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November 14, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Text: Gaza is starving, thirsty, without homes, schools, and medical care. Israel's continued attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure have killed tens of thousands. The impact on the conditions of life in Gaza stands to kill tens, and possibly hundreds, of thousands more. If this is not a genocide then the word has no meaning.
November 14, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Text: This famine is man-made. As of September 29 2024, the equivalent of two months of food for all of Gaza is unable to enter. Israeli bureaucratic delays and a lack of security guarantees are keeping aid from getting in. In July UN experts said “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.” Photo: A long line of trucks backed up at the Egypt-Gaza border crossing.
November 14, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Text: Palestinians in Gaza are going hungry. The UN estimates that 96% of people are not eating enough food or not eating enough nutritious food. 1 in 5 households go entire days without eating. At least 21,638 children aged 6-59 months are suffering from malnutrition. Photo: A child getting food aid, a plate of rice with too few vegetables.
November 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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As of July 2024, 67% of Gaza’s water infrastructure was destroyed. Israel has been blocking 70% of the materials needed to build and operate sewage treatment plants on the grounds Hamas could use them for other purposes. The World Health Organization recommends people need 15L per day of clean water during emergencies. Gazans currently survive on 4.7L per day.The average Canadian uses 223L of clean water per day.
November 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Text: The World Health Organization says there have been over 1,000 attacks by Israeli forces on health facilities since October 2023, and over 1,000 health workers have been killed. Only 17 of 36 hospitals are functional. 70% of medications and 83% of health supplies are exhausted. From October 2023 to July 2024, Gaza saw 40,000 cases of Hepatitis A; the same period in the previous year saw 85 cases. There are outbreaks of dysentery, pneumonia, and severe skin diseases. Photo: Damage to Al Shifa Hospital.
November 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Text: The UN estimates that 66% of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. This includes at least 70% of housing and 87% of schools. The result of this damage is over 40 million tons of rubble. A fleet of 100 trucks would take over 15 years to remove it all. A chart details the status of buildings in Gaza. Photo: A destroyed building in Gaza.
November 14, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Text: This is certainly an undercount of the dead, and it may be years before we know by how much. At least 10,000 people are buried under the rubble of buildings, and their bodies are hard to recover. When entire families die, there may be no one to report their deaths. Photo: A street of damaged buildings and bombed out cars. Displaced Palestinians are seen moving their possessions.
November 14, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Text: Counting the dead and wounded. 41, 615 dead. 96,359 Injured. Charts detailing how many were adults, how many children, and how many unknown. Photo: Palestinians looking thru the rubble of a damaged building.
November 14, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Text: Israel is conducting a war on the people of Gaza. It is a war powered by the finest technology of the Western world. During this war, Israel has struck refugee camps, schools, medical facilities, emergency tents, places of worship, and areas that Israel has told Gazans were safe zones. 90% of Palestinians in Gaza, or 1.9 million people, are currently displaced. Most have had to flee from Israeli attacks several times. Photo: Displaced Palestinians walking down a bombed out muddy road
November 14, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Canada attempted a genocide thru assimilation, neglect, violence, and illness. Generations of Indigenous Peoples lost connection to family and history, had their personal development harmed by mistreatment at the schools, and were taught their cultures and languages were worthless. We cannot forget the immense suffering that Canada inflicted on Indigenous communities. This attempt at genocide failed. As the recent spate of Indigenous deaths at the hands of Canadian police remind us, the violence of colonialism remains. A photo of children in a classroom in Morley Residential School, 1945
October 1, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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illness, poor diet, and crowded conditions. In the 1940s and 50s Indigenous children were used in unethical medical experiments that intentionally starved and malnourished them. As early as 1907, government medical inspector P.H. Bryce reported that 24 percent of previously healthy Indigenous children across Canada were dying in residential schools. Children sent home due to illness fared worse, with anywhere from 47 percent to 75 percent dying shortly after returning. The Canadian government knew for decades but did little to change this brutal system. A photo of a nurse examining an Indigenous child, 1948
October 1, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Survivors have talked about the extreme violence they suffered at these “schools,” including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Some of this was sanctioned as part of the discipline of the institutions. Incidents that went beyond that already brutal standard rarely resulted in any action. Occasionally government or church officials might remove an abusive member of staff, but often abusers were allowed to continue teaching. Criminal charges were seldom sought. A photo of Kuper Residential School on Penelakut Island
October 1, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Indigenous children were isolated from their families and communities for long periods of time. They were forbidden to speak their language or acknowledge their culture under threat of punishment. Survivors report they were beaten, shackled to their beds, and had needles shoved into their tongues. A photo of Inuit children at Anglican Mission School, 1941
October 1, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Over 130 residential schools operated in Canada. The Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario, accepted its first boarding students in 1831. The last federally-funded residential school in Canada, Gordon Residential School in Punnichy, Saskatchewan, closed in 1996. An estimated 150,000 Indigenous students were held in residential schools. At least 6,000 died. A photo of children at Gordon Residential School in 1962 or 63. This photo is in colour.
October 1, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Residential schools provided an extremely poor level of education. The low levels of funding attracted mostly underqualified staff, teaching an elementary curriculum that was largely irrelevant to the lives of students. Students spent half the day doing “vocational” work. This was intensely gendered: girls were taught domestic skills, and boys taught carpentry, construction, general maintenance and agricultural labour. This was supposed to provide labour skills, but was mostly a way to lower the cost of running these poorly funded institutions. These were work camps more than schools. A photo of children doing laundry at Mount Elgin Industrial School, 1909
October 1, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Schools made to assimilate Indigenous children go back to the 17th century. The residential school system was operated by the government of Canada from the 1880s onward. In 1920, under the Indian Act, it became mandatory for every Indigenous child to attend a residential school and illegal for them to attend any other educational institution. Photo of Indigenous children at desks at the Old Sun Indian Residential School, 1945
October 1, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Two photos of Thomas Moore Keesick, falsely made to look like before and after photos, from 1891 Thomas Moore Keesick, who was held at the Regina Indian Industrial School, seen in staged propaganda photos. He was a member of the Muscowpetung Saulteaux First Nation. His Anishinaabemowin name is unknown. Thomas entered the school at age 8, and was known at his school as “Number 22,” part of the dehumanising practice of the schools. He died of tuberculosis likely at age 12, approximately two years before these photos were published by the Department of Indian Affairs.
October 1, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Residential schools were designed to break the links between Indigenous children and their communities, allowing them to become assimilated to the dominant white culture. “If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young. The children must be kept constantly within the circle of civilized conditions.” Nicholas Davin, Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds, 1879. A photo of Kamloops Indian Residential School, students, and staff, 1937
October 1, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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These are the sources for the numbers in this infographic pack. Slides 1, 3, 4, 7 come from Statistics Canada. Table 11-10-0091-01. Note: "White" is the category "not a visible minority nor Indigenous" Slides 5 and 6 come from Statistics Canada. Table 98-10-0411-01 Slide 9 comes from Statistics Canada. Table 98-10-0252-01 Shelter-cost-to-income ratio by tenure: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations Slide 10 is from Statistics Canada. Table 34-10-0133-01 Slides 11 and 12 are from Statistics Canada. Table 13-10-0834-01 Slide 13 comes from Bushnik, Tjepkema and Martel, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/5yujfdwk Slide 14 comes from a number of research papers. Their digital object identifier numbers are the following DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.211249 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac690 DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.211277 There is one StatsCan webpage at https://tinyurl.com/ya7xryne
September 23, 2024 at 7:44 PM