#CBC Edmonton platformed the Fraser Institute right before the 6:00 news. CBC either doesn't read their own news, or they are a willful partner of the fascist propaganda mill.

"The brothers — David and Charles — run the second-largest private corporation in the United States. Each is worth an estimated $45 billion. They have used wealth and power to wage a covert campaign to shift American thinking and policies towards their own far-right libertarian views, Mayer says.

"They get to dominate the conversation and change policies in America by funding a kind of chorus of support for what they want."

Mayer argues that the influence of Koch brothers even stretches into Canada, fuelled by their extensive holdings in Alberta's oil sands. Mayer says the Koch brothers have also given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank.

The Koch brothers "have very important economic interests in Canada." Mayer said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/koch-brothers-dark-money-republican-party-1.3466477

#CdnPoli #AbPoli #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown

In the midst of a global uprising against police brutality and systemic racism, No Visible Trauma examines a deeply troubled police department and reveals the devastating consequences of unchecked police brutality. Despite its relatively low crime rates, recent years have seen the Calgary Police Service shoot and kill more people than officers in any other Canadian city, and more than either the New York or Chicago police departments in 2018. Five years in the making, the film unravels the intertwined stories of three individuals who were the victims of extreme violence at the hands of police officers. From the kidnapping and beating of a young immigrant from Ghana, to the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a “wellness check”, the film exposes a criminal justice system that fails to hold police officers accountable for their actions.

Directors: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal
Writers: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ktKrNvJnuQ

This doc focuses on CalgaryPD but the issues raised are happening across AB, in BC, Mantitoba, Ontario & many more places across Canada. Canadian cops keep getting away with crimes & human rights abuses, daily, in Canada. Systemic racism is still a major problem across the country - no matter how much our governments try to whitewash their PR.

#documentary #documentaries #police #PoliceBrutality #politics #Calgary #Canada #crime #AwardWinning #PoliceViolence #AwardWinningDocumentary #HotDocs #trauma #VictimStories #TraumaHealing #TraumaRecovery #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #PublicTransparency #CopCrimes #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #NoJustice #DefundThePolice #ACAB #CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli #PunishPolice #CriminalCops #KKKanada #SystematicAbuse #SystemicRacism #Canadian #RacistCanada

Progressive folks need to scale back on the purity test.

It's exactly why the federal NDP lost party status, and exactly why we are where we are today.

You don't have to agree with everything, but if you know they're gonna do good on everything else, fuck, come on folks.

#ableg #abpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli

How many bullshit bills going after trans and disabled people do you think the UCP will pass before they drop all the pretenses and bring back the Alberta Eugenics Board?

The harm these bills will cause is not a byproduct. The cruelty is the point.

#abpoli #Alberta #cdnpoli

I wonder if Corb Lund will be going on tour to help get signatures for his petition to ban coal mining in the Rockies?

#CorbLund #AbPoli