Why Canada is still so woke (with Jon Kay)
Candice is joined by writer Jon Kay to discuss more fallout from the NDP convention and to discuss the ultra-cringe Juno Music Awards (not to be confused with Juno News!)
On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice starts the show by breaking the news that NDP Leader Avi Lewis’s father Stephen Lewis – former UN Ambassador and former Ontario NDP Leader – has died at age 88. Candice shares a heart-warming tribute Lewis gave to his father on Sunday night.
Candice then welcomes writer and podcaster Jon Kay, editor of Quillette, to discuss the fallout from the NDP convention. They talk about the literal equity cards that members used to speak on the mics and the sad and narcissistic tendencies of speakers to obsess over themselves and their disadvantages (real and imagined).
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While the Woke trend has faded and disappeared in other parts of the Western world, it is still alive and well in Canada. Candice and Jon discuss why it’s striving in Canada.
They discuss this excellent guest piece in Juno News about NDP Chair Adrianne Smith and her long history of activism and the surprisingly influential career she has had pushing this woke doctrine.
NDP Chair is even more radical than you think
Finally, they discuss the sad spectacle of the Juno Awards which Jon describes as “a hallowed annual Canadian ritual where government-subsidized Canadians pretend that ordinary Canadians enjoy listening to whatever this is supposed to be.”
Check out Jon’s writing at Quillette: https://quillette.com/
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All idiots in one gathering 👀
These deluded people live on a diet of envy, resentment, victimhood, and narcissism. The rules for voting outlined early in the Leadership process was a warning for embarrassing times ahead. Rules said in part - at least 50% of signatures must be from members who do not identify as a cis man; a minimum of 100 signatures must be from members of equity-seeking groups, including racialized, Indigenous, LGBTQIA2S+ communities, and persons of disabilities. At least 10% of the total required signatures must come from young New Democrats. The Convention ended with the loud screaming cringeworthy moment “we are going to be at the table and we are going to eat the rich”. The delegates condescending view of Canada is all about others and never them. Yet it was their Party, with deep prejudice, made a political deal with another devil to keep the good guys from government, in order to keep the miscreants in control. These naïve ones swallow myths, and thereby never earn elevation out of their private miseries.