Shellene Drakes-Tull

Sometimes, you just need a break from socials because life. I'm back! Wanna see some of what I've been writing? www.clippings.me/ShelleneDrakesTull

Hi folks! Happy 2025--I needed a social media break to bring in the New Year. I'm back, ready to cause havoc in these social media streets 🙃

Feds Spend Millions In Court Denying That Black Employees Faced Discrimination Even When Internal Reports Prove Otherwise - ByBlacks.com | #1 online magazine for Black Canadians Lawsuits, internal reports, first-hand accounts—what more do Black people need to do to make people believe us?

The Canadian government has all sorts of money except for the Black public servants who are suing them. What do Black people have to do to get treated fairly?

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Ford threatens to cut off energy supply to U.S. in response to Trump’s tariffs Ontario Premier Doug Ford threated to cut off energy supply to the U.S. in response to the tariffs President-elect Donald Trump plans to impose on all Canadian imports.

Bluster versus Bluster. Lord help us all.

Ford threatens to cut off energy supply to U.S. in response to Trump’s tariffs

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Remembering Montreal's École Polytechnique massacre 35 years later: Photos Friday marks the 35th anniversary of the tragic Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, where a gunman targeted and killed 14 women simply because of their gender, sparking a nationwide reckoning on viole...

I was 14 years old, living in Montreal, and I heard our neighbour pounding on our door.

"Is your sister home? There was a shooting at a university downtown."

She wasn't a student at École Polytechnique where 14 female students were gunned down on December 6, 1989. Today is the 35th anniversary.

It is honestly ridiculous. I don't understand how we work so hard to feel so poor.

At an event right now knowing this will be the outcome.

Same. Clearly, we need to reassess our priorities.

Canadians to spend $801 more on food in 2025: report Food prices in Canada are likely to increase by three to five per cent next year, according to a newly released report, but wild cards like climate change and Donald Trump could have unforeseen impact...

Food is a right, not a privilege. People can barely afford to eat today. We gotta spend $800 more? Bare madness.

Canadians to spend $801 more on food in 2025: report

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Lol! Right? That was 1969 Montreal. Looks straight out of Bridgetown, Barbados 😂

Thanks! This is exactly what it is. We put out the welcome mat when we need people to do low-skilled, low-paying jobs, then we snatch it back to scapegoat them for all the ills of the country. When I was growing up, it was the Haitians and Jamaicans. Now, they're blaming the Indians.

Shellene Drakes-Tull: It’s easy to scapegoat immigrants. But where would Canada be without people like my mom? My mother, like so many others, didn’t just come to Canada for a better life — she came to help build a better Canada.

I am the proud child of immigrants. Here's part of my mother's story of coming to Canada from Barbados.

And so the chaos begins. I mean, the man hasn'teven taken office yet and he's starting with the threats. SMH. Is this y'all king??
www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariff-25-1.7393160

Things were (or felt) so much easier when I believed if you worked hard enough, you'd be successful or that all people were treated equally. Sigh. It's be years since I believed this...and I'm in Canada. It's no different here.

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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.--James Baldwin

I would say instead of country, world because anti-Blackness is global.

To be blissfully ignorant some days would be a blessing.

The grocery monopoly in #Canada is largely responsible for the gouging. #GalenWeston 🎩 #Roblaws

It's the worst. Feel better, soon 🧡

Horrible. He knew if the information got out, he'd be toast.

I really wanted to go and the event was useful, it's just the foolish small talk and the awkwardness. I have been released, back to the comfort of my home office!

Being an #introverted Black woman who is an #entrepreneur is a different type of hard 😭 That's why I arrive at events late--I don't want to talk to anyone. I'm early today 😭

Shellene Drakes-Tull: Food is a right, not a luxury It doesn't matter whether you indulge or stick with the basics, food is just too pricey, Shellene Drakes-Tull writes.

People are struggling because #food and #housing, and #transit, and #utilities, and the price of everything is just too damned high. Who else financially fighting for their lives?

So today's goal is to write my column and finish my book proposal but why am I SO DAMNED TIRED? I didn't leave the house since Friday because of this cold and I am exhausted. Jesus be a caffeinated IV drip. Lawd.

Amen and amen 🙏🏾

Chocolate chip cookies 🍪

Where are the #BlackCanadians? Let's get together 🇨🇦 ❤️

Please add me 🙏🏾

Someone wrote in their bio, "Black and tired," and I feel that in my soul. The '20s have drained me.

This what happens when you have no integrity or morals. This can't make up for the hell these women went through, but I hope Ms. Moss and Ms. Freeman never have to work another day of their lives.