Proud trans lesbian Métis boomer Drama occurring in Nunavut where city officials continue to be perplexed as to why and how diesel fuel is in the cities water (hint: some butthole pumped diesel fuel into the water supply) their best guess is because of Climate Change(tm).
City officials have good news in that at least it isn’t Benzene - benzene can give you butthole cancer where diesel just makes you barf and pass out.
It’s not ideal, of course. It caused those headaches and stomach issues people around Iqaluit have been reporting for the past few weeks but, says Patterson, ingesting these chemicals is not known to cause long-term health effects in humans.
No biggie just like a bad buzz and hangover. At least it’s not Benezene.
Cost to repair the water system for the city of approx 35,000 is estimated to be 130-150 million. Meanwhile people are drinking water out of the nearby river while all businesses and even Hospitals are closed.
Related reddit seethes blame Colonialism even though whitey doesn’t live up there because it’s too shitty.
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/q6zmun/_/hgftlb4/?context=1&sort=controversial
Reasonable Mayo asks:
The people living there have made a choice to stay there, and try to make a home / life out of it. I really struggle to understand how that's the responsibility of government.
People have lived and survived up there for thousands and thousands of years. They had to find sustainable water for that to happen. How did they manage in the past? Why is it now the governments responsibility to provide this water?
Frick you whitey! Whitey came and fricked up their lives, so help us you mayo prick!
They were able to live and flourish up there and all over canada for that matter before the europeans came.... and then their way of life was corrupted to the point where there are too many external forces hindering their ability to survive.
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Weird question. Would he be asking it if it was a mayo town? Are Eskimos not Canadian citizens? What is this even about? Government has the responsibility for shit like that, same as it would if, idk, a flood would destroy the local town's roads and electric lines. That's what it's fricking for, lmao.
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Interesting phenomenon is that Inuit (Eskimos) are NOT Canadian citizens if you ask them, they are Iqualit First Nations.... up until the moment when one of them pumps diesel fuel into their water then it becomes a Canada problem. They literally live in some of the most inhabitable land on earth - it's tundra, like a frozen desert. It doesn't rain there, hardly snows, there are no trees only stone and ice. You can't even drill a well there because the earth is permanently frozen.
Nobody in the right minds would live there and if you did you certainly wouldn't expect modern creature comforts - there's no road that goes there you can only access it by boat or plane.
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I don't care about interesting phenomena, I'm asking legally. Is Nunavut a Canadian territory? Yes. Are people that live the Canadian citizens? Yes. Government services aren't supposed to be based on self-identity, or at least haven't been since, idk, the fall of feudalism.
69°20′ N, btw, 6 degrees further north than Iqaluit. Accessible only by plane for half a year, boat traffic available (with nuclear icebreakers, like this one) the other half.
Just because Canadians don't give a frick about their north, doesn't mean that maintaining civilisation there is impossible. Maybe Anglos shouldn't have been allowed to own anything in the Arctic, they clearly aren't built for it...
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Ooooh you're clearly very passionate about this and I wasn't expecting that kind of passion here, I'm genuinely impressed. I'd say Canadians absolutely DO give a frick about the north and our abos as demonstrated by the recent recognition of Truth and Reconciliation day despite our loser Prime Minister making a mockery of it by skipping out to go surfing on its first observance. Also, one of his top promises was to deliver potable and reliable water to the North which he's also failed to do miserably. You and I are in agreement - it's abhorrent that anyone living in Canada anywhere within our borders to not have access to clean water... full stop.
I see what you've posted is Norway and yes it easily demonstrates your point. Problem with Canada and our first nations as I see it is this: unification. It is always "Us" and "Them" on both sides and I flippantly demonstrated some of the problem - First Nations people are First Nations first. They have their own government seperate from ours, they have their own passports seperate from ours, they have their own criminal system seperate from ours. They are content to be Iqualit all the time until something like water contamination forces them to seek help from the federal government --- and then, most often, the Federal Government are peepees about it or make buttholes of themselves or the First Nations leaders will do whatever they can to obstruct the Feds at every turn either for political reasons or corruption reasons (bilk as much money from the feds as they can).
So as you can see, it's complicated. Added to the multi bureaucracy levels is years of mistrust of federal Canada agencies for just reasons.
Good talk, thanks for your interest in my country.
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Your pulitzer's in the mail
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Not really. I just don't like this weird separation of people into "ours" and "theirs" within your own country. If you really can't be bothered to deal with people living on some part of your territory - cede it to someone that will. Otherwise act like you actually own it, there is no third alternative.
Russia, actually. Norway can get to almost all of its territory by land (Svalbard which it kinda/sorta shares with Russia excluded), so they didn't bother developing that sort of tech. Nuclear, year-round Arctic capable icebreakers are exclusive to Russia.
Well, fair enough. Dealing with all sorts of isolated populations is always difficult, but it's not a reason to suddenly act like they're not your responsibility. If you don't want that responsibility - feel free to frick off and pull a Malaysia with Singapore thing. That was always allowed, I'm sure someone will gladly pick them up, for the sea routes if no other reason.
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Reminder to both of you that Vancouver and Toronto belong to China and the rent's due.
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The ricecel colony of Richmond might as well fly the five-star red flag at this point. And thats a good thing
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ALL 👏 STATES 👏 THAT 👏ARE 👏 NOT 👏 ETHNONATIONALISTIC 👏 ARE 👏 IMPERIALIST
FREE THE FIRST NATIONS, EXPEL THE FOREIGN DEVILS, KILL ALL GLOBALISTS, TORTURE ALL COSMOPOLITANS.
ISOLATIONISM. NOW.
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I mean, governments have a duty to their citizens, and the citizens also have a duty to their governments. If they want to live on inhospitable lands which makes it more difficult for the government to perform its functions, they should expect to receive worse government services compared to elsewhere.
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Sure. I doubt they expect an opera and Louvre or something in the tundra. But working water system is something that can be provided pretty much anywhere, outside of outright deserts. This is what we're talking about here...
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So you expect Canadians to constantly fly in supplies to these people that just have to live in this remote territory? Global Warming is a thing, mother earth is hurting. Wasting fuel to subsidize these greedy people's lives isn't the answer. Do better sweatie.
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If they can't deal with providing services to that territory, they're free to let it go...
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If those ice monks can fight and keep the territory, they are free to give it a shot. I will even clap from the sidelines as I am sure the righteous will be victorious.
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Fight whom? The question is whether Canada wants it (and thus is willing to treat it like its own territory) or not. Not whether the Eskimos can successfully defeat Anglos outnumbering them 1000:1.
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Well you just answered your own question then didnt you. Canada wants it and is keeping it. If the EES-KEE-MOES don't like how they are treated on the land they are welcome to try and leave at anytime. As I said, I will clap enthusiastically if they did so because I am sure the righteous side will win.
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Well, fair enough. A bit late-19th century colonialist, but quite a consistent viewpoint anyway.
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leaf sovereignty over the arctic is a joke. even britbongs are offering to protect it for us.
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Don’t say Eskimo friend it’s the N word to ice people. They’re called Inuit. (IN-YOU-IT)
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just stop living there lmao
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We're talking about infrastructure here. If you (state) don't want to provide it in a frozen wasteland - give it to someone who will
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So those people can go back to clubbing baby seals? I don't think so...
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what fly in? How about just not putting diesel fuel in the water supply? Can we start with that?
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Who was the r-slur that put oil in the water supply?
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Norilsk only exists and is only supported because it has the largest nickel deposit in the world and has a massive metallurgy industry. Pretty sure most of it was originally built by gulag labor too. It's a net positive to keep it well supplied.
The Artic natives and their reservations contribute nothing to Canada. They're a net drain. I don't think they should be abandoned or deprived of civil services, but they should be relocated to somewhere habitable.
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You're like Pizzashill but worse with women
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No u.
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Your WORDS WORDS WORDS post history says otherwise
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If you want single sentence responses - go get groomed on groomercord, zoomer.
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Eurasia is way warmer than North America.
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What I'm saying is - stfu.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay
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Get me a specific city you want to compare to and post the same graph I posted higher up. The city I posted isn't in Magadan or Kola, it's on Taymyr, far from both Atlantic and Pacific and surrounded by nothing other than the Arctic ices and endless tundra. Population 175k, btw.
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Yurop yes, Russia, Central Asia, Siberia no
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Norway’s much warmer cause if the North Atlantic current and much small and well connected to other areas. Nunavut is a bunch of small hamlets thousands of km apart.
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Do they pay taxes?
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If they don't I'm with you, if they do then they are entitled to at least some gvmt care. I'm not sure which your marsey means
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No they don't pay any taxes and have access to all social services (and then some) for free.
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And I'm pretty sure they're given a stipend for living there.
I checked, they do:
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True yeah. It's not an easy life out there. Winter starts in August and you get days of near total darkness or near total light. A box of Cheerios will cost you $30 bucks at the grocery store if they have it. Gov wants to encourage people to live there so we have some population representation in all 4 corners of the country.
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From sea to sea to sea, Arctic sovereignty is an issue for sure, in my mind its kind of an uber long term investment, when inshallah, global warming really kicks in and the pop grows, the currently undeveloped parts of Canada are gonna be a great resource
Edit: seeing a 10$ can of coke in greenland was a real eye opener, you couldn't pay me to live in that article hellscape
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To the dismay of rest of Canada, yes.
The Canadian government constantly hands out millions of dollars to these tiny native towns for water treatment, but it's seemingly never enough.
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Cede the territories, then. Keep the bits within a day's walk of burgerland where like 90% of Canadian mayos live. What's the problem?
Canadians love talking about how they're the second biggest nation on Earth, don't they? Well, there are some costs involved with that. Ask the biggest one.
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Then, promptly invade and subject the natives!
I've seen the government hand out over ten grande per person to some of these towns only to have them piss it away on god knows what
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They're definitely blowing it all on liquor.
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Why not just ship these people water? It's literally cheaper
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then move south u yuppie frick
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They literally have a giant fresh water river at the edge of town all they need to to is chlorinate the water.
Problem is some butthole pumped thousands of gallons of diesel fuel into their water treatment plant.
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Canada hates natives probably more than the US(
) hates 🏀
Pretty sure they're more represented in the prison system than black people are in the US, and have the same sort of social issues, on top of the fact that the "land back" movement is popular with them, so there's a lot of animosity
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There was a job I did where an old Leaf truck driver ranted about the time his rig broke down half way across a reservation and while he was waiting for the tow truck a flatbed full of about 15 braves showed up and stole his wheels while he was sat inside the cab yelling at them. They just jacked his whole truck up with him inside and dared him to stop them.
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Sounds like he deserved it for being a cumskin on sovereign land
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The answer to "land back" is land back+1, e.g. this is rightful Dorset land.
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idio3 confirmed eskimo
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If only whitey hadn't brought modern technology to the natives and just let them be hunter gatherers into the 21st Century. SMH.
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I know all those snow mobiles, electric heaters, hunting rifles and water treatment plants make life in the Arctic so much more difficult.
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Shit the frick up bigot and pay your fricking reparations before trying to speak over the heads of fricking minorities respect them REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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someone pumped diesel in deliberately
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Nah, knowing the Indians, one of 'em was too drunk or high on hand sanitizer and couldn't tell which tank was the fuel tank or the water tank.
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These people are one with the land and nature why do they need a water treatment plant anyway
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My bet is a snowmobile fell thru the ice and no one bothered reporting it
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Snowmobiles don't run on diesel, diesel turns to gel in the cold. And it's a massive metric frick ton of fuel to contaminant that much water.
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My bet is I'm r-slurred
no one bothered reporting it 
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This is Stephen Harper’s fault.
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Figured you’d be here you are a drama teacher after all.
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Abbos really wishing they lived in Canada right now
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I like that there is a part of Canada called "None of it".
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Honestly, at this point they should go back to taking the white man's scalps.
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You can frick up an entire water supply just by pouring some diesel in it? Brb Portland here i come
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Yeah big time. Water mains themselves are easy to manage but you have to remember that every boiler, hot water heater, water tower, every pipe in every house is going to need to be flushed out. It fricks stuff up big time.
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Seriously. If pornhub is suggesting cuck porn for you, it's because their algorithm has determined, scientifically, that you're a cuck. That's all.
Snapshots:
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