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Read. More. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/southern-manitoba-doctors-threats-1.6204036 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/04/08/steinbach-school-staff-express-safety-concerns-after-disruptive-protest.html https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2022/02/10/steinbach-anti-mandate-protest-forces-school-into-lockdown https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/vaccine-protest-hsc-1.6161892

It's a slow game. Took the Nazi's 34 years in Sweden to possibly gain the balance of power. It's so slow, many don't see what's happening right in front of their eyes.

Do you not remember doctors, nurses, school principals, teachers and politicians being threatened during the COVID pandemic? Do you not know that abortion doctors have been assassinated?

No such thing as it can't happen here. “They have few new solutions for today’s destructive economic and environmental crises,” wrote Pankaj Mishra for Bloomberg Opinion about the far right. “They can, however, channel social unrest to their advantage by reheating identities of race, religion and ethnicity, and retailing myths of national greatness.” Sweden’s election marks a new far-right surge in Europe Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor Columnist September 16, 2022 at 12:01 a.m. EDT Another taboo in Europe is about to be broken. In Sweden, voters delivered a narrow mandate after elections on Sunday to a loose coalition of right-wing parties, including one with a neo-fascist past. On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, a center-left Social Democrat allied to other left and green parties, conceded defeat. Her party had won 30 percent of the vote — making it still the single largest faction in parliament — but their coalition secured three fewer seats than their rivals to the right. The kingmakers in Sweden are the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), a party founded in 1988 by ultranationalist extremists and neo-Nazis. Over the past decade, they have moved from the fringes of their country’s politics into the mainstream. This week, they secured some 20 percent of the Swedish vote, enough to make them the second-largest party in Sweden. But they may not formally be in power. Such is the political stigma around them that they may remain technically outside a government led by the center-right Moderates and Liberals, yet crucially not in opposition. Coalition politics carry many complexities and wrangling over the new government may take weeks. Whatever the outcome, it seems the far-right SD believes it has a major seat at the table in a country long known for its progressive ethos and policies. “Now we will get order in Sweden,” SD leader Jimmie Akesson wrote Wednesday on Facebook. “It is time to start rebuilding security, prosperity and cohesion. It’s time to put Sweden first.” Akesson’s triumphalism has echoed across the continent. Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally Party, hailed the SD’s success as a sign of nationalist resurgence. “Everywhere in Europe, people aspire to take their destiny back into their own hands!” she tweeted. Le Pen, of course, knows her share of false dawns, having been repeatedly thwarted in elections no matter incremental gains in defeat. But far-right parties have in the past decade been the beneficiaries of the collapse of the so-called “cordon sanitaire” set up by more mainstream parties to block them from winning power, entering governing coalitions in Swedish neighbor Finland, Austria and Italy. And even when not in government, their agendas have made their way into governance — the center-left government in Denmark, for example, checked right-wing nativism by adopting the anti-immigration policies of their rivals. Italian elections later this month are expected to deliver perhaps the most emphatic victory for a European far-right party: The Brothers of Italy, which draws its origins from Italy’s neofascist movement, is currently leading in the polls and its leader, the charismatic Giorgia Meloni, is poised to be become prime minister with the backing of a number of other right-wing parties. Akesson doesn’t have the political alliances that Meloni does but shares an antipathy toward migration, Islam and the spectral “globalist” establishment that far-right campaigners across the West have harnessed in their bids for power. “They don’t include Islam in Swedishness,” said Andrej Kokkonen, a professor of politics at the University of Gothenburg, to my colleagues. “You don’t get to be a Swede and a Muslim at the same time.” “They have few new solutions for today’s destructive economic and environmental crises,” wrote Pankaj Mishra for Bloomberg Opinion about the far right. “They can, however, channel social unrest to their advantage by reheating identities of race, religion and ethnicity, and retailing myths of national greatness.” Ahead of the election, Andersson pointed to the toxicity of the SD’s legacy. “There are rightwing populist parties in many European countries, but the Sweden Democrats have deep roots in the Swedish neo-Nazis and other racist organizations in Sweden,” she said last week on the campaign trail in an interview with the Guardian, highlighting an alleged incident where SD campaigners celebrated the Nazi invasion of Poland during World War II. “I mean, it’s not like other parties.” But that has hardly dented their appeal. The SD emerged as a major political force in Sweden, siphoning off rural votes that once would have gone to parties on the other side of the political spectrum. “Treating nationalists as pariahs has not prevented their rise,” observed the Economist. “On the contrary: elections in Europe now are often a case of loudly pitting the mainstream against the supposedly unpalatable and hoping that not too many voters pick the ‘wrong’ side. Simply hoping the nasties go away has not, in fact, made them go away.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/16/sweden-election-far-right-democrats/

The Justice Dept.’s Jan. 6 investigation is looking at ... everything New batch of subpoenas spell out three general areas of interest as investigators seek sweeping range of information By Devlin Barrett, Jacqueline Alemany Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman September 15, 2022 at 7:01 p.m. EDT Dozens of subpoenas issued last week show that the Justice Department is seeking vast amounts of information, and communications with more than 100 people, as part of its sprawling inquiry into the origins, fundraising and motives of the effort to block Joe Biden from being certified as president in early 2021. The subpoenas, three of which were reviewed by The Washington Post, are far-reaching, covering 18 separate categories of information, including any communications the recipients had with scores of people in six states where supporters of then-President Donald Trump sought to promote “alternate” electors to replace electors in those states won by Biden. One request is for any communications “to, from, or including” specific people tied to such efforts in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Most of the names listed were proposed fake electors in those states, while a small number were Trump campaign officials who organized the slates. Taken together, the subpoenas show an investigation that began immediately after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and has cast an ever-widening net, even as it gathers information about those in the former president’s inner circle. “It looks like a multipronged fraud and obstruction investigation,” said Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor. “It strikes me that they’re going after a very, very large group of people, and my guess is they are going to make all of the charging decisions toward the end.” After being told the various categories of information sought in the indictment, Walden noted the focus on wide categories of communications among the individuals. He said he suspected it was part of a prosecutorial strategy to try to blunt any claims that Trump activists were just following the advice of lawyers in seeking to block the certification of Biden’s victory. “It’s hard to say you were just relying on all these lawyers if there are text chains showing conspirator conversations, or consciousness of guilt,” Walden said. Prosecutors seek Trump PAC fundraising info A subpoena is not proof or even evidence of wrongdoing, but rather a demand for information that could produce evidence of criminal conduct. The new batch of subpoenas point to three main areas of Justice Department interest, distinct but related: the effort to replace valid Biden electors with unearned, pro-Trump electors before the formal congressional tally of the 2020 election outcome on Jan. 6, 2021 the rally that preceded the riot that day the fundraising and spending of the Save America political action committee, an entity that raised more than $100 million in the wake of the 2020 election, largely based on appeals to mount pro-Trump legal challenges to election results. Gift Article - https://wapo.st/3Dspb8Q

Hall of Fames gonna Hall of Fame. Still pissed that Shania Twain got into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame before Blue Rodeo.

I didn't mind Strevy kicking him and getting the penalty at all.

Nice to see that Simoni is still out.

What benefit is it to have an abortion doctors name on a public list? Or a teachers? Every PD employee is listed under their employee # regardless of their job description. You don't seem to get that I'm speaking about the inequity of it all.

It's not like his followers haven't already plotted to kill RCMP officers......oh wait!

Totally reasonable response and it's not like you can't lock that **** down to a select group of people if you want. I'm on facebook under my real name, but you'd never know what I looked like or where I work if you weren't in my allowed group.

Since neither team appears "to want to be there", maybe they can play in Lloydminster instead? It's almost halfway.

Need an OMG emoji.

It's bizarre that you think Officer Joe Smith should be on Facebook posting pictures of his wife and kids if you think he's concerned about his family.

Speaking as someone who has separated my throwing shoulder, dislocated my non-throwing shoulder and a mere slo-pitch player, I can say that you are in for a world of pain if you don't throw the "right" way. Arm goes numb and pain shoots across and down your back. Not that Dane necessarily had either of those maladies.

Coming off injury to his throwing shoulder, no less.

Looks like 3Down Nation has learned their lesson. All 10 "writers" picked the Bombers to win straight up AND against the spread.

Don't quite understand the need to clean up a thread that is already obsolete. Plus, if you killed this thread, you wouldn't know that Ben Hatskin played for the Bombers between 1936 and 1941, winning the Grey Cup in 39 & 41. See? Bomber related.

This is germane to the Bombers because the hockey chant doesn't belong in the stadium.

It's all or no one for me. Publishing public sector salaries is a way for governments to keep them down. They are provided without context (no mention of whether they have had a raise in 5 years, no mention of OT as part of that income, no context for teachers who coach/mentor after hours etc.). There's always the Finnish approach. How much money do you earn? It’s a difficult question to ask and to answer. Money is something that feels intensely personal, especially as society so often drills into people the message that income is wrapped up in self-worth. Few people are open to friends, or even their family, about how much they earn. In Finland, however, any stranger can find out. Every year on Nov. 1, dubbed “National Jealousy Day,” every Finnish citizen’s taxable income is revealed, searchable by anyone. “The annual orgy of financial voyeurism might raise eyebrows in other parts of the world, but it remains an important national event in Finland,” says Finnish news broadcaster Yle Uutiset. Finnish journalists trawl through the data to discover the highest-paid Finns, to uncover what celebrities are paid ― this year the country’s most famous porn star, Anssi Viskari, reportedly earned 23,826 euros ($27,200), according to The New York Times ― and to shame those who haven’t been paying their fair share of taxes. For some of those who paid the most in taxes, there is a palpable sense of pride. Among the top earners this year, and indeed for several years now, are the founders of Supercell, a Finnish game developer; Ilka Paananen and Mikko Kodisoja earned the equivalent of about $74 million and $65 million, respectively. In 2014, Paananen said, “We’ve received so much help from (Finnish) society, it’s our turn to pay it back.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/finland-taxable-income-salary-transparency_n_5bdc520fe4b01ffb1d0170ec

Dr's who perform abortions are also at risk and yet they appear on public lists. All sorts of public servants can be targets for corruption and threats. Worries about members of law enforcement being willing/coerced partners in crime says a lot about people's confidence in LE.

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If only there was some kind of law enforcement mechanism that would address people walking head-first into a crime.