Shares of the week

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The Fight for Progress in Canada

Migrant worker fired for speaking out about COVID-19 wins a rare reprisal case against an Ontario farm - If Canadian companies are going to benefit from migrant workers then those workers deserve not only the same protections as Canadians do, but the same benefits and wages. This ruling is one step in the direction of ensuring corporations and big farms do the right thing for both our migrant workers and for Canadian workers who also lose out when labour is outsourced in this way.

Trudeau’s fake feminist foreign policy targets progressives - The federal Liberals proclaim to support a feminist foreign policy. In true, hypocritical fashion however, the Liberal’s support of imperialist, patriarchal interests continues to be a higher priority and threatens to stifle real progress at home and abroad.

On Covering Indigenous Issues

Media Attacked The Wet’suwet’en But Ignore White Fisher Violence - The hypocrisy of the Canadian media knows no bounds. Just like our government and the RCMP, the media seems intent on vilifying anyone threatening capital interests even if their concerns are justified both morally and legally.

Canadaland Podcast #347 - The Brayden Bushby Trial And Pity Porn - This sometimes emotionally-heavy podcast by Jesse Brown with Jody Porter of the CBC explores how telling the stories of other people's pain can be a way for one to hide from their own.

Fact-Checking the "Fact-Checkers"

A Target of Alberta’s ‘War Room’ Fires Back - Jason Kenney and the Alberta United Conservative government's publicly-funded pro-oil "war room" gets fact-checked by a target of one their propaganda campaigns.

American Democrats vs Progress

America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent - If Democrats continue to let nostalgic elites run their party, ignoring the majority of Americans who want to move the country forward, they seriously risk ceding the country to a more talented, a more competent, and a more dangerous version of Trump.

No, Defund The Police And Medicare For All Didn’t Lead To Democratic Losses In The House - Medicare-for-all is popular among Americans of every political stripe. Even the Black Lives Matter movement is supported by a majority of Americans. Joe Biden instead ran on a moderate campaign that sought to slap lipstick on the Affordable Care Act (i.e. Obamacare) and refused to defund the police. Yet, establishment Democrats blame progressives for their party’s underperformance on Election Day. Makes total sense.

Mark Cuban is Being an Idiot Again

I will let John Legend speak for me in addressing Cuban's latest out-of-touch billionaire hypocrisy: