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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My dad is a veteran and he said it was hurtful to see young Canadians hating the country for its past.

    This feels like it’s downplaying the horrors in our history.

    I don’t think there’s many “young Canadians hating the country for its past.” I do think younger people feel shame for some of our collective past actions and guilty for how they may benefit from those actions. Personally, think reconciliation is important, and that issues like residential schools are not done and gone because they’re in the past, they continue to affect people in the present, and potentially for generations to come.







  • So if you neglected your paperwork for something, you wouldn’t help one of your family? Seems incredibly callous.

    I’m not sure what you are trying to say here?

    Stuff happens. Life happens. Paperwork is forgotten, sometimes id is lost , stolen, etc. What happened to that woman isn’t illegal for her, something could have been done to help.

    And she’s in the country she has citizenship for. They can help.

    Put yourself in that woman’s shoes for just one second.

    I’m having a hard time with this, because I don’t know how I’d end up in her situation. She says Canada is her home, but hasn’t apply for citizenship for over 2 decades (it’s legal to have dual UK & Canadian citizenship). She goes on an overseas trip, but only brings 3 extra days of lifesaving medication. She’s offered a loophole to get home(enter through a land border), but doesn’t take it. She is a specialist in crisis management, but can’t manage this crisis.



  • I have empathy for people who are put in awful situations, not people who taking risky actions. Some people just can’t be helped. For example:

    The Ottawa resident planned to be in England for five days in mid-March to make arrangements for her ailing mother, bringing along eight days worth of drugs to manage her diabetes and auto-immune disease.

    I’ve seen advice that you should take up to 30-60 extra days of medication when traveling abroad, just in case.

    She’s in the country of her sole-citizenship. This is part of the process when you put off finalizing paperwork for 2+ decades. Both the UK and Canada allow for dual citizenship.