Daily review 14/03/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 14th, 2024 - 9 comments
Categories: Daily review - Tags:

Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

9 comments on “Daily review 14/03/2024 ”

  • Comments are now closed

  1. KJT 1
    14 March 2024 at 6:58 pm

    Yet another example of what ACT really thinks about 'Free speech", to go with the reaction to Fiona Kidman and Rob Campbell. Newshub

    • Obtrectator 1.1
      14 March 2024 at 11:17 pm

      Can we have a link to the Kidman/Campbell item as well? I must have missed it.

        • Obtrectator 1.1.1.1
          15 March 2024 at 9:56 am

          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.

      • Drowsy M. Kram 1.1.2
        15 March 2024 at 8:35 am

        Re Kidman:

        Academic Witch-hunted For Criticising Military Boot Camps For Young Offenders [11 March 2024]
        In an interview with the right-wing Platform website’s Sean Plunket, ACT leader David Seymour made clear that the attack on Kidman is meant to send a message to anyone receiving government funding that if they step out of line, they will be defunded. “As we put together a budget, I think some of these people may find that we can only afford to do so many things that really matter to the average person, and they’ve ruled themselves out of that,” he said.

        Plunket provocatively called for a “pogrom” against “fifth columnists” in the public sector. Seymour said he would not use the term, but agreed with the sentiment.

        Not sure re Rob Campbell – found links to reports from last year:

        Sacking of Health New Zealand chair leads to claims government overreacted [1 March 2023]
        Former ACT leader Richard Prebble said Campbell's expulsion was "a tragedy for everyone" and the government would struggle to replace him with someone of the same calibre and experience.
        …
        That position puts him at odds with current ACT leader David Seymour who was the first politician to call for Campbell's sacking.

        "Freedom of speech doesn't mean that your speech has no consequences. If you signed a contract to behave in a certain way and you don't behave that way, you face the consequences."

        Seymour said Campbell should also be fired from his position as chair of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).

  2. joe90 2
    14 March 2024 at 7:14 pm

    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.

    […]

    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/

  3. Ed 3
    14 March 2024 at 8:15 pm

    Seymour shown by students that his priority to give money to landlords before school lunches is not popular.

    [Please stick to your approved email address, thanks – Incognito]

  4. SPC 4
    14 March 2024 at 8:57 pm

    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