OTTAWA—Under his eye, indeed. Across the border, Republicans and conservatives alike are remaking the United States in the image of the Republic of Gilead. On Monday night, Politico broke the story of the year so far, which is that the Supreme Court of the United...
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As the Conservative Party goes full MAGA, we all lose
Apr 27, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The Conservatives have removed their patina of integrity and propriety to go full MAGA. Finally. They’ve been swirling around this bowl for a while. If former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, who infamously defended the residential school system, was their...
Legacy media players shouldn’t expect smooth switch to digital
Apr 20, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—This week marks my three-year anniversary writing for the Hill Times and five years of writing in general, in addition to five years of producing, writing, recording, and curating political and pop culture content for the Bad + Bitchy podcast. In this time, the...
Liberals’ budget doesn’t crack through favoured performative veneer
Apr 13, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—What a patriarchal budget from a so-called “feminist.” It just goes to show you can’t girl-boss your way out of neoliberalism. On Thursday, April 7, Canada’s first female minister of finance, who bathes herself in the feminism identity, rose in the House of...
Canadian media industrial complex a prime platform for misinformation
Mar 30, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Let’s continue in our next chapter of Nazi Acceptability Politics (I need to trademark this), or what I like to call taking a NAP in the face of the rising influence of the far right. Today’s episode features the Canadian media industrial complex that is...
In ‘backdoor socialism’ we trust?
Mar 23, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Seems like I just dislodged myself enough from Candice Bergen’s socialist backdoor to realize that something just shifted in Canadian politics—and not soon enough. Late Monday night, CBC reported that the Liberals and the NDP entered into a supply and...
When keeping it (performatively) real goes wrong
Mar 16, 2022 | The Hill Times
Deleted Chrystia Freeland TweetOTTAWA—As I sit here writing this column on the third anniversary of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand—driven by Islamophobic, white supremacist ideology—it’s come to my attention how far we’ve fallen as western societies....
Corporate ‘feminism’ as flaccid as the patriarchy it espouses
Mar 9, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—It is International Women’s Day as I write this and I’m already tired. So far, in 2022, we have lived through more COVID, an occupation by white supremacists, and now a conflict/war in Ukraine that everyone but me is tuned into. Where is feminism? Since 2016,...
We need to talk about Azov
Mar 2, 2022 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—I didn’t want to write about this topic, but every time I try to get out, white supremacy just pulls me back in. There has been a lot of Russian disinformation accompanying their invasion of Ukraine, an accoutrement to the ground war. Russia’s pretext to the...