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Every Thursday afternoon, Turnisa Matsedik-Qira stands outside the Chinese consulate protesting the treatment of her family and other Uyghur families whose relatives have simply disappeared.
Last week, she’d only had a few hours sleep after her overnight nursing shift on a COVID ward before heading out to join others across Canada for this weekly protest.
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Sometimes, Matsedik-Qira’s husband and twins go with her. Sometimes, she is the only protester, which can be frightening. Several times when she’s been alone, people have shown up and verbally abused her. At home, she’s received a threatening phone call.
Snickers Taste of Blood? It’s in Bed With the 2022 Beijing Olympics
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The Snickers confectionary division of the Mars food group is the only U.S. company with a direct Beijing sponsorship deal for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Snickers failed to adjust after the United States, along with parliaments in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands, called for an end to genocide in China against the Uyghurs. Mars persists in its China deals nonetheless.
Snickers supposedly prides itself on its human rights policy, leaving the company’s candy bars with not only a bloody, but a hypocritical, aftertaste. Mars CEO Frank Reid was quoted by the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in 2019 as saying, “As a beneficiary of China’s deepened reform and opening-up policy, Mars will continue to support this strategic vision and contribute to a better world we want tomorrow.” A “better world” led by Beijing? Please, Frank.
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The future of a panel set up to advise the B.C. government on issues important to the Chinese-Canadian community has been thrown into question after one former member said on a radio show that Canada’s condemnation of China’s treatment of its Muslim minority is based on lies.
George Chow, B.C.’s Minister of State for Trade, said in a statement that the terms of the panel members, including that of Bill Yee, who made the controversial comments, expired in February. Mr. Yee is not seeking reappointment.