251 Kamloops.
180 Carlisle.
104 Brandon.
38 Regina.
35 Lestock.
And now 751.
1 is 1 too many.
This is genocide.
These are crime scenes.
Genocide and racism are not accidents.
This is the settler-colonial project that is Canada.
They found 215 bodies of Indigenous children and the response is like, “sorry, we’ll lower our flags for awhile and have a memorial” while you got whole Indigenous communities today living without clean water and having their lands annexed for pipelines. Disingenuous.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but implementing #PaidSickDays isn’t just about slowing the spread of #COVID19.
Paid sick days are a fundamental labour right that must exist permanently.