Big Shiny Takes

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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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.

Follow us on TwitchMarino's inferior TwitchJeremy's Substack

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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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Esteemed Twitter user and Dog Island alum Andrew Neville joins us to mock one of, and I'm not mincing words here, the worst pieces we have read. The culprit? None other than our old pal, Adam Zivo.
In this piece (published in the Daily Hive lol) Zivo tries to use statistics to argue that crime is out of control. The problem? It's based on an opinion poll. It gets so much worse.
Plugs and Recs
The Myth Of Affordable Housing In Toronto
Dubious crime statistics: a disturbing trend of police and media misleading the public

PressProgress Short Circuit Podcast - Police across Canada are investing in “copaganda” reports that criticize the social safety net

Play Overwatch 2/Warzone, go see Avatar 2, listen to Metallica and do purple city in Edmonton

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Jeremy and Marino are joined by The Breach co-ordinating editor Emma Paling (@emmapaling) to discuss a column from Carson Jerema, the National Post's comment editor, who in accordance with Post traditions doesn't seem to do much editing.
According to Jerema, Pierre Poilievre's shrieking about the globalistsat the World Economic Forum isn't a conspiracy theory at all. In fact, it's exactly like Chrystia Freeland's tepid criticisms of the WEF in her book Plutocrats, which Jerema adds is a Marxist conspiracy theory.
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Plugs and Recs (The Rinse)
Emma: Listen to the band Wednesday and read Killernova by Omar Musa.Marino: Watch Ronin (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Frasier (1993-2004) and read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.Jeremy: Visit Banff and Jasper, subscribe to The Orchard and preorder Kenneyism: Jason Kenney's Pursuit of Power to your local independent book store.
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