Quantcast
Channel: equality – Nina's Soap Bubble Box
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 195

For Better or For Worse

$
0
0

for better

for worse

 

Sadly even in Canada we do need to be concerned about Police

From “Starlight Cruises” (google Neil Stonechild to learn more…) in Saskatchewan where Indigenous people are left out in the winter without shoes and far away from anywhere warm

to Ian Bush being executed in a jail cell in BC for having a beer in public and being mouthy

to the Vancouver Airport Tasering Incident

queer bashings and even hetero women rape is under reported to police

because there is no expectation of help

and the alleged corrective process is often worse than the inciting incident

at the time I wrote this article, I talked to a man who had been lured out of a gay bar, beaten and left in a heap

the cops insisted it was a robbery with name calling

but they didn’t take his cash, his watch or a $2000 ring he had

they mugged him and didn’t take anything but his sense of safety at being in the world

and the cops took away his dignity

 

heavy sigh… happier thoughts…

Svend Robinson

 

one of my proudest possessions

a letter from canada’s first gay politician complaining about me

How cool is that?

he takes a shot at me (the news editor) and then calls for getting along

I guess he didn’t think that one through and shouldn’t have been surprised at the following lack of coverage for him

 

jouralism

 



Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 195

Trending Articles