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Outside of #ab millions of Canadians have no idea what has been brewing in one of the most bizarre political stories in the history of Cdn politics. Some day a movie will be made -might be called Premier and the Preacher. The Premier, Danielle Smith. The Preacher is Pawlowsky.
"Pawlowski wanted Smith to convince the prosecutor to drop the charges. The premier explained that she had been working on doing exactly that and would continue to do so with the justice minister and his deputy.
Smith also let drop that she had been questioning prosecutors “weekly” about the case. If all true, it is a shocking interference with the justice system on behalf of someone facing criminal charges.
why on earth was Smith taking 11 minutes out of her busy day (she had been premier for only three months at the time) to speak with someone as notorious as Pawlowski... it was Pawlowski who presented German neo-fascist Christine Anderson with
"Calgary’s white cowboy hat as a welcome gesture..long before that he was already well known for his bigoted behaviour. For yrs he provided food to street people in front of Calgary City Hall while preaching through an amplified megaphone about the wickedness of homosexuality."
In 2020 he focused his wrath on pandemic-related health restrictions. In Feb 2021 as part of his campaign against them he co-organized the Jericho Torch March, which featured flaming tiki torches just like the infamous 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
At the Coutts border blockade he allegedly urged on protesters demanding the end of vaccine mandates by telling them “this is our Alamo” and “people must be willing to sacrifice their lives.”
Who on earth could have convinced Smith that she needed to take that call just before the trial was due to get underway? Apparently, it was Dennis Modry an Edmonton surgeon who endorsed The Barrington Declaration —
a since debunked theory that claimed most people would eventually acquire immunity from COVID-19 if it were allowed to run rampant through the population. Modry introduced Pawlowski and stayed on the line for the entire call." thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @TorontoStar
Kudos to @GillianSteward Calgary based author and journalism instructor at Mount Royal University. She has been chronicling the craziest story in Canadian politics. A movie should be made some day, based on a book that Steward would do well to publish.
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On this day, Don Martin is an archeologist - digging for fossils from the Reform Party Stone Age. He discovers Poilievre. ctvnews.ca/politics/don-m…
"To seal the deal w those voters, to create a lasting Conservative regime stretching beyond any one-off election win, Poilievre has to grow a more likable personality & stand on a wider-appeal platform, which doesn’t sound like a fossil from the pre-Harper Stone Age." Don Martin
"when MPs receive nationally televised attention during must-watch committee hearing controversies, Conservatives should send out intelligent voices instead of unleashing their snarling pack of bloodthirsty hyena MPs to howl partisan questions at incredulous witnesses" Don Martin
Rights are "endowed by our creator" - 18th Century US Declaration of Independence language. But the legal foundation for rights in Canada is the Charter of Rights & Freedoms.I don't care whether you are religious. Your biz. But Cdn legal rights are conferred by our Constitution.
I have a deep distrust of those who politicize God. It's a pander to the Religious Right. Most politicians don't want to ever appear to offend believers. So they rarely challenge Conservative pols who pretend that God is their political partner. Witnessed this 24/7 in the US.
Bothered me there. But I realized it was systemic. Always felt that this was not going to happen in Canada. But I was Wrong. During Covid many listeners told me their Anti-Vax pastors told them to take the word of God - not the word of Big Pharma. Some pols play the same game.
EVs- When you're in Norway, you see the future "This vision of the future, unsurprisingly, is situated in Norway, a country with an unmatched enthusiasm for battery-powered cars. Last year, four in five cars sold in Norway were electric. Boosted by favourable tax policies and a
government that has mandated 100 per cent zero-emission car sales by 2025, Norway has become the best place on Earth to peer into the dawning age of electric mobility. That includes sculpting what it will look like to fill up for decades to come."
"Circle K is owned by Laval, Que.-based Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the global convenience store and gas station giant, with more than 14,000 outlets in 24 countries & territories. The company has made Norway into an internal laboratory for the gas station of the electric age.
Calling out #Poilievres simplistic sloth "As the fmr chief of police for Ottawa, I have seen first-hand the positive effect that a safer supply can have on an individual’s life. We can even look at the program operating right now in Ottawa,
"where Mr. Poilievre is currently the sitting MP The patrons of supervised consumption sites are not only given the chance to survive their addictions, but when under the care of a medical professional instead of a street dealer, they have a chance to live long enough to take."
"to be offered alternative paths, which they often choose The fact that Mr. Poilievre misses this point entirely is disappointing, as his counterparts in the House of Commons and the Senate have understood the importance of removing street-manufactured opioids from the sites."
Why was @DavidAkin madder than a hatter? For the exact same reason any media professional would be and why any citizen of a democracy ought to be. "There were to be No questions. Those were the ground rules Pierre Poilievre’s people communicated to the press on Tuesday"
That's right no questions. So the media was invited to cover the near leader make a statement and that's it. No Questions. Any working professional would be thinking and or saying "I'm not a fucking stenographer for Poilievre." Now the new oppo leader's loyalists can
argue all day long that the press is the enemy, the press works for Trudeau or the WEF..But you have to ask yourself what kind of leader in a democracy expects to be taken seriously when he refuses to have media pros question him? Even Vladimir F-ing Putin takes questions.
There is a practical reason why it's important to report truth. The lethal weapon used by those who wish to dismantle democracy is the lie. Look I get that not everyone is as motivated as I was when I was a small child, and began to study the the creation of Fascist Propaganda.
I was trying to figure out why so many of my ancestors including my paternal grandparents had been murdered. The child's mind was trying to figure out why parents would for no apparent reason rapidly develop bouts of sadness and anger. The child wrongly thought he could help.
We all have our personal and family issues. But in the communities we live in, democracy is at stake and you need to know that nothing will destroy democracy faster than your neigbours believing and regurgitating lies. I personally don't give a rodent's rear end about