Juno News - May 21, 2023


LAWTON： CBC misses the bigger picture

Topics
botanical gardens colonialism
Mentioned
Danielle Smith Bitcoin Pierre Poilievre Vinita Srivastava Atika Kaki Eurocentric Sean
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998

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78

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2

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It's Fake News Friday, where we debunk a bunch of Alberta politics-related news. This week, the Ethics Commissioner exonerates Premier Danielle Smith on the chief accusation that she or someone in her office sent an email to Crown prosecutors trying to interfere in the Artur Pawlowski case. And a piece in The Conversation explores the complicated roots of colonialism in botany and gardening.

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00:00:00.000 It is Friday. We always try to end things with a little bit of routine here.
00:00:04.700 It is time for Fake News Friday.
00:00:15.600 Yes, Fake News Friday, going through the whirlpools of wackiness,
00:00:21.380 the hurricanes of hilarity, and all the other weird stuff that we can debunk and try to make sense of.
00:00:27.760 This one is an Alberta politics-themed Fake News Friday
00:00:30.720 because yesterday the Ethics Commissioner in Alberta exonerated Danielle Smith
00:00:36.100 on the chief complaint made by CBC,
00:00:39.580 which is that she or someone in her office had sent an email to Crown prosecutors
00:00:44.020 trying to interfere in the prosecution of Artur Pawlowski.
00:00:48.400 Now, Premier Danielle Smith in her office did an investigation. 0.94
00:00:51.720 Previously, they said, listen, there was no email.
00:00:53.980 We found no record of this.
00:00:55.240 CBC doubled down, and now we have the Ethics Commissioner coming out and saying,
00:01:00.740 yeah, there was actually no email.
00:01:04.200 The Ethics Commissioner found no evidence of this.
00:01:07.320 Now, if you look, interestingly enough, at the headlines on this,
00:01:11.940 there's a lot of support for the idea that Danielle Smith was exonerated on the chief accusation.
00:01:17.620 But the CBC headline, Danielle Smith breached Conflicts of Interest Act, says Ethics Commissioner.
00:01:24.480 So they go way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way down to the report
00:01:28.560 and find that a conversation that Danielle Smith had with her justice minister was inappropriate,
00:01:34.640 and they find that to be the headline there.
00:01:37.160 So talk about when two people can look at the same thing and draw wildly different conclusions.
00:01:42.000 The reality is that she was cleared on the most significant counts.
00:01:45.960 They did find her to have run afoul of a minor aspect of this.
00:01:51.200 But odd, the media focuses more on that one than the bigger picture here.
00:01:55.880 And Danielle Smith has taken it on the chin. 1.00
00:01:57.620 She said, look, I'd actually welcome more direction and clarity on that so this doesn't happen.
00:02:02.500 Because what she was found guilty of doing was asking her justice minister if something was legally possible.
00:02:10.380 Like, isn't that what you're supposed to lean on your justice minister for when you are not a lawyer
00:02:14.340 and they are a lawyer and you have a legal opinion that's been given to you that you want to say,
00:02:18.360 hey, just let me know what you think about that.
00:02:20.440 So I found it baffling that the commissioner found that.
00:02:23.320 But ultimately, CBC has been the one who really has to be held accountable here
00:02:28.560 and so far has not recanted or retracted anything.
00:02:33.460 And just because we like to end things on a bit of a lighter note as well,
00:02:37.540 we go to a piece in The Conversation.
00:02:40.880 Now, okay, let me just, before we put it up on the screen here, preface this by saying,
00:02:45.740 I am good at many things.
00:02:47.420 Gardening is not one of them.
00:02:49.060 I am not good at gardening.
00:02:50.300 I don't know about gardening.
00:02:52.080 I kind of, like, if it were me, I would look out and see the dandelions and be like,
00:02:55.860 oh, wow, we have yellow flowers.
00:02:57.160 That's great.
00:02:57.600 Let's plant more of them, even though you don't want to plant dandelions and don't even need to.
00:03:02.200 Like, I had this with my wife the other day where I saw something.
00:03:04.600 I was like, oh, that looks nice.
00:03:05.500 What is that out there?
00:03:06.280 And she says, those are weeds.
00:03:07.680 And I said, oh, okay, well, they're nice looking weeds.
00:03:09.760 But I'm not a gardener.
00:03:11.960 It's not one of these things that I focus on.
00:03:14.200 As long as the, what is it?
00:03:15.920 Sean says, are those the fun blowy flowers?
00:03:19.960 Oh, yeah, dandelions.
00:03:21.240 In the fall, you can blow them and spread these spores everywhere so there are more dandelions.
00:03:27.040 Tell your kids.
00:03:27.960 It's a way to plant a nice yellow garden.
00:03:30.160 Don't tell your kids that, please. 0.93
00:03:31.900 Kids, your parents are going to kill me.
00:03:33.280 So I hope you're not listening to that part anyway. 0.87
00:03:36.080 But here we go.
00:03:37.180 I might actually be woke because I do not garden.
00:03:40.580 Now we go to the conversation.
00:03:41.860 Decolonize your garden.
00:03:44.420 This weekend, dig into the complicated roots of gardening.
00:03:49.020 This is a piece by Atika Kaki and Vinita Srivastava who say the May long weekend is the unofficial
00:03:58.220 start of summer.
00:03:59.000 And for those of you with home gardens or access to community space, it's time to dust off the
00:04:03.440 gardening tools.
00:04:04.180 Visit the garden center.
00:04:05.200 However, the practice of gardening is deeply tied to colonialism from the formation of botany
00:04:13.400 as a scientist science to the spread of seeds, species and knowledge.
00:04:17.720 So the fact that tulips have been the subject of colonial conquest, the fact that they were
00:04:23.140 hybridized and commodified and have coveted status, this is all just colonialism.
00:04:27.700 You can't like your tulips.
00:04:29.120 The fact that botanical gardens were laboratories and scientific, this is an exact line, scientific
00:04:35.240 objectivity asserted a Eurocentric point of view, disrupting and displacing indigenous knowledge
00:04:41.760 and ecological practices.
00:04:43.760 So if you learn something scientifically, you're colonial because you're not just learning 0.50
00:04:49.640 it via indigenous oral tradition.
00:04:52.540 Sean says tulips are the OG Bitcoin.
00:04:56.820 Yeah.
00:04:57.240 If you haven't familiarized yourself with tulip mania, there was a bit of a bubble in the
00:05:03.000 Netherlands and around the world.
00:05:04.460 What was it?
00:05:05.020 Like 500 years ago on tulips.
00:05:07.440 But the Bitcoin active, I think Bitcoin has actually held its staying power a little bit
00:05:11.740 more.
00:05:12.300 Like Pierre Polyev didn't come out and say that Canada will become the tulip capital
00:05:16.400 of the world.
00:05:17.180 So Pierre Polyev needs to come out with his tulip platform.
00:05:20.600 No, Bitcoin's holding a little bit.
00:05:22.420 There were no tulip ETFs.
00:05:24.540 There were no tulip vending machines and tulip ATMs and all that.
00:05:29.080 So get out of here with your bitcoins or tulips or the OG Bitcoin. 0.98
00:05:33.860 In any way, you are all colonial white supremacist racist if you have gardens. 0.99
00:05:37.380 Sorry to tell you. 0.99
00:05:41.740 Thank you.
00:05:43.220 Thank you.
00:05:43.300 Thank you.
00:05:44.400 Thank you.