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Article in question from CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/adam-gopnik-anti-elitism-antisemitism-anti-urbanism-1.7458841

Trying to make sense of the current political storm, this article helped me.

I keep coming back to the question: what’s the end goals/motivations of Trump supporters? They know he wants to break the government and, yet, thinks it’s worthwhile. Why? Motivation will be multifaceted and we read all kind of proposition from dementia to dark gothic MAGA (as a plot from billionaires to each be king of their own techno-feudal city state). I don’t want to be naive but don’t want to be fear mongering either. Any agenda is enabled by the population and sufficient support.

This article’s take on anti-elitism as a rejection from the uneducated mass of educated immigrants because they perceive them as competition and as being responsible for their failure to achieve success… it leaves me a bit depressed because it takes effort to open up to any difference (immigrants, sexual orientation… ) and the mass of average (poorly) educated population doesn’t have the ressources to make this effort. And then the division in our population can be exploited by dangerous individuals for further pain.

How do we fight this now (and frankly forever because this weakness is intrinsic to this world, for every generation)?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39711547

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CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding by the federal government is well below the average funding of G7 countries, which is $62.20 per capita. Currently, the government grants approximately $1.38 billion to CBC/Radio-Canada, which represents approximately $33.66 per capita, thereby placing Canada in sixth place in the Group of Seven (G7) in terms of public funding per capita for its national public broadcaster. The per capita funding that CBC/Radio-Canada receives is therefore equal to approximately half of the G7 average. The Minister intends to bring Canada more into line with its G7 counterparts.

Claire Brosseau first fantasized about dying when she was in kindergarten. She was a dramatic child, prone to throwing tantrums and screaming until she passed out. When her parents admonished her, asking why she wasn’t more like her sister, she imagined eating peanut butter, to which she was allergic, until she asphyxiated. It’d be better for everyone if I was gone, she thought.

Several Windsor, Ont., police employees — including a staff sergeant and superintendent — witnessed or were told about allegations of internal sexual assault years before the service said it became aware of them, according to claims in new documents obtained by CBC News.

The allegations revolve around Staff. Sgt. Ken Price, who faces four counts of sexual assault. The matter is making its way through the courts and a trial date has been set for July 7.

The complainant, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, also filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) that includes the same allegations.

The HRTO documents contain 12 separate and detailed allegations between 2011 and 2021. Most of them involve sexual comments and touching while the complainant was at work.

In 2020, at the height of the pipeline fight on Wet’suwet’en territory, Ricochet journalist Jerome Turner was detained by the RCMP in two separate locations for a total of eight hours as he sought to do his job and cover the story. It was one of the first instances in a troubling pattern of police interference with journalists that continues to this day.

Yesterday, after a five year fight for accountability, the RCMP formally apologized to Turner and his editor, Ethan Cox, for “unreasonable interference with Mr. Turner’s work as a reporter as he was turned away from the checkpoint, threatened with arrest for being within an exclusion zone, detained and had his movements controlled.”

The formal apology, ordered by the commissioner of the RCMP, was one of a series of recommendations in a scathing 70-page report issued by the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission, the RCMP’s civilian oversight body.

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-says-us-on-time-with-tariffs-against-canada-other-countries/

Fuck you Trump. Just fucking do it. Stop playing stupid games and get to the goddamn point.

Despite falling flat in the past, Rustad is reviving the deceptive and potentially costly strategy of targeting environmental groups because it appeals to the Conservative Party base, provincially and federally, that backs unimpeded oil and gas expansion, he said.

"It's good politics," Bratt said. "That base is convinced that environmental groups are illegitimately blocking energy projects."

However, Conservative politicians don't apply the same standard when it comes to the comparatively massive U.S. investment into Canada's oil and gas industry or as a market for B.C. or Alberta's fossil fuel, Bratt noted.

Nearly 37 per cent of Canada's oil and gas assets are under foreign control withAmerican investment controlling the lion's share at 16 per cent, followed closely by Asia with 15 per cent, and the European Union at five per cent in 2022. Both Rustad and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith originally advocated against the B.C. or federal government imposing any retaliatory tariffs in response to a trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump that would harm the Canadian fossil fuel sector.

China has lodged a diplomatic protest against Canada for including Chinese companies in new sanctions against Russia, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

"China has consistently opposed unilateral sanctions that lack a basis in international law and are not authorized by the United Nations Security Council," Lin Jian, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, told a regular news conference on Tuesday, in reference to the sanctions announced by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday.

On Monday, Trudeau announced new sanctions targeting 76 individuals and entities who the government says are providing support to Russia's military, are involved in the forced transfer of Ukrainian children or support Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39631999

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The UCalgary students and other community members involved in the protest were part of a broader movement at campuses across the United States and Canada calling for their institutions to disclose investments and divest from those implicated in Israel's genocidal war.

These encampments lasted for varying amounts of time, but few, if any, were shorter lived than the one at UCalgary.

Before anyone had the chance to stay overnight, Calgary police officers stormed onto campus dressed like they were going to war. The cops violently dismantled the protest camp, firing 15 pepperball rounds and four pepper grenades at the participants and using a degree of physical force that gave at least two protestors traumatic brain injuries.

The university’s preparations for the encampment would be undertaken strictly from the perspective of pro-Israel students and community members, with the presumption that any protest against Israel’s actions is by definition antisemitic and creates a hostile environment for Jewish people.

On May 14, law professors from UCalgary and UAlberta wrote an open letter to the presidents of their universities, the Calgary and Edmonton police services, and the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service arguing that the universities and police forces violated the encampment protestors' Charter rights.

"We are further concerned by the excess force and violence with which the Calgary Police Service and Edmonton Police Service cleared the camps," they added. "Video evidence suggests that police officers used force that went far beyond that which was necessary to effect law enforcement purposes."