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High-res photo Scrap Bill C49! The new Harper plan to jail refugees, Immigration Bill C49, is based on a few lies. Lie 1: Canada has a generous refugee system so people who are indeed refugees can get here. Lie 2: That there are some refugees breaking the law, who are criminal. Lie 3: That the law is too weak to stop these criminals and must be changed. In fact, Truth 1: Canada’s takes less refugees then Germany, the United States, Pakistan or Lebanon. Truth 2: It is legal to leave a country on fake documents, on rafts, ships, planes or foot. Not only is it legal, it is honored, celebrated and often necessary. Truth 3: It is actually the other way around. These people are not criminals, but the conservative government wants to make it so that they are.

Scrap Bill C49!

The new Harper plan to jail refugees, Immigration Bill C49, is based on a few lies.

Lie 1: Canada has a generous refugee system so people who are indeed refugees can get here.
Lie 2: That there are some refugees breaking the law, who are criminal.
Lie 3: That the law is too weak to stop these criminals and must be changed.

In fact,

Truth 1: Canada’s takes less refugees then Germany, the United States, Pakistan or Lebanon.
Truth 2: It is legal to leave a country on fake documents, on rafts, ships, planes or foot. Not only is it legal, it is honored, celebrated and often necessary.
Truth 3: It is actually the other way around. These people are not criminals, but the conservative
government wants to make it so that they are.

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High-res photo Ryan Hayes » Facing Canada’s Racism and Colonialism: “These posters are about Canada. They are about foundational myths. Foundational double standards.”

Ryan Hayes » Facing Canada’s Racism and Colonialism: “These posters are about Canada. They are about foundational myths. Foundational double standards.”

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High-res photo Show and Tell Gallery: Dan Bergeron For the better part of a decade, Dan Bergeron, AKA fauxreel, has been creating subversive, photo-based street works in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Often his projects tackle current social, cultural and political themes, while other works simply re-contextualize the physical spaces he liberates. By wheat pasting images of his subjects in the spaces we all collectively inhabit, his aim is to create work that broad segments of society can identify with, be engaged by, and react to. In addition, Bergeron’s images challenge the city’s predominant visual culture of advertising, not only in their presence, location and scale, but in their efforts, “to document people that are rarely focused on in mass media.” Ultimately Dan wants his work to be inclusive, honest and considerate - asking the questions that everyone is interested in talking about, but not many are willing to raise. His work has been featured in various institutions such as The Royal Ontario Museum and The Art Gallery Of Ontario.
Show and Tell Gallery: Dan Bergeron

For the better part of a decade, Dan Bergeron, AKA fauxreel, has been creating subversive, photo-based street works in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Often his projects tackle current social, cultural and political themes, while other works simply re-contextualize the physical spaces he liberates. By wheat pasting images of his subjects in the spaces we all collectively inhabit, his aim is to create work that broad segments of society can identify with, be engaged by, and react to. In addition, Bergeron’s images challenge the city’s predominant visual culture of advertising, not only in their presence, location and scale, but in their efforts, “to document people that are rarely focused on in mass media.” Ultimately Dan wants his work to be inclusive, honest and considerate - asking the questions that everyone is interested in talking about, but not many are willing to raise. His work has been featured in various institutions such as The Royal Ontario Museum and The Art Gallery Of Ontario.

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Teaser for God Loves Hair, by Vivek Shraya:

Video by Sammy Rawal featuring God Loves Hair illustrations by Juliana Neufeld.

God Loves Hair is a collection of 20 illustrated short stories by Vivek Shraya following a tender, intellectual, and curious child as he navigates complex realms of sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging.
I’ve never seen a trailer for a book before. In Toronto, I heard a lot about this book.
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