ICYMI: August 27-September 2
What I produced and consumed this week.
Toronto Media's Uncomfortable Coziness with Police
In a PR stunt for the ages, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) held a funeral procession for Bingo, a canine killed during an altercation in which a human being was shot by police. It was the first Toronto police canine to be killed, which might warrant a couple hundred words on a slow news day, but the wall-to-wall coverage that the dog’s death received …
How the Alberta NDP Lost Its Way
From having just two seats in the Legislature in 2008 to forming government in 2015 and solidifying Alberta as a two-party province after decades of Progressive Conservative rule, there’s no denying Alberta’s NDP…
In Jacobin, I wrote about how the encroachment of private interests on Canada’s public health-care system is a product of the system’s shortcomings. Advocates of Medicare for All in the U.S., I argue, ought to take note — Canada’s single-payer system, which increasingly consists of publicly funded, privately operated clinics, is not a model to be emulated.
For Alberta Native News, I provided an update on the First Nations evacuated due to wildfires in northern B.C. and the interior.
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