Happy Canada Day 🍁
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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario here - Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario.
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian brothers and sisters, landed, immigrant, nation-born, First Nation, Arch-Linux-users, Metis, religious, non-religious, whatever denomination, Lemmy-user, Fediverse-user, corpo-Social-Media-user, straight, bi, none-sexual, LGBTQ++++, black, brown, white and every shade in-between.
We have our differences, we have our troubles, we have issues, good, bad and whatever … but at the end of the day we will always be national brothers and sisters who inhabit this land.
My parents were survivors of the Residential School system but they always celebrated Canada Day never knowing the politics or history … they just enjoyed having a fun day in the middle of summer. I’ve grown to learn lots of good and bad about Canada but in all that history, I may have grown negative and dark but at the same time, as I grow older, I also realize that we have to keep hope alive and always reach out to others, especially to any potential allies. We can create a country where we can all co-exist in a cooperative way that can be equally beneficial for every individual in this country. I will always hope for that.
So good day to you all!! Kitchi-Meegwetch Misiway (Thank you very much to everyone) Nee-nas-kah-moon! (I give my praises!)
Hear hear!
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Happy Canada Day Hosers!!!
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Happy Canada Day all
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This is the Canada I want to live in again.
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Oh! Canada
This multi-faceted colorful bilingual game was issued without charge to schools and citizens who requested a copy from the Commissioner of Official Languages of the Canadian Federal Government's Language Development Program. All of the components of the game fit into the cardboard game board, which when closed is a large envelope that is 35.7cm long x 31cm wide. The game was created by Madeline Knonby and illustrated by Geo Boka, copyrighted 1974. The game board when open is 35.7cm long x 62.3cm wide and about 1cm thick, and is a stylized map of Canada. Each province and territory (of the time) is in a different color and major cities are indicated on the map appropriately. In addition there are colorful scenes depicting various activities across Canada. Some places are indicated with their names in English and others indicated with their names in French. Different types of lines between cities illustrate modes of transportation between cities. For example, the dotted black line at the bottom between Winnipeg and Regina indicates a railroad, while the double red lines from Winnipeg going east indicates a highway; the yellow line from Churchill going northwest indicates an air-route and the white and black line going northeast indicates a water-route! The "legend" at the lower-left side of the board indicates these transportation modes as well as moves of players during the game. The spinner on the board indicates the transportation modes a player must use while attempting to travel across Canada. The 32 page included bilingual book contains instructions for playing the game and other bilingual information. The game is for four players (illustrated in circles on the front of the book), each of whom is represented during play by a 1.5cm diameter plastic disc of white, green, red, or yellow. The 33 1/3 RPM phonograph recording (17.8cm diameter) includes 2 songs in both English and French. There is also a glossary of phrases in both languages which includes phrases such as: "It's snowing", etc. This game appears to be a modified later version of an earlier game - From Coast To Coast, but an earlier version of The Great Game Of Canada.
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1970s Canada is a version of Canada I’d like to leave behind …
… but I’m hopeful to there will be a better Canada in the 2070s
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Thanks for posting this. My feelings about celebrating Canada have become so complex since I became an adult and starting learning about Canada’s true past. I love my country, and would very willingly die for this country (a feeling that became VERY clear to me with Trump’s talk of annexation), but I can’t deny that I will never see this country quite the same way I did when I was young and naive.
This land was stolen, it should never have happened, but the clock can’t be turned back, and now there are legions of us born here, and for better or for worse we are part of this country now. I also view everyone here as my brothers and sisters, and I’m glad there are native people willing to view us that way too, although quite frankly I would not blame them if they didn’t.
We can only move forward. That’s what the Truth and Reconciliation movement is all about. Acknowledging the horrors of the past, and trying to move forward in peace together. I hope that Canada can turn into the country I thought it was when I was young.
Happy Canada Day to you.
Couldn’t agree with you more. I think it is vitally important Canadians as a whole continue to reflect on the mistakes and unthinkable things done in the past, to make sure we do everything we can to prevent anything like them in the future.
If we all held onto, and strived for, the Canada we remembered as kids, maybe we can carve a newer, better future for all Canadians, present citizens and those destined to become Canadian.
We need to look to the authoritarian, old school countries as examples of what happens if we aren’t vigilant. To lean into and integrate our cultural and political differences as a source of strength, not division.
In my opinion, only then can we really become true Canada.
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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario here - Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario.
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian brothers and sisters, landed, immigrant, nation-born, First Nation, Arch-Linux-users, Metis, religious, non-religious, whatever denomination, Lemmy-user, Fediverse-user, corpo-Social-Media-user, straight, bi, none-sexual, LGBTQ++++, black, brown, white and every shade in-between.
We have our differences, we have our troubles, we have issues, good, bad and whatever … but at the end of the day we will always be national brothers and sisters who inhabit this land.
My parents were survivors of the Residential School system but they always celebrated Canada Day never knowing the politics or history … they just enjoyed having a fun day in the middle of summer. I’ve grown to learn lots of good and bad about Canada but in all that history, I may have grown negative and dark but at the same time, as I grow older, I also realize that we have to keep hope alive and always reach out to others, especially to any potential allies. We can create a country where we can all co-exist in a cooperative way that can be equally beneficial for every individual in this country. I will always hope for that.
So good day to you all!! Kitchi-Meegwetch Misiway (Thank you very much to everyone) Nee-nas-kah-moon! (I give my praises!)
Arch-Linux-users
Fuckin lol
Happy Canada Day
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A BBQ with friends, after sleeping in late - the good life. Happy Canada Day.
Patriotism is a tricky thing in the modern world. Swirling nationalism and co-opted symbols abound. Always remember that loving your country is about knowing she can be more than she is, more than she was, but also appreciating her today.
There’s all kinds of bad news, and worse people, out there. Tough times for a lot of our neighbours. But we’re free. To worship as we choose, be who we are, love who we choose, go where we want and say what we like. It’s a rarer and rarer thing today. So let’s celebrate. Raise a glass, a fist or your voice and cheer on this great nation. Go Canada!
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1970s Canada is a version of Canada I’d like to leave behind …
… but I’m hopeful to there will be a better Canada in the 2070s
That’s a long time to hope.
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Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.
Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.
Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.
Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.
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Took a break yesterday, longer weekend. And our national holiday in Quebec was last week
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I don’t identify much with the flag, but I’ll fight to the death to defend this land if anyone tries to invade it.
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I went to my town’s Canada Day celebration this morning. It was really nice.
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Have the day off work. Went to therapy. Having a couple pints at happy hour.
Wish I was there instead of a several hundred miles south of Winnipeg. This post deserves more upvotes.
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Happy Canada Day!
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Happy Canada Day to you all.
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Happy Canada Day! Elbows up!
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Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.
Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.
Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.
Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.
Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.
Unironically, this is pretty damn Canadian. Have a good one, eh!
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I took my kids to visit their grandparents, and then we went to the town celebration. Lots of red, white, and maple leaves, but nothing too patriotic otherwise.
We’re heading to the fireworks later. They’re small, but it’s a nice community event. I always hope there’s a spontaneous round of Oh Canada after - that happened once on a foggy Canada Day in Halifax and it was amazing.
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Blew the turbocharger on my chore tractor, so I’ll be celebrating by spending $3900 at my local John Deere dealership tomorrow for a new one. Minus the $388 core, I guess.
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i’m going to stealth camp on a mountain in the city here and watch the fireworks lol
