash that seemingly immortal opinion that “kids just don’t want to work nowadays!” The ugly head of racism reared its head again this week when the daily paper in Nanaimo BC . . . → Read More: kirbycairo: The Nanaimo Letter and the On-Going Racism. . . Educate First Nations to be modern citizens Don Olsen, The Daily News Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 via Educate First Nations to be modern citizens. This is the most racist thing I have ever seen published. The Nanaimo Daily News published a document either as an editorial or a letter to the editor [likely the latter] that is so vile and hateful, I will not reprint it here. I can’t stand the thought of this filth being on our website. The link is above. I encourage you all to read it to get a sense of what some people think (Read more…) By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive Greetings Citizens of the World. It is vital the information we are going to share with you is made viral as quickly as possible. The ethnic Rohingya people of Myanmar Burma in Southeast Asia are about to be massacred. Barbarous acts are being carried out by [...] The post Anonymous targets genocide in Myanmar (Burma): Operation Rohingya (VIDEO) appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. The 1921 “Ethnic Outreach” Campaign(Courtesy Past Tense Vancouver) The complaints are familiar – “Asian immigrants are taking our jobs,” “Asian immigrants are buying our property and keeping us out.” Instead of being complaints found in the Richmond Review’s letters-to-the-editor section, however, these are the complaints that were found in a Liberal Party advertisement in 1921 that was posted on a Vancouver history site. Our history – the history of Vancouver, BC, and Canada – especially that of Asian immigration is one fraught with historical wrongs. The Chinese head tax, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese internment (Read more…) It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Here’s a fascinating TEDx talk by South African trainer and speaker Bruce Muzik whose “passion is having people experience unprecedented freedom and happiness, through being Authentic.” Men, especially white men, sleep too easily at night while women earn 70 per cent of what we do. Secretly, I think we’d prefer to not have to talk about this much. Sure, March 8 and December 6 are days we set aside for reflecting on this, but, most likely, we don’t want to be bothered with it every other day of the year. Plus, the NHL is back. One conversation I have never had, goes like this. I’m in the lunchroom at work with a group of men discussing workplace realities. The topics drifts around to how women in (Read more…) This is how Lisa Lampanelli, the self-anointed Queen of Mean, described the following photo of herself with Lena Dunham, the creator of GIRLS: “Me with my nigga @LenaDunham of @HBOGirls – I love this beyotch!!” Your take? Racist? Sexist? The Canadian Progressive recommends: RCMP’s Misogynistic Response to Galliford Sexual Harassment Claim This Global Violence Against Women READ MORE By Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres | Feb. 18, 2013: “This (Human Rights Watch) report confirms frontline evidence of sexist and racist violence endured by Aboriginal women. Frontline centers have recorded and protested this violence over many years,” says Lee Lakeman for CASAC. Since 2001 CASAC has been focusing particular attention on these issues as a crisis READ MORE 
 aboriginal women, Advocacy, British Columbia, Canada, criminal justice, Featured, First Nations, Government, Guest Blog, Human Rights Watch, Missing And Murdered Aboriginal Women And Girls, police, Press release, RACE CARD, Racism, rape, RCMP, Report, sexism, sexual assault, Society, violence, War on Women For this week’s Friday Film Pick I’m choosing two very different, seemingly unrelated docs that are available for online viewing. Girl Inside is an intimate portrayal of a male transitioning to female, and because the film is available for streaming from Canada’s TVO broadcaster, it is likely unavailable to non-Canadian residents. With that in mind, I’ve also selected a great little short about racial profiling by police in New York city (which appears first below). Both are compelling works showcasing the intersection of identity, oppression and the subjective resistance to oppression through identity. Enjoy (videos after the jump). From The (Read more…) Human Rights Watch report accuses Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers of excessive force, and physical and sexual assault of Aboriginal women and girls in northern British Columbia. By Human Rights Watch | Feb. 13, 2013: OTTAWA – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in northern British Columbia has failed to protect indigenous women and girls from violence, READ MORE
Aboriginal women and girls, Abusive Policing, Abusive Treatment, Advocacy, British Columbia, Canada, crime, Disappearances, Featured, First Nations, Government Abuses, Guest Blog, Highway 16, Highway of Tears, Human Rights Watch, Independent Investigations Office, Indigenous Communities, Insecurity, Missing or Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls, National Commission of Inquiry, National Public Commission of Inquiry, Press release, RACE CARD, Racism, RCMP, Research And Study, rights, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sexism, sexual assault, Social Inequalities, The Ugly Canadian, United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, violence, War on Women “The Bank of Canada considered celebrating gay marriages, black hockey players, and turban-wearing RCMP officers on its new plastic bank notes” By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: And so the Harper Conservative-inspired whitewashing of Canada continues. Last summer, we learned that the Bank of Canada had nixed the image of an Asian-looking female scientist from READ MORE
0 Polymer Banknote, Aboriginal Art, Bank of Canada, Black Hockey Players, Canada, canada day, Canada Politics, Canadian Immigration Report, Caucasian, diversity, ethnicity, Featured, Focus Group, Gay Marriages, Inclusiveness, Institutionalized Racism, Jason Kenney, multiculturalism, Neutral Ethnicity, non-whites, opinion., Plastic Bank Notes, RACE CARD, Racism, Rob Ford, Roma, The Canadian Progressive, The Ugly Canadian, White Supremacists, Whitewashing The NY Times: Several recent polls and studies suggest that long waiting times in some places depressed turnout in 2012 and that lines were longest in cities, where Democrats outnumber Republicans. In a New York Times/CBS News poll taken shortly after Election Day, 18 percent of Democrats said they waited at least a half-hour to vote, compared with 11 percent of independents and 9 percent of Republicans. Wait — it gets better: A Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis determined that blacks and Hispanics waited nearly twice as long in line to vote on average than whites. Florida had the . . . → Read More: bastard.logic: SHOCKING: Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Suppress Democratic Votes by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 3, 2013: Andrea Landry, a member of the Anishinaable people and Youth Executive of the National Association of Friendship Centre in Canada, recently attended a meeting for Indigenous youth at the UN Headquarters in New York. In this interview with UNTV Multimedia Producer, Mary Ferreira, Andrea explains how indigenous youth READ MORE
Activism News, Andrea Landry, Anishinaabe, Bill C-45, Canada, Ceremony, Colonization, discrimination, Featured, First Nations, Gender, Idle No More, Indigenous Identity, Indigenous Women, Indigenous Youth, land, murder, nations, RACE CARD, Racism, rape, stephen harper, tv, violence, War on Women, women's rights, youtube by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb 1, 2013: This is the trailer of Fractured Land a film that tells the story of Caleb Behn, a young Dene warrior from northeastern British Columbia, “taking on Big Oil and Gas to protect his ancestral land and people from the ravages of neocolonialism.” I met Behn late last year when he READ MORE Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. by The Canadian Progressive reporters on Jan. 30, 2013 Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) READ MORE
billboards, Canada, Canadian Politics, Citizenship And Immigration, discrimination, Featured, Government, Harper government, Harper vs. Canada, Hindu, human rights, Hungary, Immigration, Jason Kenney, media, Prejudice, propaganda, RACE CARD, Racism, Rajan Zed, refugees, rights, Roma, stephen harper, The Ugly Canadian, xenophobia In this TED talk, Bryan Stevenson starts a conversation about injustice that we all need to hear. The youtube description says this: In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a [...] Sometimes these days when I look at the horror that is Harperland I can't help feeling like that other Simon in Lord of the Flies.Who realized that The Monster the other boys were hunting with their wooden spears didn't exist. And that the real monster was THEM.Read more » The comments sections on some newspapers and online news sites can be infamously bad. The Calgary Herald’s commenters, many of them frequent enough to be “top commenters”, put on a despicable display today. Chief Spence ended her hunger strike, and was hospitalized as a precaution because she’s been without proper nutrition for six weeks. Obviously such a drastic diet, with the purpose of forcing an emotional outpouring of support for political ends, is not healthy. Mike Neumeier · Top Commenter Look at her, there’s no way she was on a liquid-only diet – stop lying already. I’m pretty sure I . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: Newspaper Comments Highlight Canadian Racism Golly. Call me Nostradamus eh? Almost three years ago I wrote this about the outhouse gang at Sun News Network aka Fox News North:They don't have the money, or the infrastructure, or the talent, to compete for even a small part of that tiny news market. Or even to be taken seriously. This is going to be the biggest bomb in Canadian network history.And sure enough, it was a bomb or a lead balloon. Nobody was EVER able to take those Con Klowns seriously, and now they're trying to save themselves by picking our pockets. Read more » The CBC News is reporting that Gavin van der Linde, the mayor of Morris, a southern Manitoba town, is “furious over what he calls racist comments about aboriginal people in the latest edition of the community newspaper”. The editorial of the Morris Mirror’s current edition (PDF), penned by editor-in-chief Reed Turcotte, also labels Aboriginals and Idle No More activists ”terrorists”. READ MORE |
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