Jonathan Kay
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Democratic Road Trip: Who Will Save U.S. Workers from the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’
Quillette 6h 1 tweets
There is a certain kind of dedicated American political journalist who spends primary season traveling from state to state, reporting for the likes of CNN or Politico. They congregate in the media section at the back of every state-college...
Thread by @Margare7a: Twitter rant incoming: I've been in #Wetsuweten territory for two weeks, covering what's happening. I've had dozens of conversations, incl.…
Margareta Dovgal - Threadreaderapp.com 10h 1 tweets
Thread by @Margare7a: Twitter rant incoming: I've been in #Wetsuweten territory for two weeks, covering what's happening. I've had dozens of tions, incl. w/ many hereditary chiefs. It's factually inaccurate to say that the hereditary system is...
Coastal GasLink sent back to the table with Indigenous leaders | CBC News
CBC 12h 1 tweets
Coastal GasLink must consult further with Indigenous communities along a stretch of its pipeline route at the heart of the Wet'suwet'en conflict, say B.C. officials. 
Jonathan Kay This is crazy. The company consulted for 5 years. They signed a deal. The elected band accepted it. Then 5 hereditary dudes freak out, & it gets torn up? This precedent screws good-faith FN bands: Now *no* deal is final, and signatures don't mean anything 12h
NP View: The barricade frenzy has reached a fever pitch
Andrew Coyne - National Post 15h 1 tweets
The ludicrous level that the crisis over Indigenous rail blockades has reached was made eminently clear in a kerfuffle involving Peter MacKay this week
Jonathan Kay Great editorial. that barricade those local residents dismantled in AB was basically a pile of garbage left by antifa types who had no apparent legitimate connection to any indigenous group. what country freaks out bcuz ppl pick up garbage? 15h
Trudeau promises update on blockades as Wet’suwet’en chiefs meet with Mohawk supporters
The Globe and Mail 20h 1 tweets
The rail blockade, and others like it across the country, went up after the RCMP enforced a court injunction against the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and supporters, forcing them off an access road to a worksite for the Coastal GasLink pipeline
Jonathan Kay oh wow, we're getting an UPDATE 20h
Another global shipper warns it may bypass Halifax due to rail blockades | CBC News
CBC 22h 1 tweets
Another large shipping line that calls on Halifax is prepared to route cargo away from the city's port because Indigenous protests have paralyzed the rail system in eastern Canada.
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Jonathan Kay thousands of Canadian workers in Eastern canada losing jobs so Libs can appease 5 hereditary chiefs...who themselves want to kill thousands of jobs in BC Appeasing chiefs, screwing workers Never thought I'd say this, but where's Karl Marx when u need him 22h
Chris Selley: A very important point no one is making about the blockades — they’re Ontario’s fault
Andrew Coyne - National Post 24h 2 tweets
Everyone is yelling at Justin Trudeau, but no one has proposed a lasting solution that doesn’t involve the OPP doing its job
Jonathan Kay yes is right from legal standpoint. but if Ford acts while Trudeau is still on tv weaving his two row wampum belt, every media will jump down Ford's throat, and even a single injured protestor will become a national sob story .... 24h
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Wolves in Fancy Blankets – The JLS Report
Jlsreport.com 29h 3 tweets
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Jonathan Kay This is by someone on another BC First Nations reserve. It describes certain hereditary Wetsuweten chiefs as running media-savvy shakedowns to monopolize business, get $$/sympathy from naive whites, & bully FN who get in their way. Much as theyre doing now 28h
Why Harvey Weinstein Might Walk
The Nation 46h 8 tweets
Our reporter offers a view from the public line at the Weinstein trial.
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Jonathan Kay this piece is tough reading, but I salute them for running it. As with Ghomeshi, there was political pressure to prosecute a weak case, even as the spectacle was prematurely cast as a MeToo win. As with Ghomeshi, much teeth gnashing if acquitted 28h
Canada is fake
The Outline 3d 2 tweets
What Americans think of as their friendly neighbor to the north, if they think of it at all, is a scam.
Jonathan Kay the claim that Canada is "fake" sounds odd. But it's the logical end point of what CBC/Star/Libs tell us daily: Canada—sorry, Turtle Island—is just an unceded settler/genocide blood pasture. maybe we shd toss the keys to a hereditary dude & move to Quebec 43h
RYLAN HIGGINS: Will you support Indigenous resistance or not? A lot is riding on your answer | The Chronicle Herald
Thechronicleherald.ca 45h 1 tweets
RYLAN HIGGINS Mi’kmaw scholar Bonita Lawrence describes an aspect of the history of Turtle Island (a.k.a. Canada) that we must consider, generally, but especially with regard to protesters supporting the Wet’suwet’en hereditary
Jonathan Kay 45h
MacKay replaces tweet about rail blockades after critics suggest he supports vigilantism
The Globe and Mail 48h 3 tweets
For the second time this month, Mr. MacKay has been embarrassed by a message posted on his social media accounts
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Jonathan Kay only in Canada is garbage removal decried as "vigilantism" 46h
Solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation
CAUT - Caut.ca 3d 1 tweets
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) expresses solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Na
Kanesatake Mohawk grand chief retracts comments about rail blockades | CBC News
CBC 49h 1 tweets
A Kanesatake Mohawk grand chief retracted comments calling for an end to the rail blockades after community members locked him out of the band office. 
Jonathan Kay "A Mohawk chief retracted comments calling for an end to the blockades after [protestors] locked him out of his office" Meanwhile, JT is begging election-losing FN dissidents in BC to negotiate Legit FN leaders have been kicked under the train by Trudeau 49h
Vilification of solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Nation as thuggish is part of the colonial playbook | The Star
thestar.com 3d 1 tweets
It never has been in Canada’s interest to give real respect to the original inhabitants of the land. It has always been in Canada’s interest to sow divisions within, all the better to accelerate racist ideas of ‘assimilation’
Via Rail to temporarily lay off 1,000 workers amid rail blockades
Global News 50h 1 tweets
Via says it 'has no choice but to continue the cancellation of its services on a large part of its network' while rail lines in other parts of the country remain closed.
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Jonathan Kay remember back in november, when no one could figure out what the hell the Liberals' new "minister for middle class prosperity" would actually do? well guess what, .... now's your moment to shine! start prosperity-ing these people 50h
'It's none of their business': The Wet'suwet'en people who want the protesters to stop | CBC News
CBC 52h 4 tweets
The Wet'suwet'en Nation is divided over whether to support a new natural gas pipeline through its territory.
Opinion: The RCMP’s involvement in the Wet’suwet’en blockades crisis puts Indigenous women at risk
The Globe and Mail 54h 1 tweets
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls said that working relationships between police services and Indigenous peoples will be crucial – and that is being undermined on the blockade front lines
John Ivison: The millennial eco-activists stopping trains are the new colonialists
Vancouver Sun 5d 3 tweets
Opinion: While so-called ‘settlers’ protest the pipeline, Indigenous leaders want the project that will bring economic prosperity