| | | Good morning, Passengers.
Today, we have my latest article, a look at who may be responsible for a crucial event in the war in Ukraine and some news about a new alternative print publication.
Enjoy! | | | Davide Mastracci | Passage | October 18 | Yesterday, Loblaw announced that they’ll be freezing price caps on products from their no name brand until January 2023. This move may help some people out, sure, but it’s pretty clearly a PR stunt, freezing prices at inflated levels when they’re already going down, to try to win back the trust of people that have been rightfully appalled by profiteering throughout this pandemic, not to mention the bread price-fixing scandal, among other things. So, what does our media do in response? Do they provide a critical look at the move from Loblaw? Unfortunately not. Instead, they helped them get the PR they’re looking for. I wrote about it. (5 minute read) | | | John Foster | Canadian Dimension | October 3 | I missed this article when it was released earlier this month, but it’s an important read. It takes a look at the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, and offers some thoughts on who may have been responsible, and the implications that has for the war in Ukraine, which appears to be nowhere close to ending, and in fact seems to be getting worse, with new escalations happening on a seemingly daily basis. It’s pretty strange that the pipeline explosion just suddenly disappeared from the news, though, as it’s a major deal.
John Foster writes, “The war in Ukraine is really three wars in one: military, informational, and economic. With the pipeline sabotage, the military war has expanded beyond Ukraine. The information war is fought in media, where Western control of the story has been highly emotional, omitting the reality of an eight-year civil war, Russian concerns, and other relevant history. The economic war reverberates around the world. Oil and gas are an integral part of the conflict. The pipeline sabotage has taken the war to a new level. It has opened a Pandora’s box of troubles and has endangered pipelines worldwide. It is clear who benefits. Yet with Western control of the narrative, the real culprit may never be identified.” (8 minute read) | | | Sabrina Gamrot | BlogTO | October 17 | I promise this is the only time I’ll ever share a BlogTO article. Unfortunately, they’re the only ones that have reported on the birth of a new alternative print magazine in Toronto that will be free at locations throughout the city, most notably at TTC stations. The magazine will be largely made up of stories already published in leftist outlets in Canada (including Passage, eventually), with the goal of helping to get them read by working class commuters who may have otherwise never come across the articles. It’s a really worthy venture, and I look forward to picking up their first issue soon, which is out now. Of course, publishing in print costs a lot, so whether this venture will continue to be possible in the future depends on if they’re able to raise enough funds or not. Check out the article for more details on the publication, called The Grind. (3 minute read) | | | | Previous Digest Editions - October 17 | Recession, Vancouver municipal elections, the oil industry’s Frankenstein, myths about privatized health care - Read here
- October 14 | The new premier, the horrors of capitalism, The Prince Of Darkness - Read here
- October 13 | Canada’s hockey obsession, the end of Greyhound, suppression of speech on Palestine in Canada - Read here
- October 12 | The wage-price spiral, an NDP mess, mapping Islamophobia - Read here
- October 11 | Danielle Smith, engineering recessions, lessons from revolutionary women - Read here
- October 7 | Doug Ford and the debt, recruiting for the Israeli army, His House - Read here
- October 6 | Ignoring murder, Mahsa Amini and Muslim women, the Quebec election - Read here
- October 5 | MPs and the housing crisis, Legault’s unearned majority, cancelled for criticizing Israel - Read here
- October 4 | Losing money to the ultra rich, nuclear war, the CAQ - Read here
- October 3 | Interspecies solidarity, undermining daycare, social solidarity for exclusion, a coup in Brazil? - Read here
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