At a recent forum on Palestine, I spoke alongside the managing editor of The Breach, Martin Lukacs, about media bias. In my opening remarks, I discussed the uniqueness of Canada’s support for Israel, the longtime head of Postmedia chairing an extremist Zionist organization and the media’s refusal to cover a poll highlighting Jewish Israeli racism.

Afterwards Lukacs (unprompted) denied any ethnic/religious contribution to the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s media. His central observation was that the Globe and Mail was owned by the WASP (white Anglo-Saxon and Protestant) Thompson family and it was biased against Palestinians so anti-Palestinianism in the media simply reflected the establishment. He repeated the point in a subsequent comment in which he said the military-industrial complex and corporate lobbyists were wealthier and more powerful than pro-Israel forces. Lukacs emphasized that suggesting ethnicity played any role in Canada’s media bias offended him.

It requires only cursory knowledge of Canada’s media to know Lukacs’ claim is mistaken. His position is also morally bankrupt, inverting a basic moral principle.

Canada’s largest newspaper chain was established by Jewish Zionist, Izzy Asper, who imposed an aggressively anti-Palestinian editorial line when he added the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun and other daily papers to his media empire in the early 2000s. It’s well documented as it sparked a Montreal Gazette publisher to resign and Reuters to formally complain about their wire copy being rewritten in a biased, anti-Palestinian, manner.

I don't like The Breach. It's better than most but it's still NDP-tailist radlibs for the most part. They also take a really bad line on Russia-Ukraine, etc.

Hey.

There is no inherently superior number of sides for a shape to have. Be it 4 or 6 or even (shudders) 8.

I shouldn't have tried to start a 6-sided shape war. I will not keep asking the admin for a squarebear sister site for rectanglers such as myself. I will no longer refer to moderators as "hex maniacs, and not the cute kind". All sides are valid. I will not sign my posts with "get rect".

I'm sorry.

The union tried to help, but hit a number of barriers. Normally, the union uses public records to find out who owns a tenant’s home and then identifies what other properties the landlord owns. But public records only list if a person owns a unit in a condo building, not how many units they own. That means they couldn’t identify other tenants with the same landlord.

“A lot of the tenants end up not wanting to do a bigger fight because they feel so alone,” she said.

The union is brainstorming new tactics. One idea, which hasn’t yet been tested, is to organize around common issues instead of common landlords.

M.H. tried to do that when her water was shut off. But she found that each renter, because they had different landlords, had a different experience.

https://www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-condo-class-has-disrupted-political-organizing/

Good thing I was recording it.

Uploaded it to vocaroo: https://voca.ro/1esKvzpiURQm