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Monday, November 28, 2005

Words To Live Within

"The ultimate role of culture is to be transformative."



-Eintou Pearl Springer, "Tribute, or Theft?" (Using the voice & artistic styles of a culture not your own) panel, Sunday, November 27, Burke's Books, part of the International Dub Poetry Festival

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Monday, November 14, 2005

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Dismembered torso found in parkdale.

leg found in the trash tranfer station where they believe the leg they found was originally picked up.

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More CIA-torture news

Oh yeah.

NICE.

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Friday, November 04, 2005

DRUMROLL, PLEASE....

Ladies and gentlemen, fatcats and slumlords of all ages... I present to you our Reality Check(tm) for those of you who either fill the void left from non-participation in the world we live in with Fantasy, or shove your heads up your a**es so you can tell yourself everything's ok and better up here in this here North American continent.

An antidote to the sickly-sweet smell of corporate *ss-kissing.

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

This just in from 'The Man'

Think The Man's keeping you down?

Surprise, surprise.

You're absolutely right.

Visible minority recipients of social assistance face the brunt of recent attempts by Canadian governments to enforce welfare reforms, concludes a Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) report unveiled in Toronto last week.

Prepared by Dr. Kiran Mirchandani of the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) and Dr. Wendy Chan of the School of Criminology at Simon Frasier University in B.C., the report examines the impact of reforms in the welfare systems in Ontario and British Columbia; they used a snowball sampling method and were able to document the impact of neo-liberal ploicies on people of colour.

Current enforcement policies rly heavily on racial stereotypes and myths about recipients. The rules not only penalize and criminalize the poor for being poor, but harsh on racialized people, many new Canadians. They tell stories of being given the run- around ins earch of records which may not be necessary, and threatened with cut-offs to benefits until they do.

depression on being on social welfare, structural barriers to employment due to racism and the utter inadequacy of the payments they receive combine to forrce them to resort to food banks and community service agencies.

CRRF Acting Chair Andree MEnard said the research points out the fundamental need for govenrmemts at all levels to take the issue of racism seriously.