Michael and Us: Canadian Cringe

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced one of his biggest scandals yet when a charitable organization to which his family had longstanding (and lucrative) ties was given a plum contract to build a high-profile volunteer program for Canadian youth. The ensuing conflict of interest scandal brought down WE Charity (formerly Free the Children), the brainchild of Canuck philanthropy wunderkinds Craig & Mark Kielburger. We watched THE PRICE WE PAID (2021), fine new investigative documentary by the CBC's The Fifth Estate series, which broke down the WE Scandal and the shady practices of the disgraced charity. We discuss how WE Charity is a perfect symbol for the deep rot in the soul of corporate philanthropy. PLUS: the Alberta government's war with Netflix; Celebrity Apprentice memories; and an introduction to the world's best/worst Oscar blogger.

Watch "The Price WE Paid" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_wos7MwHo&ab_channel=TheFifthEstate

"Jason Kenney’s Energy War Room Launches Campaign to Stop Netflix Children’s Cartoon About ‘Bigfoot’" by PressProgress - https://pressprogress.ca/jason-kenneys-energy-war-room-launches-campaign-to-stop-netflix-childrens-cartoon-about-bigfoot/

Jeffrey Wells's "Hollywood Elsewhere" blog - https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/

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0:00.0	Take off, through the main bygones, take off, it's a beauty way to go, take off, through the main bygones.
0:09.8	Do you still sing any?
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	Yeah, he's good.
0:13.0	I feel like every episode now is just, like, I talk about a bunch of kind of hard political
0:18.2	stuff at the beginning, and then you're like, OK, folks, it's a word season.
0:22.3	Let's talk about that.
0:23.9	And I suspect this episode will be no different.
0:28.4	Well, folks.
0:29.4	the Michael and us I'm Will Sloan here as always with Luke Savage hello everyone and yeah Luke
0:36.2	was alluding to something that I tweeted about a second ago just before we logged on although Will
0:42.4	has been known to tweet during the broadcast which is something I've filed several grievances with
0:47.1	HR about I would never do that I don't I think that's my staff but it is a word season and I'd
0:53.8	like to introduce a new star in the Michael and us cosmos he is a journalist named Jeffrey Wells
1:00.3	who has a blog called Hollywood elsewhere on his blog there's a banner at the top that has
1:06.3	testimonials from various celebrities you know there's Guillermo del Toro saying something nice
1:11.5	about him there's JJ Abrams who says there's Hollywood elsewhere and there's everyone else
1:16.8	it's like your neighborhood dive where you get the ugly truth a good laugh and a damn good scotch
1:22.2	so that's JJ Abrams probably quoted like a full 20 years ago saying what the appeal of Hollywood
1:28.3	elsewhere calm was back that he's the Oscar blogger who gives it to you straight up like Jeffrey
1:34.2	Wells he's got a cowboy hat he's kind of grizzled you know he doesn't have time for like the PC
1:38.8	police you know he's he's just telling it like it is this is a stupid reference to make because only
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