Jason Kenney’s government wants 2nd graders to ask critical questions about “Robin Hood”
I feel like whoever designed this curriculum has never actually spoken to a 2nd grader before
This is a really weird exercise to ask a group of 7-year-olds to do
3rd graders will now apparently be assigned readings from Harold Innis
Again, this sounds like a topic for a university-level history course.

What kind of critical analysis is an average 8-year-old going to come up with about 17th century French governance?
I had to memorize the names of every month in kindergarten.

Jason Kenney wants kindergarteners to memorize Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and develop survival skills.

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25 Sep 20
A man connected to a far-right group that's been camped out at the War Memorial followed a Radio-Canada journalist down Sparks Street today and physically attempted to place him under "citizen's arrest" as he tried to enter the CBC Ottawa building.
The far-right group that posted the video apparently thought they were attempting to place a Bloc Québécois MP under "citizen's arrest."

(I deleted an earlier tweet that misidentified the journalist in the video as an MP based on the info they posted). Image
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23 Sep 20
Sorry, is @CBCNews now a lobby group?

In this @CBCTheNational segment, CBC fails to disclose both CBC and the Winnipeg Free Press (whom they interview) are both lobbying the government for the exact same policy change discussed in this segment.

That is a conflict-of-interest.
Earlier this year, CBC and other for-profit news publishers signed a letter asking the government to rewrite copyright laws to entitle them to money whenever a link to their content is shared online.

CBC asked *no* critical questions about this idea.

nationalobserver.com/2020/02/19/opi… ImageImage
I really can't overstate how weird this idea is.

A website like @natnewswatch, influential among Ottawa journalists and decision-makers, would likely be forced to pay money just to post links to news articles and directing traffic to their websites. Image
Read 4 tweets
10 Sep 20
BC’s Supreme Court did not sound impressed with the Fraser Institute’s health care expert in today’s ruling upholding public health care.

The judge said the expert had “no academic affiliation, no peer reviewed publications and no training or experience in medical issues.”
The judge concluded that the Fraser Institute’s expert is “minimally qualified as an expert.”

After looking at his qualifications, the judge said the expert made “embellishments of his experience” relating to claims about “being an expert witness” and doing “non-partisan work.”
The judge added that he “seriously question(s)” the idea that the Fraser Institute’s wait-time surveys can be “relied upon as providing reliable data,” pointing out their research has some “fundamental statistical issues.”
Read 5 tweets
9 Sep 20
Oh wow, Canada’s heritage minister thinks it is “immoral” that big media conglomerates do not get paid money for people sharing links to their stories?

He seems to think the Internet should work like a top 40 radio station – which is a really bad idea.

globalnews.ca/news/7316532/f…
There are a bazillion legitimate problems with social media platforms, but the idea that it is “immoral” to copy-paste links to websites for free is not one of them.

Every media outlet in Canada freely chooses to post their stories on FB & Twitter. No one forced them to do that.
Hell, if we’re seriously going down this road, then why shouldn’t everyone get money for their tweets?

Why does Global News get compensated if someone tweets a link to their story, but Twitter users don’t get compensated if Global News embeds their tweet in one of their stories?
Read 5 tweets
7 Sep 20
Fun fact: In 1976, the House of Commons came within a whisker of banning scabs from the Parliamentary Press Gallery after a motion from NDP MP @LorneNystrom was defeated by Liberal and Tory backbenchers.

The Canadian Press had brought in scab journalists during a labour dispute. ImageImageImageImage
A few days earlier, the Parliamentary Press Gallery itself actually voted to ban the Canadian Press altogether in response to its use of scabs.

(Hard to imagine the press gallery showing that kind of solidarity over a labour dispute today). Image
To illustrate how different attitudes were back then, both Pierre Trudeau and Joe Clark straight up refused to answer questions from CP’s scab journalists because doing so would "sanction strike-breaking."

Joe Clark told a scab to go “wait outside until the conference was over.” ImageImageImageImage
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20 Aug 20
Nice to see so many accounts based out of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates amplifying calls for tighter restrictions on access to Canadian press galleries. ImageImageImageImage
lol, they’re getting one retweet every ~2 mins or so from accounts with zero followers ImageImageImageImage
They’re now up to 77 retweets.

By my count, only three of them are from real people. Image
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