So it looks like technically Canada is in the midst of a “technical” recession, but, technicalities aside, is a 0.2% drop in growth really that big a deal?

Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is leeching off Trump’s brand. An outbreak of news coverage on Canadian racism. The RCMP offers super–secret docs to journalists. New Yorker, Rolling Stone & Guardian contributor Omar Mouallem co-hosts. Listen to Kellie Leitch on Commons Listen to The United States of Anxiety on WNYC Duly Noted: Sylvia Stead’s Globe and Mail piece, “Public Editor: Reader was right to note lack of balance” (Nov 11th 2016) Paula Simons’s National Post piece, “Alberta politics must resist temptation of Trump’s toxic ‘brolash’” (Nov 9th 2016) Danielle Paradis’s Metro piece, “An open letter to Derek Fildebrandt from a thin-skinned woman” (Nov 15th 2016) Omar Mouallem’s Twitter: @Omar_AOK

The Globe and Mail’s editorial board calls the initial reporting on Kamloops residential school graves a “failure of journalism.”

Carney’s big address on antisemitism didn’t amount to much. 

Danielle Smith sidesteps the courts to ask Albertans a question about a referendum on separation. 

After Israeli minister Ben-Gvir posts a video of the inhumane treatment of detained protestors, Canada joins the global condemnation of Israel’s treatment of Gaza flotilla participants, including 12 Canadians. 

CBC is pausing its production of an elaborate “prank show” led by Indigenous creators after outrage online. 

Nate Erskine-Smith lost his bid for nomination for the Ontario Liberals in Scarborough Southwest, putting his plans for leadership in question. He’s alleging serious voting irregularities, and that the Ontario Liberal establishment has it in for him.