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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
British Columbia’s Chinese community is facing some of the most difficult challenges in its 232-year history in Canada’s westernmost province. Sinophobic sentiments are at their highest levels in decades, fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic and years of Chinese-scapegoating for the province’s housing, money-laundering, and opioids problems. China’s President Xi Jinping has worsened anti-Chinese sentiments around the world as his government has antagonised Canada, the United States, and countries in Asia, Europe and Africa. As a consequence, the ethnic Chinese populations in the U.S., India, Indonesia, Australia, and Zambia are increasingly caught up in the anti-Beijing backlash in those countries. B.C. remains a relatively harmonious place where good sense still prevails. The NDP provincial government has denounced the recent spate of pandemic-linked racist attacks against Chinese and Asian-looking people while police have stepped up enforcement measures against related hate crimes. Last month, Premier John Horgan announced the building of a new museum dedicated to telling the Chinese Canadian story, starting with the first workers arriving in B.C. from China in 1788.
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
Erin Smith was at a GOP election watch party at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on November 8, 2016. For the one-time deputy vice chair of communications for the city Republication Party, it should have been a time of jubilation. "As soon as they announced Trump the presumptive winner, we're told, 'Hey, there's a mob of protestors out front,'" says Smith, who stepped outside to find the San Francisco cops being pushed back by a crowd, some in head-to-toe black: clothes, helmets, face masks. A trans woman, conservative, and former tugboat captain who says she's "a weird activist/analyst-type person right now," Smith soon became galvanized to find out more about a group that dressed as revolutionaries and took their fight to the streets. What was animating them? Trump animus? The romance of revolution? The boredom and frustration of COVID sequestration? An unfocused desire to fuck shit up? It takes a special moral blindness to see setting fires, breaking windows, and threatening journalists as the road to justice. I've seen this moral blindness rise along with the violence in Portland. Young activists have told me frankly that they don't give a shit if someone working in the basement of the police station burns to death because, hey, she chose to work there. I've seen activists cheer the murder of a member of the conservative group Patriot Prayer. You cannot employ the violence of your perceived enemies and expect your revolution to end in peace.
from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Puyallup Tribe poised to sue over artificial turf spill in Puyallup River, harm to salmon
The Puyallup Tribe today notified Electron Hydro that the tribe intends to sue within 60 days over ongoing violations of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act because of fish-killing operations of the Electron Dam and pollution of the Puyallup River. The Puyallup Tribe of Indians has long opposed the Electron Dam, a known killer of salmon, including chinook. The issue boiled over in August when it came to light that owners of the dam in July used artificial turf in a construction project at the dam without a permit. The river promptly shredded pieces of the turf, carrying it and an estimated six cubic yards of crumb rubber downriver more than 40 miles to Commencement Bay. Now the owners of the dam also intend to place a new rock dam in the river, which the tribe also has notified the company it will go to court to stop — on an emergency basis if needed.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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