Stephen Maher

It bums me out that Jesse Jackson died seeing this version of his country.

Wow.

Stephen Maher: Hear those rumours of an election call? Here’s what’s really happening Pierre Poilievre’s best chance of one day winning Carney’s job is to wait out the crisis, at which point his focus on affordability issues and tax cuts might look appealing.

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Stephen Maher: Hear those rumours of an election call? Here’s what’s really happening Pierre Poilievre’s best chance of one day winning Carney’s job is to wait out the crisis, at which point his focus on affordability issues and tax cuts might look appealing.

Hear those rumours of an election call? Here’s what’s really happening, @stephenmaher.bsky.social writes www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Stephen Maher: Steve Bannon has plans for Canada. We have to be on our guard I regret to inform you that it is necessary to pay attention to Steve Bannon because he has plans for Canada and, unfortunately, he has repeatedly shown that he can

I wrote about this in today's Star. thestar.com/opinion/cont... I think Canadians need to wake up and smell the foul-smelling coffee. 16/16

Bannon worked on Brexit, of course, and on Trump's 2016 campaign, so he is not to be taken lightly when he gets his teeth into stirring up trouble on the internet. 14/16

Canadian @chrisinsilico, who worked with Bannon then, describes the kind of dark territory they explored in his book t.co/rr6dnFYK3p 14/16

He ran Breitbart, tried to connect the incels and trolls to white nationalists, and then went to the UK, where he worked with Cambridge Analytica, which had surreptitiously acquired Facebook data. 13/6

The gamers went berserk, the game company shut down "gold" sales, and Bannon and his investors lost their money, but Bannon was inspired, as @joshuagreen.bsky.social describes in this book: t.co/XTkb4OLQzp 12/16

His supervillain origin story starts in 2007, when he convinced Goldman Sachs buddies to invest in Internet Gaming Entertainment, a weird Hong Kong company that hired low-wage Chinese guys to play World of Warcraft, collect virtual gold and sell it to gamers. 11/16

The intellectual juice behind this seems to come from Bannon, who has a long track record of making bad things happen. There are few people alive who better understand how to weaponize trolls and incels and turn their anger into power. 10/16

"This could be one of the last chapters in Canadian history, and if we don’t wake up to that fast, it will be too late.” 9/15

I don't think that Canada ought to ignore what looks like a threat to our national security. “We have to start to take this seriously if we want to survive as a nation," he told me last week. 8/15

Former Canadian intelligence officer
@PatrickLennox_ has done the unpleasant work of contextualizing this with comments from @JeffreyRWRath, a prominent spokesman for the Alberta separatists. 7/15
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Note that his guest, Brandon J. Weichert, was predicting then that Trump was going to move on Venezuela, which he later did. He speaks in this clip about co-ordination between Alberta separatists and the US State Department. 6/15

The bad news is that he is now talking about Canada — specifically Alberta — as part of the Trumpian plan for control of the Arctic. This clip is from November. 5/15
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The Arctic is not a territory in a Risk board, but Bannon is talking about it that way, and we can't afford to ignore his raving, because he seems to have convinced Trump that he needs Greenland etc. 4/15

All of this talking about thawing Arctic and the Great Game around the North Pole is bitterly ironic, given that Bannon and Trump consider climate change to be a hoax, but there must be a reason why they are pushing this nonsense. 3/15

Bannon is talking nonsense, militarily, according to Mark Norman, who ought to know. 2/15

YouTube video by Toronto Sun LILLEY UNLEASHED: Is Trump serious about Canada being the 51st state? Bannon weighs in

Last year, Steve Bannon starting sketching out a vision for an aggressive hemispheric US doctrine, which included Panama, Greenland and Canada. 1/15 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hIa...

Steve Bannon has plans for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A message from a friend in Iran

Carney Is the Crisis Manager Canada Needs - Macleans.ca The PM’s rousing Davos speech proves he can lead Canada—and maybe the world

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I have since been convinced that there was nothing political about this, that it was likely just a cost-cutting exercise.

I only know about the strip bar.

If the Americans have grown tired of the Auto Pact, the Chinese would surely be interested, which would seem to offer productivity advantages.

You think he was worse than Bob Coates?

Trump officials eye private security contractors to safeguard oil assets in Venezuela | CNN Politics The Trump administration is preparing to use private military contractors to protect oil and energy assets in Venezuela rather than deploying US troops, according to two sources familiar with the plan...

The oil industry gets a private army!

I would like to know more details. Did they get rid of all LM Montgomery books? She is the most important Canadian writer in history, and her books touch people around the world.

Finally, while I respect your thoughtful thread, I want to tell you that I am glad you don't get to decide what I "get" to be critical of. And it seems to me that may reflect the same censorious attitude that I find offensive in this story.