Yvette Emerson 🍉

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Hopeful pessimist. FN. Physician. “From a lineage of badass matriarchs” Lesley Hampton

I tried to attend the Ontario Medical Association annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin…

Yipeng wearing a watermelon pin and a red ribbon pin. 
Meeting materials for the Ontario Medical Association general meeting. The stage and inside the room of the Ontario Medical Association general meeting.

Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.

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“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t call it [misrepresentation of Indigenous ancestry] ‘identity fraud,’” Palmater said. “Which is to be distinguished from criminal fraud.... he put a disproportionate focus on the conversation around fraud.”

Indigenous academics rally behind Leroux after defamation loss

High-profile Indigenous academics rally behind University of Ottawa ‘pretendian’ researcher Darryl Leroux found liable for defamation

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Israel killed every single paramedic in this photo today in South Lebanon. 12 paramedics slaughtered in one Israeli strike. Israel DELIBERATELY targeted their medical center. Killing medics is a war crime. Killing medics is a crime against humanity.

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warning video is upsetting The system/ dollarama will try and make this about one “bad apple” but where did the guard learn to hate First Nation people so quickly. What is the work culture that allows him to feel he can behave this way with impunity while being recorded. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Security guard punches man, threatens to kill him in video shot at Winnipeg Dollarama | CBC News

First Nations leaders in Manitoba are demanding an investigation after they say an Indigenous man was beaten by a security guard at a downtown Winnipeg Dollarama store.

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"As an indigenous student, I find it hard to go to school and live my daily life everyday—without fearing that I'll be taken away from my family and won't be able to see them for the next couple of months," -Native American high schooler on Minneapolis ICE invasion. LIVE NOW⬇️

🎥 WATCH | Children’s educator Ms. Rachel urges the US and Israel to end the deliberate suffering of 1 million Palestinian children, calling for the immediate entry of lifesaving shelter and medical aid into Gaza. Video: Assal Rad via X (@AssalRad)

Israel’s trajectory reveals a stark truth: it cannot reform itself. Like apartheid South Africa, it is a pariah state sustained by ruthless domination and violence. The pariah designation must be applied unapologetically until Israel’s defiance of law and humanity is decisively held to account.

‘No other country’

Israel’s trajectory reveals a stark truth: it cannot reform itself. It is a pariah state sustained by ruthless domination and violence. Though the term carries no formal legal weight, it signals a reg...

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