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On this edition of the Daily Brief, Story Studio Network co-founder, Erin Trafford applauds the call for Spotify to reasses its values but what about other content being sold and promoted on the platform by convicted criminals? And is this movement going to focus on Apple and Google, et al? And the FREEDOM CONVOY in Ottawa proves you're free to be a racist, free to spread misinformation, free to desecrate the National War Memorial. Erin wonders whether this "freedom movement" in Canada and the United States will eventually refect the sectarian "Troubles" that crippled Ireland fifty years ago. 

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Today on the Daily Brief: You wanna know why people are pissed off and angry in Canada? On the one hand we've got Ontario's top public health doc saying we need a balanced approach and we have to LIVE WITH COVID. On the other hand we have arbitrary vaccine mandates that aren't supported by science. I had the chance to join some robust discussions about this very subject on Newstalk 1010.

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I'm sure Neil Young will be just fine now that he's parted ways with Spotify. In fact, based on the way musicians, writers and producers get paid through the streaming service, Neil's Spotify revenues probably didn't amount to much in the grand scheme of his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career income.

I recently had the chance to talk to Juno Award winner Chantal Kreviazuk about the state of the industry and she bluntly says she can't make a living simply selling her recorded music. 

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It started out as a protest against Ottawa's demand for all cross border truckers to be double dose vaccinated. It quickly turned into an Anti-Vax venue which has been overrun by alt-right wing nuts who compare their "suffering" to the Jews who were imprisoned an murdered by Hitler's Nazis. Then there is the cohort who aren't quite sure what it's all about but are making Twitter guarantees that the stop in Ottawa will look alot like the insurrection in Washington on January 6, 2022. It's easy to dismiss when the whole thing is laced with that level of toxicity. But, I don't think our political leaders (such as they are) can afford to ignore it. Is it a coincidence that this convoy started about the same time Mainstreet research was in the field and found the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and BQ are all DOWN in popular support while the People's Party of Canada is UP 8 percentage points? Also, is Putin prepared to gamble on a shooting war in Ukraine or more likely to incite a counter-revolution allowing him to plant a puppet government in Kyiv? We talk to Christian Leuprecht from the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, and David Schultz, professor of political science at Hamline University in Minnesota.

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You'll be forgiven if you can't up with the Canadian truckers' protest. It's morphed from an anti-mandatory vaccine rules to anti-vax to threating to shut down the country for no obvious reason. And then, politicians and media want to roll it all into supply chain issues, as if we only just started experiencing product shortages. Combine COVID protocols with a shortage of truckers and an unusual amount of snow in some parts of the country and the just-in-time system is staggering.

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Today on the Daily Brief: Under "studies that tells us stuff we already know" - First Nations kids are unhealthy when they live in homes filled with mould! Apparently there's still a place for racism in pro hockey. And Sarah Palin and Alex Jones find themselves on opposite sides of the defamation laws in the Unitied States. Jones wants to use it as a free speech shield. Palin wants to change the laws to beat down the New York Times.

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Wrapping up my second Monday-Friday workweek in about four years. Up until the January 1, 2022, I'd been working 7 days a week! 

Today, on the 10:10AM Daily Brief: Doug Ford's pandering his way through the pandemic. Struggling to put food on the table isn't an inflation story. It's about the growing number of Canadians living on the verge of poverty. Trump and Hannity define irony! And...the things we can learn from Sunflowers!

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Today on the 10:10AM Daily Brief, if you're looking for that glass half full of sunshine and unicorn, holding your breath for this final push through the pandemic, you might wanna sit down. A new study says Earth is in the middle of its next MASS EXTINCTION EVENT and there's no stopping it. Similarly, there appears to be no end to the B.S. spewing from the clowns running the circus at Queen's Park in Ontario. But with all that doom and gloom, I laughed out loud hearing about a robbery at one of my favourite music stores!

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I can’t believe we spent some much angst and oxygen over declaring SNOW DAYS this week instead of pivoting to online learning for all.   And while the media was enthralled by pics and viz of Doug Ford helping dig cars out of the snow, I want to know who shot the video? Who took the pictures? Newsrooms aren’t asking. It’s a small thing, but that’s LAZY. The lack of context is unacceptable. I can get video vomit from any social media feed. We should expect more and better from newsrooms.

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President Trump says there's no way Joe Biden got 80 million votes without massive fraud. Trump held a Thanksgiving Day media avail that turned into a looped rant about illegal and fraudulent ballots, he referred to Georgia's secretary of state as an "enemy of the people", and insists the 2020 election was rigged "at the highest levels."

In the meantime, the Biden-Harris team are moving forward at an unprecedented pace assembling a new administration and announcing cabinet nominees.