@danielquinn@lemmy.ca This is also damage control for the report that came out yesterday about the ongoing military shipments to Israel

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I don’t expect that, no. Sorry for not being clear. I meant to bring awareness to how we’re being bathed with information about nationalistic purchasing behaviour:

• From Carney, although more so pre-election (eg, ‘elbows up’), and many provincial governments
• In so much of advertising in Canada, flaunting that a product is ‘made in Canada’ or whatever
• In similar messaging all over grocery stores - at the door, on the shelves
• And as a pretty popular mainstream news topic for a while

Although nationalistic purchasing behaviour can be part of what you do if you identify as a proud Canadian, concerned citizen - whatever - it’s not the whole repertoire/shebang. With the pervasiveness of this messaging, and the economic world we live in (that likes to profit off this stuff), I think there’s danger in us thinking the two are equal versus a parts vs. the whole thing

The Mastodon post linked to in the post body has screenshots. Maybe give it another try. I’m not a dev and had never before messed with uBlock Origin settings, but I got it. And I validated that it worked right after by heading over to StackExchange and not seeing those pesky pop-ups

I read this report. I’m left feeling sad, both about the colonialism that’s led to the marginalization of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the ongoing failure to address effects of this, like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW).

Indigenous people make up 5% of Canada’s total population and 8% of its child population, yet 51% and 55% of women and girls trapped in sex trafficking in Canada are Indigenous, and 54% of the foster care system is Indigenous children.

Canada STILL does not have a national database for Indigenous disappearances.

The report presents interesting geospatial analyses that, combined with insights from survivors and insiders, create good leads for enhanced protection and policing efforts. For a very privacy-oriented person like myself, I thought a fairly compelling argument for using facial recognition technology was made: that when an Indigenous woman is reported missing (especially with details that match typical poaching and abduction schemes), sex ads across Canada and the US should be scanned for matches to try and locate the missing/abducted person.

I think I might see a new journalism paradigm in my lifetime. I’m finding that an increasing proportion of the most important and critical Canadian news stories I’m reading are published in outlets outside of Canada. I’m reminded of a few George Orwell quotes:

• Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations
• The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it

Now that mainstream news is almost naked corporate establishment PR, science is being defunded in the US, and fascism and extreme weather are becoming more unignorable - maybe a investigative coalition between researchers, programmers, and journalists will arise that can find a way to do good work and get fairly compensated for it.

Because Canada has been so “untransparent” about its military exports to Israel, said Small, the researchers were unable to “fully corroborate” the data obtained from Israeli authorities and corporations with Canadian export permits.

The press conference was supposed to be broadcast on CPAC, but the public affairs channel made an “editorial decision” not to carry it, according to independent journalist Samira Mohyeddin.

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The most recent of these shipments arrived in Tel Aviv from Montreal on July 23, with General Dynamics shipping a package of its 120 mm HE Mortar Cartridge, which are manufactured at its plant in the Montreal suburb of Repentigny.

The mortar cartridges are precisely those that the U.S. State Department announced in August 2024 would be shipping to Israel, which then-global affairs minister Joly pledged to prevent.

These same cartridges were also shipped from Montreal on May 22 and September 19—the latter date coming nine days after Joly pledged to block their sale via the U.S.

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This means that in about two-thirds of these flights, “military-related cargo was transported alongside civilian passengers,” the report reads.

The airlines that allowed their flights to be used to transfer weapons to Israel include Air Canada, Air Transat, Air France, Air India, Avelo Airlines, Challenge Airlines, El Al Israel Airlines, Etihad Airways, Eurowings Discover, FedEx, Lufthansa, and SilkWay Airlines.

Me in the grocery store produce section…

Store: Made in USA
Me: Nah dawg
Store: Made in California
Me: A little better ig. If there’s nothing from Canada, how about Mexico?

Separately but on the same topic:
In this new ‘elbows up’ era, patriotism = spending behaviour (/s)

MAGA gtfo of Canada (for more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance)

Limits of a Criminal Justice Response: Trends in Police and Court Processing of Sexual Assault

Thanks! I wasn’t aware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts#Management:

On February 10, 2025, Trump named Richard Grenell to serve as interim executive director.[92][93] Trump criticized the center’s drag and LGBTQ programming, vowing to be the one who decides what is to be performed in the venue.[94][95] He dismissed Board members and named his own who elected him as chair on February 12, 2025.[96][97][98] The center soon cancelled the national tour of the new children’s musical Finn (which involves coming-of-age themes), with a Kennedy Center spokesperson calling it “a purely financial decision”.[99] The public criticized the move as an attack on free speech and accessibility to the performing arts.[100] Celebrities who subsequently disassociated themselves from the Kennedy Center have included Rhiannon Giddens,[101] Issa Rae, Renée Fleming, Shonda Rhimes, and Ben Folds.[102] The musical Hamilton, play Eureka Day and various other shows and artists soon cancelled performances at the center.[103] After Yasmin Williams expressed concern about changes at the center, Grenell stated, “Every single person who cancelled a show did so because they couldn’t be in the presence of Republicans,” and “I cut the DEI bullshit because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming that the public won’t support”.[104]

If this were a post about a single article, I’d agree, but I think this is an OC post that cites 2 articles, so Instance Rule 1 doesn’t apply

I’m out of my element here. To what extent is there non-tRump precedent for this and to what extent does this read as Carney has adopted a play from tRump’s playbook?

Based. Is the Guardian now the best mainstream news outlet these days in ‘the West’?

Fair question. Whether or not some age groups are more susceptible to propaganda is an empirical question. If you know of data, please share.

Critical thinking keeps developing into the early 20s, so not have the full supply of that is a potential knock against younger voters.

Something I’ve seen from my more conservatively-oriented family members is that significant financial and domestic difficulties help them see the falsehoods in right-wing propaganda. When things are better, they might be more amenable to anti-immigrant talk (and the like) to prop up their ego. But when they’re truly struggling (with affordability issues) they seem to see the irrelevance between their real issues and the parties the Right tries to scapegoat (e.g., immigrants; not billionaires, neoliberalism, etc.). If this theory holds, then not facing affordability issues due to living with parents could be another knock against young voters if it makes them more susceptible to right-wing propaganda.

Those are just speculations. I’d love to see some data!

Makes sense to me. I was at my most sedentary during the pandemic. That sedentariness kind of became a new normal. I’m still trying to change that

BMI isn’t a valid indicator of health for (young) people with lots of muscle mass from weight training (e.g., competitive athletes). Those people are a relatively small group in society, however. BMI is a somewhat valid indicator of health for most members of society, which makes it a reasonable population health metric. It has its drawbacks and there’s plenty of nuances to argue about but it’s very easy to use, and that handiness earns it its popularity

Yes. Beaverton is the Canadian version of the Onion

Fair. But it is ‘just’ journalism. This isn’t an opposition party press release

I edited it per your suggestion. I appreciate the feedback

Our current political climate of the Carney Liberals, PP, and weakened NDP reminds me a lot of the US two-party system that only benefits the uber wealthy. I really hope we don’t continue down that path.

I don’t see the Liberals changing course, unfortunately. (The Carney Liberals feel a lot different from the Trudeau Liberals.) I think corporate-owned news and social media keep pushing people to the right. So, the Liberals can make a strategic argument to right-shift to try and steal Conservative voters (and appease corporate donors) while taking most left-of-centre voters for granted as ABC (anyone but Conservative) voters who’ll still vote for them as the party drifts right. Their future slogan: at least we’re not the CPC.

It seems like it’s up to the NDP to save Canadian politics from becoming a big-money scheme like south of the border and give working class people a voice in parliament again. My gosh do I wish they find a Zohran Mamdani or someone who can reinvigorate the party.

I’ve seen this go far enough after 6 months or so of Carney. I hope he redeems himself in the eyes of working class Canadians, but I am not betting on it. I think this is closer to how he’ll govern (like a US moderate Democrat) than the “elbows up” nationalism he advertised himself as.

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