Big Shiny Takes

We are back, and have an episode for you that we recorded in person!
Jeremy came back to the very nice and fun city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada for a visit, so instead of hanging out we recorded an all-timer episode. We were joined by the amazing Bronwen Tucker (@bronwentucker) from Climate Justice Edmonton and the incredible Stefan Hostetter (@Steho)_ of Green Majority Radio to talk about Canadian punditry's pathetic attempts to talk about the climate.
The first column we cover this week is one written by Jesse Kline. Kline desperately attempts to use the Liberal Party's new environment minister Steven Guilbeault as a way of framing the current government's environmental policies as radical. Of course, this is pure fantasy.
We then dive into a Rex Murphy climate change denial column, but that's in our bonus feed. For as little as $3 a month, you can get access to that episode, and our entire back catalogue of Big Shiny Bonus Takes!
Plugs and Recs
Six hours of oil and gas CEOs getting owned in CongressMorgan Campbell: If Edward Rogers referred to Masai Ujiri as 'arrogant,' he gave the game away

Dan Darrah: “Foreign Investors” Aren’t Causing Canada’s Housing Crisis. Capitalism Is.

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The Big Shiny Takes Institute is back with a great episode with the incredible Aaron Giovannone. We read a lot of terrible columns, but we rarely get to take a deep dive into the psyche of one of the country's more established columnists.
Aaron brought an essay Rosie Dimanno wrote in the late 90's about growing up in Little Italy in Toronto. We go into it, and talk about the points she fixates on, and the points she may have missed.
This is a super fun episode and you shouldn't miss it!
Plugs and Recs
The Breach - Aaron Giovannone - Leonard Cohen, Cold War Troubadour
Green Majority Radio - The Substance and Spectacle of Climate Talks
CBC - WE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya, records show

Kino Lefter - Mayor Pete: Liberal ASMR with Alex from Haus of Decline
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If you like our show, give us a follow on social media, @bigshinytakes, leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, or give us some money at Patreon to unlock bonus content!

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YouTuber Tristan Johnson of Step Back History joins us to talk about how incinerating tens of thousands of Japanese civillians at the close of the Second World War is actually bad.
The impetus for this discussion is a chatacteristically long-winded Twitter thread from National Post opinion editor Matt Gurney, where he argues that dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which he concedes were not militarily necessary, were good. That's because it allowed his grandfather to return home early and safely from carrying out British colonialism in India, where he was stationed with the Royal Air Force.
Whose lives are more valuable, 150,000 Japanese men, women and children, or Matt Gurney's? Real tough to say.
Apparently Gurney's voice was such a valuable addition to the discourse on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that he was invited onto Evan Solomon's iHeartRadio show to talk about it.
You may remember Evan Solomon from when he got fired from the CBC for using his position as the host of Power and Politics to sell his guests expensive art.
It's a Canadian media failson match made in Hell.
Links
Step Back History - Was the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified?
Gar Alperovitz - The War Was Won Before Hiroshima — And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
Wade Davis - The Unraveling of America
Jeremy - AIMCo loaned an oil company $45 million, let that company make millions in payments to shareholders and now it can't make the interest payments
Jeremy - Edmonton Police: Defacement of statue not a hate crime
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We get a bit tankie in our latest installment, featuring a dearly-departed posting legend, Ray the Red, whom you might also know as the CEO of Antifa. He got banned from Twitter for saying mean things about J.K. Rowling.
The National Post has been on a red-baiting tear recently, more so than usual. We've got two batshit insane op-eds arguing that Justin Trudeau is a socialist mastermind. Huge if true. It would also be a marked improvement from his milquetoast neoliberalism.
First up is third-place Conservative party leadership loser, and likely future of the party, Leslyn Lewis, who tickles all those right-wing survivalist funny bones (except Venezuela, conspicuously) — big government, 5G, the COVID tracing app, debt, you name it. She also uses the word 'insidious' a couple of times, just so you know she isn't fucking around.
Next is Denis Tsarev, who is the co-founder (and co-member) of Truth in Consequences, a think tank nobody's heard of, warning us about the dangers of left-wing populism in Canada, as represented by the dangerous socialist radical Justin Trudeau. This Rebel Media contributor wants you to know that you too can have a nuanced perspective on the world, if you just listen to him.
We'd also like to announce that we're re-branding as the Big Shiny Takes Institute!
Links
Scott Schmidt - Laying It Out: In all fairness, what a waste of time
James Wilt - Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber and Elon Musk
Ronan Burtenshaw - Jeremy Corbyn: 'We Didn't Go Far Enough'
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Oakville Town Hall is under siege from a red scourge and Sun journalist Joe Warmington is on the case after a hot tip. Can the People's Champion make sense of the situation? Will anyone talk some sense into these misguided youngsters?
Freelance journalist Scott Martin (@YouCaughtScott) helps us unpack what really went on that day, since Joe failed to notice that he was actually just at the Fightback table at a pro-Palestine rally.
Plugs and Recs
Scott Martin - The Catch (readthecatch.ca)
Read Resisting Eviction by Andrew Crosby
Read Blackshirts And Reds by Michael Parenti
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity - The Atlantic
Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Spacing
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The Hoser's Grocery Tracker
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