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Year: 2022
FTB Weekends: Lack of Truss in the UK Government & Chess Cheating Scandal
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss Liz Truss resigning as British Prime Minister after only 45 days, a cheating scandal and lawsuit in the […]
FTB Weekends: Tomato Soup and Van Gogh, Emergencies Act Inquiry & Trump’s Subpoena
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss protest and privilege: climate change activists throwing tomato soup at a Van Gogh, the Emergencies Act inquiry, the […]
FTB Weekends: Biden’s Pot Pardons, Quebec Election Results & Legault Pandemic Secret
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss US President Joe Biden pardoning all people federally convicted of possessing marijuana, the 2022 Quebec Election results and […]
Grief and Rebellion in the Aftermath of the 2022 Quebec Election
It’s the aftermath of the 2022 Quebec Election and like many people of colour in Quebec, I am in mourning. I am in mourning because […]
Quebec Election 2022: The Unsurprising, the Unfortunate and the Silver Lining
Well, that was…something. The 2022 Quebec Election is over and the results are in, and, for the most part, have been in since early Tuesday. […]
Forget the Box Readers Endorse Québec solidaire in the 2022 Quebec Election Poll with Not Legault as the Underlying Message
The votes are in and Québec solidaire (QS) has won our 2022 Quebec Election readers’ poll and therefore an endorsement article written on behalf of […]
FTB Weekends: 2022 Quebec Election Spectacular
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney welcome Samantha Gold to talk about the 2022 Quebec Election: Legault’s bigotry, youth voter turnout, QS and smaller leftist […]
FTB Weekends: Legault’s Hurricane Promise, Putin’s Draft & Iran Protests
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss François Legault’s promise of financial Hurricane Fiona relief and lack of funding for climate change adaptation, Vladimir Putin’s […]
Quebec 2022 Riding to Watch: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
With the Quebec Elections coming on October 3rd, this week’s Riding to Watch is one I’ve lived in more or less my whole life: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce […]