Jonathan Kay
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Bee Movie - Opening Statements
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The "opening statements" from the trial in Bee Movie. Uploaded for educational purposes.
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Taking the white pill: Katie Herzog refuses to be put into a box
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Katie Herzog is a staff writer at The Stranger, where she covers and comments on media, politics, pop culture, social movements, weed, climate change, free s...
Jonathan Kay two awesome west coast pundits 7h
Colby Cosh: Michael Wernick spewed drivel while taking us all for fools
Andrew Coyne - National Post 19h 3 tweets
He made a creepy attempt to persuade Canadians that if they doubt our institutions of government it is them, and not said government, that must be the problem
Jonathan Kay good column on Wernick's bizarre performance. people trying to find out about SNC Lavalin, and he starts babbling about Russian elxn schemes & lurid nonsense about assassination. reminded me of John Goodman's lawyer voiceover from Bee Movie 7h
How white women use strategic tears to avoid accountability | Ruby Hamad
Ruby Hamad - the Guardian 291d 36 tweets
The legitimate grievances of brown and black women are no match for the accusations of a white damsel in distress
Jonathan Kay white tears BAD black tears GOOD 7h
Feelings Don't Care About Your Facts
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Hands Off Venezuela | The McGill Daily
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On Western Imperialism in the Venezuelan Coup
Jonathan Kay student newspapers never change. this piece on Venezuela could have appeared 40 years ago. even the illustration would have been the same 11h
How Gerald Butts's combative use of Twitter brought him out of the shadows | CBC News
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary Gerald Butts was rarely quoted in news articles,speaking to journalists only on background. But he was particularly outspoken on one public forum: Twitter.
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Jonathan Kay good piece. but it hits only half the story. twitter wasn't just a 1-way conduit from brain. there's a feedback mechanism: the narrow, jargonny world of left-wing cdn twitter fed its demands directly back into Lib policies, thru Butts 21h
Andrew Coyne: We now know Wilson-Raybould was pressured. They just didn’t call it that
Andrew Coyne - National Post 21h 2 tweets
How was she supposed to negotiate a remediation agreement, if the endpoint – that SNC-Lavalin was to be let off on all charges — had already been decided?
Jonathan Kay good piece by 21h
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults
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There was a time when Das Kapital was my bible. It sits on one of the bookshelves that line my living room, alongside other artifacts from my youthful foray into Marxism. The front cover is worn, the pages slightly frayed. For years, I returned to...
Scholar Matt Sears: Someday MAGA hats will be shameful secrets, like Klan robes
chauncey devega - Salon 6d 6 tweets
Scholar and Washington Post columnist says those who wear MAGA hats are "morally accountable" for Trump's actions
Jonathan Kay omg he's gone *all in* on this fear-of-a-red-hat bullshit 30h
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Jonathan Kay best hockey deal ever: 25$ for final PLUS a game as dub-header behold total bill for me & my kids...All in, it's less than a single Leafs ticket (with fewer jerks) stop tweeting about women & go see them play hockey 36h
Eye On
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Eye On features a unique offering of news, insight and data in the fast-moving artificial intelligence sector.
Canada's Hollow Concern for First Nations Democracy
The Walrus 38h 7 tweets
The government is failing to defend the democratic rights of First Nations communities trying to resist their hereditary leaders
Jonathan Kay this is an important piece by . congratulations to for having the courage to publish it. i know for a fact that several other reputable canadian media outlets looked at it, but passed on it—because they were scared of the reaction 37h
In Op-Ed For Quillette, Nancy Rommelmann Says #MeNeither Videos Could Cause Ristretto Roasters to Go Out of Business
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Portland author and wife of Ristretto Roaster’s owner, Nancy Rommelmann, yesterday published a lengthy diatribe against the city and former coffee shop employees on Quillette—the Intellectual Dark Web’s flagship publication.
Jonathan Kay If is indeed the "flagship" of the IDW, then I'm calling myself its Mr. Spock 41h
Quillette Podcast 18 – Former New York public high school teacher Mary Hudson on why the system lets down black students
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Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York’s public high school system, about how black students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being...
Empire actor Jussie Smollett staged attack because he was 'dissatisfied' with his salary, police say | CBC News
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Empire actor Jussie Smollett staged what he claimed was a racist and homophobic attack on himself because he was dissatisfied with his salary, Chicago police say, the same day he turned himself in to police.
Jonathan Kay reminds me of the time had his senate-reform editorial spiked, and he wrote "gentiles go home" on a post-it note that he stuck on his own computer 44h
Colby Cosh: A (possible) explanation for the Liberals’ problem
Andrew Coyne - National Post 3d 3 tweets
A PM has every right to tell a minister of justice what he thinks the laws should be. He does not have a right to tell the attorney general what to do about a prosecution
Jonathan Kay great on structural roots of SNC scandal...AG's dual role as cozy insider & arm's-length jurist some of the best columns about Ottawa are by writers who aren't in Ottawa bubble: they arent jaded to oddities that press-corps vets take for granted 45h
SNC-Lavalin lobbied Liberal-tied ambassador on corruption case, sought help from ex-aides to Chrétien, Mulroney
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The Quebec company had extensive access to government ministers and top staffers, and was the only organization registered to lobby for allowing deferred prosecution agreements for white collar crimes.
Terence Corcoran: Trudeau’s inner circle was right to try sparing SNC-Lavalin’s life
Andrew Coyne - National Post 3d 1 tweets
There is reason to believe PMO pressure was justified for not proceeding with the prosecutorial death penalty
SNC-Lavalin lawyers rushed to prosecutors before MPs knew of proposed law change | National Newswatch
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