So-called Canadians who are looking at what’s happening in Minneapolis with any kind of smug disbelief, never forget that our government rolled tanks into Oka in order to build a golf course.

In 2010 the Toronto police built open air prisons to illegally detain g20 protesters.

The cop who murdered Sammy Yatim was granted full parole after only 6 years in prison

The RCMP and the military were sent to remove indigenous activists from the Unist'ot'en camp just a few months ago

State violence against poor and marginalized people is the cornerstone of Western liberal democracy.

I think because American violence seems so much more sensationalized it is easy for well intentioned people to say “well at least we aren’t like them”, despite the fact that we absolutely are.

If the threat of violence is the only thing holding society together then it’s a pretty shit society to begin with