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As Americans prepare to gather with relatives and enjoy a Thanksgiving feast on Thursday, far-left pundits, columnists and news organizations have set their sights on the holiday.

Woke critics have labeled Thanksgiving "a celebration of racist genocide," frowned upon eating turkey when "manyvegan turkeyalternatives" are available and even credited White supremacy for the holidays popularity.

NBC SUGGESTS NOT HAVING THANKSGIVING TURKEY THIS YEAR TO DEAL WITH INFLATION COSTS

"You there, fellow American! Were you under the impression that Thanksgiving is the uniquely American holiday that celebrates how English settlers and Native Americans peacefully crossed linguistic, cultural and racial barriers to share a meal together and create a model for gratitude and tolerance that would be the envy of the world? Wrong! Says Woke America," New York Post columnist Kyle Smith recently observed.

"Thanksgiving is about murder, plunder and hate. Invite your relatives over to spread love and gravy? No, if you really want to honor the spirit of Thanksgiving, you should whip yourself with barbed wire all day," Smith continued.

A liberal website urged Americans to eat vegan turkey alternatives on Thanksgiving. (iStock)

Here are some of the most egregious examples:

MSNBC segment declares genocide is "still on the menu" in America

An MSNBC segment aired on Saturday that accused White people of not accurately telling the story of Thanksgiving and blaming the pilgrims for the "White supremacy" affecting the nation today.

"Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence. That genocide and violence is still on the menu," guest essayist Gyasi Ross said on "The Cross Connection."

"State-sponsored violence against Native and Black Americans is still commonplace and violent, private White supremacy is celebrated and subsidized," Ross continued. "Indigenous and Black people are still being murdered by those paid to protect us."

Americans scolded for consuming turkey with "so manyvegan turkeyalternatives on the market"

Green Matters, a website dedicated to fighting climate change and environmental justice, published an article looking at the history of Thanksgiving. It details a variety of reasons why the holiday is "bad" and eventually lands on the tradition of eating turkey as the centerpiece of the annual feast. The article notes "there is actually no written evidence that turkeys were eaten at the 1621 Thanksgiving" and scolds Americans for sticking with the tradition modern despite vegan options.

"Every year, Americans breed,kill, and eat around 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving and there's really no reason for this cruel and unsustainable tradition. These days, there are so manyvegan turkeyalternatives on the market, which are all more compassionate and environmentally-friendly choices," Green Matters writer Sophie Hirsch wrote.

"If you are hosting or attending a Thanksgiving dinner this year, remember the true origins of the holiday and consider sharing the true story with your friends and family," Hirsch continued in the piece headlined, "Thanksgiving Glorifies the Abhorrent Colonization of Indigenous Peoples."

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As Americans prepare to gather with relatives and enjoy a Thanksgiving feast on Thursday, far-left pundits, columnists and news organizations have set their sights on the holiday. (iStock)

NBC suggests not having Thanksgiving turkey this year to deal with inflation costs

A segment on NBC's "Today" on Saturday suggested American families could drop the traditional Thanksgiving turkey from their tables this year to deal withinflation.

"With inflation on the rise, prices are going up on everything from your Thanksgiving meal to your gifts for the holidays," anchor Kristen Welker said to introduce the segment.

NBC News correspondent Vicky Nguyen noted the 6.2% rise in prices in October from a year ago a three-decade high calling it "real money." Nguyen then said something she admitted may be controversial.

"Perhaps forgo the turkey," she said. "Bear with me. I know that is the staple of the Thanksgiving meal. However, some people think turkey is overrated. It tends to be the most expensive thing on the table. Maybe you do an Italian feast instead."

Nguyen added that if you tell people you're ditching the turkey, "some guests may drop off the list, and that's a way to cut costs too."

While the segment was light-hearted, it was swiftly mocked on social media

USA Today reports holiday is "a day of mourning" for Indigenous people

USA Today published a story Tuesday headlined, "What is Thanksgiving to Indigenous people? 'A day of mourning," which focuses on what certain Native Americans feel about the holiday. The story is reported, not an opinion piece, so it comes across as more serious and thoughtful than bold hot takes by American pundits, but it remains an example of liberal media pooh-poohing Thanksgiving nonetheless.

"For many, rather than a celebration of peace and shared prosperity between Native Americans and Pilgrims, Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and the resilience of Native people," reporter Michelle Shen wrote.

Shen spoke with tribal citizens Dennis W. Zotigh and Julie Garreau, who both explained the holiday isnt a happy time for them and they consider it a day of mourning.

"This year, Julie is not celebrating Thanksgiving and is instead organizing an event onNative American Heritage Day called Thanks for Kids, which celebrates Native children," Shen wrote.

Many liberals dont think Thanksgiving is a reason to celebrate. (iStock)

WALL STREET JOURNAL REFUSES TO BOW TO LEFT'S DEMANDS TO CANCEL THANKSGIVING EDITORIALS: 'WE WON'T BEND'

Critics of Wall Street Journal want to cancel Thanksgiving editorials

The Wall Street Journal editorial board was forced to announce that the paper will continue with the publishing of its annualThanksgivingeditorials despite efforts by the left to cancel them.

Ina Monday op-ed, the board declared that efforts by progressives to stop the publishing of the "racist"1620 accountof the first Thanksgiving, as well as a mid-20th century "contemporary contrast" of American progress, would not succeed and that The Journal wouldn't "bend to political demands for censorship."

"No doubt it was only a matter of time. The progressives have come for our annual Thanksgiving editorials. They wont succeed, but we thought wed share the tale with readers for an insight into the politicization of everything, even Thanksgiving," the board wrote.

It noted that the pair of editorials had been run every year since 1961 without complaint.

"But we live in a new era when the left sees nearly everything through the reductive lens of identity politics. It sees much of American history as a racist project that should be erased," the board wrote, before noting that the motivation to censor the Pilgrim editorial was being driven by a petition on left-wing site Change.org.

The author of the petition, which has garnered around 50,000 signatures, claims that "it's time to stop publishing 17th century racism" in 2021. It also complains that the editorial refers to Native Americans as "wilde men" and says that the Pilgrims were separate from "all the civil parts of the world."

CRITICS PAN THANKSGIVING ADVICE IN NEW YORK TIMES THAT KIDS WHO AREN'T FULLY VACCINATED SHOULD EAT QUICKLY

New York Times suggests kids "eat quickly" to avoid infecting vaccinated Americans with coronavirus

The New York Times published a guest essay last week in which a Virginia Tech professor suggested semi-vaccinated children "eat quickly" on Thanksgiving to avoid spreading COVID to vaccinated adults.

"If our child, 9, and a cousin, 10, have each received one dose of the vaccine two weeks prior to Thanksgiving, is it safe for us to eat indoors? There will be about 20 guests, all vaccinated, and the 65 and older crowd have all received boosters," one reader from San Francisco asked in the essay.

"Im glad to hear that the children and all guests are vaccinated. As the kids will not be fully vaccinated until two weeks after their second shot, I think some care is warranted, especially because some attendees are 65 and older and thus at greater risk of more serious breakthrough infections. You could have the kids wear masks, eat quickly and stay away from the older adults when eating," Virginia Tech engineering professor Linsey Marr wrote in response.

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Philadelphia Tribune declares Thanksgiving to be a celebration of racist genocide, mass land robbery

The Philadelphia Tribune published a column Saturday by correspondent Michael Coard headlined, "Celebrating Thanksgiving is celebrating racist genocide."

"When the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, they didnt bring thanks. They didnt even give thanks. Instead, they brought racist genocide and gave nothing," Coard wrote.

"And they eventually succeeded in mass killing and mass land robbery not because they were smarter or stronger but because they were sadistically evil racists who initiated the use of a weapon of mass destruction that previously had been unheard of on this land," Coard continued. "Thanksgiving, as an American holiday, is a celebration of that racist genocide and massive land robber."

Coard then listed "five indisputable facts you must know about Thanksgiving so you wont make the mistake of celebrating racist genocide" on Thursday.

Washington Post examines why Native Americans regret helping Pilgrims

The Washington Post started early, publishing a Nov. 4 piece headlined, "This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later," which examines how members of the Wampanoag Nation wish their relatives didnt participate.

"Just as Native American activists have demanded the removal ofChristopher Columbus statuesand pushed to transform the Columbus holiday into an acknowledgment of hisbrutality toward Indigenous people, they have long objected to the popular portrayal of Thanksgiving," Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth wrote.

Hedgpeth dove into a lengthy explanation of why the Mashpee Wampanoag doesnt celebrate the holiday, noting that American children are often taught "fiction" in school pertaining to Thanksgiving.

"This year some Wampanoags will go to Plymouth for the National Day of Mourning. Others will gather at the old Indian Meeting House, built in 1684 and one of the oldest American Indian churches in the eastern United States, to pay their respects to their ancestors, many of whom are buried in the surrounding cemetery," Hedgpeth wrote. "Plenty of Wampanoags will gather with their families for a meal to give thanks not for the survival of the Pilgrims but for the survival of their tribe."

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The Liberal government has introduced legislation to provide workers in federally regulated sectors with 10 days of sick pay while also making it an offence to intimidate or preventpatients from seeking care, orto interfere with healthprofessionals trying to deliver it.

Bill C-3, which amends the Criminal Code and the Canada Labour Code, was unveiled today by Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan and Justice Minister David Lametti.

O'Regan said the pandemic showedhow a lack of sick days left many workers at risk. He saidthat now is the "time to close the gap that the pandemic exposed in our social safety net."

"It is important for our well being, important for health and safety and important for our economic recovery," O'Regan said. "It is crucial to finishing our fight against COVID-19."

According to government officials speaking on background, about 950,000 people workin the federally regulated private sector. About583,000 of those workershave less than ten days of paid sick leaveand would stand to benefit from the legislation.

O'Regan said that while the federally regulated workforcemakes up only about five per cent of workers in Canada,the law could set a standard for provinces to follow.

"We know that the only way we are going to get through this pandemic is [that] when people are sick ...they stay at homeand [don't have to be] afraid about losing compensation," Unifor's national president Jerry Dias said Friday.

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who had been calling on the federal government to make this change throughout the pandemic, welcomed the announcement.

"Today's announcement is very long overdue. Justin Trudeau owes frontline workers an explanation about why he couldn't help them when they needed this over a year ago," Singh said in a media statement.

Lametti said the pandemicalso revealed the abuse and intimidation inflicted onhealth-care professionals and patientsat vaccination centres, abortion clinicsand hospitals.

Protests against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19-related public health measuresheld outside hospitals in September were condemned by politicians and health-care organizations as unacceptable and unfair to staff and patients.

The changes to the Criminal Code create two new offences meant to protect patients and health-care workers from abuse.

The first offence makes it illegal to intimidate health-care workers and patients to prevent them from accessing health-care services, or to prevent health-care workers from administering care.The second change to the Criminal Code makes it an offence to bar anyone from accessing health services.

Those convicted of either offence could face up to 10 years in prison.

Lametti said the government is also drafting new sentencing provisions that will require courts to consider serious penalties for anyone targeting a health-care provider at work.

Lametti said he'sdisappointed that such a law is necessary.

"Even this week, COVID deniers were trying to stop children from receiving vaccinations," hesaid."Every day, health-care workers are coming forward and speaking out. They are exhausted, they are discouraged and they are fearful, and the sad reality is that these sorts of threats predate the pandemic."

Linda Silas ispresident of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, which represents some 200,000 nurses across the country. She welcomed the announcement, calling it a first step in recognizing the threats facing health-care workers.

Silas said that before the pandemic, 90 per cent of nurses reported beingexposed to physical violence on the job. During the pandemic, 60 per cent of those nurses reported that the level of violence had increased.

Lametti said he hopes Bill C-3 moves swiftly through Parliament. Silas said she wants to see all federal parties jump behind the initiative.

"In the previous Parliament both the NDP and the Conservatives proposed private members bills to do something similar here,"Silas said."So I would be stunned and very disappointed if there's not unanimous consensus to protect health-care workers."

In an interview airing Saturday, criminal defence lawyer Ian Runkle told Chris Hall, host of CBC Radio's The House, that it's already a criminal offence to block access to a hospital. He said that if those cases are not being prosecuted, it's because of a lack of will, not a lack of legal authority.

"Police have more than enough tools in their toolbox here in terms of offences like mischief, which makes it an offence to obstruct, interrupt or interfere with the lawful use, enjoyment or operation of property," Rundle said. "That covers blocking off infrastructure."

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Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer has crossed the floor to support an independent bill for a federal integrity commission, after accusing the government of inertia over the issue.

Telling parliament it was a difficult decision to second the motion by independent MP Helen Haines to suspend standing orders to allow her federal integrity commission bill to be debated, Archer said that the time has gone on long enough and progress on the issue was needed.

I dont take this decision lightly at all. I take this decision very seriously to stand here. And its a difficult decision. This is one of the most important things that we come to this place to do, Archer said.

The MP for the marginal Tasmanian seat of Bass said she believed all sides of politics wanted to see a robust federal integrity commission, but the legislation had stalled because it was too politicised.

There is a place for politics, theres a place for the partisan point-scoring, but on something as important as trust and confidence in elected officials, that is not it.

The move to suspend standing orders sparked confusion in the House of Representatives under the management of the newly-elected speaker, Andrew Wallace.

As a result of changes made to Parliamentary procedure to prevent the spread of Covid, questions are framed in the negative so that MPs dont have to unnecessarily cross the chamber. This meant the vote had to be taken a second time, but was lost because an absolute majority was required.

Guardian Australia reported on Thursday that Archer was considering the dramatic move, criticising the coalitions inertia over the legislation.

Archer said she was perplexed at the Morrison governments failure to release a revised bill to establish a commonwealth integrity commission, almost three years after it was promised before the last election.

The government has been under pressure from within its ranks and from crossbench MPs to finalise the bill, with the attorney general, Michaelia Cash, undertaking consultations after a draft of the bill released last November was criticised for being too soft.

I really have a strong view that this is the most important thing we need to do, Archer told Guardian Australia on Wednesday.

I am a bit perplexed at one level as to why we havent brought something forward, I accept there was a draft bill, there was extensive consultation, there were a number of submissions and it would have been my expectation that some work would have been going on to draft it, given the feedback.

I am a bit offended, in a way, that we are prioritising in a rush I might add the religious discrimination bill over an integrity commission.

Archer had warned earlier she was absolutely prepared to cross the floor to support the legislation.

To be perfectly clear, I always reserve my right to cross the floor, that is one of the reasons I sit on this side [in the Liberal party], Archer said.

It has certainly been my view that the government and the opposition ought to be working together constructively with Helen Haines on her bill. Whats in there that we think is good? What is in there that we could amend?

There is a real tribalism to politics at the moment and I think that is sometimes at the expense of governance, and what I think we end up with is inertia. That is probably why the government hasnt brought it forward, because it is so politically contested now and it just creates a vacuum, and there is inertia.

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Archer said that she believed the integrity commission bill should be above politics. She said without a multi-partisan approach to the development and implementation of such a body no one is going to have trust in it anyway.

Archers call for the bill to be introduced to parliament swiftly was echoed by the Liberal MP for the seat of Curtin, Celia Hammond, who said the establishment of a federal integrity agency was an issue that had been raised by her constituents since she was first elected in 2019.

It is something I support and have advocated for over the past two years and I continue to do so, Hammond told Guardian Australia.

I recognise there are many different bodies and models across Australia and many different views on what should or should not be included and covered.

I know that the attorney general has undertaken significant consultation and work on this matter with a goal of producing an appropriate model and legislation for the federal context. I appreciate that there may be further consultation required, but personally I would like to see the legislation introduced as soon as possible.

Haines has been lobbying MPs to support her bill, with the proposed model including all of the robust features of an integrity commission with teeth, and safeguards that means we dont see vexatious and frivolous referrals.

The legislation also includes an exoneration clause, that would see anyone whose reputation was unfairly tarnished by an Australian federal integrity commission hearing to be the subject of a report to parliament exonerating them.

In question time on Wednesday, in response to a question from Haines, the prime minister, Scott Morrison, defended the delay in releasing the legislation for the integrity commission, saying the government was returning to priority legislation after being diverted by the pandemic response.

The attorney general has been working steadily away and been working with cabinet on our draft legislation for an integrity commission, and that also soon will be available for people to give their responses to, and we will see whether that has support, Morrison said.

Haines said that if the government truly want to pass a bill they would have written it, tabled it and brought it on for debate.

Thats what I have done, but youve shut down debate on my bill in the House, youve shut down debate in the Senate and youve muzzled the attorney general, who is missing in action on this, Haines said.

Come clean with the Australian people. Prime minister, do you honestly expect Australians to believe you truly want a robust integrity commission?

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Heath Krevesky is a self-confessed political junkie and a bit of a nerd.

That's his way of explaining why he's been tracking his weekly grocery bill for years now. And why he's worried that inflation is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of his food budget.

"In 2019, it cost me $9,826 to feed myself. In 2020, that cost of feeding myself went to $11,994,an increase of 22 per cent," he said.

"I can't wait to find out how this year wraps itself out. It appears as though it's going to be close to $14,000 for a single individual to feed themselves."

Food prices. Gasoline. A meal out. The cost ofmanyeveryday items is going up after inflation hit 4.7 per cent last month the highest rate in nearly twenty years.

For Krevesky, higher prices means scaling back the menu and adjusting his tastes.

The resident of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island said he buysless meat these days, and when he does, he leans to beef ribs rather than steak.

"It's sort of like your poor man's choice of beef, if you will," he said during an interview for a special segment on inflation airing on this weekend's edition of CBC's The House.

"Everybody would like to be able to afford a prime rib, you know, on a semi-regular basis, I cannot afford that ... Ideally, I like to eat a little bit of beef or chicken, fish, throughout the week, so I get a balanced diet, but it's becoming increasingly more [expensive]."

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It's hard to point to a singlefactor behind rising prices.

Droughts in Canada and other countries reduced crop yields. The pandemic reduced production in manufacturing plants as consumers emerged fromlockdowns with money they're both willing and able to spend.

"What we're seeing around the world is supply chain bottlenecks," Finance Minister Chrystia Freelandsaidthis week when asked by a reporter if the Liberals' plan to spend another $100 billion on post-pandemic programs is to blame forthe jump in inflation.

"We are seeing higher energy prices. Energy is a global commodity. When those prices are higher in one country, they are higher around the world. We're seeing a basic challenge that shutting down the world's economy turned out to be a much simpler process than turning the global economy back on."

But for a government that remains relentlessly focused onwhat it likes to call "the middle class and those working hard to join it," inflation isn't some abstract economic concept. It's making life less affordable for those very same people.

Kathy Wainberg is the owner of Pita Ikram. She has two locations,strictly take-out, in the northwest corner of Toronto. Like many small restaurateurs, she struggles to hire staff andserve asteady stream of customers.

A few months ago, she put up a noticeletting customers know the prices of their favourite shawarma meals were going up by about 20 per cent.

"Things like oil that we use for frying food have, like, tripled in price," she told The House. "We waited to raise prices for as long as we possibly could but in the restaurant industry, the margins are razor thin, so we were unable to absorb maybe as much of the costs as the customer would have liked to have seen."

It's stories like these that makeinflation a convenient target for any opposition politician intent on linking government policy to rising prices.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre led the opposition charge this week. He accusedthe Liberal government of wanton spending, saying inflation is worse in this country than most other democratic countries because, like the United States, the Liberals have been "printing money to pay their bills" instead of controlling spending.

"The cost of government is driving up the cost of living. Almost a half a trillion dollars of inflationistLiberal deficits mean more dollars chasing fewer goods, driving higher prices," he said.

Poilievre is one of those politicians who can boil down complicated issues like fiscal policy into easily-understood soundbites, packaged with claims that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is entirely out of touch with Canadians' lives.

"The prime minister says he doesn't think much about monetary policy," he said."That's no surprise. After all, it's 'Justin-flation.'"

But economist Trevor Tombe of the University of Calgary said Poilievre is stretching the data by suggesting inflation is worse in Canada than in places like Switzerland.

"I can cherry-pick countries, too. Israel has among the highest rates of money supply growth in the developed world, but among the lowest rates of inflation," he said.

"So overall, across all developed economies, there really isn't a strong relationship between the money supply growth and observed inflation."

Economist Armine Yalnizian acknowledges the Liberals aren't immune to the political impact of rising prices, even if the inflation rate now is more of a short-term spike than a long-term trend.

"Of course the Liberals are vulnerable to people feeling like they're losing purchasing power," she said.

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