{"id":13054,"date":"2025-01-28T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2025-01-28T01:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:55:41","slug":"roundup-maligning-legitimate-senate-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2025\/01\/28\/roundup-maligning-legitimate-senate-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Maligning legitimate Senate appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of CBC\u2019s worst reporters is back again with the \u201cscandalous\u201d news that the prime minister is preparing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-senate-appointments-1.7440716\">fill all ten vacant Senate seats<\/a> before he resigns, and the original title of the article was \u201cTrudeau plans on stacking Senate before retiring: source\u201d before it was toned down in an update. The framing that the prime minister\u2014who is still the prime minister\u2014is doing his job and filling these vacancies as he is constitutionally mandated to do, is somehow inappropriate or unfair, is wrong, and frankly, is well into the category of misinformation (which is probably why the headline got changed).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:w3miivoaldds6rqccvwjnvnc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lgq7o7wmbs2b\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreie3ctqsorfrnjbsdc7upjgv3ins2tcf4p3r2dg5qxcqlyllrhprqa\">\n<p lang=\"en\">It's notable the media consistently uses hedging language when it comes to things like racism (Musk's explicit Nazi salute) but will casually imply wrongdoing in headlines about debatable constitutional practices like making Senate appointments.<\/p>\n<p>— <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w3miivoaldds6rqccvwjnvnc?ref_src=embed\">Emmett Macfarlane (@emmettmacfarlane.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w3miivoaldds6rqccvwjnvnc\/post\/3lgq7o7wmbs2b?ref_src=embed\">2025-01-27T15:05:32.107Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The story then quotes a single Conservative senator to claim that this is somehow illegitimate, which it\u2019s not, and there is no counter voice from an expert. For the TV version of this story, said reporter got video of Andrew Scheer claiming it\u2019s inappropriate and that the vacancies should be left until after an election, which is again false, and there was no counter. There was no proper acknowledgment that Trudeau won a series of confidence votes in December, and that gives him the constitutional right to make these appointments, but hey, then he couldn\u2019t frame the story as this being somehow wrong or inappropriate, and the fact that he gets away with this is infuriating.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is, of course, bullshit. Trudeau won a series of confidence votes in December. He\u2019s legitimately able to make appointments until that fact changes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k11VBvVnpt\">pic.twitter.com\/k11VBvVnpt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1884000379987497361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This particular reporter has a pattern when it comes to trying to gin up scandals around any appointments. When it\u2019s with judges, he resorts to histrionics about appointees who made political donations in the past, as though the low campaign contribution limits in Canada allows one to buy influence or access, or that they somehow bribed their way into these appointments. With recent Senate appointments, he\u2019s now judging what is and is not a partisan appointment given past history, ignoring that a) there is no Liberal caucus in the Senate for them to be a part of, and b) past legislative experience is actually a good thing to have in that Chamber, and that the lack of it with so many appointees has been a problem. But hey, the CBC editors let him get away with these self-imposed purity tests, so he\u2019s going to keep on doing them. It\u2019s a disservice to the country, and the gods damned public broadcaster shouldn\u2019t be letting their reporters personal bugaboos dictate their coverage, particularly when it taints the reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine Dispatch<\/p>\n<p>An overnight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russias-air-attacks-spark-fire-ukraines-kharkiv-mayor-says-2025-01-27\/\">air attack<\/a> injured four in Kharkiv after houses were hit. Other critical infrastructure was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraines-air-force-says-it-downed-57-russian-drones-launched-overnight-2025-01-27\/\">damaged<\/a> during overnight drone attacks on Sunday night, where 57 out of 104 drones were downed. Russia\u2019s Ryazan oil refinery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russias-ryzan-oil-refinery-halts-operations-after-drone-strikes-sources-say-2025-01-27\/\">suspended operations<\/a> after a Ukrainian drone attack last week. President Zelenskyy says that the realities of the current war means that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-war-means-mobilisation-rules-cannot-be-changed-2025-01-27\/\">can\u2019t change<\/a> mobilisation rules as soldiers leaving for home en masse would mean Russians would \u201ckill us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On January 27, the world honors the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. It was the Nazis' deliberate attempt to erase an entire nation\u2014to kill all its people and destroy everything that reminded the world of the Jewish nation. Six million victims.<\/p>\n<p>The crime of the Holocaust\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CQC14lvvpF\">pic.twitter.com\/CQC14lvvpF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Volodymyr Zelenskyy \/ \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1883784415249309730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0fRussia intensifies attacks near Pokrovsk, seeks to encircle Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces have intensified their assaults near Pokrovsk, deploying small groups in an attempt to encircle Ukrainian troops, spokesman Victor Trehubov said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pN7uBCqtpo\">https:\/\/t.co\/pN7uBCqtpo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyivIndependent\/status\/1883908088350318600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Good reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prime minster Justin Trudeau was in Poland for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/national\/auschwitz-survivors-fear-rising-hate-could-bring-on-another-holocaust-80-years-later\/article_3a43af78-0728-5af6-a641-9b7e2f792779.html\">80th anniversary<\/a> of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and heard warnings of the rise in antisemitism.<\/li>\n<li>M\u00e9lanie Joly <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/politics\/canada-renegotiate-over-tariff-threats\">isn\u2019t saying<\/a> if the government is open to earlier renegotiations for NAFTA if that\u2019s what Trump is getting at with his threats.<\/li>\n<li>Anita Anand announced that land reserved for more than fifty years for a possible Pickering airport will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/environment\/land-long-reserved-for-possible-pickering-airport-will-go-to-parks-canada-minister\/article_d80e0dcf-d632-5b14-b083-1469284e474b.html\">turned over<\/a> to Parks Canada instead.<\/li>\n<li>The federal government announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/politics\/feds-giving-663m-for-metro-vancouver-transit-but-funding-woes-remain-translink-ceo\/article_82f2ed66-f078-5371-bef8-bafb7f0161bb.html\">$663 million<\/a> in transit funding for Vancouver, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/federal-funding-oc-transpo\">$180 million<\/a> over ten years for Ottawa transit.<\/li>\n<li>The Royal Canadian Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/atlantic\/navy-identifies-sailor-who-died-after-small-boat-capsized-in-calm-halifax-harbour\/article_601e99f7-6a18-508d-bcf9-1c1c26644d96.html\">identified<\/a> the sailor who died when his boat capsized in Halifax harbour on Friday.<\/li>\n<li>The Industrial inquiry commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/business\/federal-inquiry-into-canada-post-kicks-off-hearings\/article_5b047d04-5cfb-534f-91b2-5fe9c258dd9e.html\">began hearings<\/a> on the situation facing Canada Post, including the labour dispute.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Logic<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thelogic.co\/news\/the-big-read\/canada-tech-pierre-poilievre\/\">tracks<\/a> how tech bros in Canada have also made a rightward shift, because they think that the Conservatives can give them tax cuts.<\/li>\n<li>Chrystia Freeland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/national\/chrystia-freeland-pitches-aggressive-trade-retaliation-threat-to-ward-off-trump\/article_c114f7d2-5249-55db-8b28-8040af66f8e9.html\">pitched<\/a> aggressive retaliations for Trump tariffs.<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Pedneault is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/national\/pedneault-intends-to-become-co-leader-of-the-greens-again-after-six-month-pause\/article_e8e7dc36-76b7-520a-ab0f-3d7e3920c874.html\">returning<\/a> to the Green Party, potentially as co-leader, six months after he left citing \u201clife-altering news\u201d about his health.<\/li>\n<li>Ontario\u2019s Financial Accountability Office says the move to put alcohol in corner stores cost the province over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/doug-fords-alcohol-sales-expansion-deal-cost-taxpayers-an-additional-612-million-watchdog-says\/article_82f32e36-dca7-11ef-8608-23bc612a1f8f.html\">$600 million more<\/a> than initially stated.<\/li>\n<li>Danille Smith\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/prairies_bc\/alberta\/alberta-doctors-criticize-provincial-covid-19-report-as-harmful-anti-science\/article_b7187c90-618f-503b-912b-bf081eadbb7b.html\">released<\/a> an anti-science, anti-evidence COVID report, and doctors in the province are very, very mad.<\/li>\n<li>Anne Applebaum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2025\/03\/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence\/681453\/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34_jHWNsAU1mvPsKLSJcYGQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share\">delves into<\/a> Europe\u2019s attempt to curtail Musk and social media tech bros, and how they are using the Trump administration to undermine the EU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Odds and ends:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The leader of the Conservative Party\u2014who is not Jewish\u2014chose Holocaust Remembrance Day to declare a proudly Jewish and Zionist Liberal MP belongs to a "Hamas wing" of his party.<\/p>\n<p>Standard operating procedure for Poilievre and his party. What a disgrace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LQ7Wm9iFZV\">https:\/\/t.co\/LQ7Wm9iFZV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a_picazo\/status\/1884071348139614648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fuck right off with trying to contextualize or in any way sanitize what the Conservative leader's antisemitic insinuation.<\/p>\n<p>Poilievre and others in his party have had it out for Housefather for some time, and are obsessed with proving him as a 'bad' Jew. <\/p>\n<p>It's gross.<\/p>\n<p>— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a_picazo\/status\/1884082003550883871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more Routine Proceedings?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/journo_dale\">Become a patron<\/a>\u00a0and get exclusive new content. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of CBC\u2019s worst reporters is back again with the \u201cscandalous\u201d news that the prime minister is preparing to fill all ten vacant Senate seats before he resigns, and the original title of the article was \u201cTrudeau plans on stacking … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2025\/01\/28\/roundup-maligning-legitimate-senate-appointments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[305,129,44,547,67,393,703,26,132,264,359],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roundup","tag-appointments","tag-canada-post","tag-canadian-forces","tag-doug-ford","tag-liberal-leadership","tag-public-health","tag-tech-bros","tag-the-senate","tag-trade","tag-transit","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jJFQ-3oy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}