Tootfinder

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

France is providing a wonderful example of why if and when we dumped the British Monarchy, a Canadian Republic would probably be best not to go to a fully elected Presidential system but rather keep the appointed and largely powerless Constitutional head of state with the same Parliamentary system.
There is something to be said for not only the simplicity of our Parliamentary system but also the election of MPs that turn into a Cabinet and PM.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #Republican https://journa.host/@w7voa/115175872332891929

From Press Progress
Why the Flight Attendants’ Strike Was ‘A Perfect Storm’ for Labour
The government's 'eyebrow-raising' penchant for breaking up strikes met its match in the woman-dominated workforce
#canpoli #cdnpoli

This goes for Canada as well.
Clinging stubbornly to the fossil resource economy is killing the future competitiveness of this country.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115338694969299974

Ensuring the sovereignty and security of Canadian health data | CMAJ #canpoli
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/197/26/E763

Now THIS is interesting.
Christia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, posing for a photograph holding a Ukrainian made drone in a Ukraine factory.
Smells like a case of “we’re gonna give you this one job for internal politics, but you can still do XYZ on the side that you’re actually good at.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #ukraine #russiaUkraineWar #carney
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/4036162-shmyhal-visits-innovative-ukrainian-defense-enterprise-with-international-partners.html

From The Conversation
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Mark Carney has long been recognized as an authority on climate change. In 2015, as the governor of the Bank of England, he gave his famous “tragedy of the horizon” speech that introduced climate change to bankers as a threat to international financial stability.
🧵1/4
#canpoli

"I have made [PM Mark Carney] very popular”
"We're going to be talking about Gaza”
"We could have peace in the Middle East”
he jokes “The Merger of Canada and USA”
Carney: ‘that's not where I was going”
Carney looks bemused as The American Fascist talks about the ‘hell hole' that DC was.
he's talking about "zero" people coming through the south border.
... Carney doing his best to keep a straight face... the things that must be going through his mind as the Fascist rambles about Canada benefiting from Venezuelan boats being blown up.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #US

I found this in the back as I was cleaning up in case we need to evacuate.
Am I being too subtle?
cc: @…
#EndFossilFuels #bclng #underwoodfire #portalberni #canpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #climatedisaster #bcwildfire #ourWorldOnFire

He's very very obviously doing the Donald Trump/MAGA white victim thing.
The only question is whether Canadians will succumb and suffer all the consequences for actual freedoms like the USA did.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

Long post! #immigration #TFW #BC #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #University #ForeignWorkers
I’ve been looking for hard numbers on foreign workers/international student workers. This story on cuts at Coast Mountain College in Prince Rupert surprisingly included examples!
As of March 28, 2025 (presumably in Prince Rupert):
McDonald's: 50 of 80 employees on temporary visas
Safeway: 50% of its 78 staff
Save On Foods: 35%
Tim Hortons: 30%
Skeena Taxi: 60%
Chances Casino: 55%
Crest Hotel: 35%
Three other local restaurants were 100% per cent reliant on temporary foreign workers.
— I want to make clear — I am not 'anti-immigrant’ — I am anti-business using cheap, exploitative, labour.
I am also against public universities/colleges (and thus government) relying on exorbitant tuitions to fund domestic programs, also admitted by a former President of CMC here!
"“Pursuing international students was a strategy developed when I chaired the board at Coast Mountain College," Prince Rupert Mayor Herb Pond said. "It wasn't a money grab, but rather a tactic to build out a broader offering of courses for the sake of local students. Pond added that he suspects the restrictions on foreign students will limit what the college is able to offer to Prince Rupert students.””
Governments and public institutions thave gotten drunk on international tuition to pad education budgets just like businesses have got drunk on high profit margins from hiring low-cost TFWs and raising consumer prices!
It's a money grab on both ends and in the middle are exploited immigrants and young Canadians looking for work.
"Many businesses struggle to recruit residents or convince Canadians from other regions…resulting in heavy reliance on international students and temporary foreign workers to pick up the slack."
This is a Business-Industry lie! Try applying for a minimum wage job! It's damn near impossible.
Con/Lib Government did this!
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/college-struggles-worker-supply-fades-as-immigration-changes-hammer-bcs-northwest-8247783

Apparently Mark Carney was runnin’ up that hill in support of his wife who's celebrating her 60th Birthday.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Diana Fox!
#Race #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RunningUpThatHill
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6895031

literally as I finished this post I got an email from my own employer on more cuts to the International student unit.
It's happening everywhere. The chickens have come home to roost.
There is a reckoning happening in government policy on immigration, education, health care, and the purpose of government to fund services and support workers.
Do we choose the door to the right: shut-the-borders-and-do-austerity
Or the door to the left: Reform immigration and labour laws, eliminate exploitation, encourage education and fund it through taxation of corporations and the rich.
I know which one I would prefer.
#immigration #TFW #BC #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #University #ForeignWorkers

Let’s have the “think tank” people go live in America with no single payer insurance and no money to buy any.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/115225441978516901

The Federal NDP are on Vancouver Island strategizing for the upcoming Parliament.
Interim leader Davies:
""There's an ebb and flow to politics and I view it as an opportunity for our party to regenerate, to reimagine what a bold, progressive NDP looks like on the federal scene.””
I loved Jack Layton too, but I think it is time to leave Jack to the past. They really need to find someone who is here, in this moment, and can present a real vision for Canadians to strive for and achieve that is the opposite of what the Conservatives and Red-Tory Liberals are trying to do.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Tseshaht #Hupacasath #PortAlberni #Courtenay #Tofino
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/federal-new-democrats-meet-with-nuu-chah-nulth-leaders-in-port-alberni-8243469

Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750

Carney has announced LNG Canada will be expanded to its full potential. It will produce as much GHG emissions as 75% of the entirety of the province of British Columbia does right now. Yes, that's right. BC produced 61 million tons of GHGs in 2021, LNG Canada will produce 46 million tons at full power.
I am glad communities and health professionals are demanding a full inventory of the health impacts of this infrastructure. I hope that will also include the directly attributed heating from this plant to the increase in likelihood for wildfires, heat waves, and all the rest with all those health impacts across BC and the globe.
This is a gigantic project. Canada is a gigantic Climate Problem.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #LNG #Kitimat #LNGCanada #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
Tyee article on health risks calloutI https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/11/Halt-LNG-Expansion-Health-Risks/
Emissions and energy data from CleanTechnica 2025: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/19/lng-canadas-true-cost-2-2-billion-tons-of-co₂e-over-50-years/ )
Nature: Directly attributing global heating and health impacts to “climate majors”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09450-9)
Major Projects Office: Initial Projects under Consideration: https://www.canada.ca/en/one-canadian-economy/news/2025/09/major-projects-office-of-canada-initial-projects-under-consideration.html

Why is Mark Carney doing the exact same things as Trump... just less?
#AntiScience #Austerity #EattheRich #canPoli #CdnPoli
https://mastodon.social/@Centurion480/115000106505391647

a huge moment for sovereign Aboriginal title in Canada.
How it will impact private property owned by non-Indigenous is unclear at least to me right now. But the Conservatives are freaking out insisting people will be evicted from their land.
Which is... of course.... VERY IRONIC
#bcpoli #haidagwaii #haidanation #canpoli #indigenousRights
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/bc-supreme-court-rules-haida-nation-has-sovereignty-over-haida-gwaii-8240806

The Carney government's suspension of the EV mandate has nothing to do with “pragmatism” or “moderation” as I heard an interviewee say on the CBC this morning.
It's about the Ontario car industry realizing they don't make EVs or even Hybrids that can compete with Korea, Japan, or Europe (let alone China).
People want them. BC is at 20% new (the mandated level), Quebec is at 30%. Those are the #2 and #3 most populous provinces in Canada btw.
It's politics, and... specifically with Carney, cowardice, nothing else. BC’s Energy Minister Adrian Dix called it out
“I want to say this: Their target for this year, we achieved four years ago,” Dix said of the existing federal electric vehicle mandates. “The issue here in Canada -- and I think the federal government needs to engage in this a little bit -- is first and foremost with Ontario.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #Carney #ClimateAction
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/ontario-drove-carneys-decision-to-suspend-ev-mandate-bc-energy-minister-dix/

“Even after the war ended, the atomic bomb brought invisible terror," survivor Hiroshi Nishioka, 93, said in his speech at the memorial, “Never use nuclear weapons again”
#Nagasaki #NuclearWeapons #Nuclear #Japan #USA #Russia #War #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-hiroshima-80th-anniversary-august-9-1.7605183

Glad this did not turn into a Waco situation. In fact, it doesn't look like it was even close to that. But Didulo is obviously completely off her rocker and knows how to manipulate people for money and influence in whatever scheme she dreams up.
I'm glad she's essentially the face of the Sovereign Citizen movement... making it clear it’s not a place for responsible people.
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/queen-of-canada-romana-didulo-cult-leader-bail-hearing-court-1.7627417

Short video of Didulo exiting the RCMP transport to go into her bail hearing. (She was granted bail but ordered to stay in Regina)
But I thought the most interesting thing was the very short exchange she had with someone, presumably an Indigenous person, off camera.
Off Camera Person (OFP): “Chief George Cody told you and your people to stay off Treaty 4 lands”
Didulo: “Colonial System!”
OFP: “When are you going to leave Treaty 4”
"Didulo: “Under Natural Law there is no colonial system”
OFP: “Sorry! Natural Law is Treaty Law!”
Indeed!
(I would be shocked if Didulo didn't skip town and probably try to cross the border in the middle of Montana or something… 'secure the royal puppies!’)
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli

Solar and Wind is overtaking fossil fuel electricity. The clean energy transition is happening. It is accelerating. And Canada, with its daily drama of “pipeline politics” led by grifters and so-called “populists” is nowhere to be found. A non-player. An energy backwater. Irrelevant.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #energy #future #solar #wind #LPC #CPC #NDP #GPC
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115338661547746172

The NDP put pharmacare on the map. The Liberals took it away.
If you want good policies for people, stop voting for neo-Liberals!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #Liberals #NDP https://cosocial.ca/@johnefrancis/114942443122801307

Wildfire Rankings:
#BCWildfire #BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange

no ____ sherlock: “Evidence of drought”
In 2015 we had a long drought and that was the first year *ever* #BCWildfire saw Rank 5 fires in the Coastal Fire Centre of BC. It was a fire near Squamish. I was in a municipal meeting with BC Wildfire folks at UBCM.
Climate Change is happening, has happened, and will continue until we stop forcing it. Our natural landscapes have no way to adapt.
END FOSSIL FUELS
#BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/evidence-of-drought-wesley-ridge-wildfire-burns-through-dry-conditions-8175809

The BC Green Party has a new leader! 25 year old @…
This youtube link should be cued up to the 21m50s mark when she starts her inaugural speech as leader!
Big Congrats to her!
#BCGreens #BCPoli #CanPoli #GreenParty
https://www.youtube.com/live/psZhiP6JsaQ?si=72Nvlyy-buUh07TD&t=1310

Absolutely insane. Perhaps someone should show this to the US Ambassador so he can understand perhaps who is “anti” whom.
“NEVER COME TO THE US AGAIN”
Yells a US Customs Border Agent while overtaking an Ontario driver on the interstate just south of the border in NY.
#usa #canada #border #canpoli #cdnpoli https://mstdn.ca/@chad/115269544279217138

The CBC included a clip from the South Park episode this week that features a scene with Trump, Canada, Satan and… small body parts.
Viewer Discretion is advised... i guess. lol 😂😈
#TheAmericanFascist #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Trump
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/south-park-trump-1.7593849

A big shout out to another Canadian Senator from Alberta joining the Fediverse!!
Big welcome to Senator Wells! @…
One at a time, we'll get them here!
I am sure @… had something to do with this! :)
#CanPoli #cdnPoli #Fediverse #welcome #canada #mastodon
https://mastodon.social/@KristopherWells/114926567311584683

Well Canadians are “disappointed" by your Administration's “pro-Fascist" and “51st State" tendencies... so really... pound sand, Mr Ambassador.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #TheAmericanFascist
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/atlantic-lgqhk918z/-/a-wLFqtbiSTS2I7JKeP6c_rA:a:2823982346-/0

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that a convoy-er (aka honourary Canadian Nazi Party member) is not just skipping his court date ( making him a fugitive ) but also skipping the country to go live under a criminal Nazi regime.
(Also the glasses and beard and “mouth-open-while-gesturing-with-pen-in-hand” has big middle-aged aaaahhctually-rightwing-mansplaining vibes)
#canpoli #altright #theyWereActualNazis #cdnpoli #convoy #usa #crime
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/convoy-figure-seeking-u-s-asylum-wanted-on-canada-wide-warrant-1.7620180

Fascinating that BC's population dropped marginally (2154 people) last quarter ... but it still had the second highest inter-provincial migration of any province!
If we're anything like Alberta, then it's a good bet the biggest source of decline was in temporary international residents.
#CanPoli #Immigration #Population #CdnPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli

Eyes open my kind, Canadian, anti-fascist friends. The forces of hate are organizing and training in plain sight because they have been emboldened by opportunistic and ignorant conservative politicians who see power as the only goal.
“a months-long CBC visual investigation, in collaboration with The Fifth Estate, reveals exactly where some of these groups are training.
“It's f–king unacceptable,” said Kevin Mans, the owner of Niagara BJJ in Welland, one of the martial arts studios CBC identified. “I have built a team that is pluralistic… these guys are scum.”
Active clubs are part of a decentralized white supremacist and neo-Nazi network that has grown globally in recent years, increasingly moving from online forums to real-world training groups and anti-immigration protests.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #nazi #rightwing
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/fascist-fight-club

Thanks Neo-Liberals and Conservatives of the 20th and 21st century!
"Experts say growing inequality is the result of decades of government policy choices and dramatic increases in executive pay.
And the biggest factor has been gains for the highest-earning one per cent of Canadians."
Looking at you: Liberal Party of Canada, Conservative Party ("Progressive" and not) and the neo-Liberal wing of the NDP.
#liberals #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #cpc #ndp
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/25/How-Rich-Canadians-Got-Even-Richer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Canadians who are interested in passenger rail should take a look at what is happening in Mexico right now. They have a National Railway Plan to build 3400km of passenger rail track alongside existing private freight.
CPKC (the merged Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern railway) is front and centre.
"CPKC is actively collaborating with the Mexican government to support implementation specifically for the Mexico City – Queretaro and the Saltillo – Nuevo Laredo segments,” the Class I told Vantuono. “CPKC is making steady progress, actively and closely working with Mexican authorities on technical review of project segments. That includes providing detailed assessments and alternatives to facilitate decision-making, and mutual agreements. We are working toward clear agreements that minimize shared infrastructure usage between passenger and freight services. Where interactions are unavoidable, CPKC has proposed infrastructure solutions and operational adjustments, ensuring that the impacts on freight operations and growth remains minimal.””
#Transportation #Railway #Canada #CanPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels

Hey all! This is short notice so please boost! Calling all local Canadian Journalists!
Sign ups are open until Friday at 5PM PDT!
"Independent publishing can be lonely, but it doesn’t have to be. LION Publishers wants to help news entrepreneurs across Canada connect and build new relationships.
Each group will be led by a LION community ambassador and will meet monthly from August to October to discuss the highs and lows of local publishing"
#canpoli #cdnpoli #journalism #local #BC #news

Dear Globe and Mail: IT’S NOT A F_ING “CULTURE WAR” IT’S A BUDDING FASCIST DICTATORSHIP.
But then... why should I think that the G&M would do anything different from Disney or CBS right now?
#Trump #TheAmericanFascist #GlobeAndMail #CanPoli #CdnPoli

The average undergrad tuition fee in the 1974/75 academic year in Canada, across all disciplines, was $547 ($3445 adjusted to 2025)
Fees 50 years later in 2024/25 were $7360 ($7496 adjusted)
That is more than double. 117%.
And I *know* from personal experience this is a low ball average. If I could find a breakdown by discipline or by length of study for today, some would be even more obscene.
What has changed? Any occupation outside a minimum wage paying job demands a 2-4yr undergraduate diploma or degree, if not more.
Think about the 1970s and how common it was for people to get good paying jobs, leading to careers, without even high school education. Our free education stops with high school.
My family is a good example.
Mom and Step Dad: teacher college/degree. One got a Masters mid career.
Dad: didn’t complete HS
Father in law: didn’t complete HS
Mother in law: completed HS mid-career
Leadership positions and full careers demand a Masters or PhD requiring 5-10 years of study after HS!
Add in the cost of food and housing and the massive cuts happening at all colleges and universities because of the loss of international student tuition and I am going to go out on a limb and say our students today are going to pay double the price for a far worse experience than possibly any time since the Second World War.
Public education should be free.
Food and Housing should be controlled.
If the only thing government cares about is the economy, then they are setting us up for failure, and have been for decades.
(Don’t get me started on the kinds of “values” Canadian governments demonstrate when International student tuitions are 5x more than domestic students, let alone the inherent revenue risk in that funding strategy that has now come home to roost)
#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #university #college #canada
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74/75 Source Stats Can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710015001&pickMembers[0]=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1972 / 1973&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2006 / 2007&referencePeriods=19720101,20060101
24/25 source stats can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710004501
cc: @… @…

One of the main reasons I got into municipal politics in 2014 was because it seemed all city business in #portAlberni city council was happening “in-camera" (which means a meeting, not in public).
I'm glad the integrity commissioner has ruled against Ken Sim and his ABC Party councillors. It's not complicated. The Vancouver Charter is not different from the Community Charter used by every other municipality in BC. You can't have quorum and discuss business outside a public meeting. Period.
""If Council Members meet with quorum outside of an open meeting, discuss City business, and do so in a way that moves that business along the spectrum of decision making in a material way, there is a problem — they are depriving the public of participation in the policy development and decision-making processes that serve to build public trust and
confidence in local government," Southern wrote.
"Democracy is undermined.””
#BCPoli #BCMuni #CanPoli #Integrity #PublicMeetings #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ken-sim-integrity-commissioner-1.7617152

“I can stick with the [Canadian Pension Plan], which is one of the most effective things in the world, or I can gamble with you idiots."
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #CPP #pension #AlbertaNext
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-next-panel-1.7587269

So Carney tries to force AC employees back to work after less than 12 hours. Every day, he shows the Liberal Party has abandoned working people, and Carney is just the latest. Trudeau’s government didn’t care either.
“Steven Tufts, associate professor and labour geographer at York University, says Air Canada has become dependent on the federal government to solve its labour-relations issues.
He mentioned last year's dispute between the airline and the pilots' union. Air Canada asked for the government to be ready to step in before the two sides reached a tentative agreement in September 2024.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #union #cupe #solidarity

You know how in Canadian federal politicians like to sometimes say the hard things in French during a press conference, rather than in English?
Well... this feels like that, except it's the Israeli Government telling Israelis in Hebrew about their plans for genocide and war crimes while they claim in English that everyone is anti-semitic for criticizing the actions of their government.
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Israel #Hebrew #France #Genocide #Palestine #Hamas #Gaza #IsraelApartheid

And with a thud felt on every doorstep, the Austerity Times of Mark Carney's Liberal government lands.
Massive layoffs on the way in the public service, likely starting at Canada Post.
Everyone remembers what came after the government of the last austerity-Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin*, right? RIGHT?
(shockingly, also a "Finance Guy”)
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Economy #CanadaPost #Liberalism #Centrism #Rightwing #Pandering #EndStageCapitalism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-transformation-changes-1.7643345

Given the chance, I think her words could resonate in a Provincial election against both the David Eby #BCNDP and the Rustad #BCConservatives (and whatever other parties happen to pop into existence).
It was nice to see a leader actually genuinely congratulate and lift up her rivals in the contest. A rarity these days in too many party leadership races!
Key lines from her speech:
"take on this province's billionaires, largest corporations, and big oil... who take far more than they give.
"democracy is in retreat around the globe, but I am encouraged to see young people in BC fighting back.”
"the BC Green Party has solutions”
"the BC NDP.. are making decisions based on scarcity and fear”
"David Eby... rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump's inner circle of oligarchs to buy and control even more of our province”.
"The NDP's big idea… to double down on raw resource exports.... no manufacturing, no innovation, no vision for a future beyond more foreign billionaires ripping and shipping our resources while families wait for the wealth to trickle down.”
“while workers wait for fair wages and homes we can afford, the BC NDP doubles down on MAGA backed fossil fuel projects, ignores the need to obtain consent, and refuses to care for our community members”
”The horrors that we are witnessing now are the death rattle of the old world.”
"it is up to us force a new world through”
"We can build a plan to take back the public wealth that has been looted with real taxation on the ultra wealthy”
"Build on our massive advantage of renewable energy… create thousands of jobs”
"will reclaim BC's economy for working people… together we can build a resilient thriving province that respects indigenous sovereignty and our planetary boundaries.”
“we are worthy of better, and worthy of hope. When we learn to believe that again, we can win.”
@…
#BCPoli #BCGreens #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RenewableEnergy

I haven't said anything about the #hockeyCanada trial because I am disgusted.
#believeWomen
don't @ me if you feel compelled to defend these toxic jocks.
#canada #canpoli #sexassault #toxicMasculinity #nhl #hockey

“ave US Tariff rate has risen from 2% to 16% over the past year”
"Countries must now buy access to the world's largest market (USA)”
"The USA reaffirmed CUSMA will not be subject to tariffs.”
"Actual US tariff rate on Canadian goods is actually 5.6%”.
"More than 85% of Canada/US trade is tariff free”
"Canada has the best deal of any country in the world.”
"We must do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage for Canadians”
"The Canadian government will now match the USA, by removing all tariffs on goods covered by CUSMA”
... he goes into French repeating most of this.
#Live #CBC #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Trump #TradeWar

Here is a “revolutionary idea”.
Let’s take a look at a bunch of male-dominated jobs where men are required to work more than 10-18 hours a day.
I am willing to bet that even on average they are better compensated, probably including overtime.
Now increase flight attendant compensation to be better than that.
#racetothebottom #union #aircanada #workerrights #strike #canpoli

“The airline's latest offer included a 38 per cent increase in total compensation, including benefits and pensions over four years, that it said "would have made our flight attendants the best compensated in Canada." “
Ya…. Because I am sure WestJet and ultra-budget Flair are so well compensated. 🙄
#racetothebottom
#union #aircanada #workerrights #strike #canpoli

You're damn right it is madness. We need to scrap these terrible systems.
"Suzuki says that, despite his understanding of the climate crisis, Carney — like all of us — is trapped by the economic and political systems we've created. And for Suzuki, our only hope for survival is to scrap those systems entirely.
David Suzuki joins Jayme Poisson on the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion from what a world of irreversible climate change looks like to what he describes as the "madness" of continued investment in fossil fuels to the lessons environmentalists of the future can take from the past.”
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/david-suzuki-warns-carney-of-pipeline-and-growth-madness-1.7586960