[lm411]

2024 Canada is an absurd time and place to be alive.

Canada 2024: - Universities have "Black only" swim hours and segregated "Person of Colour" buildings - "no whites allowed". - Indigenous people get special treatment by courts (the courts were literally instructed not to hold them to the same standards as others) - The courts now use the term "person with a vagina" to refer to women - Land acknowledgements... Everywhere. What a waste of time and resources that accomplishes nothing - (Of course, if we keep saying we stole their land -- they are going to want it back - and this is what we see in the courts) - And this is just scratching the surface of whats happening

My wife works for a government organization, and even their internal emails have land acknowledgements in them. She has to take 1-2 days of DEI training per month.

... I could go on for hours. After living in various countries over the last ~15 years, moving back to Canada has turned out to be one of the worst choices I've ever made. And I'm at least lucky enough to be able to afford a house here.

This country is imploding.

[barbazoo]

What a strange view to call this an "absurd time and place to be alive" and that the "country is imploding". Lots here needs sources as it's hard to verify or taken out of context.

> Land acknowledgements... Everywhere

No they're not. They're heavily used within the government but in the private sector I have never experienced anyone doing a land acknowledgement.

> My wife works for a government organization, and even their internal emails have land acknowledgements in them. She has to take 1-2 days of DEI training per month.

Since I also have a partner working for a government organization and they don't have to do anything even remotely close to "1-2 days of DEI training per month" so this doesn't seem to be universally true.

> The courts now use the term "person with a vagina" to refer to women

Are you referring to the couple of times the supreme court has used that term? At least one of which dealt with sexual assault. You make it sound like courts universally use that term - that is false.

[astrange]

Canada did steal their land though, and then ruined it with NIMBYism. Now as you can see, they're fixing it.

[ecoquant]

I have spent so much time in Canada and it is just unbelievable watching the country go more and more insane.

What I have read about the Harms act is so bat shit crazy that it is hard to believe it can be real. Then looking at polling on support of the bill it seems like that is what Canadians want.

I actually didn't know there are buildings that say "no whites allowed". How incredibly disturbing. All while electing a leader with multiple pictures in black face.