This list covers the week of March 5 - March 12. It is generally in order of the date of the article's release.
1) Somalia drought crisis: 110 people dead from hunger in 2 days, says PM
Russia Today
Over 100 people have died from hunger in a single region of Somalia in just 48 hours according to Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire. These are the first deaths attributed to the country’s severe drought since a “national disaster” was declared earlier this week.
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2) 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
Samuel Osborne, The Independent
The British people suffer "historical amnesia" over the atrocities committed by their former empire, an Indian MP and author has claimed.
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3) What can $1,800 get you for housing in the North? Nothing
Jane Van Dusen, CBC News
Monthly rent of $1,800 may be enough to get you an apartment in downtown Toronto, or a two-bedroom townhouse in Fredericton. But across Canada's North, it's not enough to get you through the door.
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4) Wildrose Finance Critic defines the word 'racist' as someone who is 'winning an argument'
Press Progress
And now for a public service announcement from Alberta's Official Opposition:
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5) Capacity for consent and the Halifax ruling: Did the judge err?
Elizabeth Sheehy, The Globe and Mail
The acquittal of Halifax taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi by Nova Scotia provincial court judge Gregory Lenehan raises legal, evidentiary and ethical issues that have rightly provoked outrage and debate.
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6) 'I will do anything I can to make my goal': TD teller says customers pay price for 'unrealistic' sales targets
Erica Johnson, CBC News
Three TD Bank Group employees are speaking out about what they say is "incredible pressure" to squeeze profits from customers by signing them up for products and services they don't need.
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7) No, we don’t need to center men in conversations about rape
Cecilia Lepine, Feminist Current
A recent investigation by The Globe and Mail revealed how badly the Canadian justice system fails at prosecuting rape cases. Robin Doolittle reports that “one of every five sexual-assault allegations in Canada is dismissed as baseless and thus unfounded.” Contrary to popular opinion, only a tiny percentage of complaints are false (between two and eight per cent), yet Doolittle found that police in Canada are closing a disproportionate number of rape cases as “unfounded,” meaning that the women simply weren’t being believed.
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8) Minister slams judge's sex assault comments, says 'clearly there's lots of work to be done'
Michael Gorman, CBC News
Community Services Minister Joanne Bernard says she shares the outrage mounting in response to a Nova Scotia judge's comment that "clearly a drunk can consent."
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9) Trudeau's Feminism Is More Talk Than Action: Report
Sarah Rieger, The Huffington Post
Despite having a feminist prime minister at its helm, the federal government has yet to translate its rhetoric into policy when it comes to gender parity, according to a report from Oxfam Canada.
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10) American Indians gather in D.C. for four-day protest against Trump, Dakota Access pipeline
Blake Nicholson, Associated Press
Members of American Indian tribes from around the country are gathering in Washington for four days of protests against the Trump administration and the Dakota Access oil pipeline that will culminate with a Friday march on the White House.
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11) Freeland knew her grandfather was editor of Nazi newspaper
Robert Fife, The Globe and Mail
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War.
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12) 'Feminism is cancer': Wildrose on Campus fires communications director over email
CBC News
Wildrose On Campus Calgary has fired its communications director and cancelled a film screening planned for Wednesday at the University of Calgary following public uproar over an email promoting the event.
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13) Campus Club That Called Feminism Cancer May Have ‘Fired’ a Fake Member
Sarah Berman, Vice
In damage control statements to media, members of a Wildrose Party group at University of Calgary said they fired the person responsible—but former members question his existence.
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14) Our Political Economy Is Designed to Create Poverty and Inequality
Dennis Kucinich, The Nation
Poverty is not an abstraction. People wear it on their faces, carry it on their backs as a constant companion—and it is heavy.
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15) International Women’s Day has been stripped of its radical roots. That’s about to change.
Katie McDonough, Fusion
This time last year, Ivanka Trump chose to observe International Women’s Day by releasing a series of e-cards featuring inspirational quotes tailored to the occasion. One of the cards, a dusty rose with elegantly minimal font and a #WomenWhoWork hashtag, read, “Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It’s you who can change the world.”
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16) When Did Solidarity Among Working Women Become a ‘Privilege’?
Tithi Bhattacharya and Cinzia Arruzza, The Nation
The international women’s strike of March 8 is being put together with the unpaid labor of mostly women-led and grassroots organizations. No sponsorship from businesses, big or small, underwrites our organizing. As organizers of March 8 we believe that while Trump epitomizes our problems, the problems of devastating inequality, rampant racism and sexism, and violent imperialism did not begin with Trump. They are rooted in the history of US settler colonialism and were exacerbated in the decades of neoliberalism that preceded Trump.
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17) On international women’s day, let’s remember what feminism is really about: women
Meghan Murphy, i-d Vice
We are told over and over again that feminism is for everybody. That "feminism" isn't a scary word - all it means is "equality." But they're wrong. Feminism isn't for everybody and perhaps those who are scared of the word are frightened for good reason. Feminism is about women. And if you don't like that, you probably aren't going to like feminism much.
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18) The women's protest that sparked the Russian Revolution
Orlando Figes, The Guardian
The first day of the Russian Revolution – 8 March (23 February in the old Russian calendar) – was International Women’s Day, an important day in the socialist calendar. By midday of that day in 1917 there were tens of thousands of mainly women congregating on the Nevsky Prospekt, the principal avenue in the centre of the Russian capital, Petrograd, and banners started to appear.
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19) Chrystia Freeland’s granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation
David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen
The news conference on Monday by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was interesting not for the announcement that Canada was extending its training mission to Ukraine but for the questions and answers about the minister’s grandfather
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20) Quick release of officer accused in Abdirahman Abdi's death raises eyebrows
Steve Fischer · CBC News
Courtroom 6 at the Ottawa courthouse is reserved for bail hearings, and on Monday afternoon the docket included people accused of assault, sexual touching and breach of bail conditions.
Const. Daniel Montsion's name was on that list, too: the Ottawa police officer was scheduled to make his first court appearance on charges including manslaughter in the death of Abdirahman Abdi, a charge more serious than any other being dealt with that day.
But Montsion was a no-show.
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21) 'But what about the railways ...?' The myth of Britain's gifts to India
Shashi Tharoor, The Guardian
Apologists for empire like to claim that the British brought democracy, the rule of law and trains to India. Isn’t it a bit rich to oppress, torture and imprison a people for 200 years, then take credit for benefits that were entirely accidental?
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22) Ignoring Chicago, Toronto Has a Big, Stupid Idea
Joyce Nelson, Counterpunch
Last weekend, the good folks of Toronto, Ontario learned that their elected officials at City Hall are considering selling off the Toronto Parking Authority – which operates dozens of municipal parking lots as well as on-street parking.
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23) Every semi-competent male hero has a more talented female sidekick. Why isn’t she the hero instead?
Constance Grady and Javier Zarracina, Vox
In the season one finale of The Magicians, a drama based on the best-selling books about a group of students at a magical university, there’s a moment when the show's protagonist begins to doubt that he's the hero of his own story.
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24) It Should Be Self-Evident That Socialists Should Be Anti-Prostitution
Frankie Green, Morning Star
Prostitution is at the heart of women’s oppression. The commercial sex trade is both cause and consequence of men’s greater economic, political and legal status — although it is absurd to refer to “sex” in the case of the sex trade when desire is not mutual and only money is the facilitator.
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25) Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois wants leadership role with Québec Solidaire
Benjamin Shingler, CBC News
After months of speculation, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois confirmed Thursday he wants to take a leadership role with the small, left-wing party Québec Solidaire.
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26) Chrystia Freeland Should Come Clean With The Truth
Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel
Why can’t she come clean?
Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister and a member of Parliament representing a mid-town Toronto district, has been less than transparent about her maternal grandfather, Michael (Mikhailo) Chomiak, who edited a pro-Nazi Ukrainian newspaper in Cracow during Germany’s occupation of Poland
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27) Margaret Mitchell: NDP stalwart, social activist, Mac grad dies at 92
Hamilton Spectator
Margaret Mitchell, a former New Democrat MP and McMaster University graduate who became a leading voice in raising awareness about domestic abuse died Wednesday.
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28) Another Russia ‘Fake News’ Red Herring
Robert Perry, Consortiumnews.com
On Feb, 27, Consortiumnews.com published an article describing misrepresentations by Canada’s new Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland about her Ukrainian maternal grandfather whom she has portrayed as a hero who struggled “to return freedom and democracy to Ukraine” but left out that he was a Nazi propagandist whose newspaper justified the slaughter of Jews.
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29) MP who survived residential school calls for senator's resignation
Laura Peyton, CTV News
New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash wants a Conservative senator to resign after she lamented that negative stories about residential schools overshadow the good things they accomplished, including raising the students as Christians.
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30) Why is the Foreign Affairs minister concealing her pro-Nazi lineage?
J. Baglow, Rabble
I have never believed that the sins of the fathers (or grandfathers) should place a burden of guilt upon succeeding generations, so at first I found myself detached from the current Chrystia Freeland brouhaha, and even a little embarrassed that some of my political allies were making such a great to-do over it. So her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, was a pro-Nazi Ukrainian collaborator -- so what?
Well...
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31) Chrystia Freeland and the complexities of history
Henry Srebrnik, The Prince Arthur Heald
On March 8, the Globe and Mail reported that “Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has known for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in Nazi-occupied Poland.”
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32) NDP Base Is Crying Out For Principled Left Leadership
Sid Ryan, The Huffington Post
Canada's two main opposition parties are in the throes of selecting new leaders to replace Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair. Both found themselves walking the plank after losing the 2015 General Election. The Conservatives face the spectacle of 14 candidates vying to become Leader of the Official Opposition. The New Democratic Party has attracted four candidates to its leadership contest.
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33) Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
Landon Frim & Harrison Fluss, Jacobin
Alt-right conspiracy theorists have embraced postmodern philosophy. The Left should return to the Enlightenment to oppose their irrational and hateful politics.
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See also: Judge Lenehan, Dr. Seuss, Berta Cáceres & more -- The Left Chapter Sunday Reading List February 26 - March 5
See also: #Resistance150, the Oscars, Remembering Bob White & more -- The Left Chapter Sunday Reading List February 19-26
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