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A little clip of yours truly with @vancolour yesterday 💃🏽 talking multiculturalism, racism & more
I find it noteworthy that Doerkson and Maahs have refused to address this, including how when this first came out, the BC Black community shared their own experiences of racism, while Maahs called it an event that was "always fun."
Who is worth defending here?
BC Conservative candidate Heather Maahs defends blog post about “slave auctions” and Blackface in Chilliwack schools
Neither Doerkson nor Maahs responded to questions about this.
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BC Conservative candidate Heather Maahs defends blog post about “slave auctions” and Blackface in Chilliwack schools
Neither Doerkson nor Maahs responded to questions about this.
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How did the BC Conservative leader address the extreme views in his party during this week’s debate?
Doerkson said that he “will always stand up against hate,” but did not elaborate as to how, confirming he stands by his campaign manager.
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Looks like Lorne Doerkson's candidate in Strathcona Jordan McIntosh thought he could use a nameless twitter account to say many awful, offensive things, including claims that Hitler didn't "specifically" hate jews and that the holocaust may not have been "the goal".
New, from me, with additional reposts from the BC Conservative campaign manager calling Islam a problem and likening Muslim prayer chants to "Jihadi war cries"
No comment from Doerkson or Merrifield.
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Exclusive: Former BC Conservative Staffer Alleges Questionable Conduct, Racial Discrimination From Former Party Chief of Staff
Apollo Chung claims doctored recordings contributed to a narrative about his departure
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Brad Bradford keeping some very sketchy company, including (possibly) Meir Weinstein, former national director of the JDL.
Great scoop from @ES_Wickham.
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I haven't seen this story reported in depth anywhere else, explaining why students were protesting, what the government said to them, and the CBSA raid that has left them vulnerable to deportation for a peaceful protest.
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Great reporting @rumneeek at @pressprogress, uncovering correspondence between CIOT (partner with Portage College) & the government in which the latter said “Currently enrolled students will not be affected in terms of their eligibility for the PGWP (they are grandfathered).”
International students are facing removal orders from Canada after an ICE-like CBSA raid at their peaceful protest in Calgary.
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International students are facing removal orders from Canada after an ICE-like CBSA raid at their peaceful protest in Calgary.
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personal news etc etc: I'm the new executive editor at PressProgress
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New, from me:
Is Christian Nationalism Rearing Its Head in BC?
"Christian values have an absolute place in this party," a candidate for leader of the BC Conservatives said at a debate last month
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"No one’s doing us any favours"
@rumneeek reports on @PierrePoilievre's response -one which PM Mark Carney did not give- to Sikh organizations regarding "foreign interference by India", after a Gurdwara politician photoshoot ban was considered.
Read:
pressprogress.ca/sikh-coalit…
New from me: After threatening to deny politicians access to Sikh spaces, a coalition of Sikh groups finally heard from Pierre Poillievre, the NDP, and the Liberal Sikh caucus on foreign interference.
Mark Carney did not respond.
Read the exclusive here: pressprogress.ca/sikh-coalit…
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Canada’s Longest Strike Ends With Victory for Vancouver Hotel Workers
“The message this sends is that workers who stick together, and are willing to fight side by side and for as long as it takes, can win.”
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‘NO OTHER LAND’ filmmakers Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham accepting their #Oscar:
“It reflects the harsh reality we’ve been enduring for decades, we call to stop the injustice and stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”
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The India-Pakistan “Relocation” only displaced about 15-20 million people, left a couple of million dead, many missing and so many traumatized that grandparents still don’t talk about it. But ya let’s sanitize all that to suit our narratives, build our careers or whatever
