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Haida Gwaii: Restoring Indigenous Sovereignty
This week, the Crown in Right of Canada and the Haida Nation signed an historic pact that restored Indigenous sovereignty to the Haida Gwaii, including the lands, freshwater beds, and foreshores to the low-tide mark.  In other words, th
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Classic Album – Urban Dance Squad: Mental Floss for the Globe
Urban Dance Squad
Mental Floss for the Globe
Arista Records
 The older I get, the more I realize that there was perhaps no time in the music business like the 1990s.  The 1980s was dominated by a mixture of hair metal, ageing rock stars and Madonna.  The 1990s was a brand
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6 December 1989: Plus ça change
Every 6 December, I wake up thinking of fourteen women. Fourteen women who were shot to death by a misogynist with a gun.  This happened at the École Polytechnique, part of the Université de Montréal. This happened on Wednesday, 6 December 1989.  It was a cold da
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The Social Costs of Sports Betting
As might be obvious from my previous publications here at The Typescript, I watch sports.  Specifically, I watch the English Premier League, NHL, NFL, and CFL, and sometimes I dip into other leagues and sports.  I always find advertising during games fascinating, as there is a
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Happy Labour Day
It was Labour Day yesterday, a day meant to reflect on the achievements of the labour movement, of the contributions of workers to society.  Instead, Labour Day has become a joke. Like all other bank holidays, it has become an excuse for capitalism.  Labour Day sales everywhere! And, well, all those stores doing the very bare minimum for their workers, paying th
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When Racism is Racism
After winning Cope América last week, a group of Argentinian footballers live streamed the singing of a racist song on the team bus.  It is worth noting that not all the team was there, most notably Lionel Messi and Alexis MacAllister were not.  But, Enzo Fernández, who plays his club football for Chelsea FC in London, was.
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We’re Stuck With Joe Biden, Now Let’s Fight On
If there is one thing so-called progressives like to do, it is in-fighting.  The right has run rampant in Canada and the US due to this in-fighting.  This has been the case since the 90s.  Some of our in-fighting is absolutely essential.  We have fought to become
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Cruising Blithely Towards The Black Sox
It’s no secret that the legalizing of sports gambling is causing a world of problems for North America’s professional sports leagues.  In many ways, I feel like we’re at a tipping point and a revival of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal is imminent.
In 1919, gangster Arn
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Michael Cohen is a Convicted Felon, but That’s Only Half the Story
The 45th President was found guilty of 34 crimes this week, and is now a convicted felon in the state of New York.  Right away, the Republican Party came out in defence of its de facto leader. 
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Canada Still Doesn’t Care about MMIWG2S
In 2001, an Indigenous woman's body was found down an embankment at the side of the road, just metres from her abandoned truck. The RCMP failed to investigate her murder, twice. To this day, the RCMP claims that racism wasn't the issue and declares it's unlikely the killer will be found due to the lo
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Robert Pickton: The Face of the Devil
Robert Pickton is in a medically-induced coma in the medical ward of a maximum security prison some 450km northeast of Québec City.  Now 74 years old, he was beaten by a 51-year old inmate into unconsciousness.  It does not look good for Pickton’s prospects of reco
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The Canadian Football League Just Doesn’t Get It
I am, I have to admit, a passionate fan of the Canadian Football League.  I have been my entire life, even after I moved to the US a dozen years ago, I continue to follow the league.  I watch as many games as I can.  I actually prefer the Canadian game to the American one, it’s faster, the athletes tend to be sma
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Bob Cole Rest in Peace
Bob Cole has died. Canada is in mourning.
Cole was the voice of Hockey Night in Canada for more than a generation. He joined the programme on the CBC back in 1973 and became the primary play-by-play commentator in time for the 1980-81 season.  He held that position until 2008. For the next decade, he remained on HNIC in Canada, ending his full-time career with the end o
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Being Jewish is Not a Provocation. WTF?
Last weekend, Gideon Falter went to a pro-Palestinian march in London.  This march, like all the pro-Palestinian marches in London, was peaceful.  That I have to type that sentence angers me, protest marches are almost always peaceful. And in all the protest marches I have been involved in in Vancouver, Ottawa, Québec, Seattle, Montréal,
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The Concerted Attack on Democracy
I find algorithms fascinating, for me, they always seem a little drunk, they never really get me, and I get odd suggestions as a result.  Instagram is perhaps the most bizarre. I get monster trucks, baseball and, last week, Canada First.
If you are not familiar, Canada First is a racist, white supremacist movement led by a wingnut named Tyler Russell. This
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The Typescript | The Culture of Politics · The Concerted Attack on Democracy | The TypescriptI find algorithms fascinating, for me, they always seem a little drunk, they never really get me, and I get odd suggestions as a result. Instagram is perhaps the most bizarre. I get monster trucks, baseball and, last week, Canada First. If you are not familiar, Canada First is a racist, white supremacist movement led

What’s in a Photo, Rishi?
Part of me feels bad for Rishi Sunak.  He’s the first Asian Prime Minister in British history and that is an accomplishment in and of itself.  The UK has, of course, long had an Asian population, due to the fact that the UK colonised what is now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, plus Myanmar, Hong Kong, to say nothing of that presence in China itself.  And the UK has had ple
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Residential Schools Were Gross Violations of Human Rights. Full Stop.
On Canada Day 2000, I lost all faith in my nation.  I lived in Ottawa, and I worked in the field of Indigenous law and history.  I was working on my umpteenth claim filed against the Crown in Right of Canada by an Indigenous nation. On the one hand,
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The USWNT and Homophobia
It is no secret that women athletes, or any women, really, have to deal with a lot more abuse than men do.  When I was a teenager, I actually watched TV commentators discuss tennis player Gabriela Sabatini’s body and debate whether or not they would have sex with her, with one (obviously male) commentator expressing his preference for Chris Evert. These same men
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