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This list covers the week of April 15 - 22. It is generally in order of the date of the article's release.
This installment has four entries from before the period. They have been integrated into the post.
Hilary Beaumont, Vice News
Justin Trudeau’s government is inching closer to a head-on collision with opposing First Nations, mayors and the B.C. government over the Trans Mountain pipeline.
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2) My Epiphany About the Problem With Apu
Jeet Heer, The New Republic
On last Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons, Marge and Lisa had an awkward mother-daughter conversation about a children’s book that Marge loved as a child, but which, upon revisiting, turns out to have an embarrassing colonial subtext. “Well what am I supposed to do?” Marge asked. “It’s hard to say,” Lisa said. “Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?” Then Lisa looks at a framed picture on her nightstand of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian-American character at the center of a debate over racist stereotyping on the nearly 30-year-old show.
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3) Tesla says its factory is safer. But it left injuries off the books
Will Evans and Alyssa Jeong Perry, Reveal News
But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.
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4) From Starbucks to Hashtags: We Need to Talk About Why White Americans Call the Police on Black People
Jason Johnson, The Root
As horrible as the realities of American policing can be for black America, we can’t ever forget that there are even worse people out there. They’re peering out from the curtains of their house, information kiosks and “liberal” coffee counters, surreptitiously dialing their phones, whispering the exaggerations and Trumped-up fears that make America’s violent policing possible.
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5) 2 black men arrested at Starbucks get an apology from police
Errin Haines Whack, AP News
On Thursday, they also got an apology from Philadelphia police Commissioner Richard Ross, a black man who at first staunchly defended his officers’ handling of the encounter.
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6) Why Starbucks shouldn't be praised for its misguided racism workshops
Hina Tai, The Guardian
There is a place for recognizing the critical role of implicit bias in racial disparities; it’s just not here. Bottom line – don’t be too quick to label Starbucks’ racial implicit bias trainings a victory. It’s far from it. The process for change is uncomfortable and if it’s not, then it’s probably not working.
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7) Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?
Adam Frank, The Atlantic
By asking about civilizations lost in deep time, we’re also asking about the possibility for universal rules guiding the evolution of all biospheres in all their creative potential, including the emergence of civilizations. Even without pickup-driving Paleocenians, we’re only now learning to see how rich that potential might be.
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8) Call me radical, but journalists should be able to pledge support for Palestinian journalists
Neil Macdonald, CBC News
Call me radical, but I've always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public opinions: freedom of expression, and attacks on journalists.
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9) North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war
Sam Meredith, CNBC News
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.
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10) How Doug Ford's pledge of 'zero income tax' leaves minimum wage earners worse off
Mike Crawley, CBC News
Doing the math reveals Liberal, NDP plan for $15 hourly rate puts more money in workers' pockets.
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11) These Appear To Be The Toronto Sun’s Provincial Election Plans
Jonathan Goldsbie, Canadaland
There’s nothing surprising about the fact the Toronto Sun might take an anti-Liberal line heading in to the June 7 Ontario election. What’s somewhat more remarkable, however, is that they’d feel the need to set that down on paper.
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12) The restaurant industry ran a private poll on the minimum wage. It did not go well for them.
Lisa Graves and Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
The poll — which was presented on a slide deck obtained by The Intercept and Documented — found that seven in 10 Americans want to see the minimum wage raised even if it means that they’d have to pay more for meals. It also found that the industry’s various talking points against raising the wage are mostly falling flat with the general public.
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13) Syria airstrikes added $10 billion to missile manufacturer stock values
C. J. Atkins, People's World
War, who is it good for? Missile manufacturers, that’s who.
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14) There’s dumb, and there’s Alberta dumb—and Rachel Notley’s Bill 12 is both
Martyn Brown, The Georgia Straight
The emperor has no clothes, I suggest. Be it the one occupying the prime minister’s office in Ottawa, or the tiny Tories of all political stripes in Edmonton.
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15) Prof. Mike Davis: “There Was Once A Generation of Lions”
Mohsen Abdelmoumen, American Herald Tribune
A 'triage' of humanity is in progress and in such times one must take a stand for the species not for the nation, for the necessary not for the immediately realistic. The key question is not the growing inequality of wealth and income as the Occupy movements maintain, but the privatization of economic power that ensures such inequalities. Future survival for the majority of the world's population requires that the economic surpluses generated by the information revolution and globalization are invested wisely in rebuilding our living environments and equalizing a high quality of living (which is not the same as rampant consumption). How to democratize economic power? Socialists may not yet have found the path, but they are the only ones urgently looking.
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16) Dozens of American Jews arrested protesting Gaza violence
Edo Konrad, 972 Magazine
From Boston to San Francisco, young activists from IfNotNow demonstrate outside the offices of prominent Jewish institutions and senators, demanding they condemn Israel’s violence against Gaza protesters.
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17) Natalie Portman Says ‘Jewish Values’ Caused Her To Scrap Israel Visit For Genesis Prize
Dave Goldiner, Forward
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman has refused to travel for Israel to accept a $2 million award, citing her “Jewish values” as an imperative to stand up for justice amid an increasingly deadly conflict with the Palestinians.
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18) Likud MK: Strip Natalie Portman of her citizenship
Arutz Sheva
MK Hazan calls on Interior Minister to strip Portman of her citizenship, Culture Minister Regev says Portman fell into hands of BDS.
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19) Portman’s V for Vendetta Against Netanyahu Touches Raw Nerve for Israel
Chemi Shalev, Haaretz
Natalie Portman’s decision to withdraw from the Jerusalem ceremony to mark her acceptance of the $2 million Genesis Prize is, not to put too fine a point on it, a very big deal.
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20) Tory leadership candidate worries weed will make Nova Scotians lazy like Jamaicans
Jacob Boon, The Coast
One of the candidates hoping to lead the Progressive Conservative Party is concerned legalized cannabis could have the same impact on Nova Scotia's productivity as she assumes it's had on Jamaica's economy.
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21) B.C. First Nation wins right to its own commercial fishery
The Canadian Press
A group of West Coast First Nations has won the right to harvest and sell fish commercially after a 12-year court battle.
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22) Kevin Taft on what turned Rachel Notley from crusading critic to big oil crusader
Kevin Taft, The National Observer
I spent four years in the Alberta legislature with Rachel Notley, from 2008 to 2012. I liked and admired her and was delighted when she became premier in 2015. Today when I watch her on pipeline and oil issues I ask myself, what happened to the Rachel Notley I knew? And I wonder if the same thing will happen to John Horgan.
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23) Stop the Kinder Morgan bailout
Lead Now
Right now, Trudeau is considering using your tax dollars to bail out Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan’s floundering pipeline and tanker scheme.
Read/sign the petition.
24) The gender pay gap is not a myth. Here are 6 common claims debunked
Marilisa Racco, Global News
This fact (and the figures that back it up) are consistently argued and even denied by many people. In the spirit of clarification, Global News has broken down the common misperceptions around the gender pay gap and answered some of the most popular claims from opponents.
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25) 'One day that door will open': Women of colour talk about racism on campaign trail
Sherri Borden Colley · CBC News
One woman was asked if she was lost when she filed her papers to run; another heard refugees 'were a threat'.
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26) Anti-Abortion Leader Emerges As White Nationalist
Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post
Anti-abortion groups are distancing themselves from a prominent writer, activist and thought leader in the movement who has leaned into white nationalism since Donald Trump’s election.
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27) Sexual Harassment Was Rampant at Coachella 2018
Vera Papisova, Teen Vogue
I interviewed 54 women at Coachella, and they all said they had been sexually harassed.
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28) Don’t be fooled by Emmanuel Macron the ‘moderate’
Owen Jones, The Guardian
The French president is hailed as a centrist saviour, a bulwark against extremes – even as he cuts taxes for the wealthy, attacks workers’ rights and demonises refugees.
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29) Canada’s Wealthy Elites Are Dodging More Taxes Through Loopholes Than Previously Thought
Press Progress
It’s a wonderful time to be a wealthy tax dodger in Canada, new data from Finance Canada suggests.
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30) Trudeau not ready to join British PM's ban on single-use plastics
CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped short today of echoing British Prime Minister Theresa May's call for Commonwealth members to ban single-use plastics — but pointed to a planned discussion at the next G7 summit, being hosted by Canada later this year.
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31) Blackface is free speech but anti-Bush tweet is not at California university
Sam Levin, The Guardian
The divergent responses have provided a stark illustration of what some critics say is a double standard that has emerged in the fraught campus free speech debates of recent years. That is, in the face of conservative outrage over controversial leftwing views, colleges are quick to condemn and censor. But when racism, hate speech and pro-fascist views emerge, university presidents regularly declare their unwavering commitment to free speech rights – no matter the content.
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32) Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Yanis Varoufakis, The Guardian
The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create a better world.
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33) Miguel Diaz-Canel Elected as Cuba's New President
Telesur
The council of 31 deputies – made up of workers, students, women and peasants – confirmed the nomination of Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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34) Who Is Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba's New President?
Telesur
The Cuban National Assembly elected Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, a 57-year-old Cuban born two years after the island’s socialist revolution, as the country's new head of the Council of State and therefore the president of the Caribbean country. During his speech after he was sworn-in, Diaz-Canel vowed to be faithful to the legacy of late Cuban President Fidel Castro and his revolution.
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35) Cuba's New President Vows to Defend Socialist Revolution
Telesur
Cuba's new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, began his term on Thursday with a promise to defend the socialist revolution led by the Castro brothers since 1959, giving a sober speech that also emphasized the need to modernize the island's economy.
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36) UN's Mideast Envoy Blasts Israel Over Gaza Deaths: 'Stop Shooting at Children'
Noa Landau and Jack Khoury, Haaretz
War of words erupts between Nickolay Mladenov and former IDF spokesman over fatal shooting of 15-year-old Palestinian during border protest. Trump envoy Greenblatt says Israel has launched investigation of the incident.
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See also: The Notley-Trudeau Pipeline Axis, Syria, Doug Ford & more -- The Left Chapter Sunday Reading List April 8 - 15
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