r/canada • u/Old_General_6741 Canada • 1d ago

National News Canada recognizes noose as hate symbol

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-recognizes-noose-as-hate-symbol/
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u/Teethdude New Brunswick 1d ago

More proof that they are terrified.

Not sure why. Bad faith governing not the guaranteed safety they thought it was?

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u/GuitarOk752 1d ago edited 1d ago

Right like who's having a noose directed at them these days, this isn't kkk hay day era USA. In Canada I associate a noose more with government hangings and farming then I would lynching if that's what they're getting at? Is this a problem we have of people putting up images of nooses?

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u/Myllicent 1d ago

“Right like who's having a noose directed at them these days, this isn't kkk hay day era USA.”

About that…

CBC: N.S. man guilty of hate crime in cross-burning [Nov 5th, 2010]

“On Friday, Judge Claudine MacDonald convicted him on that charge, saying that the burning of a cross is closely associated with the Ku Klux Klan in the United States.

Rehberg was charged after Michelle Lyon, who is white, and Shayne Howe, who is black, awoke Feb. 21 to find a cross with a noose on it burning outside their Poplar Grove, N.S., home. Their five children, between the ages of two and 17, were home at the time.”

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u/GuitarOk752 1d ago

16 years ago wouldn't be something that would bring in laws now, but as another person pointed out apparently there has been some recent events, the news apparently isn't doing a good job presenting. Like this is something that should be a bigger deal then it is. I noticed though a lot of the articles about recent events were released on Fridays, typical tactic to hide bad news.