Has anybody sent in a tax refund/rebate to CRA?
I’m talking when you compile all your receipts, invoices, etc & mail them in along with whatever paperwork they have you fill out?
We have been waiting almost a year for our return after mailing everything in, just wondering if this is a normal timeline?
Good morning! Next Friday, I'll be doing a 16-hour charity stream on Twitch to raise money for Indspire, which supports Indigenous students across Canada. Indspire helped me throughout my undergrad and grad school, and now that I’m finished, I wanted to give back!
I'll be spending the day playing games created by Indigenous studios and highlighting some of my favourite Indigenous authors, streamers, and other creators along the way. If you'd like to stop by, chat, or simply hang out for a while, I'd love to have you there! My Twitch is linked on my profile
Marsi 🩷
From the Cowboys Tent yesterday. A man in the crowd threatens someone's life.
*credit to the original poster*
Okay, so I have a side character for a fantsy story I'm creating, and the culture she's from is supposed to be lightly inspired by Inuit culture. I'm trying to figure out how to write her as transgender in a respectful way.
I don't know a lot about specific groups within the category of "Inuit," so bear with me here and please feel free to educate me if needed.
My character is transgender, she was born with a male body. Based on the research (google searches and articles mostly) I've done so far, I know that there is the idea of the soul name, where a child is named after a deceased relative and it is thought of as that the relative's soul? traits? personality? are passed on to the child through the name. I think it'd be cool to include in her backstory that she was named after a female relative, and the soul of that relative didn't want to be in a male body, so it made my character really sick and when the community's elders were trying to figure out why she was sick, she said something that indicated she didn't feel like a boy (also, I would probably have this take place when she was a pre-teen).
Then, once people started thinking of her as a girl, she would recover from her illness. She would keep the same name of course, and would now be considered a girl.
Is this a respectful way for me to write this character? Keep in mind, I don't think I will have her culture literally be an Inuit culture, but it will be lightly inspired (Inuit names, similar social customs, same physical features as many Inuit, etc.)
Also, I think Inuit people have multiple names along with their soul name? I will need to figure out some more names for her, and get a better understanding of how names work in Inuit cultures. I'm planning for her soul name to be Qimmiq (pretty sure it means dog) by the way.
Any advice, critiques, information, or resources would be much appreciated! I'm a white American so I don't have any experience with Inuit cultures, or very many other groups that are often marginalized or underrepresented. I totally recognize that I'm very uneducated on this topic, which is why I thought I should throw my questions out into the void of Reddit in case anyone with more expertise has some guidance.
Hi everyone! I'm a writer from Ukraine. I'm 18 years old, and I'm interested in the history and cultures of different peoples. I'd really love to learn more about the Indigenous peoples of Canada.
I'm not looking for information on the internet because I know that the truth is often distorted there. Even about my own country, Ukraine, there are many articles and books in different languages that contain misinformation. That's why I'd rather hear from people who have lived these experiences themselves or learned about them from their families, rather than from TV or the internet. I'm especially interested in hearing how young people feel about their traditions and culture, and which customs and values are still alive today. I believe our roots are an important part of our future.
So if you'd like to share interesting facts about your people, learn something about Ukraine—its history, culture, and mythology—exchange creative ideas, or simply have a conversation, feel free to message me. I'd be happy to hear from you! 💛💙
Context: this was a post for a “elbow up” Canada type sun where this info is not received well which is my motivation to post it. If this isn’t welcome here delete it or I can delete it.
TL;DR - Canada continues to fail Indigenous communities, Greenland doesn’t suffer from water boil crisis, 1/5 Canadians deny residential schools - nothing new, sadly
Denialism is the willful act of denying 150 years of documented residential schools — the abuse, kidnapping, staggering mortality rates, and genocide. 1 in 5 Canadians actively deny these events.
For more than 150 years, politicians, the federal government, and missionary churches misled Canadians about the deaths, abuse, and genocidal intent of residential schools.
The final residential school closed in 1997. Kivalliq Hall in Rankin Inlet (now Nunavut) operated until then — meaning survivors are still alive today.
1 in 5 Canadians deny this history. I searched for comparable American "slavery denialism" and found none. By contrast:
· 1 in 5 Canadians deny residential schools
· 1 in 5 young Americans (18–29) believe the Holocaust is a myth
· Canada's denialism is a systemic failure of education and accountability.
It's not just history — it's ongoing. As of June 2026, there are 38 active long-term drinking water advisories impacting 36 First Nations communities.
If you think this is just a "remote reserve" issue:
· Six Nations of the Grand River — in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe — has up to 80% of homes lacking running water.
· Greenland — a territory covered in ice with brutal winters — has 96.74% of its population using safely managed drinking water.
Canada has more freshwater than almost anywhere on Earth. Yet Indigenous communities have been on boil-water advisories for decades. This is not a resource problem — this is a priorities problem.
Did you learn this in school? Or did you, like me, receive a whitewashed, sanitized version of Canadian history?
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Sources:
· https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4349815-poll-americans-holocaust-myth/
· https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1506514143353/1533317130660
· https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/greenland/access-to-safely-managed-drinking-water-services