ICYMI: March 17-23
Your weekly roundup.
Edmonton city councillor Sarah Hamilton skipped out on council meeting to headline UCP fundraiser
Tl;dr Edmonton city councillor Sarah Hamilton left a March 13 council meeting to attend a partisan “Politics & Prosecco” UCP fundraiser for International Women’s Day attended by Premier Danielle Smith. The event ad touted her appearance on a panel alongside Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs and Calgary-Shaw MLA Rebecca Schulz specifically as the Edmonton ci…
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I went on Speaking Municipally to talk to Mack Male and Troy Pavlek about Sarah Hamilton’s partisan political affiliations.
I was asked to name my top five books for understanding the current political moment we’re in for Shepherd.
They are:
Neoliberalism: A Brief History by David Harvey
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent by Martin Lukacs
For Jacobin, I wrote about how the NDP’s capitulation to the Liberals through their supply-and-confidence agreement puts progress towards pharmacare at risk.
I wrote a piece for Briarpatch about how Jason Kenney paved the way for Danielle Smith’s coming assault on public sector workers.
Mainstream media malfeasance
The Globe and Mail lifted my scoop from January that Take Back Alberta is under Elections Alberta investigation with no credit.
If you consider this unfair, as I do, feel free to reach out to Globe standards editor Sandra E. Martin at standardseditor@globeandmail.com to let her know.
Take Back Alberta refusing to co-operate with Elections Alberta investigation
Take Back Alberta (TBA) founder David Parker is refusing to cooperate with an Elections Alberta probe into his organization’s activities until the government agency is purged of all its employees, he told supporters at a Jan. 18 “emergency meeting.”
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