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Nigerian man plans to say goodbye to Canada after 10 years of immigration limbo
(via CBC)
Killing nearly 500 wolves in a year failed to protect endangered caribou
(via the Guardian)
A teenager didn’t do her online schoolwork. So a judge sent her to juvenile detention.
(via ProPublica)
As mayor of Minneapolis, I saw how white liberals block change
(via the New York Times)
83 of the World's 'super-rich' call for higher taxes on ‘people like us’ to help COVID-19 recovery
(via CBC)
Canada should give Black communities $450 million — not the Kielburgers
(via Ricochet)
How Trump is helping tycoons exploit the pandemic
(via the New Yorker)
The political education of Killer Mike
(via GQ)
Stop whitewashing our national history
(via the Walrus)
Fracking firms fail, rewarding executives and raising climate fears
(via the New York Times)
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Changing BC’s Name from ‘British Columbia’ Is Not a Bad Idea, but It’s Also Not Enough
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Not a bad idea Crawford — however, that kind of symbolism, like the furor over toppling statues, is pretty much smoke and mirrors unless we’re willing to tackle the real day to day problems of racial and economic inequality based — as those things largely are — upon power relationships endemic to the political and economic associations and structures that actually ‘rule’ the province and the country.