ICYMI: June 23-29
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I’m going to a separatist rally in Mirror, Alta., for Canada Day tomorrow, featuring appearances from “freedom fighter” Tamara Lich and far-right German MEP Christine Anderson.
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Elsewhere
At the Progress Report, I had an exclusive on the integration of Shoppers Drug Mart into Alberta’s addictions recovery system. A source who used to work at Henwood Recovery Centre in Edmonton detailed how a Shoppers location was brought on-site, leading to redundant medication prescriptions, a loss of limited space at the clinic and lower admission standards.
An article I wrote for The Maple about the National Post labelling content from the far-right Jewish News Syndicate wire service as news appears in the new collection, When Genocide Wasn’t News: How Canadian media covered up the destruction of Gaza, which comes out next week through Breach Books. It also features contributions from Zahraa Al-Akhrass, Muhannad Ayyash, Martin Lukacs, David Gray-Donald, Pacinthe Mattar, Emma Paling and Shree Paradkar, among many other great people.
On the Progress Report podcast, Jim and I interviewed Edmonton city councillor Michael Janz about his re-election campaign and the barriers the UCP government has placed to progressives winning municipal elections.
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