8. Capitalism & Fascism in Action

8. Capitalism & Fascism in Action

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Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
1.7K votes, 195 comments. 285K subscribers in the onguardforthee community. A Canada-specific subreddit that allows all types of Canadian content…
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Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
1.3K votes, 652 comments. 876K subscribers in the ontario community. Welcome to r/Ontario, the largest and oldest online community dedicated to the…
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Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
'I beg to differ': Vivek Ramaswamy left momentarily speechless after CNN host's fact check
'I beg to differ': Vivek Ramaswamy left momentarily speechless after CNN host's fact check
MAGA loyalist Vivek Ramaswamy was swiftly fact-checked after claiming that Kamala Harris had slurred Republican voters as "weird." The failed GOP presidential candidate appeared Thursday morning on CNN to discuss the Democratic National Convention and urge fellow Republicans to remain focused on attacking Harris on the issues rather than insulting ...
·msn.com·
'I beg to differ': Vivek Ramaswamy left momentarily speechless after CNN host's fact check
Iran: Key to World Peace | Dissident Voice
Iran: Key to World Peace | Dissident Voice
From what is read and what is said, Iran is the major sponsor of international terrorism — creating turmoil, preventing peace, and wanting to dominate the Middle East. One problem with the accepted scenario is that the facts do not coincide with the assumptions. Except for revenging terrorist attacks by Iranian dissidents and Israeli intelligence
·dissidentvoice.org·
Iran: Key to World Peace | Dissident Voice
Canada is the No. 1 Country in the World, According to the 2021 Best Countries Report - News
Canada is the No. 1 Country in the World, According to the 2021 Best Countries Report - News
The sixth annual Best Countries report reveals the importance of social justice as a global ambition, the unexpected societal byproduct of the COVID-19 crisis and the influence of conspiracy theories. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13, 2021—For the first time, Canada takes the top spot overall in the 2021 Best Countries Report,…Read More
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Canada is the No. 1 Country in the World, According to the 2021 Best Countries Report - News
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History - Katherine Fierlbeck - Google Books
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History - Katherine Fierlbeck - Google Books
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ideas in Canada, we can better understand why Canada takes the shape that it does. In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that have been most influential to Canada's development: the United Kingdom and the United States. The first section looks specifically at the nature of toryism, constitutional liberalism, and market liberalism. Then she examines the evolution of social justice in Canada. Does the country have, as J.S. Woodsworth hoped, a definitive "third way." The final section focuses upon debates over cultural identity and minority rights. Contemporary political discussions in Canada are very much based upon the expressions of French-Canadian nationalism that have existed as long as, and perhaps even longer than, the country itself. How have these ideas influenced current thinking about culture and accommodation?The experiences characterized by Canadian political thought also provide insight and ideas for nations around the world as their citizens struggle with similar questions. The political dynamics of the present are a product of how Canadians have viewed their country, or a vision of their country, in the past. These ideas of Canada, in history and in myth, provide a way of thinking about politics that may provoke and inspire Canadians and others to reflect upon their future.
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Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History - Katherine Fierlbeck - Google Books
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times
The country’s political system has made it hard for fringe groups to gain influence. But a new cause, and fund-raising across borders, could begin to fuel Canadian populists.
B.J. Dichter, who was listed on the convoy’s official fund-raiser alongside Ms. Lich, has said that “political Islam” is “rotting away at our society like syphilis.”
The organizers are mostly fringe activists, rather than truck drivers, an overwhelming majority of whom are vaccinated.
Pat King, who is listed as an official contact for a regional group involved in the protest and has been a prominent champion of the protests online, has called Covid a “man-made bioweapon” and claimed that international financiers seek to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.” He has said of lockdowns, “The only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets.”
“You did have far-right populism — historically it was there — but it was isolated,” said Jeffrey S. Kopstein, a Canadian political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. Canada’s populist right has lagged, Dr. Kopstein said, in part because the typical drivers of such movements — cultural polarization and white racial resentment — are less prevalent in the country than in other Western nations. The country’s large and politically well-organized immigrant populations mean that both major parties see greater gain in courting immigrants than in cultivating white backlash.
As a result, Canada’s Conservative leaders have neither embraced nor been co-opted by the more extreme elements in their base to the same degree as some other right-wing parties.
Romana Didulo, a Canadian QAnon activist who has called for military executions of doctors who vaccinate children.
Canada’s populist right, though homegrown, is also heavily influenced by its far more numerous and better-resourced American counterparts. This helps provide the movement with energy and direction, though often in ways that hinder its influence in Canada, where Donald J. Trump is deeply unpopular.
But in years since, populist movements across the Western world have continued to rise and to coordinate across borders, helping to aid their Canadian counterparts’ slow but steady growth. In a demonstration of this effect in action, a number of American political and media figures, including Mr. Trump, have forcefully endorsed or promoted the trucker protests. Americans are thought to have provided much of the $8 million raised online for the convoy.
And there is another change: Canada’s Conservative Party, after a difficult year, may be rethinking its longstanding practice of isolating conservative fringes. Party officials recently ousted Erin O’Toole, the party leader, in part, they said, for insufficiently embracing the truck protests. The new interim leader attracted controversy last year when a photo surfaced showing her wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Several Conservative lawmakers have since visited the protests in support. One was photographed alongside Mr. King, the white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, though later issued a statement condemning “any violent rhetoric.” In some ways, support for the protests seems to reflect public opinion oscillations related more to the pandemic than to the far right.
·nytimes.com·
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times