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Is Canada prepared for climate refugees?
Posted by Straight: None Given on December 24th, 2013
Straight: The winds, at more than 150 kilometres per hour, flattened almost all the homes, leaving bodies washed as far as 90 kilometres from the coast. Rice fields were destroyed, thousands died, many more were displaced, and, ever since, the soil has been saturated with salt.
“The tsunami that devastated the region in 1988 was the trigger,’’ Donatien Garnier wrote in 2010’s Climate Refugees about the disaster that struck southwestern Bangladesh 25 years ago. “Salt contamination has been increasing since...
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Canada: Seize the moment, stand with Elsipogtog
Posted by Straight: None Given on October 20th, 2013
Straight: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
- 1984 by George Orwell
Canada’s colonial past is present, however much Prime Minister Stephen Harper seeks to obfuscate the reality of the history of this land.
This week has served as a prime example of how denial of past colonialism helps to perpetuate ongoing colonial relationships.
The current flashpoint is the small town of Rexton, New Brunswick. There the Elsipogtog First Nation and their...