The year saw a continued pandemic and divisiveness over politics, race and social issues. As always, journalists were there to shine a light on it all.
Wake Up! Trump’s Politics of Division and Hate Are Already Here
From attacks on oilsands opponents to the Bloc leader’s smear, our politicians flirt with dangerous, undemocratic forces.
Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The Tyee. SHARES Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet recently welcomed Canada’s new transport minister with a dog whistle smear that had to be intentional.
Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian Press.
If Charlottesville was the coming-out party for America’s fascists and racists, storming the Capitol was their prom. People who have always festered on the fringes of U.S. society were invited to take centre stage during the terrible tenure of Donald Trump.