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Hello lovely readers!
It is time to get your smile and laugh on with this week’s edition of Feel Good Friday.
We’ve got triumphs over fracking companies, free books (!), hilarious movie reviews, Indigenous voices and, oh, so much more.
So what are you waiting for?
Dive in and enjoy!
- Begin with a fist-pump and a whoohoo because today a Federal Court Judge ruled that the 2012 changes to the Interim Federal Health Program must be changed. The ruling used a few choice words to describe the 2012 changes that denied health care services to so many refugees, for instance: “unconstitutional” and “cruel.” Tell us how you really feel, Federal Court.
- NY communities triumph over fracking companies because a high court ruled that towns can zone out oil and gas operations.
- rabble crush Ryan McMahon put together this exciting list of Indigenous voices of resurgence, reclamation and nationhood. Give it a listen!
- So it looks like our government isn’t total heartless
(it’s still pretty damn heartless) because the Buzas family, a Roma family of five, have been granted a stay of deportation on humanitarian grounds.
- Oh twitter discussion. Your hilarity never lets me down. Especially when it has to do with Robin Thicke.
- rabble’s got a question for you: Do you like free books?
- It’s the opposite of striking gold. Brazil revokes the license for Belo Sun Mining, to mine for gold in the Amazon, saying the Canadian company failed to assess the mine’s impact on local indigenous communities.
- “These arguments are not those of serious people,” said a U.S. district judge on the argument that gay marriage would harm the state’s birth rate.
- How many Canadian books have you read? Take this quiz!
- Even though this video is perhaps a rip-off of this video, any video set to ‘Ridin dirty’ is bound to be hilarious.
- Yeah. That Hobby Lobby announcement was the worst. But Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg is the best.
- For how little I, Kaitlin, care about soccer, I’ve watched a surprising number of World Cup soccer games. Regardless, these real life red cards are pretty funny.
- Google: paying women and minorities to code since … well, they have announced a plan to do it.
- Don’t know the answer on Jeopardy? No problem. Just do this.
- If you are a lover of The Notebook, turn around and run far, far away from this post. If you aren’t, you should read it because it is pretty hilarious.
- I got MVP in my softball last week. There’s no link for that. I just thought you all would like to know.
Need more? Check out the rest of our Feel Good Fridays here.
Kaitlin McNabb is rabble’s news and books coordinator and she is really good at softball. Like, really good. Follow her on twitter @kaitlinmcnabb
Photo: flickr/Angelica
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