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    Amid the tide of whitelash, we remain unmoored

    Amid the tide of whitelash, we remain unmoored

    OTTAWA—#MakeOttawaBoringAgain is closer to a reality after a weekend of arrests and removals of convoy occupiers. Only, we didn’t win anything. In fact, we lost.  We are lost.  As the waters recede, what is left is a white supremacist, authoritarian movement that has...

    Emergencies Act invocation sets a dangerous precedent

    Emergencies Act invocation sets a dangerous precedent

    OTTAWA—I listened to Ram Ranch by Grant MacDonald, so you don’t have to. When our leaders tapped out of this occupation, it became the swan song for a resistance that is brewing in Ottawa that preceded the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.  On...

    Those who can’t hear must feel

    Those who can’t hear must feel

    https://twitter.com/johnibbitson/status/1437836037082976267?lang=en https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1489371301202567168?s=20&t=26uyScJVAHyBTw8RT5zKcg OTTAWA—It’s so rare for political pundits to be right—just look at Stephen Maher. Or John Ibbitson. Or Jesse...

    Ignoring economic violence

    Ignoring economic violence

    OTTAWA—The Republicans of the North have never met a point they didn’t bludgeon, nor a fact they didn’t massage into terror. It’s understandable that the Conservatives want to jump on the inflation bandwagon, since people are feeling the pinch of rising grocery...

    Vaccine apartheid spreading the same strain of racism

    Vaccine apartheid spreading the same strain of racism

    OTTAWA—Tell me anti-blackness is global without telling me anti-blackness is global. On Nov. 26, researchers in South Africa detected a new addition to the coronavirus family, a variant named omicron (B.1.1.529). It was first detected in Botswana but identified by...