China’s Election Meddling: Canadians Deserve a Serious Response

Monday, March 6, 2023

This week from The Walrus:

“It’s not just about money”: The fight for unions at Starbucks
“She raised the palm to her lips, and her tongue told her it was salty. A tear had been shed, she was convinced of it”
Do Instagram selfies create an unattainable standard of parenting?
The Canadian Time Machine podcast discusses the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian Resettlement (44 min)
Tomorrow at 12 PM EST, The Walrus Leadership Forum: Trust in Democracy
Tuesday, March 28: The Walrus Talks Economic Reconciliation

China’s Election Meddling: Canadians Deserve a Serious Response

The last thing the country needs is a half-hearted approach to protecting our democracy

BY IRA WELLS

In the immediate term, the onus is on the prime minister to provide Canadians with adequate information so that we can judge for ourselves the integrity of the 2021 election. In his lackadaisical response to Chinese malfeasance, Trudeau is playing a dangerous game. Canada appears to be signalling to China that interference in future elections will be met with no serious consequences. To date, no charges have been laid, no diplomats expelled.

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Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions?

The coffee giant bills itself as a progressive company. But when employees started unionizing, corporate pushed back

BY ROB CSERNYIK

Fiction: The Photograph, 1889

She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame

BY NAZNEEN SHEIKH

From the Archives: Instagram’s Parent Trap

Influencers modelling an idyllic image of motherhood are highly clickable—but pictures never tell the whole story

BY MICHELLE CYCA

TOMORROW AT NOON

At The Walrus Leadership Forum: Trust in Democracy, speakers will discuss key findings from the 2023 CanTrust Index, an annual nationwide study conducted by Proof Strategies. This year’s version of the CanTrust Index will pose questions about which leaders and levels of government people across Canada find trustworthy as well as which sectors, corporations, services, and institutions have strong (or weak) trust levels.

Featuring:

Bruce MacLellan, President and CEO, Proof Strategies

The Hon. Catherine McKenna, Principal, Climate and Nature Solutions, and Chair, UN Secretary General Expert Group on Net Zero

The Hon. James Moore, Senior Business Advisor, Dentons

Genevieve Tomney, Vice President, Public Affairs, Proof Strategies

Zain Velji, Partner and VP Strategy, Northweather

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In August 1972, Ugandan president Idi Amin announced that all residents of Asian descent had to leave the country within ninety days. The expulsion impacted over 50,000 people—many of whom had ties to East Africa for several generations.

Canada played a crucial role in helping resettle over 7,000 Ugandan asylum seekers. In this episode, we’ll hear from two people who were resettled in Canada following the expulsion order: historian and anthropologist Zulfikar Hirji and writer/editor Tasneem Jamal.

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This week’s newsletter was produced by CIBC fellow Yasmin Duale and copy-edited by Siddhesh Inamdar. Send us an email at letters@thewalrus.ca and your letter may be included in a future issue of The Walrus.