This week’s abrupt resignation of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland from cupboard has rocked the federal authorities. It occurred the identical day Sean Fraser, the minister of housing, infrastructure and communities, stepped down; each he and Freeland be a part of a protracted and rising checklist of cupboard members and Liberal backbenchers both resigning their cupboard positions, deciding to not run once more within the subsequent election, or outright calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down.
They’re not alone: all indicators level to the federal Conservatives crushing the Liberals in subsequent 12 months’s election. A number of latest byelections, together with the closely Jewish Toronto-St. Paul’s in midtown Toronto, have swung from purple to blue lately. And it’s in opposition to that backdrop that Hal Niedzviecki, the writer and founding father of the recently-in-the-news, now-defunct Damaged Pencil journal, posted on social media, “For the first time in my life I’ll be voting Conservative.”
One week after discussing the Israel-induced implosion at Damaged Pencil on this very podcast, we invite Niedzviecki to debate the altering political local weather, how the progressive left is dropping assist, and his facet of what occurred on the indie publication he based in 1995.
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