Alberta’s oil & gas footprint is massive. Bigger than most jurisdictions. We allow oil & gas companies to trespass, under compensate landowners, fail to pay taxes, to leave their messes, and vent their harmful gases contrary to law. This is ethical?
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"The Crown's central argument against Taylor was that she showed 'no remorse' even while admitting that Cunningham engaged in assault and theft and Taylor was acting in self-defense. They claimed Cunningham’s assault was 'minimal' and Taylor’s response was 'excessive'. This kind of gaslighting and victim-blaming is an abuser’s handbook 101. The oppressive systems we live under is abuse at a societal/collective scale. Cunningham, being white and with her role as a sheriff, assaulting a Black woman is acting within the norms of our white supremacist culture. Taylor, as a Black woman reacting to defend herself against this assault, is deviating from her prescribed role and the societal expectation to submit to that culture. Prosecution is saying loud and clear that her biggest 'crime’ is her 'unwillingness' to be obedient to the system punishing her for the egregious act of defending herself when being attacked by a white person." - Ginny
We invite you to read the notes taken by two STS members that sat inside the courtroom for the appeal. Some things we'd like to highlight include:
1. All parties agreeing Taylor acted in self defense.
2. All parties agreeing Elena Cunningham acted unlawfully, as said by the trial judge, in through the acts of assault and theft.
3. There was conspicuous absence of awareness of the context of anti-Blackness in the trial judge’s decision.
4. That the trial judges decision to use the case of Alex Dunn as a comparative case to the case between Taylor McNallie and Elena Cunningham was inappropriate.
5. That Taylor receiving the losing end in both situations involving Elena Cunningham and Daryl Meeks: with Meeks she is being told photography is lawful and no harm is intended, but with Cunningham she should have understood that being photographed would be threatening.
Read more here:
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Infrastructure capacity for a development is evaluated at the DP stage by city & utility company engineers and no development ever proceeds without 1) either having capacity already or 2) paying for and installing capacity improvements. Your NoM is gatekeeping with more red tape
I’m encouraged to hear that every major corporation is now in favor of the workers seizing the means of production and an eradication of the prison industrial complex. Big news if true!
Canadian Police have killed 84 people so far this year. Most were unarmed. Many were suffering a mental health crisis when they were killed. All subject police officers involved in the killings refused to cooperate with investigators.
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October 31: Assault charges against a Jewish person in Canada who pulled off a woman’s hijab are dropped in part because the victim said, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
November 1: Columbia University pays $395,000 to an Israeli student they suspended who sprayed a pro-Palestine crowd with a substance that made them sick.
What act of violence against Palestinians in North America will go unpunished, or even rewarded, next?
If you ever feel sympathy for pro-Israel groups, remember that in 2017, weeks after a terrorist killed 6 Muslims and injured others at a Quebec mosque, these groups opposed a symbolic motion to address Islamophobia, saying “no faith should be protected from legitimate criticism.”
In 1998, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan’s Al-Shifa factory, which produced 90% of the country’s pharmaceuticals. The destruction of the factory resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands from treatable diseases.