Today is #NewstodonFriday, a day to feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you're a journo or newsroom that we don't know about (or there's someone that should be on our radar), please comment below.
Hope’s documents, from her citizenship certificate to her original #passport, listed her country of birth as South Africa. However, when the #Toronto family went to renew her passport, the records of the Immigration, Refugees & #CitizenshipCanada system didn’t match.
“Someone at IRCC recorded on her internal record that she was born in Swaziland, not South Africa... It was an error in their system.”
@msquebanh When I was a child I don't think Swaziland was recognized by anyone as an independent nation. I figured this was all cleared up after South Africa changed and dropped apartheid. So this should be a simple fix.
One of my fisherman friends brought me some wild #salmon & free #corn 🙂
Cooked up for family. I'm having just a wee bit as my friend is taking me out in 2 hours.
@msquebanh This is something I should know more about. Are there other methods of farming salmon that are not destructive? I do buy farmed salmon, from Norway. Should I not??
The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.😡
When cops decide to help themselves to your property, they can do it without a warrant, without securing a conviction, without even charging you with a crime. 😡
When the government doesn't obey the law,
Then there is no law.
Billy Jack 1971
@maddad@janisf Guns are almost always the way. Sure, Gahdi managed to drive out 1K of Brits by getting them so tired of beating the crap out of Indians that they went home... But that is an aberration in history. Most revolutions happen when someone picks up arms and starts slashing.
@janisf@maddad It's been a few decades since I read "Freedom at Midnight" or saw that kingsley movie about Gandhi, but ya, he had lots of help... and that help was guys with guns. :)
@maddad@janisf You are currently living in one in the most peaceful times in human history, in one of the most peaceful nations on earth. Historians have called this era "The Great Peace."
For revolution and forcing change, guns or other weapons ALWAYS work.