→ Indigenous Canadians vs. NIMBYs
Vancouver’s liberals support indigenous sovereignty over native lands. Wait, no: not like that! City dwellers are reportedly perturbed that indigenous First Nations are using their land for a massive urban development. The plan is to build some 13,000 units throughout 11 towers in the heart of Vancouver, which will be the densest housing in Canada; the land is under Squamish rule and thus not subject to the city’s zoning laws.
“Many Canadians believe the purpose of reconciliation is not to uphold Indigenous rights and sovereignty, but to quietly scrub centuries of colonial residue from the landscape, ultimately in service of their own aesthetic preferences and personal interests,” one op-ed read.
Tall buildings are simply not aligned with “indigenous ways of being”, non-native city leaders have argued. Widespread objections to the development are of course rooted in an earnest desire for natives to live their best lives. The impact the development could have on home values in the pricey, beachfront neighbourhood is entirely unrelated.
→ France’s youth is drifting Right
Since when did conservatism become so chic with France’s youth? After 28-year-old Jordan Bardella took the reins of the party from Marine Le Pen, Rassemblement National (RN) has continued to make inroads with young people across the country.
France, Ipsos poll:
European Parliament election
Among 18-24 year-old voters
RN-ID: 31% (+9)
EELV-G/EFA: 18% (+2)
LFI-LEFT: 17%
PS/PP-S&D: 9%
LR-EPP: 6% (+2)
PCF-LEFT: 6% (+1)
Bd'E-RE: 4% (-6)
REC-ECR: 3% (-5)
PA-LEFT: 1% (n.a.)
LO-*: 1% (-3)
PRG~S&D: 1%
AR-*: 1% (+1)… pic.twitter.com/pX6w2s9B3P— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) March 12, 2024
A new Ipsos poll on French EU parliamentary elections has found that the Right-wing RN is the most popular party among 18-24 year old voters. At 31% support with this demographic, RN stands head and shoulders above all the other parties: the next most popular was the Left-wing Greens at 18%, with Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party floundering at a measly 4%. Is France inching closer towards electing its first millennial president?
→ Ben Shapiro takes on the Boomers
Rap artist Dr. Dreidel (formerly known as Ben Shapiro) is under fire after a recent foray into political commentary.
Shapiro said no American should retire at the age of 65, and that retirement itself was a “stupid idea” unless one has a health problem. Lost on absolutely no one was the fact that the conservative mogul works in a studio, presumably air-conditioned, and is perhaps unfamiliar with the type of physically demanding labour a worker would seek to avoid in their seventies and beyond.
Ben Shapiro on Medicare and Social Security: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem." pic.twitter.com/hpOzS7q4V1
— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 12, 2024
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SubscribeLove it when the elite turn on indigenous people who dare to promote economic development they don’t approve of -whether it’s resource development or skyscrapers.
Do you love it as much as murdering indigenous children in residential schools and then pretending it never happened?
You’re a silly, unserious person. So I guess you are witty.
Does C S love it as much as Stalin’s holodomor in Ukraine or Mao’s Great Leap Forward? Sorry couldn’t resist the parody.
Don’t try to be funny. You really aren’t any good at it. No conservative is – you are essentially humourless creatures.
Leave the wit to me.
I see your comments frequently and you seem like a thoroughly bitter and spiteful human being. One would find no wit or humour in you even if they turned you turned inside and out.
Please take yourself down a peg.
See what I mean?
No. I didn’t find you humorous because you’re a bully who simply isn’t funny, not because I’m a conservative (which I’m not in any case) if that’s what you were getting at.
Have I missed the Unherd news round up article or indeed any article about Frank Hester and his comments. about Diane Abbott. I guess it might be a bit of a tricky one for the editorial team and Unherd’s owner given his close connections with both the Conservative Party and GB News.
If I am wrong please point me in the right direction to read what they have to say about this reasonably newsworthy event.