If there is, I haven’t heard of it, and yeah BC had a 1000+ spike of new COVID cases last week, so I’m really not sure of the logic
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It’s strategic. People seem to really like the BCNDP right now, as a result of the perceived success of the Pandemic response. Might as well extend your mandate if you can, I guess?
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If there’s one thing I’m definitely not worried about, it’s a Conservative takeover, for sure. People associate Bonnie Henry with John Horgan and any rightward attack would backfire ten-fold
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I believe they’d be required to hold an election by next October, and realistically we’ll still be in the pandemic then, so it makes some sense to hold it now while our numbers aren’t the worst and people feel decent about the NDP. (Despite their bullshit response to the pipeline, that’s faded from most settlers’ minds during all of this.)
It’s extremely Cool and Good that commercial fisheries have created an environment where pogroms happen in 2020
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Love that we can have open lynch mobs in Canada in twenty fucking twenty. Cool cool cool.
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I look forward to talking heads being surprised at outrage over this obvious act of violent intimidation. Wait, no, I hate that that is going to be the discourse, actually.
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If you want a hint of where the Canadian Discourse is at, here’s the National Post being utterly embarrassing
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On another site where I read about this, I saw this Google Doc getting passed around with ways to help, aimed primarily but not exclusively at Canadians: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u_LF_bCFBbSijzqJgHNh4-MfpYz0hfdv/view
Note: I have not personally vetted any of the information, nor do I have the connections in the Mi’kmaq community to do so.
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The National Post is the worst. A smarmy veneer of education over intellectually bankrupt assertions of conservative talking points. At least the Sun knows what it is.
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Give it a week and Rex Murphy will find a pretentious and bloviating way to call the Mi’kmaq “uppity” and still, SOMEHOW, have a byline
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Reminder that the National Post is the flagship paper for the conservative takeover of Canadian media:
The right wing batshittery is only starting in this country, unfortunately.
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God. I’ve been out of the country long enough to have allowed myself to forget Rex Murphy somehow still has an audience.
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My building has TVs in the elevator, and I keep seeing ads for the local People’s Party candidate. Our region doesn’t even have an election pending soon, and I thought (hoped) that racist-ass party had dissolved after their decisive defeat in the last election.
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In lighthearted CanPoli news, Jagmeet Singh is doing an Among Us stream today at 7 PM EST with a bunch of Canadian and American leftist politicians:
Should be a fun time.
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“F’s” in chat for JT and Kenney, plz
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Let’s hope Keystone XL is dead for good this time.
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It’s just a shame that Kenney decided to stake Alberta’a economic future on these massive petro capital projects, and now they’re going bust. I feel bad for my friends there who will suffer further austerity due to a self own of money management.
And absolutely, that’s not to say that Keystone should have gone ahead. It was an environmental disaster, a gross violation of indigenous sovereignty, and just an all around bad business deal. It just sucks that it was desperately needed public funds that now get allocated to settle massive debts caused by this crater of a project. It’ll hurt federally for sure, but it’s going to devastate Alberta.
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Just wanna revive this thread to validate anyone that is feeling cynical about Trudeau’s appointment of Mary Simon as Governor General. If Inuk and Indigenous folks more broadly are into it, I’m super happy for them and support them. I will always hold space for folks celebrating seeing themselves reflected in whatever part of society.
As a settler, though, it’s important to keep our eyes on the prize, and there’s no doubt a substantial amount of irony involved in appointing an Indigenous individual to the highest embodiment of Crown sovereignty. Without treating anyone as a monolith or presuming to speak for anyone, it’s fair to say Indigenous commentators are cognizant of this irony. Inevitably, mainstream settler commentators will either hop on the Trudeau-as-ultimate-progressive bandwagon or will be sufficiently worried about being called out as unreasonable for critiquing past the symbolic gestures by moderates that this becomes a topic beyond reproach on platforms like the CBC.
But critique past those gestures we must. Recall that on several occasions Trudeau has first flaunted his diverse appointments before ousting women of colour from caucus and/or Cabinet when their substantive perspectives or positions have challenged him–namely, Celina Caesar-Chavannes and Jody Wilson-Raybould. This appointment is perfect for Trudeau, because unlike CCC as MP or JWR as AG, the GG has effectively no role to push back in contemporary Canadian politics. If Mary Simon tries to wield the power of the GG in any way beyond rubber-stamping the PM’s decisions she’ll be vilified as anti-democratic.
With a fall election still looming, remind your friends and family that representation only means something if it is–wait for it–representative of substantive and meaningful change.
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I have no strong opinion on Mary Simon, and I hope she does all the good she can in the position, but it’s definitely hard to look at Canada and think her appointment is anything but a token gesture by a government who hopes that the media, and settlers, will take it and not ask for more.
In late 2019, the RCMP was prepared to use snipers on Wet’suwet’en protests against the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Arrests continued pretty much until the pandemic, despite national outcry, and the governments of Canada continued to financially support it during Covid-19 lockdowns. There is old growth logging happening on the island, protesters are being arrested too.
One can’t help but look at this and the heatwave the other week, which led to a wildfire in Lytton (a town with a large Indigenous population) and the death of perhaps a billion shellfish and other coastal creatures, and draw the lines between climate change and Canada’s disregard for the environment (even outside of this so-called nation, such as in California) - and Indigenous people (the graves uncovered at the Kamloops Residential “School”, the destruction and prevention of tent cities - approximately 1/3rd of homeless people in Vancouver are Indigenous).
And all of that was just British Columbia, where I live and which is run by the NDP. None of this touches on fisheries in the East or the hot mess that is Alberta or the dreadful handling of Covid-19. This country does not give a fuck about Indigenous people, or the land we took from them.
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