A bit of an easier time up here in Northern Ontario as we don’t seem to get too many far right extremists … we have them, just not as prevalent. The Canadian west have a hell of time with this mentality … BC has a lot of denialism because that is where the whole Residential School awareness campaign started from … Alberta is well Alberta … and Saskatchewan and Manitoba are becoming more like Alberta-lite
I could always gauge the Canadian mentality by public washroom stalls. I took a motorcycle trip out west from northern Ontario to the BC interior in 2001. Great ride and a great public washroom stall education. In northern Ontario there is some racism, misogyny, a lot penises and generally just goofy humour … Manitoba / Saskatchewan were more or less the same and had quite a bit of racism, Native humour, some penises, lots of boobs and some funny jokes … Alberta was the worst and it felt like they had literal paid artists and writers painting the stalls with the most elaborate racist homophobic messages, notes and entire scripts with images on the walls (a common one was in labelling the toilet paper holder as a ‘turban roll’).
Our greatest protection up here is that we live in mushkeg which no one wants to live on. We have bitter cold winters and summers are filled with biting insects and the seasons in between are about the only times you can enjoy this land.
So all in all … we’re doing OK here … we’ve always done OK here … and I guess we’ll do OK for the foreseeable future.
A bit of an easier time up here in Northern Ontario as we don’t seem to get too many far right extremists … we have them, just not as prevalent. The Canadian west have a hell of time with this mentality … BC has a lot of denialism because that is where the whole Residential School awareness campaign started from … Alberta is well Alberta … and Saskatchewan and Manitoba are becoming more like Alberta-lite
I could always gauge the Canadian mentality by public washroom stalls. I took a motorcycle trip out west from northern Ontario to the BC interior in 2001. Great ride and a great public washroom stall education. In northern Ontario there is some racism, misogyny, a lot penises and generally just goofy humour … Manitoba / Saskatchewan were more or less the same and had quite a bit of racism, Native humour, some penises, lots of boobs and some funny jokes … Alberta was the worst and it felt like they had literal paid artists and writers painting the stalls with the most elaborate racist homophobic messages, notes and entire scripts with images on the walls (a common one was in labelling the toilet paper holder as a ‘turban roll’).
Our greatest protection up here is that we live in mushkeg which no one wants to live on. We have bitter cold winters and summers are filled with biting insects and the seasons in between are about the only times you can enjoy this land.
So all in all … we’re doing OK here … we’ve always done OK here … and I guess we’ll do OK for the foreseeable future.
Wachiyeh doodem … (greetings, my friend)