Juno News - May 21, 2023


LAWTON： CBC misses the bigger picture


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

173.3843

Word Count

998

Sentence Count

74

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
00:05:33.860 In any way, you are all colonial white supremacist racist if you have gardens.
00:05:37.380 Sorry to tell you.
00:05:41.740 Thank you.
00:05:43.220 Thank you.
00:05:43.300 Thank you.
00:05:44.400 Thank you.