"Prominent Journalist Chrystia Freeland in Surprise Canadian Political Bid"

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Prominent Journalist Chrystia Freeland in Surprise Canadian Political Bid

By Sam Gustin at Time

http://business.time.com/2013/07/29/prominent-journalist-chrystia-freeland-in-surprise-canadian-political-bid/

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Chrystia Freeland, a respected business journalist and author who has held senior positions at top global news organizations, is leaving journalism in a bid to win a seat in Canada‘s parliament, she confirmed to TIME on Monday. The move surprised many of her colleagues at Reuters, where Freeland was most recently Managing Director and Editor for consumer news, and raised eyebrows in the broader U.S. journalism community, which is not accustomed to seeing journalists run for elected office.



Freeland, who was born and raised in the Canadian province of Alberta, will seek the Liberal Party nomination for the downtown Toronto riding (a seat in Canada’s House of Commons) vacated by Bob Rae, who recently announced his resignation from Parliament. Freeland, who currently lives in New York with her family, will move to Toronto. A frequent guest on U.S. political chat shows and a ubiquitous presence at international conferences, Freeland has resigned her position at Reuters and will no longer contribute columns to The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper.

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In recent years, Freeland’s work has focused on the growing global disparity between the rich and the poor. Last year, she published Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, which was awarded the 2013 Lionel Garber Prize, a top Canadian literary award. In her book, Freeland describes how an international super-elite is concentrating wealth and power at levels not seen since the Gilded Age era of “robber barons” like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.

“Today’s conventional wisdom is deeply cynical about politics,” Freeland wrote in column published Monday. “We portray our elected officials as trivial buffoons at best and as scandal-ridden, self-dealing parasites at worst. What we have lost is our belief that our government represents us all, and that we, collectively, can use it to address the big challenges of our time.”


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1. From Alberta to New York (US politics) to MLA for Toronto.

Alberta - red flag
New York - red flag
US political chat shows - red flag.

Stephen Harper vs. Michael Ignatieff
Tweedledee vs. Tweedledum

Something about this stinks to high heaven.

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2. I like her. She has heart. I'm so proud she is running as a liberal. I'm sure she'll ad

a great deal to the liberal party. (And Trudeau needs someone who knows the world as well as she does).

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3. I'm just going by your OP, nothing more.

I know people who thought fine about Ignatieff, who has a similar biography. I mean people who personally knew him (he was a prof, many people took his courses) and could say after personal experience that he was very smart, very fair, and a good person. I believe them - because there's no evidence better than a trusted friend giving an opinion after personal experience. But, granting all that as true, Ignatieff = Harper, and IMO we haven't a worse gov't under the slavish tool Harper than we'd have under Ignatieff. In fact, I think it's better to have gotten rid of Ignatieff from the "liberal left", than to have the "liberal left" led by someone like him - then, after all that damage done, having to disentangle what it means to be "liberal" and "left" and "progressive" from all the semantic horrorshow.

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4. I like her too.

She knows her shit.