If true, then the role of national broadcasters - whose funding is guaranteed and can thus afford to call out lies - would seem to be essential to the survival of the liberal democratic order, no?

Is that due to the rise of alternate media platforms which political actors can use to broadcast their msgs? This has undermined the legacy media’s gatekeeper role: if they don’t ’both sides’ all issues then the affronted party will simply boycott them (hello Poilievre CPC) and use other options?

First line with Caufield and Suzuki…?

Why does anyone care about Kenney? Does everyone deserve to have their political reputation rehabilitated?

Doubling down on the outrage seems to be a feature of modern day populists.

Yeah, maybe. Max Fawcett’s assessment was more along the lines of ‘a victim of an upcoming cabinet shuffles uses his principles as a excuse to leave before being shown the door’….

When MLB took the Expos away, I stopped following baseball. It is dead to me.

Engaging read. I’d suggest that the CAQ would welcome the controversy such a law would engender. Desperate to reverse sagging poll numbers, using s.33 to protect what they deem to be “Quebec values” and the ensuing court challenge is a tactical move to eat into PQ support.

Yup. Hoping to stoke social division so as to rally the base and boost the sagging poll numbers in the run-up to the next election. PQ and Conservatives will each try to one-up him, further exacerbating social cleavages. Climate change, collapsing health and education systems, unhoused crisis…?

Context: The killer of specious arguments.