New law makes Canadian Jews second-class citizens | Toronto Star

ilzolende:

nuclearspaceheater:

ayellowbirds:

quasi-normalcy:

So here’s a terrifying implication of Canada’s new citizenship law that I’ve not heard anyone mention before.

I expected this when I heard about the standards of the new law :

Can a Jew formally renounce their Right of Return in a way that Israel would consider binding?

IDK, maybe Israel would be willing to accept some conditional renunciation of the right? Probably not, though.

This seems like a mess.

to hell with Judaism I’m American

I thought I was safe the day I took the oath

“Welcome home,” they said

(we’ll see what “they will consider expanding“ means)


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#the people in this riding are ever so polite #they are kind and they do not insult you to your face #they may even believe on some level that they like me #but they’re going to elect *him* again #oh I’ll do my part to fight it #I’ll cast the vote he didn’t think I should have #and it’s not going to work #I see those blue signs all over town and I think of every proudly xenophobic message he’s had placed in our mailbox over the years #one time he talked about asylum seekers from the European Union #he said it was suspicious #as if anyone from such an advanced place could *possibly* need asylum #(I don’t think he used ‘advanced’ but that was basically the implication) #he said this a couple weeks after I saw news about a mob in Hungary trying to lynch a Romany family #to this day it is what I think of when I think of him #our home and cherished land #(it says it in every post I make about Canada) #(the elephant in the room) #(the unspoken word) #(*native*) #tag rambles

sinesalvatorem:

If I wrestled a black bear to protect a moose sanctuary while drinking maple syrup from a bottle made of recycled plastic, maybe then Canada would think I was patriotic enough that they’d let me stay.

Me talkin aboot patriotism, eh.

*Also there should be a Zamboni involved.

(A person I once knew said to me after we watched a Zamboni doing its rounds “You’ve watched a Zamboni clean a rink! Now you’re a real Canadian!”)


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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #reply via reblog #our home and cherished land

Home!

*flop*

hooooome


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#hoooooome #my very own couch to convalesce on #my very own bed to sleep in #complete with humidifier/white-noise-generator to drown out my parents’ snoring down the hall #my very own health card in case I trip and break something #(we *did* have travel insurance) #(but it doesn’t completely soothe the paranoia) #hooooooome #oh look an original post #our home and cherished land


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ravishingtheroyals:

Britain’s 10 Longest Reigning Monarchs as of September 9th, 2015


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I’ll Be In Toronto From December 17th – 28th

sinesalvatorem:

… And I have nowhere to stay. It’ll be at the end of my stay in Canada, and the college I’ll be at during the few months I’m there will kick me out on the 17th, fly me to Toronto, and then hope I don’t die in the 10 days before I can go home.

OTOH, if I *do* die, the scholarship people don’t have to pay to fly me back home. Either way, *someone* is happy. It’s a win-win, really.

If you live in/near Toronto, or know someone who does, and have a mild preference for fewer Alison-shape popsicles littering your city streets, would you consider hosting me for at least some of that time? I’m not particularly messy, and I’ll probably spend most of that time cowering under the bed and avoiding human contact. Unless you like human contact, in which case I can indulge your bizarre preferences.

If you aren’t in the general vicinity of Toronto but have followers who are, could you please reblog this? Thanks.

Remember: Only you can prevent Alison-popsicles.

Sorry, I don’t have people-hosting authority for my house, and a 90-minute drive might not count as “near” Toronto anyway. (It’s certainly far enough that we hardly ever go there, and consider it an Event when we do.) If you can’t find anyone to give you housing but can find someone to give you…*looks up numbers* ~CAD$260, I recommend the Canadiana Inn hostel. I had a good experience there.


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