Nick Kouvalis Steps Down From Kellie Leitch Campaign: Here’s What We’re Reading

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Here’s what we’re reading today.

1. Kouvalis also steps down from re-election efforts for John Tory and BC’s Christy Clark

“He recently made national headlines for calling a political science professor a ‘cuck,’ the short form for cuckold and accused him of ‘treason’ in a Twitter post. This language echoes that of the white supremacist ‘alt-right’ in the United States against their opponents in last year’s presidential race and was immediately met with criticism on social media.

“Kouvalis has since apologized for those comments.”

Toronto Star

+1: John Tory won’t rule out future work with ‘friend’ Nick Kouvalis – Toronto Star

+1: ‘Cuck’: a modern swear word that’s as dirty as the old ones The Globe And Mail

2. After mosque attack, calls to clean up Quebec City’s radio waves

“A grassroots movement has been underway for years to ‘clean up’ the radio waves around Quebec City, where shock-jocks unapologetically skewer anything that doesn’t align with their populist conservative views.

“In the wake of Sunday’s bloody attack on a suburban mosque, that movement may be gaining some mainstream support.”

CBC News

+1: Why white nationalists are the extremists we should fear – Vice

3. 14 versions of Trump’s presidency, from #MAGA to impeachment

“Here, then, is a list of 14 plausible futures for Trump, grouped into a few broad categories. Some of them are mutually exclusive while others can be mixed and matched. And there are undoubtedly many possible futures that I haven’t considered. But I hope that these make for a reasonably representative range of possibilities. If you find yourself feeling a strong urge to rule some of them out, ask yourself whether there’s really enough evidence to do that given that we’re just 1 percent of the way through Trump’s first term.”

FiveThirtyEight

4. Trump says post-crisis financial rules will be cut back

“President Trump signed two executive orders Friday, each aimed at cutting back regulation of the financial sector, but exactly how the Trump administration will overhaul the Obama-era financial reforms remains unclear. During the campaign and transition, Trump and his advisors would swing wildly from criticizing Obama for not doing enough to fight Wall Street special interests, to vowing to overturn the rules regulating the industry.”

Buzzfeed News 

+1: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner worked to sink anti-LGBT order – Politico

5. Is AI a threat to Christianity

“Are you there, God? It’s I, robot.”

The Atlantic