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May 12 2023

Woke politics. Oil slavers. Putin losing.

May 12, 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
Are Trudeau and Poilievre too woke, or not woke enough?
Canadians are generally positive towards Black Lives Matter, pride flags, feminism, and the #MeToo movement. They are largely negative towards defund the police and cancel culture. [Pollara Strategic Insights]

The Privy Council Office, the department that supports Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, confirms it received a 2021 security briefing detailing foreign interference threats to MPs. [Global]

Significant file on Chinese consulate official Zhao Wei was shared with Global Affairs Canada before he was asked to leave country for interfering in politics. [Globe and Mail]
Pierre Poilievre got a mixed review at the annual March for Life on Parliament Hill, with some saying the Tory leader is "pro-abortion." [National Post]
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos was warned that pharmaceutical companies had steadfastly refused to engage on drug-price reforms, a 2021 memo shows. [Global]
From the provinces

On a podcast and in his book, Kevin Van Tighem, NDP candidate for Livingstone-Macleod, makes controversial comments about Albertans and the energy sector. He compares the O&G sector to slavery and pipelines to addiction. [Global News]
UCP Deputy Premier Nathan Neudorf was recorded as saying, “Maybe if people had to pay for emergency room visits, they might think twice about going to the emergency room for something that is not an emergency.” [Red Deer News]
Alberta United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith was hustled offstage by security Thursday after a handful of placard-waving protesters disrupted her news conference over past musings about selling hospitals to private operators. [CP]

Rankin Inlet beer and wine store having negative impact on community; calls to RCMP are up 47 per cent, calls involving alcohol are up 61 per cent, detainees are up 111 per cent and domestic violence is up 244 per cent. [Nunavut News]
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Elsewhere
In Ukraine, Putin Is Fighting, and Losing, His Last War
Timothy Snyder: When Russians talk about nuclear war, the safest response is to ensure their very conventional defeat. [NYT]
G-7 talks focus on ways to fortify banks, supply chains as China accuses group of hypocrisy
Financial leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies  -- including Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland --  are focusing on ways to fortify ever more complicated financial systems and supply chains during meetings in Japan ahead of a summit next week.  [AP]
Media

“You can’t keep saying that all night long. You can’t keep saying the election is rigged,” Kaitlan Collins said, as Trump continued to do just that. [Daily Beast]
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Tech

Google shares an overview of the world’s first observation of non-Abelian braiding.
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... in 1997: Scott # 1639 plate block: Victorian Order of Nurses centennial. Design: Margaret Susan Isserman.

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