This court case could decide the future of press freedom — and police oversight — in Canada

  • Sunshine@piefed.ca
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    1 month ago

    circling the wagons

    That phrase is problematic as it indicates “defending property from indigenous attackers” when it was the other way around when the settler wagons encroached upon their lands.

    • DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      That’s fair. I mean to reference their tendancy to deny and defend regardless of how egregious the action in question. They consider themselves above the law.