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Mar 25 2023

Biden’s teams. Cabinet quitters. Book bans.

Mar 25, 2023
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics and policy. And sometimes Canadian postage stamps.
Canada
Biden in Canada: A crack at the Leafs and a promise from an ally
Many Canadians might have been hoping for this kind of visit by a U.S. president, the first in the post-Trump era. Click through for our coverage of Joe Biden's day in Canada from Friday's Global National. [Global National]

The Conservative leader is keeping his party’s old guard happy while bringing in new soldiers. [TorStar]

A newly released memo shows the prime minister's national security adviser warned him to expect some pushback from planned public consultations about a foreign agent registry, given that countries have used such registries as tools of control. [CP]
The bird flu is spreading across Canada, leaving some experts worried about its potential to become more transmissible among humans, and potentially sparking another pandemic.
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat said Friday that it has found 'certain administrative requirements and procedures were not consistently followed' with the work orders.
From the Provinces
Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews not seeking re-election
Travis Toews, United Conservative MLA for Grande Prairie-Wapiti and current finance minister, announced Friday he won't be seeking re-election in May. [Global]

Environment Minister Sonya Savage announced she too has decided not to put her name on the ballot. [Global]
Don Braid: Toews and other sensible UCP minister are leaving. What happens next? [Calgary Herald]

The Alberta NDP on Friday unveiled an economic blueprint it says would rescue the province from its boom-bust rollercoaster with no red ink. [Calgary Herald]
Residents of the Livingstone-Macleod riding in southern Alberta are raising concerns about the voting process for the recent UCP nominations and the Take Back Alberta group. [Global]

MPP Merrilee Fullerton's resignation letter, addressed to Premier Ford, did not provide a reason for her departure but said she would step down immediately. [Global]
Research Co. surveyed 1,000 adults across the country on the idea of issuing tickets based on a driver's disposable income and the amount they went over the speed limit.
Elsewhere
Staring down a possible indictment, a defiant Donald Trump is hoping to put on a show of force Saturday as he holds the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign in a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement. [AP]
Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok over its Chinese ownership and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of young voters, a group that’s largely been in his corner. Youth turnout surged in the three elections since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, helping Biden eke out victories in swing states in 2020, pick up a Democratic Senate seat in the 2022 election and stem potential losses in the House. [AP]
Media

Twitter has blocked the accounts of several high-profile Canadians — including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and poet Rupi Kaur — from internet users in India.

The move was apparently made at the request of India's government, according to a Sikh organization. The government has shut down the internet in the northwestern, Sikh-majority state of Punjab as they seek to apprehend Amritpal Singh, dubbed a "self-styled preacher" in India's English-language media. [CBC]
Publishers win in federal court. [The Verge]

The American Library Association identified 1,269 efforts to censor books and resources in U.S. libraries. [WSJ]
Tech
Intel co-founder, philanthropist Gordon Moore dies at 94
Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94. [AP]
Issued this day ...
... in 1992: Sc #1407a - souvenir sheet: Canada ’92. Design: Pierre-Yves Pelletier. Illustration: Suzanne Duranceau.
This set of four stamps and its companion pair of souvenir sheets was issued for Canada ’92: The World Philatelic Youth Exhibition held, in 1992, in Montreal. The stamps also mark the 350th anniversary of Montreal itesle; the voyages of Jacques Cartier and the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage of 1492. 

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