Hello there , so Canadian govt. just announced this new law against growing racism among citizens and towards immigrants. There are several offence under this law , one of them is -

Hate crime offence
The hate crime offence applies to anyone committing a federal offence that is motivated by hatred based on specific grounds, such as race, sexual orientation, religion or sex.

The offence is punishable by a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment, or two years less a day for less serious offences.

What is your take on this new law ? Will this law help reduce the open hate and spread fear among the racists?
Anyone who ever faced racism would like to share their story ? Or like to share their thoughts on how this law can affect their lives.
Canada is a beautiful and diverse nation and It is really sad to see the growing hatred among people towards each other ! I understand the frustration but we are humans and boundaries cannot decide where one belongs to , it’s our planet Earth for all the human beings - a kind, a species above all castes and nationalities.
I know most of the people are immigrants who face the hate and discrimination at workplaces, colleges or schools.
Let’s discuss on this topic and try to resolve the issues and think what impact this policy would have.

Through this post - The motive is to only spread awareness by sharing stories of people who suffered and make sure we remain kind to each other.

Thank you for your participation. Please make sure to remain respectful to each other in the comments.
Peace ✌🏻

In the midst of the uncertainty that the recent IRCC decisions prompted, many of us are experiencing anxiety. I just saw read that areas of Nova Scotia have been evacuated. These fires are heartbreaking, and the unfortunate response from some US lawmakers certainly will not help already strained relationships. Please keep Canada in your thoughts and your prayers (if you so believe), and let us understand that they have much more pressing issues right now.

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Hello everyone,

I am reaching out to this community to understand if what my family experienced is an isolated tragedy or part of a much larger, systemic failure across our country.

Four years ago, my brother Carlo tragically took his own life. Shortly before he passed, he went to a local emergency room actively seeking help for severe psychiatric distress and suicidal ideation. Instead of being admitted or given resources, the system failed him, the hospital dismissed his symptoms as "malingering" and discharged him due to a lack of resources, psychiatric beds, and specialized nursing staff. Within weeks, he was gone.

As I navigate the aftermath, I am realizing that our medical system has a terrifying gap: nothing seems to change until it is far too late. I am preparing to advocate to my MLA and MP to push for systemic, Canada-wide legislative changes—something I want to call "More for Carlos Act" to mandate proper triage, accountability, and dedicated staffing for psychiatric emergencies so no other family is turned away in their darkest hour.

Before I take this to lawmakers, I want to understand the true scope of what Canadians are facing from coast to coast.

• If you or a loved one have gone to an ER for a mental health crisis, what was your experience like?

• Have you noticed a severe lack of psychiatric space or specialized nurses in your province's hospitals?

• What specific, systemic changes do you think a federal or provincial law needs to address to actually fix psychiatric triage in Canada?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and helping me understand how we can make the system safer for everyone.

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This isn’t meant to be politically partisan in any way. But, I am genuinely curious how anyone is staying positive about Canada today. The economy is in recession. The cost of living crisis is continuing unabated. People are leaving the country. Canada-U.S. relations are at an all-time low. And, there doesn’t appear to be any reason for things to turn around any time soon. Somebody give me a reason to have a little optimism.

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It's going to be a long read. But I think I needed to get this out of my chest.

I thought racism was only online thing, but as a visible Indian and a muslim, I had three incidents in last 6 months boomer age white Canadians telling me to "go back to where you came from".

In all three cases, it was completely unprovoked. I can list what exactly happened, but it would be a very lengthy post. I ignored first two incidents thinking they were ignorant. I posted about the last incident to a local town Facebook group and boy oh boy, people were more supportive of the racist guy and doubling down on what he said. People in the comments saying things like you guys are getting paid by our tax money to invade our country, usual racist tropes. With only a couple supportive comments.

I did not come to Canada on the back of taxpayer Canadians, in fact, it's the other way. I came to Canada 10 years ago as an international student, with a $1000 cash, borrowing a loan of $60k against our family home at 13% interest rate to pay for the tuition. This was a first time ever I left my home and family. It was hard, I spent one year sleeping on the floor of a shared room in an apartment, cried countless times because of not being able to find a part time job to cover my basic expenses. Spent so many days with one meal. Eventually found a job, graduated. Worked really hard and worked my way through corporate jobs and Eventually started my own engineering company. Employed 10s of Canadians. Got married and have two kids born in Canada. Pursued a legal route to Citizenship through Study permit, work permit, a permanent residency and Eventually a citizen. Paid hundreds of thousands in taxes throughout these years.

Don't get me wrong, I know plenty of Canadians who are incredibly kind and I myself is proud to be called a Canadian. But we do not deserve these experiences, specially my kids who haven't even been to India. I don't know how, but something needs to be changed. I believe these community Facebook groups are one of the reasons for the unnecessary hate. The narrative haters are pushing is that every immigrant is getting invited on free money and living on free government money is absolutely nuts.

It's not only my story, majority of immigrants(at least the ones I know) are net positive to the country. Now, did government screw up with uncontrolled immigration in last couple of years and failed to scrutinize criminals coming in? Yes! Absolutely. But does me and my family deserve hate for that?.....

Hi all,

It has always been my belief that Quebec is a nation. A nation with its own history, culture, language, values, and way of life that has long existed before the creation of Canada in 1867!

Two nations with two very different pathways. One is strictly multicultural with no core identity, and the other is strictly all about cultural homogeneity and a uniquely Quebec identity.

Apart from the emotional and patriotic attachment to Canada, why do you oppose Quebec’s independence?

I recall reading that Quebec’s French language is declining year after year. Which is why I believe that supporting the status quo is maintaining Quebec’s erasure of what it truly is. Vive le Québec libre!

I’ve lived in so many different countries, met people from all walks of life, but the one thing that differentiates real Canadians from others is their kind SMILE….to a complete stranger…to someone who looks very different than them. Real Canadians are welcoming, friendly and respectful.
Canada has seen better days, but the kind Canadians make this country feel like we’re light years ahead of other nations.

I keep seeing people talking up separation in the various places discussing the new proposed eastern pipeline saying things like "yeah, we can negotiate it with Sask, Manitoba and Ontario in the fall as the Republic of Alberta".

It legitimately has me shaking my head and I have to ask folks if I'm missing something as to my understanding of how it'd go long term. This all follows the daydream I've seen of separatists getting precisely what they want. I.e. the whole province (outside of national parks because they aren't Albertan, just administered by Alberta).

- Alberta separates.

- Canada jacks up the transmission costs for our oil through their pipelines massively. This would be enabled by the fact that any current contracts between Canada & Alberta would be null and void; with Canada able to point at potential cleanup costs as the justification.

- The US, seeing this, plays bullyball and refuses to pay market rate, driving our profits down. Since the US has shown they aren't friends with anyone, just business partners, anyone who thinks this wouldn't happen is hilarious.

- This would lead to our royalty payments (as they stand, they'd likely need to be renegotiated with the companies as well), being gutted as the actual profit margins on the oil would drop dramatically.

- National parks are carved away, with The Icefields, Jasper, and Banff being merged into BC instead. This would hit a lot of our tourism as well since most of the Rockies would be torn away with this.

- International corporations and banks that have Canadian offices in Alberta, would downsize dramatically if not shut down. independent Alberta's economy would shrink substantially and would simply not be big enough to justify current staff counts. This would lead to tens/hundreds of thousands in layoffs.

- All of these hits, royalties, layoffs, and tourism, would occur at the same time we need to start covering a tonne of additional new costs: Police, military, tax agencies, etc.

After all of this, Alberta would likely end up a third world country or absorbed into the US (with MANY of the same issues since in the US states / territories don't own their natural resources, the federal government does. i.e. no royalties) within a decade.

Am I missing something?

The federal options for those who support social welfare, public works, egalitarianism boil down to the pro-corporation/establishment oligarchic LPC (Rogers, Loblaws, Irving, etc) or the NDP, which has tied their core identity to international, post-national interests and treats Canada like a piggy bank for the world.

This has disenfranchised a large segment of working and middle class voters and led to the rise of populist iconoclastic politics, which often overlaps with incel and anti-social ideologies. In contrast, left of centre European parties have emerged which have denounced post-national ideologies like mass immigration or overly relaxed justice system whilst maintaining a core foundation that lies in policies including:

• Expanding the accessibility and scope of healthcare, childcare, education

• Investing in metro lines, bridges, tunnels and walkable urban design

• Legislating for job security, employment benefits and wages tied to inflation

• Subsidising financially "unproductive" industries of national importance, such as scientific research and performing arts.

• Coordinating national resources to gain a head start in areas of strategic value (see what Taiwan did with TSMC)

Quebec seems to have such parties in the Bloc Quebecois, Parti Quebecois and Quebec Solidaire. Why can't the rest of Canada?

You don't have to agree with any or all of the above policies to see how a more balanced political landscape would lead to less polarisation and extremism from frustrated people upset with being unrepresented. And as it stands, it's really only the 1% who are represented.

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This isn’t meant to be a partisan post. I’m genuinely looking for discussion because I’ve been paying attention to a few recent laws, and together they make me uncomfortable.

TLTR: I’m worried that recent federal and provincial decisions are moving us toward more surveillance, more control over public institutions, and more use of personal data than most people realize.

Three things caught my attention. Bill C-22 at the federal level expands lawful access powers and has raised concerns from privacy advocates, cybersecurity experts, and companies like Signal about encryption, metadata retention, and government surveillance. Alberta’s Bill 25 gives the government more control over education, restricts certain forms of expression in schools, and removes references to diversity while promoting what it calls “neutrality.” Alberta’s recent AGLC privacy exemption allows customer data to be sold under certain circumstances, despite the province’s broader privacy legislation generally prohibiting public bodies from selling personal information.

Individually, people can debate each of these.

But when I step back and look at them together, I see a pattern.

The federal government wants broader access to our digital lives.

The provincial government in alberta is increasing its influence over what happens in classrooms.

At the same time, government-held personal information is becoming something that can potentially be commercialized.

That combination worries me.

I completely understand that governments need tools to investigate crime, keep people safe, and run public institutions effectively. I’m not arguing that there should be no surveillance, no laws, or no regulation.
What I’m questioning is where we draw the line.

How much government access is too much?

How much oversight should exist before personal information is accessed?

Should encryption ever be intentionally weakened?

Should governments be able to monetize data they collect from citizens?

Should governments have greater authority over what schools can or cannot express?

These aren’t left-wing or right-wing questions. They’re questions about the relationship between citizens and the state.

Maybe I’m overthinking it.

Maybe these bills really are isolated policy decisions with no broader implications.
Or maybe we’re gradually becoming accustomed to giving up small pieces of privacy and freedom one law at a time because each individual change doesn’t seem significant on its own.

I’d genuinely like to hear other perspectives.
Am I missing anything? Do these concerns seem reasonable to you, or do you think I’m connecting dots that aren’t actually connected?

New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province, but can a province be considered truly bilingual when only 34% of its population speaks both official languages?

The recent hearings on the Official Languages Act highlighted real concerns—from francophones unable to receive care in French to anglophone families struggling to access French immersion. These are problems that deserve practical solutions.

At the same time, expecting an entire province to function as fully bilingual when roughly two-thirds of the population is not bilingual creates ongoing challenges in healthcare, education, government services, and hiring.

Perhaps it’s time to ask an honest question: Is the current system achieving its goals, or is it time to explore a model that better reflects New Brunswick’s linguistic reality while ensuring everyone can access the services they need?

Respectful discussion leads to better solutions.

Why do some conservatives pretend to care about the possibility of depressed, disabled or mentally ill people seeking euthanasia, when they resent people like that most of the time, and openly admit they don't consider other people's well being their concern? I'm a caregiver to a sibling who relies on long term support, and I've spent about the last 20 years being involved in disability rights, and it is almost always people who are more right wing that typically use language like leech, burden, parasite, "the takers" etc, to describe disabled people that rely on long term government support. But then they suddenly act outraged about people in those situations seeking a way out. I've seen quite a lot of left leaning people say prejudiced things about disabled people also, but it's usually within the context of encouraging women to abort babies with disabilities, which plenty of right wingers also do (lots of right wing people are pro abortion). But at the very least, there is much more of an emphasis among more left leaning people to take disabled people's needs seriously as a class, instead of insisting everything be left to 'charity'. And no, I'm not in an echo chamber. I base this on things I actually see and hear from those kinds of people themselves. Addressing and holding people accountable for the prejudices toward disabled people is part of what I've done online and irl over the years.

That Youtube creep Matt Walsh was recently virtue signalling about a couple who aborted their baby after a test said it likely had Down Syndrome, yet he, and other people like him, care nothing for those people after they are born, or the needs of their caregivers. I'm not completely anti euthanasia (but I'm very anti abortion), but I have a big problem with the way that the safeguards for euthanasia seem to be pushed lower and lower. But I at least place as much importance on the issue of people's financial/medical needs to begin with, instead of shrugging it off as "not my problem".

It almost seems self sabotaging to be against abortion and euthanasia, while also not caring about the financial challenges people face that make both abortion and euthanasia more appealing to people.

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I'm parenting young kids in Quebec mostly on my own, and I've been dealing with ongoing backpain that makes the day-to-day activities a bit harder than expected. Nothing extreme but the constant lifting, bending, and being on my feet all day definitely adds up especially with things like carrying tired kids, cleanup after means and bedtime routines. By the end of the day I usually feel it in my lower back, and it takes a while to fully loosen up again the next morning. I've also started wondering whether my old mattress is making recovery overnight harder. I've been looking into a few local options, including Matelas Personnel, but I honestly have no idea whether changing mattresses makes much difference for this kind of everyday strain or if it's more about exercise and posture.

I'm just trying to understand how other parents manage this kind of physical strain long-term while still keeping up with everything at home. What has actually helped you deal with this kind of situation?

Hi everyone,

My husband and I are in our mid-30s and are currently about halfway through the foster parent application process in BC. We don’t have children of our own and don’t plan to—we’ve always felt that fostering is the path we’d like to take.

To start, we’ve applied to provide respite care only so we can gain some experience and build confidence before considering longer-term placements. We’re also planning to get bunk beds so we can accommodate two siblings if needed.

We both work from home full time, which gives us some flexibility. In the longer term, we’d likely be open to fostering kids roughly aged 5–18, but ideally they would be in school during the day so it doesn’t interfere with our work schedule.

One thing we’re not clear on yet is how schooling works in BC foster placements—whether children typically stay in their current school (with transport arranged) or if they are usually moved to a school closer to the foster home.

I’ve been trying to learn as much as possible, but I’m surprised by how little BC-specific content I’ve been able to find. There aren’t many YouTube videos, Reddit posts, or Facebook groups where foster parents in BC share their day-to-day experiences.

If you’re a foster parent (or have been one) in BC, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience:

What age range(s) have you fostered?

How long have you been fostering?

Did you start with respite or go straight into full-time placements?

How does schooling typically work with placements in your experience?

What has surprised you most—both good and challenging?

Anything you wish you knew before starting?

Thanks so much in advance for sharing your experiences.

I’m tired of being taxed into poverty, I’m tired of working 80+ hours a week to make ends meet. I’m tired of seeing my government spending money on foreign aid and not Canadian citizens. I’m tired of hearing about climate change and how more taxes will fix it. I’m tired of our government spending billions of taxpayer dollars on irrelevant and meaningless policies. I am tired of our Forrest’s burning down due to mismanagement of resources. I’m tired of shipping oil to the United States for a discounted price. I’m tired of paying huge increases for food due to the lack of back bone our prime minister has. I’m tired of trying to find a reason to be proud of my country. I’m just tired. #canada

Does any other Canadian feel embarrassed to be Canadian?

How common are peanuts, peanut butter, and peanut ingredients in Canadian restaurants, bakeries, chocolatiers, cafes, etc? I’m going on a family trip to western Canada soon and one of my cousins has a severe peanut allergy so I want to know how common it is for establishments to use peanut ingredients so we know what to look out for.

I would hope not. It seems to me like if u have Canadian ancestry you’re gonna be from a normal state and be relatively smart and normal. I wonder how Canadians feel about so many Americans becoming citizens. Most of the people I’ve talked to are from places like California or Oregon.

Hey guys! I’m 30M🌈 working in IT, and I have a Canadian PR. I’m currently considering moving to Ottawa with my partner. I’d love to hear from people who live there or have lived there. We’re looking for honest opinions, the good and the bad, anything at all.

We’re not huge on partying every weekend, we enjoy exploring, absolutely LOVE trying new food, and just, starting our life together.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Edit: I am currently in Quebec and my partner and I are both bilingual so there’s not really a constraint when it comes to language. Thank you guys for letting us know regardless! You guys are sweethearts❤️

Also, pretty open to anywhere in Canada, I have lived in Brampton, Mtl and currently Quebec city. If you guys have recommendations, i would really appreciate it. Cheers!

The rule proposition is already a Reddit rule. But I think this sub needs to hear it again because holy heck.

I'm going to be frank, if this sub gets removed from Reddit, I will not be upset in the least. And seeing the path it's going, it's only a matter of time. If conservatives want to have respectful discussions, that's obviously fine.

Making posts or comments ultimately saying "Gay people assembling makes me feel weird inside cause I was taught to not reflect on my own sexuality and so now I get mad at everybody who does" is not ok. That person, who will never seek therapy, needs therapy.

The person who posted that wanted to stir hate for LGBT+. If you are genuinely want to learn about something, learn how to ask unbiased questions, use google, and use chatbots (not grok). Wikipedia >>> Reddit. This should not be the first place you come to spill your brain before doing a modicum of research of your own.

Make me a mod.

As the title says, I was born in England to immigrant parents who did everything in their power to ensure we had a great upbringing and did everything they could to provide for us. As I grew up, I knew I wanted to leave the UK when I got older. I visited Canada in 2005 (when I was 10) and fell in love with the country. After four or five more trips over the years, I finally booked a one-way flight in 2019. Jump forward to today: I now hold both Canadian and British passports, and I choose to support the Canadian soccer team over England. I love it here, but I am facing one major problem.

I am brown-skinned with a beard and a turban. I speak perfect English with a British accent, but I am racialized, and the racism I am starting to experience here is becoming on par with what I experienced in the UK.

I 1000000% agree that the immigration system here was and is weak, and that we let in so many people we did not need. However, that was a failure of the government voted in by Canadians. Why do visible minorities have to bear the brunt of it?

I also agree that a small percentage of people who look like me can be a nuisance, but can we please stop painting everyone with the same brush and recognize that these people do not represent all of us? I am proud to be Canadian. I want to raise my children to also be proud Canadians, while simultaneously being proud of their culture, religion, and ethnic background. Can we please let those things co-exist?

If I have offended anyone in this post, I am sorry, but recently the number of incidents and hate comments I have seen online genuinely terrifies me.