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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Yet another example of what ACT really thinks about 'Free speech", to go with the reaction to Fiona Kidman and Rob Campbell. Newshub
Can we have a link to the Kidman/Campbell item as well? I must have missed it.
Department of PM and Cabinet responds amid feud between David Seymour and Government-funded centre director over 'death cult' comments | Newshub
Te Whatu Ora chair Rob Campbell sacked | RNZ
Very obvious how NACT view "free speech".
Only allowed for their wannabee fascist supporters.
Thanks, KJT. I remember reading about that business at the time. It was the mention of Fiona K (a former acquaintance of Obtrectatrix, no relation to Joanna K) that had me wondering.
Re Kidman:
Not sure re Rob Campbell – found links to reports from last year:
Decolonisation is good. Nimbys; not like that!
Vancouver has long been nicknamed the “city of glass” for its shimmering high-rise skyline. Over the next few years, that skyline will get a very large new addition: Sen̓áḵw, an 11-tower development that will Tetrize 6,000 apartments onto just over 10 acres of land in the heart of the city. Once complete, this will be the densest neighbourhood in Canada, providing thousands of homes for Vancouverites who have long been squeezed between the country’s priciest real estate and some of its lowest vacancy rates.
Sen̓áḵw is big, ambitious and undeniably urban—and undeniably Indigenous. It’s being built on reserve land owned by the Squamish First Nation, and it’s spearheaded by the Squamish Nation itself, in partnership with the private real estate developer Westbank. Because the project is on First Nations land, not city land, it’s under Squamish authority, free of Vancouver’s zoning rules. And the Nation has chosen to build bigger, denser and taller than any development on city property would be allowed.
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The subtext is as unmissable as a skyscraper: Indigenous culture and urban life—let alone urban development—don’t mix. That response isn’t confined to Sen̓áḵw, either. On Vancouver’s west side, the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—through a joint partnership called MST Development Corp.—are planning a 12-tower development called the Heather Lands. In 2022, city councillor Colleen Hardwick said of that project, “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” (Hardwick, it goes without saying, is not Indigenous.) MST is also planning an even bigger development, called Iy̓álmexw in the Squamish language and ʔəy̓alməxʷ in Halkomelem. Better known as Jericho Lands, it will include 13,000 new homes on a 90-acre site. At a city council meeting this January, a stream of non-Indigenous residents turned up to oppose it. One woman speculated that the late Tsleil-Waututh Chief Dan George would be outraged at the “monstrous development on sacred land.”
https://macleans.ca/society/sen%cc%93a%e1%b8%b5w-vancouver/
Seymour shown by students that his priority to give money to landlords before school lunches is not popular.
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Mod note
Government cannot afford to continue funding to food bank to feed those too poor to consider voting for them.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350210170/tv-presenters-foodbank-cuts-500-families-times-get-tough