Shares of the Week: The Free Palestine Edition
Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too - I would like to nominate anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers for this method of re-oxygenation if they fall severely ill with Covid.
Race to Touchdown - "Saskatchewan Roughriders legend George Reed reflects on racism, sport, and leaving a legacy for a new generation."
Heritage Minister Guilbeault Traffics in Misinformation and Conspiracy Theory as Cause of Bill C-10 Criticism and Need for Government Speech Regulation Canada - Once you wade into the contents of Bill C-10, it is clear that it is not actually designed to prevent misinformation online and Guilbeault’s fumbling at every moment of him trying to explain it should give Canadians pause and wonder who exactly designed this nonsense. Bonus: Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Signals Canadian Government Abandoning Support for Net Neutrality - This would be another incredible gift to Big Telecom.
Inflated house prices are widening inequality, and inheritances will only further the gap Canada - When wealth is accumulated at the top instead of being shared and distributed in a fair and equitable fashion, you get feudalism and aristocracy, which generally isn't ideal for most. Also, innovation dies when all one must do to get rich is by having their wealthy parents pass it on to them. How about we move our country forward socially and economically instead of backward?
Dear Employers: People Don't Want to Work for Starvation Wages - America "It’s not that people don’t want to work—it's that they don’t want to work for so little."
Michael Brooks takes a question on Israel - The late writer and political commentator brilliantly summarizes the ongoing attacks on Palestine by Israel, while showing that it is not at all complicated to understand.
Israel Doesn’t Have a “Right to Exist” — But Israelis and Palestinians Do - This article explains the uncomfortable reality that a one-state solution is the only possible outcome at this point. Bonus: On Palestine, the Media Is Allergic to the Truth - This is the reason why we think this is more complicated than it actually is.