What's happening in that big wild country to the south of us here in Canada?
We can't avoid the US news here as we are forever linked via trade and economies, etc. Wags have compared The US and Canada relationship as the elephant and the mouse in bed together and if the elephant rolls over.......
2023 - a partial summary of barbaric events.
- I won't even speak of the criminal running for office with the support of his party. If he's elected president it will be a final full stop on their downward slide into autocracy and fascism.
- Termination of Roe v Wade. Women's reproductive rights go the way of The Handmaid's Tale.
- A 12 year old 7th grader forced to give birth in Mississippi. A child-victim of rape.
- The governor of Texas telling the world he would shoot emigrants and the only thing stopping him is Biden would charge him with murder.
- Mass shootings in the gun slinging USA 2023 and school shootings increased.
- Ignoring the ongoing slaughter and genocide (and potential extermination) of Palestinian civilians - women, children and babies amongst them. The US has used its veto power at least 34 times to block UN Security Council resolutions that were critical of Israel. ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/UN. Link
Gun violence by country 2021. Note 2023 for the US is much worse.
It might surprise readers to know that the land mass of Canada is greater than the US
/Rant
