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Democracy’s Kitchen
Ouch! 🤔
On the one hand, he claims no pressure. On the other, everything about this story is twisted and distraught by the forces of remarkable pressure, until at any moment, something is about to explode!
"The Clerk’s testimony revealed that officials repeatedly raised the economic ramifications of an SNC conviction, despite the fact that the law prevents the attorney-general from considering that factor in this particular case. Under Canada’s new deferred-prosecution agreement rules, prosecutors are not allowed to consider national economic interests when deciding whether to settle with a company that faces charges under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act."
Top bureaucrat says Trudeau, staff pressed Wilson-Raybould on SNC-Lavalin settlement
theglobeandmail.com
Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick defended meetings with the then-attorney general as ‘lawful advocacy,’ saying she was not subjected to ‘inappropriate pressure’ to shelve prosecution of the Quebec engineering firm
Indigenous Caucus
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Inuit art’s renaissance is thawing cultural borders
theglobeandmail.com
A new generation of Northern artists are rapidly adapting southern media to tell traditional stories and explore an Inuit iconography
Network Nodes
Another glimpse down the human planetary road. Can wild stocks of humans live alongside scientifically modified, managed and manipulated bio-bots generating "economic benefits"? 🤔
"The industry says salmon farming supports thousands of jobs and generates $1.5-billion in annual economic benefits for the province. However, it embraced [the need] to earn the consent of Indigenous communities to operate in their traditional territories."
More caution needed with salmon farming on West Coast, federal fisheries minister says
theglobeandmail.com
B.C. government welcomes policy shift