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It is important to start campaigns or spread awareness, because it can get really serious. For example, Racism if no one was filming when the white cop was killing a black citizen in United States. No one was going to remember that racism exist, except the ones that were going though it. is also important to start campaigning’s or spread awareness because some peoples can get depressed and even kill their self. Some times you need to stop what you are doing and just go and spread awareness or start campaigns. 

 

Most of the time bullies are just insecure about their self so they will make you fell bad about yourself. Bullies can also just have some problems at home or at work and don’t know how to solve the problem. They can also just be jealous of you so they will make you fell ugly  just because of their jealousy. Bullies are going to try every thing to make you upset or hurt. Never let the bullies’ hurt or get to you because they are just upset about their self. 

 

It is important to be an upstander or an ally because some people can get really upset about those things. Always help someone that is getting bulled or getting some kind of hate. Remember bulling is never the answer to any thing. Maybe you can just try to be friends with the bullies ,because most of the times they are just alone.

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I think its important because people can celebrate that topic. If people who are that and who think they are can get power from the celebrate. I also think it is important because the other people can know about how suffer by their issue, so the other people can help them overcome the things that they`re suffering. I also think that we should campaign because the people who are suffering get courage and they get supported by the people campaigns on that day. I think people should start campaigns and spread awareness because if we stop doing the bad stuff, I think a lot of bad things are going to happiest last reason that we should do campaigns and spread awareness because if some one gets bullied they will get stress but some people who gets bullied they think that they are weak and they think that they must bully so that they will look powerful and don’t look like a looser.

 

I think the first reason why people bully someone is because of their skin color. I don’t know why but some people think that its weird or Grose of other people’s skin color so that’s why some kids bully others about their skin color. The second reason why bullying is happening is because of their face I don’t know why but people call each other ugly for example: in the book wonder the main character gets bullied because how ugly his face is. I think its ok to be ugly you just don’t bully him or she, if he or she is ugly don’t say to him or she or bully about being ugly just keep it in your mind. The third reason why people bully each other is because they are weak, people think that it is fun or its funny to bully weak kids. I saw a show and there was a weak kid who always get bullied buy the strong kids, at the end he got stronger and overpowered the bullied.

 

I think its important for being an upstander or an ally because if one person gets bullied a lot of people who will win?? So, I think it is important to be an ally or an upstander. I also think because if you don’t have friends you can be an ally or an up stander and help the kid who gets bullied then the other people will appreciate you and you can help the person who gets bullied. Its also important to be an ally or an upstander you can get help from each other and be a good friend.

It is important to start campaign or spread the awearness of of bullying, racism, or sexicm. Why? Because if we, humans, doesn’t stop what we are doing, then more and more innocent people are gonna get bullied and it is gonna cause them having this negative feeling about bullying or racism. We need to stop and start a campaign before this current problem. We NEED to spread the awearness of bullying or racsim. People bully other people because of their skin color or what gender they are or how they look like. I have experience of being bullied and it was not good. Someone could bully you just becuase they are having a bad day. When you are getting bullied, that means you are having a bad day resulting you bullying other people and the person you bullied is going bully other people ect. Thats why we need to stop this event happening. 

  

The first reason why people are bullying other people is becase of their skin colour. Racism has been a thing since 200 years ago. In the 1900’s America, black people especially black women werent allowed in the public. They were not allowed in restaurants, batthroom (except for special type of batthroom), or public facilities. Why? Because they have a different skin color than the white people in USA. In Canada, Indigenoues people were forced to go to residental schools and they were forced to to leave their family when they turn 6. They were forced to learn english and forget about their traditional language. The second reason why bullying is a problem is becuase of sexism. In asia( mostly china), women are not allowed to go to school or be educated becuase in most asian countries, they believe women are just suppose to do chores, get married, have a baby and just live for the rest of their life. This sounds cruel but its the truth. Even now, some countries are against women rights. The third reason why bullying is going on is becuase of rumors. For example, if someone did something bad to you that you dont like, you will tell other people about how bad that person and dont be friends with him. Then, what happens next  is that people will start hating on that person because of what you siad about him/her. 

 

It is importnat to upstand for these people that are being attacked or bullied is because bullies won’t stop until we stand up for the innocent people. We have rights to speak for them, we are going to help them and encourage them too. For example, lgbtq+ is something a lot of people hate which we call them “homophobic”. But thats fine, we are living in a country that has freedom so we have the rights to upstand or become ally with the people that are being attacked. Lgbtq+ is not just a normal flag, lgbtq is something units us together. Same as pink shirt day, its not just a normal day, its a day where we stop bullying and its a day where we as a community help other people. 

Spirit Day

See, I told you – no act is too small! What do I mean? Well, a student from North Surrey Secondary felt that enough was enough – she was tired of seeing people within the LBTQ+ communities face. Brittany McMillan felt that more awareness needed to be brought about to this issue. So, on October 10, 2010, she announced a campaign of wearing purple to support those who have encountered homophobia. This movement was such a success that another larger anti-homophobia campaign called, GLAAD, contacted her to get involved.

Enough of me, hear it from Brittany here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9NeKoHN0R8

So why is it called Spirit Day? On the Pride Flag (also called the Rainbow Flag) – each colour represents its’ own theme. Purple represents spirit.

Let’s discuss a couple of important terms:

Homophobia is defined as the irrational fear, distrust, dislike or even hatred of people who are a part of the LGBTQ members.

An Ally is defined as who is not a part of the LGBTQ+ community but supports the fight for equal rights and stopping prejudices like homophobia.

Without me saying too much – let’s discuss some of your ideas. Please respond to the following questions below using detailed sentences.

  1. Why is it important to start campaigns and/or plan days to spread awareness on important issues? (6 sentences)
  2. What do you think are 3 possible reasons of why people bully others – think of various issues, not just a school setting. (6 sentences) Daniel Levy, a popular Canadian actor had this to say about bullying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOqSWKLjXUw
  3. Why is it important to be an upstander or an ally? (5-8 sentences)

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2021 election

My thoughts on the 2021 Federal election is that it was really unnecessary because right now, we’re going through the difficult epidemic of COVID-19, and I thought the priority was to focus on this virus first, then focus on the election. And it costed a lot of money due to the election which was the most unnecessary thing that could ever happen right now because you could use all of that money to help the doctors and nurses in the front line of the battle against the virus, and all this money could help them buy a lot of ventilators for the patients. They could’ve used all this money to maybe help with the vaccine advancement because the virus could mutate and be more powerful, and eventually become powerful enough to overcome our vaccine. They could also use this money to help climate change. As you know, right now, climate change was never so important to care about, because the ice in the north pole is melting, and nobody has done anything about it, so if I was Prime Minister, I would care about these important things first.

But if the virus didn’t exist, I would probably vote for rather NDP . I would choose the NDP because If elected, an NDP government would continue subsids for small businesses to help them pay rent and staff until they’re able to fully reopen after the pandemic. An NDP government would also bring back the Automotive Innovation Fund, which gave money to auto manufacturers to create new technologies and make these contributions tax-free. an NDP government would set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. An NDP government would protect 30% of Canada’s land, freshwater, and oceans by 2030, and they would start a 10-year plan to bring back species that are dying out and would expand. The NDP government would work towards global peace by supporting Nuclear bomb disarmament and making sure Canadian made weapons aren’t used in foreign conflicts or human rights abuses. The NDP would work with the provinces and territories to improve access to primary care. An NDP government would work with the provinces to put in place a national pharmacare plan, with a $10,000,000,000 (10 billion)/year investment from the federal government. An NDP government would also develop a national strategy to pay for costs of drugs for rare diseases.

2021 election

Pandemic, Asian hate crime. All these things happened in 2020-2021. Hi my name is Justin and I want to talk about the federal election and how it impacts our life. 

 In 2019, the Canada federal election happened, and it was very important. By saying important im meaning very important because this election will affect every citizen that are in Canada. This election will effect economy, health care, minimum wage, enviorment and how this country will work. As a citizen that lives in Canada, I have the rights to say things about the government and comment about the government on how they did and how they made a impact to this country. 

  What are my thoughts on the election? Well in my opinion, I think this election is useless because he hosted this election to get more seats, but he only got like 2 seats. He said it himself that we should not go out in crowd too often because of “Covid restriction.” He is the one making the rules and now hes violating the rules so Mr.Trudue, you got something to say? Not only that but spending all our money to host the election. So I think I made it very clear, this election was useless, again this is just my opinion on the election. 

If I would vote for a canidate, I would vote for the green party. Reasons are that the green party is very good at protecting the environment and building more less pollution buildings. In my opinion, Carrie Mcleran can do a good job on doing these things. Another reason I like about this reason is that she doesn’t like to build the pipeline because she thinks that its polluting the oxygen. I think it is extremely important to help save the environment a bit. I know the pipeline helps the economy for the whole entire Canada but we need to think about what will it affect the surroundings. 

Now we are in the biggest topic for this comment blog, which party do you like and why? Well, honestly, I think that these parties are all good at a single point. The liberal can bring more immigrants to Canada, the conservative is like a modern style ish party, the green party can do a better job than liberal and conservative at keeping Canada a better place for environment. But the thing is that every single party I listed out here are not good at doing certain things. They all have improved in the past few years but they still have plenty of things they can do better at. Liberal is more of a freedom party where people can do drugs, they can have gay marriage, and immigration etc. Green party is more of a clean, environment party, they don’t support building the pipelines and etc. So I don’t really have a party that I like that much, but if you want me to say a party then I would say liberal. 

People think that calling for this election is completely useless and you know what, I agree with them. First of all, our prime minister said we should not go out to public areans too often, but now what he is doing is showing me that he doesn’t care about pandemic. This election is totally useless because just like what I said before, him calling this election is to get more seats but he only got two, that shows me two things. 1: He is not doing a good job in the past few years as a result, he doesn’t have much seats. 2: he is using our money to host his election and of course people won’t like his election thing going on because it is wasting our money for him.  

 

Federal Election 2021

 

Millions of Canadians 'want to be heard': Trudeau triggers federal election,  sends voters to polls on Sept. 20 - The Hill TimesSimilar to last year at this time, the Trudeau government has called another election. For the past couple of weeks we have been learning more about the different parties, what they believe in as well as which party you find interesting.

Please respond to the questions below:

  1. What are you thoughts on the election? (3 sentences)
  2. If you were to vote for a candidate in your riding (area), who would you have voted? (2 sentences)
  3. What are 6 reasons why you like this party? Pick one reason from each category, like the environment, healthcare, immigration, etc. Visit: https://pollenize.org/en/elections/canada-2021/justin-trudeau (6 sentences)
  4. Some Canadians feel that calling an election during the pandemic was unnecessary. What do you think about this? Visit: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ipsos-poll-canadian-federal-election-anger-1.6158637   (5 sentences)

Please respond in paragraphs. Your response should be in sentences, with correct grammar and spelling. Be as detailed as you can!

Balance the budget or spend, spend, spend? Canadians divided amid pandemic  election - National | Globalnews.ca

Hate Crimes

2020-2021 has unfortunately seen quite a few racially motivated atrocities. As we studied in the beginning of the year, George Floyd’s death sparked a nerve in people all around the world, of all different backgrounds and cultures. People banded together to say enough is enough: treat us with the respect we deserve. The Black Lives Matter movement has been very strong in articulating against racism, discrimination and bringing attention to systematic racism and white privilege.

Unfortunately, this work has not been enough to educate people into changing their racist, prejudiced mindsets. Instead, attacks against Asian-Canadians and Americans have skyrocketed.

This also saddens me and brings back deja-vu moments of when I was your age. In grade 6, yes, I was your age once (ha!), the September 11th attacks had occurred. I vividly remember going to school on the morning of September 11th and seeing my Muslim friend. We knew that life going forward would come with uncertainty – the exact same uncertainty that people are experiencing again. Attacks against Muslims and Sikhs/Indians in the West drastically increased. As we discussed, Islamophobia was created – the hatred/prejudice of Muslims and/or Islam. Why? Because some people believed that terrorists = brown-skinned people.

Why do I bring this up? Well, for one simple reason: have people learned their lesson from when I was a student? Why is it that innocent people experience hate when they have literally no relation to the ongoing issue? The attacks happened, blame brown-skinned people. The Corona Virus happened, blame Asian-Canadians. They didn’t cause this! They’re as upset as everyone else.

Notable terms that you already know, but definitely want to include in your post:

  1. Discrimination: The unfair treatment of a person, people or group of people because of a characteristic like ethnicity, race, gender, age, etc.
  2. Prejudice: Negative and unreasonable attitudes/feelings (usually based off of stereotypes) about members of a group
  3. Xenophobia: Dislike, fear or hatred against people/things that are seen to be foreign.
  4. Racism: Prejudice, discrimination and/or hatred against a person or group of people based on their racial, cultural, or ethnic background.
  5. Stereotypes: Oversimplified, untrue generalisation about a group of people.

Like many of our posts regarding discrimination, this is an issue that can be very difficult to speak about. Please treat this matter with the respect and care that it deserves. My questions for you are:

  1. Do you think that leaders in government (Mayors, Premiers, and Prime Minister) are doing enough to speak out against this sort of discrimination?
  2. Can you think of other areas in society (schools, organisations, universities/colleges, jobs, etc.) where more should be done to highlight and condemn such behaviour?
  3. What sorts of things can we all do to help decrease and speak up about this issue? How can we make it so that Asian-Canadians feels safe?
  4. What are your thoughts, questions, opinions on these issues?

Please read the below articles to help provide you with some further information, research and stats. Your blog post should be roughly 20-25 sentences (or more :)).

https://globalnews.ca/news/7764543/anti-asian-hate-crimes-burnaby-increase/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/asian-racism-hate-canada-pandemic-1.5959788

https://www.rappler.com/world/us-canada/coronavirus-fueling-anti-asian-hate-crimes-canada

https://www.cheknews.ca/people-are-trying-to-find-someone-to-blame-rallies-against-anti-asian-hate-pop-up-across-canada-756823/

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