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Doug Ford's Move to Online Learning Poses Problems for Students With
Disabilities, Experts Warn
February 23, 2020, PressProgress
https://pressprogress.ca/doug-fords-move-to-online-learning-poses-problems-for-students-with-disabilities-experts-warn/
Doug Ford's plan to cut funding for education by forcing students to
complete mandatory online courses to graduate may pose problems for
students with dyslexia and other disabilities, experts say.
Leaked documents obtained by the Toronto Star revealed plans by the
Ford government to replace human teaching jobs with cheaper online
courses - a plan modelled on experiments in Alabama.
Studies of the province's existing eLearning efforts have not been
promising: One poll found 60% of students across the province had
trouble learning online and felt their learning style wasn't supported
by the modules.
In fact, students with individualized needs may face even more adversity.
Tags: Alabama, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Dyslexia, Education cuts, eLearning, Ford
government, Ontario, Stephen Lecce, Toronto Star
==============================
'Stop looking for the Messiah': Preston Manning on the future of the
Conservative Party
February 23, 2020, Ania Bessonov, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/theweekly/preston-manning-weekly-1.5473149
Thursday marks the last day politicians will be able to enter the
Conservative leadership race. So far, four candidates are in the
running: Peter MacKay, Marilyn Gladu, Leslyn Lewis, and Erin O'Toole.
The leadership contest comes at a pivotal time for Conservatives. The
party is rebuilding, after last fall's election. Conservatives
dominated in Western Canada, but couldn't win enough support in the
Greater Toronto Area or in Atlantic Canada. Now there's a lot of talk
about change and who is going to lead them in a new direction.
Preston Manning, who founded the Reform Party in 1987, says the next
generation of Conservative voters shouldn't look for an ideal
candidate, but rather focus on who can build a "competent" team.
Tags: 1987, Canada, Climate change, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki,
Environmental, Erin O'Toole, Greater Toronto Area, Leslyn Lewis, Lisa Raitt,
Marilyn Gladu, Peter MacKay, Preston Manning, Reform Party
==============================
Teck to pull proposal for Frontier oilsands mine in Alberta
February 23, 2020, Kieran Leavitt, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/23/teck-to-pull-proposal-for-frontier-oilsands-mine-in-alberta.html
A $20.6-billion oilsands project with widespread support in Alberta was
nixed late Sunday when Teck Resources Ltd. publicly announced it would
be pulling the application it had on the table, waiting for federal
approval due in a matter of days.
The stunning move to kill the Teck Frontier mine came just hours after
the Alberta government signed two agreements to partner with the
Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation on
the project.
The long-anticipated development in the Alberta energy industry had
been expected to create an estimated 7,000 jobs during construction,
and 2,500 over its 41-year lifespan.
Tags: Alberta, Athabasca Chipewyan, British Columbia, Canada, Climate change,
Don Lindsay, DougWiki, Environmental, Environmental Defence, Jason Kenney,
Jonathan Wilkinson, Justin Trudeau, Teck Frontier, Teck Resources
==============================
The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta: Cue the violins!
Here comes the Buffalo Declaration!
February 23, 2020, David Climenhaga, albertapolitics.ca
https://albertapolitics.ca/2020/02/the-state-of-the-art-of-conservative-victimhood-in-alberta-cue-the-violins-here-comes-the-buffalo-declaration/
No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the
prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River.
Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of Twitter and Conservative
MP for the monochromatic suburban wasteland of Calgary Nose Hill,
apparently wants us to think she is the Pierre Valli?res of Wild Rose
Country with a formula to make us Albertans not only ma?tres chez nous,
but masters of your house too!
Best known hitherto for her unrepentant inclination to block any
citizen who complains about anything she says on social media, Ms.
Rempel Garner has even earned her own hashtag: #BlockedByRempel.
Nevertheless, she is the most prominent of the four Conservative
Alberta MPs who signed the so-called Buffalo Declaration that's been
getting so much undeserved attention from our credulous local journos.
Tags: 1930, 1980, 2001, 2019, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, Arnold Viersen, Blake
Richards, Buffalo Declaration, Calgary, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada,
DougWiki, Easter, Edmonton, Federal election, Glen Motz, House of Commons,
Justin Trudeau, Laurel Collins, Michelle Rempel, Naheed Nenshi, Ottawa,
Ottawa River, Pierre Trudeau, Ralph Klein, Saskatchewan, Stephen Harper,
Toronto, Twitter, Vancouver, Victoria
==============================
Conservative Senator Used Taxpayer Money to Expense Alt-Right Rebel Media
Subscription
February 23, 2019, North99
https://north99.org/2019/02/23/conservative-senator-used-taxpayer-money-to-expense-alt-right-rebel-media-subscription/
Senator David Tkachuk used taxpayer money to expense a year-long
subscription to Rebel Media, a far-right media outlet that engages in
anti-Muslim attacks and employs the founder of an organization
designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
Twitter user Chris Johnston discovered the payment at the Senate of
Canada expenses website.
This story follows the release of a troubling video of Senator Tkachuk
speaking at the far-right Yellow Vests convoy in Ottawa. In the video
he called on attendees to engage in political violence, saying they
should "roll over" their political opponents.
Tags: Alabama, Alt-Right, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Conservative Party of
Canada, David Tkachuk, DougWiki, Ezra Levant, Faith Goldy, FBI, Fredericton,
Gavin McInnes, Hamish Marshall, Milo Yiannopoulos, Muslim, Ottawa, Proud
Boys, Rebel Media, Republican, Roy Moore, Southern Poverty Law Center,
Twitter, Vice News, Yellow Vests Canada
==============================
Fake news. Twitter trolls. Robocalls. Here's what to expect in the Alberta
election
February 23, 2019, Alexandra Zabjek, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-election-advertising-third-party-advertiser-robocall-bot-1.5030570
When Kyle Hamilton got a phone call asking him to support a UCP
candidate in the upcoming provincial election, he asked about the
candidate's platform. When the caller didn't answer his question, he
got suspicious.
Hamilton: Can you do me a favour and say, 'Carrot?'
Caller: Uh, no problem ... I just wanted to take a second and ask if
you'd vote for Marjorie Newman and the UCP in the upcoming election.
Tags: Alberta, BuzzFeed, Calgary, Carbon tax, CBC, DougWiki, Duane Bratt,
Edmonton, Edmonton Journal, Facebook, Fake News, Hamilton, Jason Kenney,
Mount Royal University, Najib Jutt, New Democratic Party, Progressive
Conservative, Robocall, Shaping Alberta's Future, Statecraft Partners,
Twitter, Wildrose
==============================
Ford government shuts down agency that helps people fight zoning appeals
February 23, 2019, Mike Crawley, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-closing-local-planning-appeal-support-centre-1.5029624
The Ford government is closing a provincial agency that gives legal
assistance to residents battling development changes in their local
municipality.
The Local Planning Appeal Support Centre was created just last year as
part of the Wynne government's reforms to the former Ontario Municipal
Board (OMB), a body long criticized for favouring developers in its
decisions about zoning.
The centre provides information to citizens on the complicated land-use
planning process, guiding neighbourhood groups through public meetings.
It also offers free legal help with appeals of municipal zoning
decisions, now heard at the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, the
quasi-judicial body that replaced the OMB.
Tags: 2018, Appeal, Canadian Press, Caroline Mulroney, CBC, Doug Ford,
DougWiki, Ford government, Jeff Burch, Local Planning Appeal Support Centre,
Nathalie Des Rosiers, New Democratic Party, Ontario, Ontario Municipal Board,
Ontario New Democratic Party, Progressive Conservative
==============================
Watching the rise of the extreme right wing in Canada
February 23, 2019, Doug Cuthand, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/cuthand-watching-the-rise-of-the-extreme-right-wing-in-canada
There is a worrying trend developing in Canada and it is the rise of
the extreme right wing that we see south of the border.
This week the pipeline protesters rolled into Ottawa in their oilfield
trucks and staged a protest on Parliament Hill. The protest was noisy
and orderly, but it was overshadowed by the so-called yellow vesters.
Members of this fringe group are anti-immigrant, racist and a
right-wing menace and have little actual interest in pipelines.
The protest was loud and tied up traffic on Wellington Street in front
of the Parliament buildings. However, large trucks take up space but
only carry a few people. When the protesters gathered for their rally,
they formed a group estimated by the media to be about 150 people.
Tags: Alt-Right, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Carbon tax, David Tkachuk, DougWiki,
Environmental, Faith Goldy, First Nations, Indigenous, Maxime Bernier,
Ottawa, Parliament Hill, People's Party of Canada, Preston Manning, United
Nations, United We Roll, Wellington, White nationalism
==============================
Preston Manning says the Conservative party is looking for right way to tap
into populist unrest
February 23, 2017, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/presont-manning-conservative-populism-1.3994886
Reform Party founder Preston Manning says leadership is a crucial part
of harnessing populist movements and preventing them from becoming
dangerous.
"Populism is like a wildcat - or a rogue oil or gas well - where
there's so much pressure from the bottom, it blows the platform, it
blows oil all over the place. It could catch fire, it could be a very
dangerous type of thing," Manning told Rosemary Barton, host of CBC
News Network's Power & Politics.
Manning said the best way to deal with a rogue well is to drill a
relief line, which has to be deep enough to release pressure but not so
deep that it blows up itself.
Tags: Canada, CBC, Conservative Party of Canada, Donald Trump, Doug Ford,
DougWiki, Facebook, Islamophobia, Manning Centre, Ottawa, Politics, Preston
Manning, Reform Party, Toronto
==============================
Unwrapping the Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of the Alt-Right
February 23, 2017, Scott Oliver, Vice News
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/78mnny/unwrapping-the-conspiracy-theory-that-drives-the-alt-right
trope of "cultural Marxism" has been steadily gaining traction among
the broad and diverse entity that is the radical right (although,
hating diversity, they would baulk at you saying so), where it serves
as an umbrella term variously responsible for such un-American and
anti-Western ills as atheism, secularism, political correctness, gay
rights, sexual liberation, feminism, affirmative action, liberalism,
socialism, anarchism and, above all, multiculturalism. The ultimate
goal of cultural Marxism, we're led to believe, is to slowly and
stealthily dilute and subvert white, Christian Western culture, thereby
opening sovereign nations to rule by a one-world corporate government.
Whether that's by Jews, lizards or communists isn't always clear.
So the theory goes, "cultural Marxism" was the master plan of a group
of ?migr? Jewish-German academics ? widely known today as the Frankfurt
School of Critical Theory ? who fled Nazi Germany in 1936, decamping to
New York. What's certainly true is that, in an attempt to understand
why the objective conditions of the European proletariat had failed to
trigger widespread revolt, they concluded that religion ? that great
"opium of the people" ? and mass culture served to dampen revolutionary
fervour and spread "false consciousness". So, adding a splash of Freud
to their Marxism, the likes of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert
Marcuse and Walter Benjamin trained their eyes on the subtle
intertwining of social and psychic/sexual repression, believing that a
revolutionary consciousness could be engendered through psychic
liberation and more enlightened cultural forms and attitudes.
While these were the staunch views of a handful of left-wing thinkers
writing in the middle of the 20th century, it does not follow that they
have been the ideological architects of a wholesale takeover of Western
culture. Yet those who believe it has already happened end up having to
explain how George W Bush and the neocon hawks somehow served a leftist
agenda.
Tags: 1920, 1936, 1960, 1990, 2011, 2012, African-American, Alt-Right, Anders
Breivik, Andrew Breitbart, BBC, Breitbart, Christian, Conspiracy, Critic,
Cultural Marxism, Daily Mail, Daily Stormer, Disney, Europe, Frankfurt
School, Germany, Hollywood, Infowars, Jewish, Milo Yiannopoulos, New York,
Oslo, Pat Buchanan, Paul Joseph Watson, Quicky, Red Pill, Tea Party, Trump
University, USA, YouTube
==============================
Firm with Tory links traced to election day 'robocalls' that tried to
discourage voters
February 23, 2012, Stephen Maher, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/racknine-inc-fraudulent-election-calls-traced
Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the
federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for
the Conservative Party across the country.
While the agency investigates, aided by the RCMP, the Conservatives are
conducting an internal probe. A party lawyer is interviewing campaign
workers to find who was behind the deceptive "robocalls."
Elections Canada launched its investigation after it was inundated with
complaints about election day calls in Guelph, Ont., one of 18 ridings
across the country where voters were targeted by harassing or deceptive
phone messages in an apparent effort to discourage Liberal supporters
from voting.
Tags: 2006, 2008, 2011, Access to Information, Al Mathews, Alberta, Andrew
Prescott, Arthur Hamilton, Brian Mulroney, Calgary, Canada, Conservative
Party of Canada, DougWiki, Edmonton, Elections Canada, Eve Adams, Federal
election, Frank Valeriote, Fred DeLorey, Glen McGregor, Green Party, Guelph,
Hamilton, Helena, Kitchener, London, Marty Burke, Matt Meier, Michael Sona,
Montreal, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Postmedia, Prescott, Quebec,
RackNine, RCMP, Stephen Harper, Sydney, University of Guelph, Victoria,
Waterloo, Wildrose Party, Winnipeg
==============================
Scientology Demands the Right to Employ Slaves in Australia While Getting
Puff Pieces in DC, Florida
February 23, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/scientology_aro.php
Still waiting to hear from you, Tom: your church is arguing on your
behalf for slave wages for Sea Org members, man. Nice naval hat, though.
On Thursdays, Scientologists race to get their weekly stats in, so we
like to do the same by totaling up how the church fared internationally
in the past seven days. This week, in particular, we saw a wild
divergence in the way Scientology got treated by the press, and so
we're going to share that with you in this Thursday Stats Roundup.
We're starting in Australia, where we reported last year that the
country's Fair Work Ombudsman has been looking into the way Scientology
works people incredibly long hours for almost no pay. That
investigation ended up in the church's favor, as the Ombudsman found
that several former church members complaining about how they were
treated had either been out of Scientology too long, or had volunteered
their time.
But now, the Daily Telegraph in Sydney has reported, a local
representative for the church sent the Fair Work review a letter
telling the government to keep its mitts off of Scientology's holy (and
wholly unpaid) laborers.
Tags: 1996, 2007, Ascot Vale, Australia, Bryan Seymour, Cadet Org,
California, Child labor, Daily Telegraph, DC, Debbie Cook, Fair Work Act,
Fair Work Ombudsman, Florida, France, Freewinds, Ideal Org, Jeff Lawrence,
Joe Hildebrand, Luis Garcia, Mary Anderson, Melbourne, OC Weekly, Office of
Special Affairs, Operation Clambake, Orange County, Paris, Paulien Lombard,
Private investigator, Quicky, Ray Jeffrey, Reverend, Review, Rupert Murdoch,
San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News, Sea Org, Shane Kelsey, Squirrel
Busters, Steve Cannane, Susan Taylor, Switzerland, Sydney, Tampa, Tampa Bay
Times, Telegraph, The Telegraph, Tom Cruise, UK, Valeska Paris, Washington,
Washington Examiner, WhyWeProtest
==============================
Stephen Harper's 'Nixonian culture' to blame for illegal robocall scandal: Rae
February 23, 2012, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/stephen-harper-denies-tories-knew-about-illegal-election-robocalls-linked-to-party
OTTAWA - Opposition parties are stepping up pressure on Stephen Harper
today over misleading phone calls made during the last election
campaign directing voters to the wrong polling locations.
Dismissing Conservative suggestions that a 'rogue operator' could be
behind the 'robocalls,' interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said the real
blame for any election trickery rests with the political culture the
Prime Minister has created in the Tories.
Mr. Rae's remarks came in response to a Postmedia News-Ottawa Citizen
report that found a continuing Elections Canada investigation has
traced the calls to a call centre with Conservative connections.
Tags: 2008, 2010, 2011, Al Mathews, Alberta, Andrew Prescott, Arthur
Hamilton, Bob Rae, Brian Mulroney, Calgary, Canada, Chris Pennings,
Christian, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki, Edmonton, Elections
Canada, Eve Adams, Facebook, Federal election, Frank Valeriote, Glen
McGregor, Green Party, Guelph, Hamilton, Jenni Byrne, Kelly Block, Lobbyist,
Marty Burke, Matt Meier, Michael Sona, Montreal, Ontario, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Parliament Hill, Pat Martin,
Postmedia, Quebec, RackNine, RCMP, Republican, Robocall, Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, Stephen Harper, Stephen Maher, The Sun, Toronto, University
of Guelph, Wildrose
==============================
DougWiki: https://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/mediawiki/index.php/DougWiki_Page
RightCite archive: https://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/rightcite.html
Portable DougWiki download: http://tiny.cc/xdb37y
==============================
Doug Ford's Move to Online Learning Poses Problems for Students With
Disabilities, Experts Warn
February 23, 2020, PressProgress
https://pressprogress.ca/doug-fords-move-to-online-learning-poses-problems-for-students-with-disabilities-experts-warn/
Doug Ford's plan to cut funding for education by forcing students to
complete mandatory online courses to graduate may pose problems for
students with dyslexia and other disabilities, experts say.
Leaked documents obtained by the Toronto Star revealed plans by the
Ford government to replace human teaching jobs with cheaper online
courses - a plan modelled on experiments in Alabama.
Studies of the province's existing eLearning efforts have not been
promising: One poll found 60% of students across the province had
trouble learning online and felt their learning style wasn't supported
by the modules.
In fact, students with individualized needs may face even more adversity.
Tags: Alabama, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Dyslexia, Education cuts, eLearning, Ford
government, Ontario, Stephen Lecce, Toronto Star
==============================
'Stop looking for the Messiah': Preston Manning on the future of the
Conservative Party
February 23, 2020, Ania Bessonov, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/theweekly/preston-manning-weekly-1.5473149
Thursday marks the last day politicians will be able to enter the
Conservative leadership race. So far, four candidates are in the
running: Peter MacKay, Marilyn Gladu, Leslyn Lewis, and Erin O'Toole.
The leadership contest comes at a pivotal time for Conservatives. The
party is rebuilding, after last fall's election. Conservatives
dominated in Western Canada, but couldn't win enough support in the
Greater Toronto Area or in Atlantic Canada. Now there's a lot of talk
about change and who is going to lead them in a new direction.
Preston Manning, who founded the Reform Party in 1987, says the next
generation of Conservative voters shouldn't look for an ideal
candidate, but rather focus on who can build a "competent" team.
Tags: 1987, Canada, Climate change, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki,
Environmental, Erin O'Toole, Greater Toronto Area, Leslyn Lewis, Lisa Raitt,
Marilyn Gladu, Peter MacKay, Preston Manning, Reform Party
==============================
Teck to pull proposal for Frontier oilsands mine in Alberta
February 23, 2020, Kieran Leavitt, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/23/teck-to-pull-proposal-for-frontier-oilsands-mine-in-alberta.html
A $20.6-billion oilsands project with widespread support in Alberta was
nixed late Sunday when Teck Resources Ltd. publicly announced it would
be pulling the application it had on the table, waiting for federal
approval due in a matter of days.
The stunning move to kill the Teck Frontier mine came just hours after
the Alberta government signed two agreements to partner with the
Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation on
the project.
The long-anticipated development in the Alberta energy industry had
been expected to create an estimated 7,000 jobs during construction,
and 2,500 over its 41-year lifespan.
Tags: Alberta, Athabasca Chipewyan, British Columbia, Canada, Climate change,
Don Lindsay, DougWiki, Environmental, Environmental Defence, Jason Kenney,
Jonathan Wilkinson, Justin Trudeau, Teck Frontier, Teck Resources
==============================
The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta: Cue the violins!
Here comes the Buffalo Declaration!
February 23, 2020, David Climenhaga, albertapolitics.ca
https://albertapolitics.ca/2020/02/the-state-of-the-art-of-conservative-victimhood-in-alberta-cue-the-violins-here-comes-the-buffalo-declaration/
No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the
prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River.
Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of Twitter and Conservative
MP for the monochromatic suburban wasteland of Calgary Nose Hill,
apparently wants us to think she is the Pierre Valli?res of Wild Rose
Country with a formula to make us Albertans not only ma?tres chez nous,
but masters of your house too!
Best known hitherto for her unrepentant inclination to block any
citizen who complains about anything she says on social media, Ms.
Rempel Garner has even earned her own hashtag: #BlockedByRempel.
Nevertheless, she is the most prominent of the four Conservative
Alberta MPs who signed the so-called Buffalo Declaration that's been
getting so much undeserved attention from our credulous local journos.
Tags: 1930, 1980, 2001, 2019, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, Arnold Viersen, Blake
Richards, Buffalo Declaration, Calgary, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada,
DougWiki, Easter, Edmonton, Federal election, Glen Motz, House of Commons,
Justin Trudeau, Laurel Collins, Michelle Rempel, Naheed Nenshi, Ottawa,
Ottawa River, Pierre Trudeau, Ralph Klein, Saskatchewan, Stephen Harper,
Toronto, Twitter, Vancouver, Victoria
==============================
Conservative Senator Used Taxpayer Money to Expense Alt-Right Rebel Media
Subscription
February 23, 2019, North99
https://north99.org/2019/02/23/conservative-senator-used-taxpayer-money-to-expense-alt-right-rebel-media-subscription/
Senator David Tkachuk used taxpayer money to expense a year-long
subscription to Rebel Media, a far-right media outlet that engages in
anti-Muslim attacks and employs the founder of an organization
designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
Twitter user Chris Johnston discovered the payment at the Senate of
Canada expenses website.
This story follows the release of a troubling video of Senator Tkachuk
speaking at the far-right Yellow Vests convoy in Ottawa. In the video
he called on attendees to engage in political violence, saying they
should "roll over" their political opponents.
Tags: Alabama, Alt-Right, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Conservative Party of
Canada, David Tkachuk, DougWiki, Ezra Levant, Faith Goldy, FBI, Fredericton,
Gavin McInnes, Hamish Marshall, Milo Yiannopoulos, Muslim, Ottawa, Proud
Boys, Rebel Media, Republican, Roy Moore, Southern Poverty Law Center,
Twitter, Vice News, Yellow Vests Canada
==============================
Fake news. Twitter trolls. Robocalls. Here's what to expect in the Alberta
election
February 23, 2019, Alexandra Zabjek, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-election-advertising-third-party-advertiser-robocall-bot-1.5030570
When Kyle Hamilton got a phone call asking him to support a UCP
candidate in the upcoming provincial election, he asked about the
candidate's platform. When the caller didn't answer his question, he
got suspicious.
Hamilton: Can you do me a favour and say, 'Carrot?'
Caller: Uh, no problem ... I just wanted to take a second and ask if
you'd vote for Marjorie Newman and the UCP in the upcoming election.
Tags: Alberta, BuzzFeed, Calgary, Carbon tax, CBC, DougWiki, Duane Bratt,
Edmonton, Edmonton Journal, Facebook, Fake News, Hamilton, Jason Kenney,
Mount Royal University, Najib Jutt, New Democratic Party, Progressive
Conservative, Robocall, Shaping Alberta's Future, Statecraft Partners,
Twitter, Wildrose
==============================
Ford government shuts down agency that helps people fight zoning appeals
February 23, 2019, Mike Crawley, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-closing-local-planning-appeal-support-centre-1.5029624
The Ford government is closing a provincial agency that gives legal
assistance to residents battling development changes in their local
municipality.
The Local Planning Appeal Support Centre was created just last year as
part of the Wynne government's reforms to the former Ontario Municipal
Board (OMB), a body long criticized for favouring developers in its
decisions about zoning.
The centre provides information to citizens on the complicated land-use
planning process, guiding neighbourhood groups through public meetings.
It also offers free legal help with appeals of municipal zoning
decisions, now heard at the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, the
quasi-judicial body that replaced the OMB.
Tags: 2018, Appeal, Canadian Press, Caroline Mulroney, CBC, Doug Ford,
DougWiki, Ford government, Jeff Burch, Local Planning Appeal Support Centre,
Nathalie Des Rosiers, New Democratic Party, Ontario, Ontario Municipal Board,
Ontario New Democratic Party, Progressive Conservative
==============================
Watching the rise of the extreme right wing in Canada
February 23, 2019, Doug Cuthand, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/cuthand-watching-the-rise-of-the-extreme-right-wing-in-canada
There is a worrying trend developing in Canada and it is the rise of
the extreme right wing that we see south of the border.
This week the pipeline protesters rolled into Ottawa in their oilfield
trucks and staged a protest on Parliament Hill. The protest was noisy
and orderly, but it was overshadowed by the so-called yellow vesters.
Members of this fringe group are anti-immigrant, racist and a
right-wing menace and have little actual interest in pipelines.
The protest was loud and tied up traffic on Wellington Street in front
of the Parliament buildings. However, large trucks take up space but
only carry a few people. When the protesters gathered for their rally,
they formed a group estimated by the media to be about 150 people.
Tags: Alt-Right, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Carbon tax, David Tkachuk, DougWiki,
Environmental, Faith Goldy, First Nations, Indigenous, Maxime Bernier,
Ottawa, Parliament Hill, People's Party of Canada, Preston Manning, United
Nations, United We Roll, Wellington, White nationalism
==============================
Preston Manning says the Conservative party is looking for right way to tap
into populist unrest
February 23, 2017, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/presont-manning-conservative-populism-1.3994886
Reform Party founder Preston Manning says leadership is a crucial part
of harnessing populist movements and preventing them from becoming
dangerous.
"Populism is like a wildcat - or a rogue oil or gas well - where
there's so much pressure from the bottom, it blows the platform, it
blows oil all over the place. It could catch fire, it could be a very
dangerous type of thing," Manning told Rosemary Barton, host of CBC
News Network's Power & Politics.
Manning said the best way to deal with a rogue well is to drill a
relief line, which has to be deep enough to release pressure but not so
deep that it blows up itself.
Tags: Canada, CBC, Conservative Party of Canada, Donald Trump, Doug Ford,
DougWiki, Facebook, Islamophobia, Manning Centre, Ottawa, Politics, Preston
Manning, Reform Party, Toronto
==============================
Unwrapping the Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of the Alt-Right
February 23, 2017, Scott Oliver, Vice News
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/78mnny/unwrapping-the-conspiracy-theory-that-drives-the-alt-right
trope of "cultural Marxism" has been steadily gaining traction among
the broad and diverse entity that is the radical right (although,
hating diversity, they would baulk at you saying so), where it serves
as an umbrella term variously responsible for such un-American and
anti-Western ills as atheism, secularism, political correctness, gay
rights, sexual liberation, feminism, affirmative action, liberalism,
socialism, anarchism and, above all, multiculturalism. The ultimate
goal of cultural Marxism, we're led to believe, is to slowly and
stealthily dilute and subvert white, Christian Western culture, thereby
opening sovereign nations to rule by a one-world corporate government.
Whether that's by Jews, lizards or communists isn't always clear.
So the theory goes, "cultural Marxism" was the master plan of a group
of ?migr? Jewish-German academics ? widely known today as the Frankfurt
School of Critical Theory ? who fled Nazi Germany in 1936, decamping to
New York. What's certainly true is that, in an attempt to understand
why the objective conditions of the European proletariat had failed to
trigger widespread revolt, they concluded that religion ? that great
"opium of the people" ? and mass culture served to dampen revolutionary
fervour and spread "false consciousness". So, adding a splash of Freud
to their Marxism, the likes of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert
Marcuse and Walter Benjamin trained their eyes on the subtle
intertwining of social and psychic/sexual repression, believing that a
revolutionary consciousness could be engendered through psychic
liberation and more enlightened cultural forms and attitudes.
While these were the staunch views of a handful of left-wing thinkers
writing in the middle of the 20th century, it does not follow that they
have been the ideological architects of a wholesale takeover of Western
culture. Yet those who believe it has already happened end up having to
explain how George W Bush and the neocon hawks somehow served a leftist
agenda.
Tags: 1920, 1936, 1960, 1990, 2011, 2012, African-American, Alt-Right, Anders
Breivik, Andrew Breitbart, BBC, Breitbart, Christian, Conspiracy, Critic,
Cultural Marxism, Daily Mail, Daily Stormer, Disney, Europe, Frankfurt
School, Germany, Hollywood, Infowars, Jewish, Milo Yiannopoulos, New York,
Oslo, Pat Buchanan, Paul Joseph Watson, Quicky, Red Pill, Tea Party, Trump
University, USA, YouTube
==============================
Firm with Tory links traced to election day 'robocalls' that tried to
discourage voters
February 23, 2012, Stephen Maher, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/racknine-inc-fraudulent-election-calls-traced
Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the
federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for
the Conservative Party across the country.
While the agency investigates, aided by the RCMP, the Conservatives are
conducting an internal probe. A party lawyer is interviewing campaign
workers to find who was behind the deceptive "robocalls."
Elections Canada launched its investigation after it was inundated with
complaints about election day calls in Guelph, Ont., one of 18 ridings
across the country where voters were targeted by harassing or deceptive
phone messages in an apparent effort to discourage Liberal supporters
from voting.
Tags: 2006, 2008, 2011, Access to Information, Al Mathews, Alberta, Andrew
Prescott, Arthur Hamilton, Brian Mulroney, Calgary, Canada, Conservative
Party of Canada, DougWiki, Edmonton, Elections Canada, Eve Adams, Federal
election, Frank Valeriote, Fred DeLorey, Glen McGregor, Green Party, Guelph,
Hamilton, Helena, Kitchener, London, Marty Burke, Matt Meier, Michael Sona,
Montreal, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Postmedia, Prescott, Quebec,
RackNine, RCMP, Stephen Harper, Sydney, University of Guelph, Victoria,
Waterloo, Wildrose Party, Winnipeg
==============================
Scientology Demands the Right to Employ Slaves in Australia While Getting
Puff Pieces in DC, Florida
February 23, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/scientology_aro.php
Still waiting to hear from you, Tom: your church is arguing on your
behalf for slave wages for Sea Org members, man. Nice naval hat, though.
On Thursdays, Scientologists race to get their weekly stats in, so we
like to do the same by totaling up how the church fared internationally
in the past seven days. This week, in particular, we saw a wild
divergence in the way Scientology got treated by the press, and so
we're going to share that with you in this Thursday Stats Roundup.
We're starting in Australia, where we reported last year that the
country's Fair Work Ombudsman has been looking into the way Scientology
works people incredibly long hours for almost no pay. That
investigation ended up in the church's favor, as the Ombudsman found
that several former church members complaining about how they were
treated had either been out of Scientology too long, or had volunteered
their time.
But now, the Daily Telegraph in Sydney has reported, a local
representative for the church sent the Fair Work review a letter
telling the government to keep its mitts off of Scientology's holy (and
wholly unpaid) laborers.
Tags: 1996, 2007, Ascot Vale, Australia, Bryan Seymour, Cadet Org,
California, Child labor, Daily Telegraph, DC, Debbie Cook, Fair Work Act,
Fair Work Ombudsman, Florida, France, Freewinds, Ideal Org, Jeff Lawrence,
Joe Hildebrand, Luis Garcia, Mary Anderson, Melbourne, OC Weekly, Office of
Special Affairs, Operation Clambake, Orange County, Paris, Paulien Lombard,
Private investigator, Quicky, Ray Jeffrey, Reverend, Review, Rupert Murdoch,
San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News, Sea Org, Shane Kelsey, Squirrel
Busters, Steve Cannane, Susan Taylor, Switzerland, Sydney, Tampa, Tampa Bay
Times, Telegraph, The Telegraph, Tom Cruise, UK, Valeska Paris, Washington,
Washington Examiner, WhyWeProtest
==============================
Stephen Harper's 'Nixonian culture' to blame for illegal robocall scandal: Rae
February 23, 2012, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/stephen-harper-denies-tories-knew-about-illegal-election-robocalls-linked-to-party
OTTAWA - Opposition parties are stepping up pressure on Stephen Harper
today over misleading phone calls made during the last election
campaign directing voters to the wrong polling locations.
Dismissing Conservative suggestions that a 'rogue operator' could be
behind the 'robocalls,' interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said the real
blame for any election trickery rests with the political culture the
Prime Minister has created in the Tories.
Mr. Rae's remarks came in response to a Postmedia News-Ottawa Citizen
report that found a continuing Elections Canada investigation has
traced the calls to a call centre with Conservative connections.
Tags: 2008, 2010, 2011, Al Mathews, Alberta, Andrew Prescott, Arthur
Hamilton, Bob Rae, Brian Mulroney, Calgary, Canada, Chris Pennings,
Christian, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki, Edmonton, Elections
Canada, Eve Adams, Facebook, Federal election, Frank Valeriote, Glen
McGregor, Green Party, Guelph, Hamilton, Jenni Byrne, Kelly Block, Lobbyist,
Marty Burke, Matt Meier, Michael Sona, Montreal, Ontario, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Parliament Hill, Pat Martin,
Postmedia, Quebec, RackNine, RCMP, Republican, Robocall, Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, Stephen Harper, Stephen Maher, The Sun, Toronto, University
of Guelph, Wildrose
==============================
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:56:58 -0500, History Today
<androi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Today February 23rd in history
> ==============================
<androi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Today February 23rd in history
> ==============================
> ==============================
>
> The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta: Cue the
> violins! Here comes the Buffalo Declaration!
> February 23, 2020, David Climenhaga, albertapolitics.ca
> https://albertapolitics.ca/2020/02/the-state-of-the-art-of-conservative-victimhood-in-alberta-cue-the-violins-here-comes-the-buffalo-declaration/
>
> No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the
> prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River.
>
> Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of Twitter and Conservative MP
> for the monochromatic suburban wasteland of Calgary Nose Hill, [...]
>
> The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta: Cue the
> violins! Here comes the Buffalo Declaration!
> February 23, 2020, David Climenhaga, albertapolitics.ca
> https://albertapolitics.ca/2020/02/the-state-of-the-art-of-conservative-victimhood-in-alberta-cue-the-violins-here-comes-the-buffalo-declaration/
>
> No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the
> prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River.
>
> Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of Twitter and Conservative MP
No substance at all, but Michelle Rempel bad. Michelle Rempel's riding
bad.
"Why my party will always be a ball lost in the weeds" - by David
Climenhaga
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