very round and good! his face shows an emotion that i can’t quite describe. 10/10

here we have an arts and crafts frog! he has a nice figure but his lack of eyes is unsettling. 6/10

this is a truly excellent frog, he’s going places and he doesn’t care how long it takes. 12/10 for realism.

this frog looks like he’s having a cheeky little giggle at you for being in the bathroom for so long. something about him unsettles me. 2/10

this is the woodchime frog. he watches you smugly. i don’t like how he’s watching me, 5/10 because he’s kinda cute anyway

i hate it. 0/10

this fellow is perched right next to the toilet. one eye stares directly at your back, while the other looks at the wall. 6/10 good frog shape but still very unsettling

a truly excellent pair of comrades! double frog points 20/10

Important thread by Jared A. Walker in his interactions with WestJet and their zero exceptions policies on baggage from Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.

Here’s all my art prints: https://society6.com/ullathynell/prints

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Far-right protesters gathered Sunday in front of Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s offices at the corner of St-Antoine and Peel Sts. in downtown Montreal.

About 200 members of the groups La Meute and Storm Alliance demonstrated on St-Antoine St. after exiting from the building at 1000 de La Gauchetière a little after 1 p.m., shouting slogans and uttering wolf howls.

A large police presence was on hand for the event and St. Antoine Street was closed between Mansfield and Peel Sts.

A First Nations woman working to revive a threatened language in her traditional territory of northern British Columbia says she’s being forced to leave the country on Canada Day.

Mique'l Dangeli belongs to the Tsimshian First Nation, whose territory straddles the border between Alaska and British Columbia. She says Canada won’t recognize her right to live and work in B.C. because she was born on the American side on Annette Island Indian Reserve.

Her visa expires July 1, she said.

“For me, what I consider home is my home community and my people’s traditional territory, which is northern B.C.,” she said. “We’re not immigrants to our people’s traditional territory.”

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The same day Doug Ford was sworn in his newly appointed Deputy Attorney General quietly passed a memo revoking the OSIU (Ontario Special Investigations Act) Act.

This is the OSIU Act:

Ontario strengthening police oversight, redefining core police duties

Alright, let’s take a breathe. While this is obviously a move in the wrong direction, and it’s telling that this is one of the first moves, this isn’t a repeal of OHIP+. It only affects children who are already covered by their parents insurance. It means medical bills will first be charged to their private insurance, and then the remainder will be paid by the government. It won’t affect anyone who doesn’t have private insurance.

I never said the program was ending and neither did the article, which I quoted long enough to ensure that people knew what the PC’s are doing.

Stripping a universal healthcare policy so that it is only universal if you don’t have private insurance is a BAD THING. 

Stripping universality from public programs is the first step in how privatization and defunding of public programs happens. People should not have to depend on private insurance to know whether they are covered or not. The point of a universal system is that everyone is covered no matter what. This is how Canada’s healthcare system is based, and it is how pharmacare should be based.

Having young folks insured without having to go through their parents’ private insurance leads to more teens and young adults having a more comprehensive say in their own healthcare and removes an unnecessary barrier of access.

Especially for the young adults who are trying to get their lives together healthcare access is one of the ways abusive parents keep hold over their adult children and that goes double for disabled folks.

For many Ontarians this is not going to have an immediate effect, but weakening hard-earned gains in the healthcare system is always a step for more. And historically the conservatives always take more steps towards privatization, they start with more things that seem innocuous, but when we let healthcare coverage slide it never stops in just one place.

These gains are hard-earned through the efforts of those that came before, trying to fight for better healthcare and coverage for all Canadians. It was a step towards true universal healthcare that actually included pharmacare for all Canadians, but now that is already being clawed back. 

It gets harder to achieve the goal of universal pharmacare if we do this two steps forward one step back dance. Especially since the conservatives take as many steps back as they can at a time and sometimes we get two steps forward ten steps back.

Bethany Yellowtail, indigenous Crow/Northern Cheyenne designer, was featured in Vogue recently and I’m in love with this spread