"'...[A]nybody who wants to separate — the premier included — they can gladly go live in any other country that they wish around the world, but they will not be taking any treaty or inherent lands away with them,' said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak."

Jason Kenney: The unwanted gift that keeps on giving.

Incontrovertible law of the universe: If Lilley didn’t like it, that means it was good.

If true, then the role of national broadcasters - whose funding is guaranteed and can thus afford to call out lies - would seem to be essential to the survival of the liberal democratic order, no?

Is that due to the rise of alternate media platforms which political actors can use to broadcast their msgs? This has undermined the legacy media’s gatekeeper role: if they don’t ’both sides’ all issues then the affronted party will simply boycott them (hello Poilievre CPC) and use other options?

First line with Caufield and Suzuki…?

Why does anyone care about Kenney? Does everyone deserve to have their political reputation rehabilitated?

Doubling down on the outrage seems to be a feature of modern day populists.

Yeah, maybe. Max Fawcett’s assessment was more along the lines of ‘a victim of an upcoming cabinet shuffles uses his principles as a excuse to leave before being shown the door’….

When MLB took the Expos away, I stopped following baseball. It is dead to me.