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When Christie Blatchford Came Calling
Christie Blatchford made it very clear to me that she was interested in law and order, and only in law and order. That was both her strength and her limitation.
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Terry Jones, 1942–2020
Those of us who delighted in the intelligent absurdity of Python will remember Terry Jones foremost as a Pepperpot, or perhaps as the bowler-topped City Gent.
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Neil Peart, 1952–2020
Neil Peart yielded an army of air drummers, and at one time or another many of us were the Jason Segel character from Freaks and Geeks, playing along to Tom Sawyer in our parents’ basement.
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The President Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing
Soleimani deserved what he got but this doesn’t redeem the clueless incompetence of the President.
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Podcast 102: Senator Yvonne Boyer
Warning: this podcast discusses coerced sterilization of Indigenous women. Visit Senator Boyer’s website senatorboyer.ca for healing and counselling resources.
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Podcast 101: Journalist and Former APTN Executive Director of News Karyn Pugliese
On this episode we discuss APTN, Indigenous media, and the 2019 election.
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Mediocrity and Managed Decline
All we can know as certain is that Prime Minister Johnson will persist at the throwing of dead cats on dining-room tables.
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The AMC and Indigenous Media
For days now this matter has been covered by CBC, CTV News, Global News, and the Winnipeg Free Press. But it was the reporting of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network that triggered an unspoken community rule not to air the dirty laundry where outsiders can see it.
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The Weaponization of Anti-Racism
Somewhere along the way the work of confronting the rot of racism took a turn. The understanding that racism is a universal toxin, mediated through social systems, gave way to a vigilance for the individual offender.
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2020 Vision
Nancy Pelosi has a long history of knowing when to play it safe and when to rock the boat. She’s among the smartest politicians out there, until she isn’t.
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The Rot At The Top
It’s not as if Epstein hasn’t all along believed in his own version of a Fifth Avenue shooting, that he can do what he wants in broad daylight and get away with it. So far he has, thanks to rich and powerful acquaintances.
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Doug Ford and the Communication Wizards
From time to time a pig needs lipstick. Don’t expect the style or the substance of Mr Ford to change: this shuffle is about optics
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The Arc of The Deal
Trump is no good for democracy and America but American voters (on a diet of reality television) aren’t much good for these either.
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Podcast 100: Kenn Richard
On this episode, I talk to Kenn Richard, founding Executive Director of Native Child and Family Services of Toronto
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The Happiness of Kalashnikov
All of us together, pretending to be happy, are what we appear to be.
