{"id":4,"date":"2016-09-12T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/?p=4"},"modified":"2016-09-12T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:43:15","slug":"engl470-canadian-studies-introduction-lesson-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/2016\/09\/12\/engl470-canadian-studies-introduction-lesson-11\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGL470 &#8211; Canadian Studies &#8211; Introduction (Lesson 1:1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks! I am a fourth year Philosophy major, and I am super excited to take this course. \u00a0I have always had a strong interest in literature, political philosophy, and history, so this seems like a perfect blend.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working in the DTES for 5 years now, and the effects of colonization very apparent there. \u00a0My goal is to work for a non-profit in the area, and give back to the country that gave so much to me. \u00a0Here are a couple places that you can get touch with, if the urge to become involved strikes you so!:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atira.bc.ca\/\">Atira Women&#8217;s Resource Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/supervisedinjection.vch.ca\/\">Insite Supervised Injection Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem created by our ancestors has left dark consequences. \u00a0I am pleased to see a class where we, as a community of learning, can explore and discuss the causes and solutions to this crisis. \u00a0As we stand today, the Native population of Canada \u00a0does not have the rights they once did as a free people, and are often struggling with problems such as alcoholism, abuse, and cultural identity confusion. \u00a0There are things we can do the raise awareness, and make it better!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading, and let&#8217;s make Canada the country we want it to be!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/files\/2016\/09\/Idle-No-More-and-Defenders-of-the-Land-v6201-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"idle-no-more-and-defenders-of-the-land-v6201\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/files\/2016\/09\/Idle-No-More-and-Defenders-of-the-Land-v6201-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/files\/2016\/09\/Idle-No-More-and-Defenders-of-the-Land-v6201-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/files\/2016\/09\/Idle-No-More-and-Defenders-of-the-Land-v6201.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks! I am a fourth year Philosophy major, and I am super excited to take this course. \u00a0I have always had a strong interest in literature, political philosophy, and history, so this seems like a perfect blend. I have been working in the DTES for 5 years now, and the effects of colonization very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bloglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}