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Jun 21, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read
David, if the “defamation of Canadian history” you refer to is the fact that a whole lot of kids died in residential schools, then that is well-established in the historical record. Hell, in *1922* doctor Peter Bryce called it a national crime: canadashistory.ca/explore/first-… The most frustrating thing about all of this is how it ignores or obscures that we *have always known* that kids died in IRS at rates that were considered highly alarming even at the time, relative to the era’s overall higher child mortality.
Feb 6, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
I’m guessing many folks I know will be with me when I say: hoooo boy. For clarity: Dave Zegarac was a relatively well-known punk musician, mostly during the 2000s, who did some activist organizing. He was kicked out of the scene over seven years ago due to multiple allegations of sexual assault + abuse, especially of very young women.