Posted on 02/24/2016 4:01:52 PM PST by xp38
TORONTO -- It couldn't be a busier time for firebrand filmmaker Michael Moore.
Between his new documentary "Where to Invade Next," the U.S. presidential race and a crisis in his hometown of Flint, Mich., the outspoken activist has no shortage of causes to champion or scandals to denounce.
But on one recent afternoon, he's reached by phone at his home in New York, resting.
A recent bout with pneumonia landed him in intensive care, forcing him to cancel a slew of promotional stints on the TV talk show circuit, the Berlin Film Festival and "this fantasy of hopping the train and going across Canada" in advance of Friday's release of "Where to Invade Next." Moore plays the role of "invader" as he visits several countries to steal ideas for improving the U.S. education, labour and justice systems.
During an interview with The Canadian Press, the Oscar-winning director sounded off on a range of topics including the U.S. primaries ("We're inside of a big clown car right now"); his disdain for mobile streaming ("Whatever you're watching on an iPhone is not a movie") and thoughts on his own mortality ("You could not be here a few minutes from now"). And Canada's supposed culpability in Flint's water disaster. It didn't take long for Moore to implicate Toronto in Michigan's environmental woes, taking issue with the city's garbage ending up in Michigan landfills.
A city staffer says Toronto stopped sending its waste across the border in 2010, a contract that actually sent trash to a landfill nowhere near Flint. A 2015 annual report filed by the Michigan government does say its largest source of imported waste comes from Canada and represents 17.1 per cent of all of the state's trash.
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Has he blamed Ted yet?
So this guy is out of the hospital?
Didn’t he die from a coronary the other day or something?
Didn’t he die from a coronary the other day or something?
“Michael Moore says trash from Toronto contributed to Flint’s environmental woes”
I’d always thought MM was from Flint, not Toronto.
Gee, that fat man hates Canada for reasons I don’t get (ideological purity or something, I reckon)
So he’s back from his visit to Cuba where he elected to take advantage of their superior health care system?
Oh my, I’m shocked and appalled that he’d blame my country for something like this (sarc). After all, he’s lectured about how the United States could learn from Canada concerning things ranging from gun control to health care to people here allegedly not needing to lock their front doors.
Flint:
Generations of democrat rule
No money for the water infrastructure
Plenty of money for union pensions
He’s just dissing Ted Cruz. After the primary season, Canada will be OK again.
“Michael Moore says trash from Toronto contributed to Flint’s environmental woes”
He’s just trying to draw attention away from the fact that it was one day of his bowel movements that caused the environmental crisis.
Canadian trash???
Oh my, I seem to remember that being one of Jennifer Granholm (D)’s wonderful plans while governor.
But hey, it’s discovered while a Republican has the office, so blame Republicans!
He blames everybody except the people who voted for forty years of Democratic failure, and the Democratic politicians who voted for the switch to that sweet Flint River drinking water.
Michigan is good ski country, and nothing builds a new mountain like lots of landfill trash.
Oh yeah, wasn’t Granholm born a CANADIAN citizen???
Exactly! Why didn’t he go to France or Cuba for his medical care?
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