Alberta Election 2023: Smith, Notley set to square off in leaders debate
The debate will be broadcast on TV and radio as well as on Postmedia platforms via a live stream
The leaders of Alberta’s contending political parties are set to square off for a debate tonight in a televised showdown that comes amid tightening polls and with less than two weeks remaining in the 28-day campaign. UCP Leader Danielle Smith and NDP Leader Rachel Notley will be the sole participants in the debate.
Source:iPolitics: Evening Brief May 17/23 4:30pm ET
Liberal & NDP Statements on the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
“Everyone should be able to be who they are and love who they love, free from discrimination and hate… But people from the 2SLGBTQI+ community, particularly transgender people, are still facing a crisis of targeted violence in Canada and across the globe,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said: “New Democrats recommit to standing up to hatred and discrimination wherever it occurs. Together, we can work towards ending bigotry against 2SLGBTQI+ people and create a world where everyone can be who they are and love who they love in safety and dignity.”
Notably, as of press time, there’d been no statement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
IN other news from the self described aspiring future Prime Minister…
Perhaps he had scheduling conflicts? After all, that’s the reason he’s declined to meet with David Johnston, the special rapporteur on foreign interference appointed by the prime minister. Although the PM, as well as the leaders of the Bloc and NDP have met with Johnston, a spokesman for the self described aspiring future Prime Minister and present Conservative Leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre said they couldn’t find a mutually convenient time.
Court Painter with portraits of a broken self described aspiring future prime minister
A Canadian government initiative designed to shore up “the foundations of cultural diplomacy” has spent more than $12,000 on a series of live shows called All the Sex I’ve Ever Had, in which seniors in other countries relate their sexual experiences to an audience, Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says.
“I’d like to meet the person who thought paying for seniors to relive their sex lives in front of a live audience in another country is a good use of Canadian tax dollars. How do sex stories from seniors in other countries promote Canada?Here’s a novel idea: maybe the government lays off the sex shows until it pays down the $1-trillion debt?”said Franco Terrazzano federal director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and a real Debbie Downer!.
Court Painter ( left) & Press Attache AHM ( right) in preparation to strut their stuff!
READY TO RUMBLE
This is where two sparky tax paying senior citizens, Court Painter and Press Attache A Hardon MacKay chimed in and expressed their displeasure at the rejection by the Canadian government of the offer to perform with well compensated willing participants the reliving of their hardscrabble art sector flavoured sex lives in front of a live audience at a fraction of the price offered to foreign seniors.
The offer was met with typical government distain for a spicy project that would improve seniors lives while giving back to the community.
The ogling population of the Great Dominion will be forever poorer for this rejection!
Press Attache AHM (on the left) is seen with Performance Consultant Stormy D
Studio in rehearsal
Trolling for participants
Court Painter was a male stripper in a former life
Footage shows Noh Huyn-soo unpeeling and eating piece of fruit in work by Maurizio Cattelan before reattaching skin to wall
Banana drama: ‘hungry’ South Korean student eats $120,000 artwork
A South Korean art student who ate a banana that formed part of a renowned installation by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan said he did so because he was “hungry”.
Noh Huyn-soo was filmed brazenly removing the banana, which was duct-taped on to a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, unpeeling it and eating it in front of stunned onlookers before reattaching the banana skin to the wall using the same tape and walking off with a satisfied grin.
The banana, part of Cattalan’s Comedian installation, gets replaced every two or three days.
Cattalan, a sculptor and performance artist based in New York, was reportedly informed about the incident and simply replied: “No problem.”
It is not the first time a banana from the work has been scoffed. During the work’s debut exhibit at Miami Art Basel in 2019 a banana was removed and eaten by the performance artist David Datuna.
Source: The Guardian May 1,2023
Meanwhile Carmen Miranda struts her stuff in The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat
Misinformation, bigotry and conspiracism acted as battering rams, radically reshaping rightwing politics.
Tucker Carlson may well have been booted from Fox News , but what victory does it represent? The brand of conspiratorial demagoguery he belongs to has succeeded in drastically reshaping rightwing politics. The “paranoid style” that was once identified as a dangerous trend in conservatism is now its main operating system. The consequence? Democracy as we understand it is imperilled in the US and beyond. The likes of Tucker Carlson played their role, but this political catastrophe would never have happened without those who retained ill-deserved reputations for moderation while throwing open the door for the most radical extremism.
excepted from April 26/23 THE GUARDIAN article by Owen Jones
Tucker Carlson has lost his job – but the far right has won the battle for the mainstreamOwen Jones
Thank our lucky stars the creeping ‘paranoid style’ of conservatism would never take hold in our Great Dominion politics.
House suspends after bill that recognizes Canadian artists fails to get a sponsor
Manitoba Sen. Patricia Bovey’s bill was supposed to be sponsored in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Jim Carr, who died in December.
Published Apr 25, 2023 at 8:37am
OTTAWA — The House of Commons took an unplanned break Monday morning after no member of Parliament came forward to sponsor the legislation it was set to debate.
The House was scheduled to tackle a bill that would have recognized the critical role artists and the arts play in every dimension of Canadian life.
“This will be the foundation for developing the necessary policies for the arts, museums and performance halls, art galleries, workshops, publishing houses and more,” said Manitoba Sen. Patricia Bovey, the bill’s sponsor, during a final debate last year. SenatorBovey is a Canadian art historian and former director of the Art Gallery of Victoria and the Winnipeg Art Gallery .
Senator Pat Bovey’s sponsored arts bill fails to get House of Commons sponsor
The Senate passed the bill in October.
It was intended to be the platform for “much-needed policy revisions, updates and parameters for the creative sector in this country, which is the third-largest employer in our nation and yet one whose creators comprise the largest percentage of workers living below the poverty line,” Bovey said.
Bovey’s bill was supposed to be sponsored in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Jim Carr.
But Carr died in December and no MP had been found to take his place on the legislation before it came up on the House schedule on Monday.
Speaker Anthony Rota was forced to suspend the proceedings for an hour until MPs were ready to take up the next item on the agenda.
A spokesperson for government House leader Mark Holland says it’s up to MPs themselves to come forward to sponsor a non-government bill, and the government has no role in determining who sponsors them.
More than 600 people were involved in Bovey’s consultations prior to her bill being tabled in the Senate.
Bovey, who is soon turning 75, is set to retire from the Senate on May 15.
Court Painter seen with thank you portrait of Senator Pat Bovey for her support of the arts!
A person in the know and on deep background revealed Rex Murphy is applying for Tucker Carlson’s now vacant 8pm ET time slot on Fox Nation.
Murphy would not comment because we didn’t ask him.
When told this news Lord Black of Backwater who is also a media type and author of A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America was more than excited at anticipating seeing irascible Rex on TV again since the big bad Great Dominion government funded CBC dropped him like a hot potato way back when.
Mike Pence offered some insights into what he plans to tell Special Counsel Jack Smith about former President Donald Trump’s conduct before the January 6th Capitol riot. The former vice president gave an interview to CBS’ Robert Costa that aired on Sunday April 23/23 for Face The Nation. The conversation dealt in part with January 6th, so Costa turned to the fact that Pence will have to testify before a federal grand jury about his conversations with Trump in the build-up to the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Pence decided earlier this month not to appeal the court order compelling his testimony,
In the past, the former vice president has displayed notable reluctance to testify against Trump, even with all of the president’s setbacks for his claims to executive privilege.
Excerpted from The New Republic article Alex Shephard / June 22, 2022
Mike Pense is Useless
The former vice president’s refusal to address his former boss’s attempted coup somehow manages to straddle the line between cowardice and opportunism.
“He’s a coward and an opportunist, and he sees only one way forward: kissing Donald Trump’s ass while, every now and then, lightly calling out the fact that Trump tried to get him to steal the election (if not killed). This only adds to the increasingly tragic career of Mike Pence. He has the opportunity to salvage his reputation—at least somewhat—and perhaps take Trump down. Because he naïvely believes he still might be president, he chooses not to. He will emerge from this gaining neither the things he wants nor the things he needs.”
Excerpted from Ideas Atlantic article by David Frum The Man Who Pretended Not to Notice A fly landed on Mike Pence’s head. And he did nothing. October 8, 2020
The Man Who Pretended Not to Notice
“We saw a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence’s snow-white hair—and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it’s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the fly and the fly had refused to shoo, that would have been bad. So he did nothing. And that doing nothing somehow in one powerful visual moment concentrated everything. It symbolized the whole Pence vice presidency, the determined, willful refusal to acknowledge the most blaring and glaring negative realities. Through all of the scandals and the crimes and the disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too.”
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