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Saturday’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest ended without the demands of protesters being met but the rhetoric around their movement reached a fever pitch. We take a step back, a deep breath in, and discuss the protest and the troubling media discourse that should give activists of any ideology pause.

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The premiers are not united by much, but they are united in their demand for more money from Ottawa.

Doug Ford is the last holdout on a national childcare plan.

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Each week, we’ll bring you a panel discussion with Canada’s leading journalists, columnists, politicos, and change makers discussing what’s happening in the newsphere.

From coast to coast to coast Canada is facing a housing crisis. The issue occupied the discourse in the 2021 federal election and is top of mind for Canadians facing a change of address, whether renting or buying. With costs continuing to soar and interest rates below inflation, what can be done, and what is the government's role in helping homebuyers and renters?

We're joined by National Post columnist Sabrina Maddeaux and activist and former Libertarian Party of Canada leader Tim Moen to debate solutions.

About Sabrina Maddeaux

Sabrina Maddeaux is a National Magazine Award-winning writer and editor. Her work strives to spark meaningful discussions on topics from politics to pop culture, finance, and feminism.

Sabrina is a freelance columnist for the National Post, where she’s known for her bold opinions and has been referred to as the paper’s “resident pissed-off millennial.” She covered Canada’s 44th federal election for the paper full-time, with daily written and video columns that often trended online and appeared on the paper’s front page.

Her work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Vox, Refinery29, Toronto Star, FASHION Magazine, ELLE Canada, Toronto Sun, NOW Magazine, Bay Street Bull, and many other publications.

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About Tim Moen

Tim Moen is a Canadian libertarian podcaster, blogger, activist, and politician. He was the leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada from May 2014 to August 2021. Outside of politics, he is a firefighter, paramedic, business owner, and filmmaker.

Moen became the leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada in May 2014, succeeding former leader Katrina Chowne. He ran in the 2014 Fort McMurray—Athabasca by-election. His campaign received considerable attention from a variety of Canadian and US news outlets, such as CNN, Huffington Post, Reason.com, due to his social media memes explaining libertarianism.

Moen is an anarcho-capitalist. He supports ending all government surveillance programs, withdrawing all troops stationed abroad, legalizing cannabis, decriminalizing drugs, legalizing prostitution, and tax cuts.

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Conservatives, led by Jason Kenney, are spreading disinformation about empty grocery shelves and the impacts of vaccine mandates on our food supply chain and ignoring the realities of Canadians struggling to put food on the table. This is happening as a convoy of trucks heads towards Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers. Why the obfuscation?

Escalations in Ukraine are threatening to boil over with disinformation flying and imperial forces facing off. What is the left to do? Can we oppose war and also stand against imperialism?

Then, we’re joined in the CUPE Ontario Union Hall by Carolyn Ferns of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and Athina Basiliadis, a Frontline Child Care Worker and a Child Care Representative on the CUPE Social Service Workers' Coordinating Committee to discuss yet another failure of the Ford government to protect frontline workers and our children.

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Jared Walker has learned a thing or two working in communications in the offices of both Jagmeet Singh and Andrea Horwath — starting with never check the DMs. Jared joins us to discuss the complex strategies of campaigning, how social media is shaping our politics, and how campaigns of the future may look.

About Jared Walker

Jared A. Walker is an organizer, activist, writer and communications professional, presently working as Principal Speechwriter and Media Relations Coordinator for the Leader and Caucus of Ontario’s Official Opposition NDP. Prior to this, he was Speechwriter to the Leader, Parliamentary Leader and Caucus of Canada’s NDP. He also served as Communications Director on Jagmeet Singh’s historic NDP leadership campaign.

Jared has worked on national and regional campaigns – both partisan and issue-based – in the US and Canada, including most notably serving as the New York State Coordinator of Students for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.

He has also worked in communications, fundraising, and community development for a variety of nonprofits and charities in the Greater Toronto and New York areas.

As a speaker, Jared has engaged audiences around the world on a wide range of issues including youth mobilization, community building, racial justice and engaging men to end gender-based violence.

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Doug Ford announces a phased reopening ‘in light of improving conditions’. What is he talking about?

Continued issues with access to fresh water in the territories highlights the inequity of Ontario/Quebec and every other Canadian.

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Each week on Counterpoint, we’ll bring you a panel discussion with Canada’s leading journalists, columnists, politicos, and change makers discussing what’s happening in the newsphere.

This week, we’re joined by activist and former NDP candidate Shailene Panylo and National Post columnist Adam Zivo for a conversation on defunding the police and police abolition.

About Shailene Panylo

Shailene Panylo is a community organizer, activist, and advocate based in the Durham Region. She represented the NDP for Oshawa in 2019 and 2021.

Shailene is a University of Toronto Alumni with an HBSc. in Molecular Biology, Immunology & Disease, and Women & Gender Studies and a TEFL instructor certified by the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE).

Shailene currently works as the Research & Government Relations Coordinator for the Canadian Federation of Students National office and proudly serve as a Director and Coordinator for the Durham Black Students' Network.

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About Adam Zivo

Adam Zivo is a regular columnist at the National Post, an activist having previously consulted with the Canadian Armed Forces on LGBTQ+ issues, and former Junior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada focusing in the areas of cyber and information warfare and social media manipulation.

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What’s the deal with snow removal in PEI? Unionized provincial workers have been replaced by private contractors in at least one municipality, how are these decisions made and is it just one more step in the war on working people by conservative governments?

Air Canada and Westjet are asking us to stop testing for COVID-19 at the airport while omicron is ravaging us. They can spin it all they like, it’s bad for public health.

Then, we’re joined in the CUPE Ontario Union Hall by Ontario School Board Council of Unions President Laura Walton who represents thousands and thousands of workers in schools who are deeply concerned with the safety of a return to in person learning while the Ford government has abandoned common sense. What can we do to fight back?

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Nova Scotia MLA Suzy Hansen joins us for a conversation on the power of change, how we can bring it, and what it looks like to fight for it when the terrain looks difficult. Hope and hard work go a very long way to building a better future.

About Suzy Hansen

Born and raised in Halifax’s North End, Suzy is a grassroots organizer, community leader, and mother of seven beautiful children. In 2016, she won a seat on the Halifax Regional School Board for District 5 (Peninsula North/Fairview), where she advocated passionately for our students and schools. In 2021, Suzy was elected MLA to represent the people of Halifax Needham. Suzy has worked with Phoenix Youth Programs for the past 9 years, supporting youth and community, and building trusting relationships between stakeholders and service providers.

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The prevailing narrative is that the economy has mostly rebounded. Led by TSX performance and GDP numbers, the status quo is content that all will be just fine. Are these really how we want to judge ourselves? Can’t we find a better way to judge if our society is prospering? Or do we just get back to business as usual?

Then, Alberta’s making moves to privatize laundry at its hospitals. It may not seem like much, but it’s laundry today and then surgery tomorrow. Every loss in public healthcare is a step towards a US style system.

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