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May 10 2023

No memory. Abortion debate. Wildfire politics.

May 10, 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
National security advisers don’t recall receiving CSIS report on MP threats
The development raises yet more questions about how the report detailing China's targeting of MPs, including Michael Chong and his family, somehow fell through the cracks in 2021. [Global]
Edward Johnson was before a parliamentary committee investigating the circumstances around a pair of 2016 and 2017 donations from two Chinese billionaires that totalled $140,000. [Global]

Companies like Canada Goose, Roots, Lululemon and Tim Hortons have expanded into China in recent years, leaning into Canada's reputation as a source of quality goods. [Global]
Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall's bill would encourage judges to consider physical or emotional harm to a pregnant victim as an aggravating factor during sentencing. [Global]
From the provinces
Municipalities asked Alberta's United Conservatives to keep aerial wildfire fighters
Alberta's 2019 decision to cancel funding for an elite wildfire-fighting crew in 2019 came despite pleas to keep the Rapattack program from at least three municipalities, including one that has since been evacuated during this spring's blazes. [CP]

The mayor of Yellowhead County is calling on Alberta political parties to postpone the provincial election and focus on the wildfires. [Global]
"It's a sense of relief but the work doesn't end," said Roy Sean Cheecham from Clearwater Dene Nation. "It was a bit of a wake-up call for how prepared we need to be." [Global]
Bill C-13 has sparked pushback from English-language rights advocates who are concerned about how it will affect Quebec anglophones. [Global]
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Elsewhere
Violent protests in Pakistan after former PM Imran Khan’s arrest
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in court Wednesday, a day after he was dragged from another court and arrested in Islamabad. [Global]
Former President Donald Trump will return to CNN's airwaves on Wednesday, joining the network for a two-hour town hall event in early-voting New Hampshire. [Global]
Media
Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he'll be resuming a version of his old show on Twitter. He made the announcement in a three-minute video posted on the social media site, calling Twitter one of the last remaining media platforms that allows free speech. He offered few details in a monologue that told viewers that “the news you consume is a lie.” [AP]
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Tech

Gen Z’s interest in flip phones is the latest in a series of obsessions young people have for the
aesthetic of the 1990s and 2000s. [The Conversation]
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Issued this day in 1937: Scott # 234: King George VI Mufti Issue. Design: Herman Herbert Schwarz. Photograph: Bertram Park.

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