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Sandy Garossino

@Garossino

7 Sep

Yesterday a candidate for the PPC called for the assassination of 🇨🇦’s PM, as crowds physically assailed him.

This is not mentioned in any major outlets today.

This is a HUGE problem.
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Twitter has not suspended Emery’s account, though he deleted the tweet hours after he posted it.

Maxime Bernier has not suspended the candidate.

Reminder that an armed attacker drove through the gates at the PM’s home.
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Sandy Garossino

@Garossino

7 Sep

We must recognize the perilous ethical position of news media in covering hate in this election.

Hate sells as much, if not more than sex.

And it’s visual.

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Hate spreads through visceral & vivid imagery.

This is the stock in trade of news media.

During an election, how do you cover manufactured hatred that’s visceral & vivid—ie self-promotion of extremists?

That’s also news? 2/
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By merely covering events created by extremists to draw news cameras, you’re promoting them & spreading hatred destructive to democracy.

But how can you edit it out?

The medium is the message. 3/
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Sandy Garossino

@Garossino

24 Jul

I first got involved in this “foreign-funding” business almost a decade ago, as an outsider to the environmental movement.

Because it was an alarming attack on science and our civil liberties.

Me from 2012: vancouverobserver.com/blogs/world/tr…

These terrible things were being said by our own government about some of the world’s pre-eminent scientific granting bodies.

Being accused of money-laundering and nurturing terrorism.

As a Canadian I found this profoundly embarrassing, but also foreboding.

All these attacks were based on rumours and innuendo.

Tides Canada was never called to any parliamentary committee to explain what it does and how it operates.

The Harper government not only allowed, it orchestrated the open vilification of environmentalists.

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Sandy Garossino

@Garossino

24 Jul

I’ve read the draft report in its entirety.

Yes, it concludes no conspiracy or shadowy figured behind the scenes.

It makes no findings of wrongdoing or false, misleading or fraudulent activity.
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@CandidDotOrg

I was gratified to see Deloitte used the @CandidDotOrg database as I recommended when I met them.

They also used @canadiancharity’s data, which is another excellent Canadian focused source, though only for registered charities, not non-profits.
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But nowhere did they interview the funders or grant recipients, obtain original grant applications, reports, receipts, audit data or correspondence.

In drawing inferences about funder or recipient intent—the crucial missing piece of this entire controversy…

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Sandy Garossino

@Garossino

26 May

https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1397358485227020288

Hands up if you want to see how much of the Petroleum Club’s restaurant and bar bills are subsidized by taxpayers.

And the bars at the Palliser, Fairmont MacDonald, Chateau Laurier etc etc etc.

And private boxes at hockey and football games.

#AllanInquiry

https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1397358485227020288

Have pretty much had it with Fat Cats telling Indigenous groups and environmentalists to stick to bake sales and bingo nights, from their Mount Royal mansions...

Who wants a REAL inquiry into influence campaigns over O&G in Canada?

OPEN THE BOOKS on Big Oil’s lobbying, PR, marketing, legal and hospitality budgets. Its foreign ownership value.

Every write-off and tax deduction.

You want to play this game? Let’s go.

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