Until recently I'd say I didn't realize how lucky I was. When I walk to the store I do not dodge bullets or worry about mines. When I go to bed in my kingsize pillow top I am warm and I do not share with my 5 sisters and Granny. I do not worry about a tornado to ruin my home and car. I live in luxury really and I am not hungry ever. I do not fear my Government or anticipate a meltdown due to debt that I didn't create. I am not forced to fight for my life. I am not helpless and the problems of life are not unfixable. I will never have to take cover just after breakfast instead of having a hot shower and a joint. I won't have to barracade my door to protect my baby from crazy diseased rapists. I don't have much to worry about. I live in Canada.
Something I've taken for granted since birth...
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So very, very true. I am glad and proud to be Canadian and thankful that I'm not any thing else. Now if only Canada had a tropical climate then I'd be truly, truly in heaven.
(summer please hurry!)
(summer please hurry!)
Im with you I am so very fortunate to be born and raised in Canada i bitch about some things in terms of governemnt and cost of living and that but it's trivial in comparison to what some people endure.
I was reading an article online yesterday about this lady that goes to Haiti to provide aid and try to educate people there on how to grow their own food.
I have heard about countries with malnourished people and especially children and was fully aware of it but what she said I hadn't really thought about and that is this.....Mothers in Haiti ( and other countries probably) actually decide which children to feed ....some look like they will make it so they are fed others don't so they aren't and that is so incredibly sad....so I bitch no more about anything
I'm fortunate....period!!
I was reading an article online yesterday about this lady that goes to Haiti to provide aid and try to educate people there on how to grow their own food.
I have heard about countries with malnourished people and especially children and was fully aware of it but what she said I hadn't really thought about and that is this.....Mothers in Haiti ( and other countries probably) actually decide which children to feed ....some look like they will make it so they are fed others don't so they aren't and that is so incredibly sad....so I bitch no more about anything
I'm fortunate....period!!
Very well said. You should be noted for this statement. You have a good head on you shoulders it seems.
These things are true for most but not all Canadians.
If you are native chances are you live in poverty without a source of safe drinking water. if you are a native male the chance that you are today in jail is 10 times that of non-natives.
Meyer Arar, the Canadian citizen sent by the RCMP to Syria to be tortured...
The death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport.
Canada may be one of the best places to live on earth but this is still a country where people can live and die in fear.
Oh PLEASE, quit the stupid lies
Dziekanski was not a Canadian
Arar was deported by AMERICANS while travelling in AMERICA
Dziekanski was not a Canadian
Arar was deported by AMERICANS while travelling in AMERICA
I agree. It's funny because we all wake up everyday in fear that we are not doing enough with our lives while others wake up in fear hoping to do the right things to live till tomorrow. We are so lucky, this is why we should all do our part in helping everyone else.
Dziekanski- Watch the video. There was four RCMP officers tasering him mercilessly. Later he was dead. That is a black mark for a "tolerant" and amiable people. One should also follow up with the recent arrest of one of the four officers involved, who was charged on an entirely different situation.
Arar was deported by the americans on information the CSIS and RCMP supplied. The fact that he was a canadian citizen being tortured in a foreign country at the "behest" of the American government is despicable and the actions of the Canadian government prior to and after that deportation is disgusting.
We can add the gassing of protesters at the Apec Summit in Vancouver in 97; the Canada Day Riots in Edmonton in 2001; the Boxing day, 2005 shooting of Jane Creba and the current situation with Omar Khadr.
Canada is not perfect, nor is it in anyway the utopia of myth. It has its serious problems and grave concerns not unlike any other western nation. Yes it could be better than some places, but it still has a long way to go.
I am still grateful I do not live anywhere but here, Vancouver. BC. We do not have starvation, rampant disease, women can wear what they want, be who they want, all children have a right to education, and many more reasons, I'm just too lazy to type them all. There is still human error though, the tazering death of a man can't be blamed on our country, that was the product of a couple power mad cops with tazer guns. People are not infallible, not everyone was raised the same or has the same kind of mental stability. I'd write more, but I'm not big on long posts.
I think this is a great country but too many people just say we have no problems.
Innocent people being tazered to death and no decision on charges being laid after one year?
Thousands of homeless in one of the richest cities in the world?
RCMP handing so-called terrorists over the the USA. Natives live in third world conditions - people die on waiting lists.
Canada may be better than most countries but blindly running around saying there are no problems does not advance our democracy.
^iawtc - only thing I have to disagree is that we don't have capitol punishmentSo very, very true. I am glad and proud to be Canadian and thankful that I'm not any thing else. Now if only Canada had a tropical climate then I'd be truly, truly in heaven.
