Chris Brillinger, who is one of Olivia Chow’s appointed members of the Toronto Police Services Board, opened yesterday’s meeting with an expansive land acknowledgment.
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Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism – Canadian Dimension
Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patriotic rhetoric hides violence against Indigenous peoples. Real strength means truth, reconciliation, and resisting colonialism, not shallow nostalgia.