In Part 1 of Episode 14, we lay out the opening salvos of the Federal Election. The Liberal launch drew about 300 in St. John’s with Mark Carney locking out protesting fisherman; meanwhile the CPC kick-off in North York drew 2500 and turned away 1000 supporters.
Marty Gold describes some of the obstacles the international banker-turned- Canadian nationalist faces in establishing credibility with voters, the challenges from the media Carney bristles at, and the policy ideas already lifted from the Pierre Poilievre platform.
Also, you’ll hear the statement of Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire in retiring from a 25 year career as an elected Tory.
17.15 Part 2- Last week we filed four very unique reports with the Winnipeg Sun. By raising important issues the broadcast media ignores, we prove our role is crucial to the local marketplace of ideas.
The reports included:
– If Uzoma Asagwara can’t take the heat the disclosure of vital wait time information could generate, Premier Wab Kinew needs to find someone in his caucus who can. For patients, it could be a matter of life and death.
Debbie’s Law poll result corners Asagwara on patient safety
– No other reporter attended the city Open House on rezoning to allow for federally-subsidized multi-unit housing builds. Listen for more about what was said at the session, the questions that planners couldn’t answer, and what some residents saw and didn’t like.
“We were not impressed with any of these density designs. I am still shocked at the examples they showed, of how crowded these lots will be, also because of the height.”
32.20 – The whispers aren’t so quiet anymore that NDP loyalists look with great longing towards Wab Kinew as a potential savior of their political fortunes. But within the realm of the federal NDP, he has a problem.
On the anniversary of the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas he stated, “Israel has a right to exist and a right to defend itself.”
But Kinew plays the ‘both sides’ game, where any mention of antisemitism or Jew-hatred (both real things) is paired with grave warnings about “Islamophobia” or “Anti-Palestinian racism”.
Kinew courts the “anti-Zionist not anti-Semite” mob
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/gold-kinew-courts-the-anti-zionist-not-anti-semite-mob
– The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, in partnership with Congregation Shaarey Zedek, organizes the annual observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day –Yom HaShoah.
“Last year, the Lieutenant Governor participated as the lead reader, and this year,” wrote the Heritage Centre, “we are honoured to welcome the Premier of Manitoba to fulfill this role.”
This was not a well-thought out idea. The blowback directed to the Shaarey Zedek synagogue, which is hosting the event, was immediate.
“We would not want to do something to offend or endanger our congregants or community. We are trying to navigate the delicate political position this has put us in.”
Invitation to Kinew for Holocaust event fractures Winnipeg’s Jewish community
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