Hughes Politics

 This week, I wanted to cover an adversary as opposed to allied, flourishing democracies around the world. The Moscow Times  is a Russian based media company that covered the Brittney Griner case this week. As y'all may know, Brittney Griner is an American WNBA player that was detained in Russia after bringing a THC vape cartridge into the country. She has since been sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison for her charge, and American media has since labeled her a political pawn for the current Russian-Ukraine war. The article starts by explaining her appeal to the court has been denied and the sentence will be upheld. Communication between the White House and the Kremlin have involved negotiations of a prisoner swap, but all have been unsuccessful so far. The article also outlines the frustrated expressions of American National Security Advisor, calling the charges a "sham judicial procedure." As current events are still being played out, it is difficult to fully unders...

Earlier this yea, President Biden declared that the Covid-19 global pandemic is over despite the narrative from the World Health Organization and international community. Going back to Canada this week, I went to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website to look for new topics to discuss on their main page. When I looked at the top left corner, the light bulb went off. There is a whole subpage dedicated to the pandemic, and the anxieties towards the pandemic become clear when looking at their public policy. The subpage shows the sense of societal significance that Covid has even over a year after a vaccine has been produced and distributed. Canada has had some of the most restrictive mandates in place in response to Covid, and mandates regarding international travel gained global attention with the truckers protest in Ottawa. But why? Canada is a country with socialized healthcare, so it makes sense that they have political incentive to be overtly precautionary in an event ...

 In my first official blog post, I talked about Canadian YouTuber and former Canadian political pundit, J.J. McCullough and his stances on Canadian insecurities about their national image and reputation. This week, I wanted to cover an ongoing saga in his channel as my topic directly affects J.J. and shows his involvement in the issue thus far. Nicholas Seles covers part of the issue in his short article "Why Bill C-11 - the Online Streaming Act - is bad news for Canadian YouTubers like Myself."  He begins by stating Bill C-11 is legislation designed to promote exclusively Canadian content, or "CanCon" in the world of streaming. The federal government plans to do this by putting internet media under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. This commission is in charge of ensuring television and radio companies promote pro-Canadian content in terms of content itself, contributors, and location. The commission will be respon...

This week, I wanted to return to an old topic with a new perspective . France24  is a French state owned news company that covers global issues. Looking at their American section, I saw they did an article on the Martha's Vineyard scandal that has been ongoing, and decided to take a look as I have already analyzed the perspective of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . I already noticed some stark and obscure differences between the two. As mentioned in my first blog, there exists a Canadian anxiety to be fundamentally anti American on at least the cultural front. Because of this, the CBC tends to take a stance of the United State's affairs while France tends to remain impartial. The CBC article on the topic used specific language to inflict an emotion upon the audience to persuade it empathize with the migrants; "coward" to describe Governor Ron DeSantis and "political pawns" to describe the migrants.  The French article looks nothing like the Canadian ...

With 2022 being an election year, although not a presidential election year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on a trend I have noticed through my entire life. There has always been a threat, a fairly empty threat from the American left to mass migrate to Canada if the Republican presidential candidate in any given election were to emerge victorious. The Canadians also have a history of egging them on to do so, and tend to post media favoring the idea in some profound sense of Canadian exceptionalism, a glaring example of how Canadian nationalism is fundamentally bound in anti-Americanism.  Canada TV, a Canadian News network posted an article back in 2020 titled "'I'm not comfortable living here': More Americans did actually try to move to Canada since Trump's 2016 election."  The article shows a graph of the number of permanent resident applications submitted by Americans, with a spike from about 7,700 in 2016 to over 9,000 in 2017. The article actually d...

Last week, I covered the public broadcasting company of the British government, and their coverage of the America abortion debate. This week, I want to look at the public broadcasting company of Canada and their coverage of the most recent immigration stunt made by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to the article titled "Florida governor used families as 'pawns' with Martha's Vineyard stunt: Democrat,"   forty eight people, mostly Venezuelan, were flown from San Antonio, Texas to the island of Martha's Vineyard on a plane paid for by the Florida governor. The article begins with Democratic Representative Dylan Fernandes stating that Governor DeSantis is a "coward" and "weak human being." Then, they begin to elaborate how this is just one instance in a larger scheme to send illegal immigrants to Northern sanctuary cities. The article take special time to outline the conditions which these migrants had to face such as how many children...

In the last post, I discussed the natural anxieties of the Canadian government towards the United States and I don't want to entirely focus on my second homeland. Instead, I intend to look at media from major democracies around the globe and possibly even some of our adversaries to attempt to understand how they view American policy. Today, we will be looking at the British Broadcasting Company, Britain's public media service, and their coverage of the US abortion debate.  Just scrolling through the list on the first page, it is easy to see that for the last couple months BBC has been covering the American abortion debate two to three times a week at times. The subject matter is overwhelmingly written about the perspective of American women seeking abortions, states where abortion is contentious and celebrities that advocate for a woman's right to choose.  In Britain, abortion is legal with overwhelming support and British citizens have access to free healthcare as a right....