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Fun fact: the last residential school for native children closed in the 90s.

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[–] Cybermass 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I often joke that natives are the black people of Canada, but it's sad there's still so much injustice for natives here in Canada. My best friend was killed by a truck driver while he was trying to ride his bike to work in the morning and they never even charged the guy, as far as I know he's still driving around. Burying him was more painful than having a kidney stone and the fact that he won't see justice because he's native and cops don't care is just salt on the wound.

[–] Cannibal_MoshpitV3 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sorry to hear about that. Can anything be done?

[–] Cybermass 6 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately not, this was 2 years ago now. Nothing to do but move on πŸ˜•

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Canadian justice system is notoriously lenient and also incredibly slow.

We have a dude who cut off and ate part of someone's head on a greyhound bus... who's been released to general population with only medication stipulations