Neurodivergent, disabled, stay at home father, husband, democratic socialist, nerd. B.Sc, B.Ed.
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The CRA is in shambles due to aggressive Liberal attacks that slash funding and jobs. The Carney Liberals’ solution is to simply order CRA to fix the problem, even as Liberals continue to reduce funding. This will happen to all govt services. Carney is defunding them all to pay for militarization.
We simply do not hold premiers to account in this country. All attention and blame gets directed to the federal government regardless. A big chunk of this is the media's fault, but opposition parties, federally and provincially, also own a share of this problem because they go along with it.
Grocery stores in Canada will always claim they operate on razor thin margins, citing that they make a net profit of ~3%... what they always leave out is that the major players are all vertically integrated and many of their expenses are simply paid to a different company with the same owner
🇨🇦 #Canadasky please share 📌 Parliament is going to return soon and one of the first bills it is going to pass is Bill C2, which will give the police unprecedented powers over the lives of Canadians, including massive surveillance, and the ability to share our data with 🇺🇸.
They believe he's 6'3 with a 6 pack and rides a velociraptor into battle alongside Jesus with his golden AR-15.... I'm sure they are stupid enough to believe he wrote this
A woman is killed every 48 hours in Canada and whether she is Jewish or Muslim or Catholic or an Atheist etc. they are all important and we are not accepting national antisemitic panic from a government cutting supports for violence against women at 81%. Fuck off.
I heard that American Standard has been contracted to build the grave
Meanwhile in Canada "MORE PIPELINES!!!" - #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #abpoli newatlas.com/energy/large...
Half of Canadian media now owned by American Conservative Hedge funds. It is a huge problem. Stories are trickling out but they are framing it as an immigration/border bill without the most nefarious bits, thanks for the advice!
It will become a pipeline
In ALBERTA. TODAY. Those who seek to ban books are never on the right side of history. it's what THE WORST people with THE WORST intentions do. And they NEVER stop there. Shameful. Despicable. Disgusting. #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#ElbowsUp #RESIGNSMITH #NeverUCP #NeverSmith #DanielleSmithlsUnfitToLead #Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #ABResistance #UCPfail
Senior white male AI researcher "designs" a computer program to simulate a young Black woman. That will answer student's questions and debate with students (all TA roles) but won't be a TA. Right. Tell me you don't understand the social implications of this tech without etc etc
We don’t make fun of Danielle Smith nearly enough, as a country.
-Sigh- #handicap parking spaces are not also "I'm only going to be 5 minutes" spaces... No pass = No park!!!!
Remember folks: The #hr department is just shorthand for the 'Shareholder Protection and Worker Exploitation Department'. The full name is just to long to fit on a business card. #workers #labour #labor
Let’s say this again. Read this carefully, line-by-line, so you don’t forget. Gender affirming care is not harmful to patients. In fact, it’s actually shown to REDUCE rates of suicide in transgender people by up to 70%.
It really would be a shame if public sector workers forced to return to the office did their jobs, and only their jobs, to the exact letter of their job description since they can no longer go above and beyond due to the time requirements of commuting... yep a real shame ;)
Man, a booming renewable energy sector sure could have taken a lot of the sting out of that 5x larger than expected hole in the budget. Too bad 54% of voters fell for Smith's "I'm a moderate" schtick and now we basically have no renewable energy sector at all. #AbLeg #AbPoli
As long as media can be owned by the rich and powerful it will always become a propaganda tool. Media needs to be owned and operated by the journalist producing it's content.
#EV sales have nose dived in Canada because the #Big3 automakers; #Ford, #GM, and #Stellantis have all refused to build affordable EV's and instead focused on pickups & luxury models. The Canadian Government has aided this nose dive with #tariffs on affordable models from other countries.
There should be the option of a government run, not-for-profit, public Bank that offers all the banking services people are used to
Imagine #daniellesmith paying for her own flights? And Sam Mraiche picking up the bill doesn't count www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It would have my support
Every unionized public sector worker needs to immediately begin following work to rule processes until they are given the option of working from home again
RFK Jr. presents the new COVID vaccine, brought to you by Philip Morris International!
The thing about government policy is that it rarely has an immediate effect; there is usually a delay of months or years between when a policy is enacted and when the effects are seen.
Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡ This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity. This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏
So many Canadians rallied to support/vote for you. You, Carney, & the LPC are betraying every one, every decision so far has been to appease the far-right. Leeching us dry for handouts to trump's military and o&g billionaires, passing bills with CPC support that look like Project 2025. #cdnpoli
And just as in every other country that prioritizes it's military over its people, eventually that military will be turned against the people to keep them in line
To those being forced back to the office: 1) Form a #union if you don't already have one 2) Engage in work to rule; don't be early, don't stay late, don't cover others jobs Make return to office less #productive that #workfromhome and drive up the employers costs. #rto #labor #labour
She had a blast
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
Fossil fuels are not a driver of job creation : Oil and Gas Loses Economic Clout as Jobs Per Barrel Drop 43% www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-...
Electrification efforts will only succeed through respectful partnerships with Indigenous nations. Join us and Indigenous Power Coalition on Sept 8 for a webinar highlighting Indigenous-led projects that have played a leading role in electricity transmission dvp climateinstitute.ca/events/carry...
A mistake was made decades ago when #healthcare in Canada was left as an area of Provincial responsibility. It should be federal as the care you receive shouldn't be dependant upon the ideology of which province you live in. #cdnpoli #abpoli
Ours served as the top of the turnbuckle when re-enacting wrestling; parents didn't care since we could only hurt ourselves jumping from it.
Yeah got the tickets right after I saw your post down at Landmark in Shawnessy... just told me kid and she's excited.
I saw your post and am now taking my kid tomorrow :) How much is the glowing wand going to cost me... I'm nervous
This is something we should all support, since #colonialism isn't just large scale oppressive actions but also includes thousands of small things that quickly add up www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... #cdnpoli #education
When you consider that governments in Canada (at all levels) spend millions per year on Microsoft (and other US companies) products the economics of hiring Canadians to implement open source alternatives, with full Canadian control, makes it 100% doable... Microsoft lobbyists are the problem
People like to think that Canada is some beacon of love and light but corruption in our politics and policing now rivals America.
Do you know what it would actually take from the US to free Palestine? All you have to do is get out; no more money, no more weapons, no more UN Security Council vetos.
Nobody’s free until Palestine is free.
I am not, and will never be, loyal to any party. They either earn my vote with their actions and to a lesser degree with their platform or they don't.
Pierre Poilievre doubles down on trans hate while pretending to champion ‘free speech’ “Parroting Donald Trump’s talking points and disdain for the trans community, the CPC leader is attacking a tiny, vulnerable minority to score cheap points with the anti-woke crowd.” | @mtltoula.bsky.social
You can't please the man baby; he'll be back with new demands over and over until we submit to being the 51st state to protect our economy. That's his end game. Only 1 county has forced Trump to back down and that was China... And they did it by actually hitting back, not by placating him.
We owe you our thanks, not the other way around, for freely contributing your knowledge, expertise, and insights. Thank you.
Trump: "Drop the DST or I'm cancelling trade talks" Carney: "Yes Sir Mr. President" Trump: "Now drop the counter tariffs" Carney: "Yes Sir Mr. President" Trump: "Now become the 51st state" Carney: "Yes Sir Mr. President
So after another Carney capitulation today, are we all ready to understand that after Bill C2 passes he won’t have to give us hockey analogies anymore as to why he is appeasing Trump because he will have the police means to silence all dissent? This is time sensitive. Please pay attention. #cdnpoli
@mark-carney.bsky.social has officially surrendered to Trump... it's no longer #elbowsup, it's now #elbowsdown www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The Alberta government doesn't have money to help support people with disabilities, meanwhile they're proposing to give BILLIONS in taxpayer money to delinquent oil & gas companies to let them dodge their cleanup obligations. #ABLeg #ABPoli
Yet another example of why fixed fines are just fees to the rich. A rich #bombardier board member knows that even if they are caught breaking the law the fines won't have any impact on them. We need fines proportional to wealth across Canada and at all levels www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It once again gives me great pleasure to drop this immutable fact of city-building. We build our cities the most expensive way possible. #yyc #yyccc #Sprawl #UrbanSprawl #Density
They were far too quick to jump to legislated return to work. Employers are refusing to negotiate in good faith BECAUSE they expect immediate government intervention. 4 times in approx 18 months - it’s now a baked-in strategy for employers. That must end - Docks - Rail - #Canada Post - Air Canada
The government did interfere; 12 hours into the strike they tried to use back to work legislation, but the Union refused to go back and Union leadership pretty much dared the government to put them in jail
Oslo has proven it works. #housingfirst
They’re flooding the field with human rights violations, assaults on our legal processes, and attacks on marginalized Canadians in Canada too it is all just 300x more subtle but once you pay attention it is very 🇺🇸 jr.
#AI is a modern Pandora's box; it's been opened and released all of its evils, and we can't put them back. Remaining inside however is the potential to give people significantly more free time to pursue their passions but that will require things like #UBI and anti resource hoarding legislation.
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!
Mark Carney plans to significantly cut other areas of government so we can give the military $150 billion per year. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Better idea, we use his money to house thousands of homeless people and give him a cardboard box under a bridge to live in... Just need to make sure he's nowhere near a school
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau admitted on Bloomberg that their negotiation strategy was to just have the government force the union back to work.
The CBC's budget is approx. a 50/50 split between the Federal Government and private advertising... And both those groups are anti-worker rights. The CBC should be both 100% publicly funded and completely independent from government influence... But that's a dream right now
UBI would be truly transformative for so many aspects of life, society, and culture. that, universal healthcare, and free postsecondary education.
People reference frame for what constitutes 'a lot' of money is largely determined by prices / wages when they were young and don't adjust for the effects of inflation. That's why people today can technically make more money than their parents but be poorer.
The transition to a #green #energy world isn't going to involve a single technology like fossil fuels did. It's going to require a multitude of different generation, storage, and transmission technologies; each based on task and location requirements.
No. Shifting the burden from a billion dollar private enterprise, that pays its CEO $12 million a year, into the public purse (in the form of lost tax revenue) is simply wrong. Air Canada needs to pay them or we need to re-nationalize Air Canada.
100% This!
Pretty sure a C average is too intelligent for ICE, the D minus students are more their speed
Not everyone you meet is going to be "your people."
Poll support is meaningless if it doesn't translate into a ballot box threat to the Liberal Party. As long as the party can rely on people voting for it regardless of how it acts, then the party has no incentive to take the opinions of its supporters into account when making decisions.
If you are disgusted at Minister of Jobs Patty Hajdu's decision to strip Air Canada flight attendants of their basic right to bargain like I am please send an actual physical letter rather than an e-mail. Email is easier to automate a response to and in Canada letters to MP's are postage free
There is no reason for an employer to bargain in good faith if they know that they can rely on the government to intervene on their behalf.
Because every political party that has formed a government at the federal level in Canada for at least the last 40 years puts corporations above Canadians
You are a disgrace for doing this to flight attendants and you are a coward for not facing it here.
Saddened to learn today that shíshálh Nation researchers for the St. Augustine's Residential School in BC have, through Survivor testimony, historical research, and archaeological technology, located an additional 41 unmarked burials: shishalh.com/2025/08/15/s...
Solidarity! #nevervoteliberal #nevervoteconservative
I always love paying the disability tax to get necessary forms filled out by my doctor... Thanks Danielle Smith! /s #disability #abpoli #healthcare
Prime Minister Mark Carney eliminated the Ministry of Labour for a reason. After a decade of the government strike-breaking it looks to get worse. There is a simple solution: solidarity. Every strike, every industry, no matter the inconvenience. We support each other 🇨🇦.
- The current personal contribution limit is $1,750; way beyond the means of the average Canadian, effectively excluding them - 3rd party advertising is a political donation, even if it doesn't legally count as one, as is the rewarding of politicians with employment when they leave office
As long as success in politics is dependent upon political donations it will be impossible to achieve actual democracy because politicians and parties will always put their donors interests ahead of the constituents. Ban donations and make campaigns publicly funded. #cdnpoli
Must read thread
Yet another article about worker shortages that fails to tell us about offered pay and conditions. Please journalist - just ask. Or, failing that, look at online job ads. Its not hard. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
You know what would actually reduce crime and homelessness? Universal healthcare, free education, affordable housing and a basic living wage. When people have their most basic needs met, they have happier and healthier lives. Those hoarding the wealth don’t want to give us those things.
China is retaliating against tariffs Canada placed on them first (specifically the 100% tariff on Chinese made EV's); exactly what many of us are calling on the federal government to do in response to US tariffs
Political partisanship is hivemind of the highest order. Same people who will make fun of people who worship pop stars in fandoms. Worshipping people who have continually shown you they do not care about your material conditions or if you live or die is cultish and anti-intellectual.
This is why Canada needs a cross country HVDC transmission system. With the plethora of clean, renewable energies available coast to coast our entire grid can be swapped over.
Is there a difference?
Odds are that not only did his fellow officers know he is a racist POS, his superiors did too. Now that he's been exposed, he gets a nice paid vacation before maybe receiving a slap on the wrist www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #defundthepolice
The military industrial complex that so many politicians are beholden to is depending on that money being reallocated from social programs for decades to come. A Ukrainian victory puts their profits at risk and every country in Nato puts corporate profits ahead of its own people. 2/2
47 is pushing for #ukraine to surrender territory because there is a very real risk that Russia is going to lose the war of attrition, and if a country of 42 million can hold off Russia with a fraction of the current #Nato budget (excluding the US), there is no need for trillions in new spending 1/
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They tell us to buy Canadian 🇨🇦 while Carney is giving all of our money to America 🇺🇸 to poison us.
CANADA TRADE UPDATE: 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
#opensource software like #linux or #gnu is essentially the digital equivalent of #socialism... and it makes the digital world go round. Without open source there is a very good chance none of the digital technologies we enjoy would exist.