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The message says the certificate must be surrendered during an investigation because the application didn’t cite proof of Canadian family from original sources, such as vital statistics, or explain why original documents were not provided.

Montreal police have launched an investigation into 16 officers who are accused of carrying out 'co-ordinated' racist and hateful acts against Black and Arab people during police stops.

On Friday, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) announced it dismantled a night patrol unit at Station 39 and removed 16 officers from patrol duties amid accusations of racial profiling and discrimination against Black and Arab people during police stops in the borough.

According to a Radio-Canada source, the officers have been accused of collecting pieces of locs, sometimes called dreadlocks, that had been cut from people during police interventions to keep as "trophies." Radio-Canada also reported that tickets were allegedly issued to citizens solely on the basis of their ethnic background.

context because this is kinda a terminally online meme:

A popular online "looksmaxxer" got a bunch of cosmetic surgery and people are making fun of how it isn't worth it for male insecurities

This guy is an asshole and the hate is deserved. He shot an alligator on stream for views (which is illegal btw) and overdosed on stream and a bunch of other bad shit. Along with promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.

For those that don't know looksmaxxing is a movement that expanded from incel culture and involves taking TRT (steroids) underage, smashing your face bones with a hammer, diy surgeries, etc. It is expanding massively online and creates a LOT of new words that Gen z use half ironically half unironically.

TLDR: Dumbass alpha male got a bunch of useless cosmetic surgeries and is ruining his life for views. People are making fun of him for it.

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Book is "A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present" by Michael J. Seth, 2nd. edition (2016). It's very well-put-together and is incredibly fascinating. The Neolithic stuff at the beginning of the first chapter ("The Origins") starts out a bit dull (kind of by necessity), but I was hooked by Chapter 2 ("The Period of the Three Kingdoms, Fourth Century to 676"). Genuinely fantastic and now one of my favorite nonfiction books I've ever read. (I made the mistake of not reading the Appendix on hangul romanization until very late into the book; don't make my mistake if you read it too and don't know hangul.)

What I especially loved were the excerpts of primary literature at the end of each chapter – political documents, poetry, etc. My favorite by far was a declaration of independence (see) signed in 1919 by Son Byong-hi and other progenitors of the March First Movement – positioned at the end of Chapter 10 "Colonial Korea, 1910 to 1945" and right before Chapter 11 "Division and War, 1945 to 1953"; it's a genuine emotional gut-punch in that context.

Elephant in the room: I think it does a genuinely good job at fairly representing both South and North Korea in the final five chapters (one is the civil war; two parallel the Koreas post-civil war into the 1990s; and two parallel the Koreas from the 1990s to 2015). But even if you stop before modern times and only follow it to the end of the Yi dynasty, it's completely captivating. Also, it helped me finally discover this gem.

Anyway, if there are any Koreans out there, I'll write you a farewell letter in 2750.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/66229239

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says she will be meeting with four Chinese companies that are considering building electric vehicles in Canada when she visits China this week in an effort to attract investment to this country’s auto sector.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45501576

Update: It seems they are blocking it themselves now⸘?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48177315

Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf

X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians, including Kemi Badenoch, have been racially abused.

In May, researchers from the social inclusion thinktank British Future reported 30 posts from this year in which the Conservative party leader was called the N-word. In each case the researchers used the platform’s “hate, abuse or harassment” reporting option. X refused to act in the majority of cases, despite repeated requests.

The Guardian understands X routinely takes action only when posts are reported to it as illegal under the UK’s Online Safety Act. In those cases, it restricts visibility in the UK, leaving the post unrestricted in other jurisdictions.