Big Shiny Takes

Fancying himself some sort of Judge Dredd of protecting Canadian culture, Christopher Dummitt writes in a special to the National Post how such actions as land acknowledgments or taking a plaque down in an art gallery are giving China an edge.

Canadian patriot Nora Loreto joins us to explain why having a deep-seated sense of national pride probably doesn't matter that much.

Plugs and Recs

Nora Loreto | Substack

A political podcast. Just Listen. | Sandy & Nora Talk Politics (sandyandnora.com)

Reserve The Social Safety Net – Canada in Decline Book One by Nora Loreto

Pathways Alliance knows it can’t back up its claims | Canada's National Observer: Climate News by Jeremy Appel

UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia | The Guardian

As Revue Cinema faces closure, the fight to save Toronto culture reaches crisis point | The Globe and Mail

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"Are all these bisexuals for real? Or is this 'el gee bee tee cue' stuff just a fashionable trend? I'm just asking questions." That is about the extent of the analysis in this week's column from the Phoebe Maltz Bovy in Globe and Mail.

Nevertheless, we torture ourselves and writer/pal Sarah Rieger by unpacking it. Join us for yet another incoherent boomer moment.

Plugs and Recs

Listen to Expats & Allies | A Podcast on Nazi Refugees
The Hoser | Taking On a Grocery Empire: Understanding the Loblaw Boycott
Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed
Diddy’s Ex-Friends, Bad Boy Artists Detail Alleged Abuse, Violence
Watch I Saw the TV Glow
Go volunteer! If nothing else, there's likely free pizza.

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Oakville Town Hall is under siege from a red scourge and Sun journalist Joe Warmington is on the case after a hot tip. Can the People's Champion make sense of the situation? Will anyone talk some sense into these misguided youngsters?

Freelance journalist Scott Martin (@YouCaughtScott) helps us unpack what really went on that day, since Joe failed to notice that he was actually just at the Fightback table at a pro-Palestine rally.

Plugs and Recs

Scott Martin - The Catch (readthecatch.ca)
Read Resisting Eviction by Andrew Crosby
Read Blackshirts And Reds by Michael Parenti
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity - The Atlantic
Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Spacing
Watch Trailer Park Boys

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Stop being mean to grocer oligarchs. Stop it! We're warning you. You should be thanking them, they stock your treats and only gouge you a to a moderate degree. Everybody's gotta make a living, and besides, they're probably creating your job anyway.

Toronto-based writer Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) joins us to take in the view from the National Post and be properly tut-tutted as we learn about the success story that is Galen Weston being born at the right time.

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Buy The Dead Center by Luke Savage from your local bookseller

Watch Eric talk Loblaw boycott on This is Vancolour

Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just Canada’s latest Pretendian case? | The Guardian

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Luke says read War and Peace, Marino says read One Piece. Go to your library!

Rex Murphy, sharp-witted intellectual and columnist, dies of cancer | National Post (lol)

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American icon Noah Kulwin (@nkulw) joins the pod to talk about one of the most obnoxious Twitter personalities of the past several months, Joe Roberts.

Roberts, co-founder of the Democratic Socialists of America - Canada and former co-host of New Left Radio, has gone full neocon since Oct. 7. So much so that he wrote a column for the National Post, where he's now a regular contributor, waxing nostalgic about George W. Bush, the guy everyone famously loves. Oh, and Sarah Palin too, because he's trying that hard. 

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Anatomy of a Moral Panic - Jewish Currents

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare - Phillip Short

The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron

Bound (1996), dir. Wachowskis

University Of Toronto Encampment Organizers Call For Community Support Thursday Eve: "We Will Not Leave" - The Hoser

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We love whinging about the fertility rate, don't we folks? The implications are grave, lowered birth rates could mean fewer DoorDash employees to bring columnists treats.

BST Institute fellow Stephen @Magusiak of @pressprogress returns to pick apart a Globe and Mail opinion piece by John Ibbitson. According to Ibby, the ever-dwindling number of babies Canada produces threatens to tear the country apart. Scary stuff!

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Get news coverage from PressProgress: Sign up for the ShiftWork newsletter and listen to the Sources Podcast

Columbia Professor Shai Davidai's Family Tied to Weapons Manufacturing - CounterPunch.org

Violent Crackdown at Land Day March - The Grind Magazine

Dozens of International Students Are Dying in Canada. The Federal Government Isn’t Doing Anything. (pressprogress.ca)

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Executive Director of @Wisdom2Action and @QueerMomentum and unstoppable dynamo @FaeJohnstone joins us to discuss how Sydney Sweeney's breasts fortell the death of wokeness – according to the National Post.

In a column that reads like a horny Looney Tunes cartoon, Amy Hamm, who is a nurse apparently, brings the bizarre discourse around the young actress to a crescendo.

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Read The new generation of gay Conservative sellouts by Fae Johnstone
Go to +972 Magazine for news from Israel & Palestine
Buy Kenneyism by Jeremy Appel
Check out Unrigged
The Hoser's Grocery Tracker
Go read Dragon Ball, One Piece and Berserk

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The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned to read a real stinker of a column by Rick Bell. Rick, a traditional dumb guy with a column, seems a little upset about how mean people are being to Calgary Chief of Police Mark Neufeld.

We dig into this column (a glorified vanity piece about how the police are good, homeless people are super-criminals and everyone needs to shut up)  with friend of the Institute, Drug Data Decoded's Euan Thomson.

Plugs and Recs 

Kenneyism - Jeremy Appel
Unrigged
Drug Data Decoded

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Polite Conversations host and leading Intellectual Dark Web scholar Eiynah, a/k/a @NiceMangos, joins us to scrape the bottom of the IDW barrel.

Gad Saad, who is now a National Post columnist, is a marketing professor who fashions himself as an expert in the defence of Western Civilization.

He wrote a piece in the Post about how happy conservatives are, in which he informs the reader that he is very much not mad about the woke left.

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Listen to Jeremy on Polite Conversations, part 1
Listen to Jeremy on Polite Conversations, part 2
Pre-order Jeremy's book, Kenneyism
Eiynah's Woking Up series
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Mount Royal University academic, Al Jazeera columnist and Al Shabaka fellow Muhannad Ayyash joins us to discuss how Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek cancelled Hanukkah.

Calgary pundits lost their goddam minds over Gondek's decision to back out of at a totally apolitical menorah lighting ceremony that was billed as an opportunity to demonstrate "SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL." And according to reporting from Aryn Toombs at LiveWire Calgary, it didn't disappoint.

Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid, who joined the paper as a filthy scab in 2000, went as far as to say the mayor isn't fit for office because of her disloyalty to Israel.

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Decolonize Palestine reading list
Read some of Muhannad's Al Jazeera columns
Emma Paling - CBC featured more Israelis even as Palestinian casualties rose, data shows
Vincent Bevins - If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Tareq Baconi - Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
The Deprogram - Free Palestine (ft. Decolonize Palestine)
James Clear - Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

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