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No carbon cuts or ocean protection without pipeline, Trudeau says
'The only way we can get any of those things is if we do all 3 of those things together,' PM says
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to bridge the divide between Alberta and British Columbia on Friday with a vow that climate change and spill protection programs won’t go ahead unless the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is built.
Trudeau, speaking with On the Island host Gregor Craigie ahead of the last stop on his cross-country town hall tour in Nanaimo, reiterated the assurance he made on his stop the day before in Edmonton that the Trans Mountain project will go ahead.

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Justin Trudeau is literally trying to blackmail and force an oil pipeline project on a province through threats.

Can we please get over this man. Look beyond his selfies and look at what he is actually saying and doing. This is disgusting.

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Also, it’s entirely possible to protect the ocean and wilderness without building a pipeline, they can be done as separate bills, so he is 100% full of shit when he says ‘we can’t do the protection without the pipeline guys =/ just not doable =/’

He is very literally blackmailing the provinces by holding environmental protections acts over our heads unless we build pipelines through EXTREMELY sensitive area’s that cannot afford even ONE spill.

So @ americans, please stop, STOP idolizing this asshole. He has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GOOD for us.

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Justin Trudeau, 2015: 

“While governments grant permits for resource development, only communities can grant permission.”

and:

“Those two things, the environment and the economy, they go together like paddles and canoes. Unless you have both, you won’t get to where you are going, because you can’t have a strong economy without a healthy environment.”

Justin Trudeau, 2018:

“That pipeline is going to get built. We will stand by our decision, we will ensure that the Kinder Morgan pipeline gets built.”

and:

“The issue we have is, if we don’t move forward in getting our resources over to markets overseas in safe and secure ways, the rest of the plan no longer holds,” Trudeau said.

“We won’t get the Oceans Protection Plan investments. We won’t get a national price on carbon and we would never meet our Paris targets [on reducing carbon emissions].”

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“Men get raped too”. Why is there a “too” there? Men get raped. This is a huge problem, it is an important issue, and it deserves it’s own platform. The “too” only shows up to silence women when the conversation is centered around women survivors of sexual assault. The people who use that “too” are actually doing male and female survivors a huge disservice, they are feeding the sexual assault silencing machine society has created.  You see, they are using a serious issue like male rape to silence women instead of working on giving it its own platform. This has a massively adverse effect. It trivialises male rape instead of amplifying it. Which goes to say a majority of the people using it are not victims themselves. And that is deeply upsetting because not enough male survivors come forward, there are not enough platforms for them, there is certainly not nearly enough support and they NEED it. If people were showing up on male rape conversations saying, “Women get raped too” I would be the first person to shut that down, because how dare they belittle any survivor’s story that way? Our trauma is not your silencing weapon, it is not your tool, it is not your rhetoric, it is not your narrative. Have some respect.

Nikita Gill, “Men Get Raped Too” (TRIGGER WARNING)

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Millennials finally fall out of love with Justin Trudeau after he abandons electoral reform: Opinion
For many young voters, Harper's government was all they had ever known. Trudeau was supposed to be different
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Sorry, kids: you’ve been had. I don’t mean to be patronizing — to the extent that I can be patronizing of my own contemporaries — but it appears the millennial fantasy of Liberal exceptionalism when it comes to “the same old politics” in Ottawa is, at last, starting to fade. Thanks, electoral reform.
I can only speak anecdotally, of course (the preferred method of data collection among millennials, or didn’t you know?!) but it appears young voters are particularly aghast that the prime minister of Canada would break his campaign promise to overhaul the way we hold our elections.
While many older voters yawned and mumbled something about “same old Liberals” following the government’s about-face last week, the under-35 cohort found themselves seething over the apparent betrayal, vowing in long screeds on Facebook and Reddit to never vote Liberal again. Some went further, launching and signing petitions, emails and letter-writing campaigns to their MPs, while others organized weekend rallies to demonstrate their fury over the broken promise.
Their passion was striking, but not altogether surprising: for many young voters, Stephen Harper led the only federal government they had really ever known. For most of their adult or near-adult lives, the government had been run by a bunch of wooden-looking dudes who were reportedly anti-science, anti-marijuana, anti-infrastructure and anti-change.
Then along came Justin Trudeau, who talked about climate change, feminism, investing in infrastructure and smoking weed. He was the antithesis of everything they had known about federal politics in Canada, and he vowed to overhaul it completely — right down to the very fundamentals of how we form our governments. They trusted him, gave him their votes and arguably handed him his majority.

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Actions to Protect Vancouver's Chinatown
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From 唐人街關注組 Chinatown Concern Group:

Didn’t make it to the open house? Not sure what to do next? Here are a couple ways to act to protect Chinatown. Please share!
1. Submit your comments NOW to the city and reaffirm 唐人街關注組 Chinatown Concern Group​’s demands. Click here for comment link and demands: http://wp.me/P5U2hU-ye
2. Sign our Leadnow.ca - À l'Action petition demanding social housing and community space on 105 Keefer: https://you.leadnow.ca/…/protect-the-heart-of-vancouver-s-c…
3. Make sure you sign up for CCG’s contact list for updates, events and volunteer opportunities: http://eepurl.com/bJ5yqT

The deadline for comments has now been extended to March 31, 2017. Here is where you can submit your comments: http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/chinatown-revitalization.aspx

For language assistance (Mandarin), call 3-1-1.

One of the city planners, Helen Ma, has offered to help with Cantonese translation:

Helen Ma - Planner, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhoods Group, Planning & Development Services Tel 604.873.7919 Email helen.ma@vancouver.ca

For information (in English & Chinese) about the city’s proposals, the open house boards have been posted: http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/chinatown-open-house-boards.pdf

Updated ones with comments the city has heard so far will be posted in the next week. 

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I’m fourteen years old and I’m wearing a skirt that’s too small for me. when I kiss my parents goodbye a family friend looks at me, then at my parents in disbelief. “You’re letting her out like that?” I almost snap at him but when I meet his gaze I don’t see judgement but fear. I’m fifteen and my friend and I don’t walk down big streets at night. When men yell at us it makes our skin crawl. I’m sixteen when a girl in my class buys a keychain that doubles as a knife I tell my mother and she teaches me how to wield my house keys like a weapon I’m seventeen years old and it’s almost two a.m. I want to walk home but my friends block the door. They’re scared if they let me go it’ll be for the last time. Now I get it. I see why my mother can’t sleep when I’m out, I understand why my male friends slide their arms around me when it gets dark. When my grandmother eyes my hemline like it’s poisonous, I get it. My parents do everything they can to keep me safe but they can’t change the fact that my body is a war zone, they can’t help that there’s too much hunger in this world for safety, they can’t close their ears when the man on the news says one in five women experience sexual assault before they graduate college. I’m eighteen years old. I’m at a party, and as I back away from a drunken boy he fixes his eyes on me and asks, “What are you so scared of?”

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Sarah died of brain cancer 3 months after we graduated, sophomore year Sam stopped eating and started making excuses for skipping lunch, a few months later Savannah carved ‘not good enough’ into the thick of her thighs, Rachel lost her mother to radiation and couldn’t stop picturing hospital beds when she closed her eyes, Steph started drinking to forget about the boy that hit her, Kayla snorted whatever she was offered to forget about the boy that raped her, and they’re all just girls with painted finger nails, straightened hair, they’re all just whiskey princesses with eyes that shine in the sunlight, laughs that fill the whole room, they’re girls who scream confidence, who scream pretty, girls who are all kinds of beautiful, girls who didn’t get what they deserved.

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He says the world is ugly. I agree. We spend hours talking ourselves into tears over all the broken things we have no way of fixing. We talk ourselves furious. We talk until we are empty. Then I say, but the world is beautiful, sometimes. He says, You’re beautiful. But the world isnt. I say I am in the world so the world must be beautiful, sometimes. He says, You are the world. You are the world. I say, so sometimes I am ugly. He says, not to me. Never to me.

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When it ended, It was not deadly.
It was simply, 
“I’m here on the other side of the country if you need me, try not to need me, my new girlfriend is a light sleeper.”

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she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”