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News: Winnipeg named most RACIST city in Canada
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Winnipeg named most RACIST city in Canada
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"Most racist city in Canada" is like "least Asian city in China" though 
It's also the murder capital of Canada despite having less murders than pretty much any American city of similar size 
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Originally posted by Goosey
"Most racist city in Canada" is like "least Asian city in China" though
It's also the murder capital of Canada despite having less murders than pretty much any American city of similar size |
the article from the magazine says otherwise, look it up above 
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For those who live in Winnipeg, is it really that bad?
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Originally posted by MaRy
the article from the magazine says otherwise, look it up above |
I did read it. Let me just say - I've lived here for 22 years and I've never been called a squaw. I think her experiences are exceptional.
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Originally posted by Goosey
I did read it. Let me just say - I've lived here for 22 years and I've never been called a squaw. I think her experiences are exceptional.
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Are you native? I doubt 
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Winnipeg is divided among racial lines, the natives are 1/7 of the population but they mostly live in a ghetto called North End where there are few or no shops, banks etc., crime is dangerous and drunk or high people can been seen roam the street aimlessly, it truly is sad
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I used to live in Winnipeg. This is kinda correct. I lived in Winnipegs north end on a street called Boyd. My lawn mover was stole, my BBQ and the neighbours garage was set on fire and I only lived there a year. There were more shopping carts parked on the street then cars. The north end has a high native population and crime rate which might be the reason the city is racial towards certain people. Mouthwash was locked up at shoppers drug mart.
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some of the article:
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Winnipeg is physically divided by the CP rail yards, which cut the primarily Aboriginal North End from the rest of the city. North End Winnipeg looks nothing like the idyllic, tree-lined, middle-class neighbourhoods to the south. It is the poorest and most violent neighbourhood in urban Canada. Many white Winnipeggers have never visited. To Falcon-Ouellette, a Calgary native who moved to Winnipeg from Quebec City, it is “Canada’s greatest shame.”
The neighbourhood is home to two of the country’s three poorest postal codes—the median household income in the North End is $22,293, less than half that of the wider city at $49,790. The homicides that plague the city, earning it the nickname “Murderpeg” and the country’s highest rate of violent crime, are a primarily North End phenomenon. On a recent visit there, a Selkirk Avenue clothing store—one of few remaining businesses on a strip crowded with social service agencies and boarded-up storefronts—was closing for good. The area had simply become too dangerous, the store’s owner explained.
One in three North End residents drop out of school before Grade 9, leaving huge swaths of young residents wholly disconnected from the labour market. One in six children are apprehended by Manitoba’s Child and Family Services. Girls as young as 11 or 12 routinely work the stroll. On North Main Street, traffic slows to a stall when intoxicated residents stumble across the street. Solvent abuse is as common as alcoholism here, and rising. Even in December’s cold, kids as young as nine clutch gas-soaked rags; some have begun stuffing them directly into their mouths for a more powerful high.
“I used to tell myself I wouldn’t live to see my sweet 16,” says 24-year-old Jenna Wirch. “I was sure I was going to die before then.” Both Wirch’s sisters committed suicide when they were growing up. Four of her closest friends have also died by suicide. One hung herself in an alley using her dog’s leash. She was 11. Wirch’s mom put her to work in the sex trade before her 10th birthday. She ran away at 11, then bounced between the street and a long list of foster homes. One was a crack house. Two friends were stabbed to death in front of her, one with a machete. This is a North End childhood.
The area’s hospitalization rate for violence is almost seven times that of the wider city. Within a year, roughly 20 per cent of youth treated for violence will be back in hospital seeking treatment for another injury, says Carolyn Snider, an ER doctor at the core area Health Sciences Centre. “If that same number was quoted for stroke or heart attacks or many of the other conditions we treat, there would be uproar.” Snider, who trained at the country’s two largest trauma centres in downtown Toronto, says she was utterly unprepared for the degree of violence she encounters daily in Winnipeg. Much of the violence is committed within the Aboriginal youth community itself. The two accused of the November assault of Rinelle Harper are Aboriginal. Just eight per cent of Aboriginal women are killed by strangers; the majority are murdered by their spouses or boyfriends (40 per cent), family members (23 per cent) or acquaintances (30 per cent).
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Tyler Henderson, a 28-year-old Ojibway nursing student at the University of Manitoba, says he feels racism every time he walks out his front door. Henderson says Winnipeg police stopped him 15 times last year. “You fit the description,” police tell him when he asks what he did wrong. Once, police claimed he’d pulled to a stop a few inches beyond the stop line. “It makes me mad,” he says. “But there’s nothing I can do.” Some young indigenous men are stopped twice per month in the inner city, according to University of Manitoba criminologist Elizabeth Comack.
Rosanna Deerchild, a local indigenous writer and broadcaster, says that every few weeks she is harassed. “Someone honks at me, or yells out ‘How much’ from a car window, or calls me a stupid squaw, or tells me to go back to the rez. Every time, it still feels like getting punched in the face.”
That’s just a reality of having brown skin in Winnipeg, says Jacinta Bear, who manages the North End Hockey Program. The youth program subsidizes registration fees for indigenous youth and gathers used equipment loaned to players for the season. “Our team has heard it all,” says Bear, whose husband, Dale, has coached the midget team for seven years. “Even opposing coaches and refs call our kids ‘dirty little Indians.’”
The problem is far more insidious than childish taunts. A few years ago, the federal government investigated claims that indigenous Winnipeggers were being denied housing due to discrimination. The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation pulled together a random survey of Aboriginal renters. The results were damning. One in three told the CMHC that after showing up to visit an available suite they were told it had “just been rented.” More than 30 per cent felt they had been driven to neighbourhoods in the core, where the poverty rate and the incidence of crime more than doubles the wider city and jobs are scarce.
To Bartley Kives, the city’s top columnist, white privilege in Winnipeg isn’t about getting the best jobs or promotions. “It means not being worried your daughter is going to be raped and killed because of who she is.”
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http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/w...-at-its-worst/
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This makes me sad. I thought Canada was better than this.
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Canada, ha dirty laundry all laid out.
Didn't ATRL say racism was dead though worldwide? I'm confused. 
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Canada is a great country but there are many problems regarding Winnipeg and the high native population there.
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This isn't new, the treatment toward Indigenous peoples of Canada is horrendous.
Didn't know Winnipeg in particular was worst.
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I wish Steven would stop ignoring these issues.
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I live in Calgary now a great city and the native population has integrated well into the community. There is not much of a racist problem here. A native reserve boarders my city and we all interact well and crime is low.
A lot of our infasturcture is named in honer of natives that settled in the area before.
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Canadians aren't so friendly after all.
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I would never move back to Winnipeg even though my boyfriend lives there. The weather and the mountains are better here. Good thing he works for an airline.
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Originally posted by rivers
Canadians aren't so friendly after all.
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they are friendly towards everyone except natives, it's really sad how deeply scared they are of natives, when they took their land and forced them in reserves to begin with
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