this is heinous and destructive. None of these people should ever be near power again
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this is heinous and destructive. None of these people should ever be near power again
I’m seeing the little red man today
A fun thing to remember on Labour Day is that Mark Carney eliminated the Cabinet role Minister of Labour, a position that had existed for more than a century under governments of all stripes, and Canada is currently without a labour minister for the first time since 1909.
*me sitting in back with my ballcap on backwards* “uhh what’s the story on the jiggle physics?”
we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before
Happy Labour Day! I wrote about how the Canadian government has been addicted to strikebreaking for decades
Here’s how to avoid appropriating French culture: - Use the toilet
Happy Yes Day!
OK hear me out: The Longue Dureé at Bernie's
Fuck Alberta Day. This is and always will be Labour Day. Solidarity with the workers of the world. ✊🏻
Cool cover
What’s the penguin classic in back?
Did it. My ass is so sore.
🙏
About to cycle an imperial century (100 miles) today through the mountains. Wish me luck on this potential death ride.
Why do all the bugs fly for my mouth hole when I’m night cycling
This will still be nationalized when the time comes www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I thought the secret service knew about the hit Vince McMahon had out for Trump. Shocking incompetence tonight.
Wow I can’t believe Stone Cold Steve Austin killed Trump today
Where is this photo from?
God I hope so
Asked about Ayn Rand being included on the EPSB list of books that would violate the age-appropriate rules by the province, Premier Smith suggests Ayn Rand should be mandatory reading in schools.
Like $25 billion, so multiple times the original budget
We are going to blow so much public money lmaoooo
The Minister of Articial Intelligence using an AI tool to incorrectly summarise a bill that would regulate AI tools is so perfectly on-the-nose and also a terrifying glimpse into how bad things are going to get.
Astounding how much of it is science fiction and fantasy
Bought my first ever cycling spandex. Shorts seem fine, but the jersey seems a little loose. Was tricky converting between Asian and North American sizing.
My clothes just arrived this moment too lol
They used to within the last 30 years
Looks like you found a Quebec Anglo, they can be truly deranged politically
The leftwing Saskatchewan NDP under Roy Romanow did this in the 90s (hospitals they built too!) and they’ve been shut out of power for almost 20 years by a right wing party that took full political advantage of what these closures did to the NDP’s rural base.
Damn that’s an odd law
Where are they getting these figures lol? Theres no way there’s only 8 mosques in Italy.
This is literally what people in the comments beneath municipal politics stories say
Insightful writing on deindustrialization and capitalist industrial heritage in Marysville (Fredericton), NB, by recently graduated @histstudiesunb.bsky.social student Noah Schwarz.
I’m a big fan as well, especially since it’s capturing this struggle as the Appalachian coal fields deindustrialize
Well it’s finally come to it, I’ve ordered cycling spandex
imagine actually writing the sentence "Hamas propaganda lines such as 'stop killing children'"
*dumps a piece of coal on the table* “alright folks, you’re about to learn how advancing long wall mining worked in the 70s”
People asked if I was nervous for my defense when all I was thinking about was the joy of Having one dozen people trapped in a room with me as explained the history of Canadian federal crown corporation
Isaac Chotiner interviewed Biden's close friend and last ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and in the interview Jack Lew explicitly defends Israel killing children. Lew's defense of this is so offensive that Isaac Chotiner interrupts him twice and then says outright that he's wrong.
I give em the finger every time I see one
I unfortunately have not amassed a store of juicy gossip in my stop/start career
I would simply stop posting if I had money
I once asked for an exception to a prerequisite to get in and then immediately dropped it when the first class was full of zany sound effects and social contract theory
Lmao
I’d drop the class like any prof who implicitly or explicitly admitted they have a liberal theory of the state
Unlike the Us, thank goodness in Canada our central bank has the political independence to take over our govt
They're not endorsing the use of dog shampoo for humans
Helped a friend and got an old Fitbit out of it, and it’s giving me zone minutes less than my actual travel time despite average speeds of 20km/hr or more on my bike. Then it awarded me boat shoes for the day. What the fuck is this bourgeois nonsense?!
It's crazy that Alberta was a hotbed of straight up communism in the early 1900s. Unbelievable what the Oil Brain Worms do to a mf.
Retvrn to coal
I think we can all wish cast on this
Imagining a job where they give you a spear and an extremely vertical living space
I gotta say I noticed the size too, and how all that space is stolen land www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Flaming Summer Sky Robert Newton Hurley 1974
I just assumed it was the Canadian cheese brand. You know, you put cheese on crackers, and there’s a barrel related somehow.
I noticed this too. Top notch casting
Eastward Swell Katharine Burns 2024
Thinking about starting a grift in Canada by claiming Swiss Chalet has gone woke
Apparently, like all ancient American traditions under threat it was founded in the 1960s and is a chain restaurant.
Learning a lot about Yankee decadence today because of this thing called “Cracker Barrel”
Trump expiring less than a year into his term
Canada defunded Canada World Youth and cut funding to Katimavik years ago. Those are actual youth service programs, unlike compulsory military service.
It was shit, but at least the promise was it couldn’t get worse
Thinking about moving back to living in the end of history
You’ll be able to outrun them
Get a better bike if you don’t what this to happen
"Archaeologists have found evidence of multi-generational Indigenous and African-descendant communities living as fugitives ー or maroons ー in the Dismal Swamp, escaping slavery and colonial encroachment." - Sophia Richter niche-canada.org/2024/06/05/a... #blackhistory #enslavement #ushistory
A Canadian employers’ association attempting to portray striking workers as unpatriotic Trump supporters. Some real sour grapes from losers! www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
I had a 6 hr layover there in June, and since I’d just gotten off a red eye I just slept through it on a bench. The ceilings are so low, it’s oppressive.
NEW from me in Jacobin: With a deal now in sight, Air Canada flight attendants' defiance of the government's back-to-work order shows the power of a defiant, adversarial labor movement. jacobin.com/2025/08/air-...
Library and Archives Canada will happily put them in storage to remain unprocessed forever because of understaffing
That guy even went through Falun Gong too lol
The latest inflation data for car & home insurance, by province. Alberta absolutely in a league of its own here.
There's not much Nova Scotians can do about Northern Pulp now. But they should remember this saga — the disgusting pollution, the financial irresponsibility, the generous handouts — the next time a big multinational company asks to assault the province in the name of jobs.
Renationalize Air Canada
Air Canada CEO just said the quiet part out loud. He admitted to expecting the federal government to intervene.
i like how dismissive the term nanny state is of a big group of women whose job it is to keep people from swallowing poison and running into traffic. you just see how far you get without nannies eh you see how that goes
Last year I did a podcast episode about this subject if you’re interested albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/11/28/c...
Quitting together can be deemed an illegal strike under Canadian labour law, and people punished for it
Strikes are never illegal if you win
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*sending a song to my partner* “I have thoroughly vetted it by listening to it 50 times to ensure correct vibes”
Truly funny to get the hopes up of American liberals that they’re about to be subjected a brutal Canadian occupation where we extract as much equalization out of the lower 48 as possible
Absolutely, but someone even broaching the topic would be cool to start
Imagine the response if elected officials in this country went to conferences and endorsed expropriating the rich. Would be extremely rad actually.
All empires will burn
Pretty good plotline for real life
Bring a ham sandwich to the guy in charge of time is a plot point in S5 of the Magicians
There’s always been one emergency brake on all of this - the boundless creative of working people globally.