Tootfinder

between oil pipelines and laws controlling "religious acts”... Canada is really hitting it out of the park on progressivism on the BBC today.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #BBC

Looks like May won't be voting for another Carney budget!
Prediction: This government will fall before Canada Day 2026.
Carney will become one of the shortest-term Prime Ministers in Canadian history.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #Carney
https://globalnews.ca/news/11554632/elizabeth-may-carney-budget-vote-mistake-climate-alberta-deal/

L'analyse de Chantal Hébert vaut toujours le détour. Ici, elle intervient sur les ondes de Radio-Canada sur les propos récents très troublants Š la Trump de Pierre Poilievre.
#cdnpoli

Steven Guilbeault lays out the truth. Canada will not reach its climate targets.
““[Carney] thinks we’ll be able to do this with the market, with private investment. Of course, we have to do that, but I also think we need to have regulations in place to ensure that we achieve the goals we have set for ourselves. And by abandoning many of these measures, that becomes impossible.
“I mean, if we are honest with Canadians, we can no longer achieve our targets for 2030 with the announcements that have been made recently. It’s not possible.””
... he goes on to say Danielle Smith is (effectively) Donald Trump.
"“In my opinion, she is not a reliable partner in this negotiation.””
It is now abundantly clear that the Liberal Party and all Canadians really did lose something when Mark Carney became Prime Minister.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ABPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-guilbeault-carney-9.6998944

From Press Progress
A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining
More often than not, governments across Canada sided with corporations instead of workers.
#canpoli #cdnpoli

A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining
More often than not, governments across Canada sided with corporations instead of workers.

Sorry, guys. We're gonna have to wait a while longer for an election.
#cdnpoli

Dear Canada Liberals and BC NDP
#canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency
https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/115601699541128354

"What's Fuelling White Nationalism in Canada?"
A new episode of the Rundown from TVO.
#cdnpoli

“We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”
I wonder if PM Carney and the Liberal Party of Canada will invite the architects of Mamdani’s plan to their next Cabinet meeting like they did for Trump’s Project 2025.
#probablyNot
#canpoli #cdnpoli #usa #mamdani #carney #rightwing #democraticSocialism
PS: If the NDP isn’t making plans to copy Mamdani, they’re fools.
https://mastodon.social/@cemedia/115825822199562333

The new pro-Pipeline Minister is working out very well, I see. Tres bien, bien sûre.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #french #carney #tictoc #climate #oil #endfossilfuels

Trump big mad again cuz Ford used Reagan’s words.
Hilarious.
The weirdest thing about all this is this is all fighting amongst varying shades of right wing capitalists…
My question is… where are the social democrat alternatives to all this? I hear it amongst real people… but it is basically absent from mainstream politics.
Maybe the people need to change that.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #theAmericanFascist

A Saskatchewan premier using a nautical reference always makes me giggle.
It's too bad that's the only funny thing about Scott Moe and his government's long and destructive grip on power in that province.
#SaskPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/scott-moe-sask-2025-choppy-waters-year-end-9.7019581

Trudeau was criticized by some who thought his policies somehow acquiesced to every demand by any First Nation. But really what his Ministry did first was show that there was a way of communication of respect and dialogue.
Clearly the new Federal Minister of Energy has some learning to do if he wants the Federal government to have any chance at a relationship that results in them achieving any of the government's goals.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #FirstNations #Respect #FPIC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/energy-minister-hodgson-apologizes-zoom-comment-coastal-first-nations-9.6997207

wow. Looks like my MP has played a not small role in ensuring that the budget passed by abstaining with one of his colleagues.
That said two Conservative MPs also abstained and it sounds like both Sheer and another CPC MP were also prepared to abstain if needed using a weird procedural thing with online vs in person voting.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ndp

we should definitely be focusing on Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS, not CCS like the PM calls it) and new oil pipelines and not utility scale battery systems on our electrical grids.
#canPoli #cdnpoli #EndFossilFuels #battery #climateEmergency https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/115811671666496542

“my letter wasn’t about that malicious contrarian’s record of racist utterances.
The writers of the original article resigned in protest in September and today there was a mass walkout of journalists at the Pentagon, protesting new “rules” imposed by the Trump Administration….
Press Freedom is not negotiable.
Canadians need to seriously consider whether it is time for Canadian ownership to be a requirement for the canadian press.”
#charliekirk #pressfreedom #cdnpoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/2025/10/16/press-freedom-is-not-negotiable-a-rewrite-under-protest/

On the “Frat house” stuff
PP: “CBC has had to correct the falsehoods…”
... then he asks the (CBC) reporter a question…
(classic trump moves)
eventually he seems to say "no" not a frat house... but then he goes back to trying to discredit the media by asking the reporter questions.
Avoiding the question is an admission... yes... of course it is a frat house in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership.
#CBC #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-press-conference-caucus-defection-9.6976025

Beaverton is hitting it out of the park today.
"Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself Premier of BC”
"“This is a matter for the courts, probably,” Carney said. “It’s not my place to get involved in interprovincial issues. Unless the extraction industry asks me to. Wait, have they asked? No? Not yet? Okay, then let the courts handle it until then.””
lol
(and the Eby "quote" about First Past the Post lol!)
#ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/danielle-smith-uses-notwithstanding-clause-to-declare-herself-premier-of-b-c/

Flying sucks.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #transportation
https://chrisalemany.ca/2025/11/07/140-years-ago-we-were-connected/

Poillievre's shrinking caucus made it to the BBC. It might be an interesting leadership review in January, but I honestly don’t see anyone else ready to step into his position if he was forced into a leadership race.
"Polling shows Poilievre remains popular with the majority of Conservatives, though that margin is shrinking. An Angus Reid poll released on Thursday revealed 58% of recent Conservative voters back Poilievre, down from 68% in August.”
#CanPoli #CPC #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

the more I hear Liberal MPs and others justifying the MOU, it is just.... infuriating. The oil and gas and nuclear focused messaging and greenwashing is at extreme levels.
This Liberal Canadian government is the worst environmental government since Harper.
And the paternalistic approach to First Nations consultation is a massive step back.
Canada, just days after COP30 closed, has screamed from the rooftops its willingness to burn the planet down.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #climate #environment

In other news, the Federal NDP leadership debate is starting at 4PM PST! Get the link by rsvp here. There is one Fediverse connected candidate @…
Tangle Johnston from Vancouver Island!
#ndp #fediverse #canpoli #cdnpoli

Respect. (Updated with statement)
Guilbeault isn't perfect and had to go along with a lot of things, like TMX under Trudeau. But it is clear there were tradeoffs... I am willing to bet a northern pipeline and tanker ban was one of those tradeoffs for agreeing to buy TMX.
He should join the NDP or Greens.
edit: Montreal Gazette has more:
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberals #CPC

Hard not to see the wisdom, in the long term, of diversifying Canada’s manufacturing and defence processes. In the short term though, imagine the hissy fit #TheAmericanFascist will have if Carney signs up with Saab instead of more Lockheed.
It would be an act of sovereignty.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #defense #military #f35 #saab #gripen
https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/choose-your-friends-wisely-there-are-13-000-good-reasons-why-canada-should-buy-swedens/article_de9fcb7d-3950-4569-8bbd-c78a5e9112a2.html

"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

When Doug Ford... DOUG FORD... comes across as the conciliatory, nice guy…?
"“What do they expect me to do? Sit back and roll over like every other person in the world?” he said, adding the video was “successful” with over 11.4 billion impressions.
“So why doesn't the president start being nice? Play nice in the sandbox to his biggest customer in the entire world and everything's hunky dory," Ford said.”
Let's face it Canadian friends, the USA is not a nice trading partner. This is a full on abusive relationship and the quicker we can extract ourselves from it, the better.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #Trade #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-us-ambassador-apology-ad-9.6958531

“At press time Loblaws has drawn crowds with their Black Friday sales, in which groceries are marked down to “the low low price of what groceries cost in 2019!””😂😂🤬
#CanPoli #Canada #CdnPoli #BlackFriday #Beaverton #FoodBank #Jobs #Satire
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/huge-black-friday-lineup-turns-out-to-just-be-for-food-bank/

"Oléoduc" is the best word I have ever seen for oil pipeline!
Also... oily Canada reputation spreading far and wide.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #bitumen #oil #climatechange #abpoli #france
https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/115625149716863385

This is so damning. The top of the CBC story (JP Tasker reporting)
“Smith said she got Carney to back down on most of the Trudeau-era "nine bad laws," as she calls them, that restricted oil and gas development in Alberta.
Carney, meanwhile, says he got Alberta to buy into the Pathways carbon capture project to try and decarbonize the oil pumped out of the province.”
It would be like Putin saying he got Zelenskyy to back down on Donbas and Crimea, but Zelenskyy says Putin agreed to security guarantees from Russia and the USA.
Carney = Capitulator
Also... YOU CAN'T DECARBONIZE OIL.
ffs. what a stupid statement.
Maybe Putin will De-TNT his Ballistic Missiles.
#baitandswitch #climateEmergency #ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/alberta-ottawa-memorandum-of-understanding-energy-deal-pipeline-bc-9.6993431

"Nine members of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus are facing recall petitions — enough to potentially tip the balance of power in the legislature.”
Imagine... IMAGINE... if the a majority-government in Canada lost their majority through recalls. Epic.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Democracy
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/six-more-alberta-government-mlas-face-recall-petitions/

Leader of the BC Greens @… has some choice words.
"This pipeline will never happen, and we'll make f*ing sure of it”
👍👍
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #Greens #GPC #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115623697970750137

I have believed for a long time now that humanity has proven incapable of a 'gradual decline' of anything that it is truly dependent on even if alternatives are available.
We seem pre-programmed to use something to the max... hit rock bottom in terms of impacts on our own health and general well being… and then go pretty much cold turkey. (either through replacement or outright abstinence).
I believe it will be the same with fossil fuels.
We are possibly seeing a slight reduction now globally in overall use of oil. But it is still far and away too too much.
Maybe we’ll cut this by 10% or 20% in the next 10 or 20 years... but zero by 2050? Not a chance.
I believe we will go and go and go, until one day we can go no more, the pressure is too great, the casualties too high, the effects too devastating, and the impact of complete shutdown of the fossil fuel industry in less than 5 years will seem less bad than the damage we have already done and are sure to suffer in future.
I hope I live to see that day, not out of morbidity, but out of hope. I want to die knowing we finally did it. I don't know if that's going to happen.
Not an uplifting prediction, I know, but seriously, tell me I'm wrong.
#CanPoli #Cdnpoli #ClimateCatastrophe #Oil #Gas #EndFossilFuels
chart from the 2025 IEA report: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/018c3361-bc01-4482-a386-a5b2747ae82a/Oil2025.pdf

Hey Generous Folks -- I wanted to put a message up for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. #16DaysAgainstGBV #16Days
Rather than an ask for donations, I want to encourage you to find your local spaces in your own community that help women and people of all genders who are fleeing gender based violence or intimate partner violence.
Maybe *you* can raise a few dollars, volunteer at a local space, or help out in other ways. Maybe you've never done that. It might seem scary! I guarantee you, you'll love it. Whether you raise $50 or $500, or nothing at all, by becoming part of it, you'll make a difference
I'm signing up, as I have for a few years now, for another year at Coldest Night of the Year (#IntimatePartnerViolence #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli

Thank God for the good and sane people defending their traditional territories in BC's north coast.
“As the Rights and Title Holders of the Central and North Coast and Haida Gwaii, we are here to remind the Alberta government, the federal government, and any potential private proponent that we will never allow oil tankers on our coast, and that this pipeline project will never happen,” Slett said."
#FirstNations #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Pipeline #ABPoli #BCPoli #CanPoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/11544657/bc-first-nations-dismiss-pipeline-mou/

So I see that now that Blue Canada has its conservative Prime Minister, Poillievre is on the chopping block.
Simultaneous stories yesterday in the Globe and Mail, CBC, questions on Parliament Hill, CPC Caucus “sources".
The Powers That Be are done with Pierre. I'll be happy to see him go... but those same 'powers’ are not laying the groundwork for someone less or even as extremist as Pierre.
Which means we'll continue marching rightward like the USA, and be vulnerable to the same kind of Nazi-glorifying autocrat taking power.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #CPC #Rightwing
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievre-okay-conservative-leader-image/
(Free archive link: https://archive.ph/pJqyK)

I'll reserve full judgement for when the actual agreement is public... but here's the hot-take on the 75% reduction in methane emissions in 10 years.
Which emissions?
And show me a target Canada has ever hit.
Details. I want details, plans, concrete actions to make it happen.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #LNG #Oil #BCPoli #ABPoli
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pipeline-agreement-includes-new-target-of-75-per-cent-cut-in-methane-emissions/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

The most beautiful democratic act happening right now in Canada is in Alberta, yes Alberta, where constituents are using the new - easier to reach - petitioning and recall rules enacted by the current UCP government to launch recall campaigns on UCP Members of the Legislature.
This is the 3rd one to be approved to move on to the signature-gathering stage!
*chefskiss*
#ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nolan-dyck-recall-petition-9.6988293?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

May this haunt Mark Carney for his entire tenure as Prime Minister as #TMX did for Trudeau.
Our federal Liberal and Conservative revolving door governments are simply incapable of extricating themselves from oil…
Canada will continue to literally burn because of it.
#EndFossilFuels #ClimateSellout #ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli

You are going to hear alot about a multi billion dollar greenwash--- err "carbon capture" project that oilsands companies will be "required"
to use/invest in as a quid pro quo for a NWBC oil pipeline.
Ya no. FN in Cold Lake says no thanks.
Take your fake-capture grift somewhere else.
#endfossilfuels #climatechange #climateEmergency #greenwash #canpoli #CdnPoli
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/chief-in-alberta-teams-up-with-environmental-groups-to-try-and-stop-carbon-capture-project/

Details of the MOU as reported by CBC. Hot Take:
It's a sh_t show of oil soaked hopeium and climate defeatism.
- Shovels in Ground by 2029 *(may this be forever extended)
- Tanker Ban will be lifted if the project is approved by MPO *(Coastal First Nations setting rhetorical fire to MPO in 3-2-1)
- July 1, 2026 deadline for submission to MPO *(OIL CANADA DAY)
- 75% methane emissions cut on 2014 levels from methane by 2035 *(*shaking head* We are VERY GOOD at hitting 10 year targets *shaking head*)
- "both sides commited to net-zero by 2050” (implied via CCS) *(carbon capture and storage? should be Carney Can't Stop -- Emissions)
- industrial carbon price of $130 -- down from $170
*(Oil Industry - Very Poor)
- Alberta exempt from fed O&G emissions cap and clean electricity regulation *(Woop Coal! Let's Mine the Rockies!)
- No private proponents have been announced. *(Hear No Evil)
- No pipeline path/route has been announced. *(See No Evil)
#TMX #EndFossilFuels #ClimateSellout #ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
Since multiple Ottawa CBC reporters seem utterly incapable of understanding what First Nations groups are what in BC here are some facts about the Coastal First Nations. It has existed since 2003.
https://coastalfirstnations.ca/about/
"The Great Bear Initiative Society (a non-profit society under the BC Societies Act), also known as Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative (CFN), is an alliance of First Nations on the North Pacific Coast that includes the Gitga’at, Gitxaała, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv First Nations. " Their territories span on the mainland coast of BC from the top of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Border including Haida Gwaii.

More big cuts to Universities and Colleges in Canada/BC.
This time it's smaller colleges in the Interior of BC. Coast Mountain College in Prince Rupert/Northwest, and Selkirk College in the SE/Nelson.
The Hazelton campus of CMC is being closed as is the Fine Arts campus of Selkirk.
All because successive Provincial and Federal governments in Canada thought the gravy-train of International students would last forever, allowing them to redirect funding for Post Secondary to other parts of the budget.
I don't think the system has found the bottom yet, and at the end, it will be Domestic students who suffer most from hugely diminished services at their local, and regional, and national colleges and Universities.
#Education #CanPoli #CdnPoli #PostSecondary #Investment
edit: the article is by @…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coast-mountain-college-hazelton-closing-campus-cuts-9.6946111

If you want to see what is possibly the most dangerous “maritime cross roads” in Canada in terms of weather, geography, traffic, environmental impact, and all the rest:
I have annotated a map near Gill Island.
We don’t know the pipe route. If it’s Kitimat rather than Rupert because a route exists, this is where tankers would go.
#canpoli #northcoast #BC #BCPoli #cdnpoli #climatechange #hecatestrait #haidagwaii #coastalFirstNation #abpoli #MOU #carney #daniellesmith
https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115625289502543789

CBC: Canada government caught off guard by Trump’s reaction.
Really? Every single person I talk to is not surprised at all.
What kind of reality distortion field is our government/PMO in exactly that they didn’t at least see this as a possibility?
Do better!
#theAmericanFascist #canpoli #cdnpoli #tradewar #ford #canada #usa

“Scathing Polling Reveals What Key U.S. Allies Really Think of America Under Trump”
The world has changed in its stance to the USA and I am glad Canadians are leading the way.
““When asked whether the United States supports or challenges its allies, Canada again stood out as the most critical. Sixty percent of Canadians said the United States challenges its allies.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #usa #world #eu #nato #canada

Canadians.
Is it time for Canada to ramp up its own defense industry?
We may not be capable of building the really large stuff. But I am thinking a focus on the essentials, mainly defensive or dual use.
Drones. (Land, sea and air)
Air Defense systems.
Armoured Personnel Carriers (we already do)
Ammunition
Artillery.
Small Arms.
We already produce some of this. We could produce more. Do we produce Air Defense systems currently?
Unfortunately the world is in need of more, not less, arms.
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115752916537770053

Egypt is building three lines of high speed railways over 2000km. Meanwhile, in Canada, we are still ‘thinking' about building our first 1000km line. Maybe. If we talk nice to the rail tycoons.
#Rail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cnn.com/travel/egypt-high-speed-rail-siemens-velaro-desiro-trains-spc

I couldn’t scan my Tim’s reward today because their system was down. I blame the #AWSOutage and thus demand Digital Sovereignty for all Canadian Businesses*!
HOW DARE AN AMERICAN MEGA-INTERNET PROVIDER DEPRIVE ME OF MY TIMMY POINTS!!
This shall not Stand!
*or Brazilian-Canadian conglomerate-things that operates mostly in Canada.
🇨🇦 🍁 🧊 ☕️
#canpoli #cdnpoli #aws #timhortons #digitalsovereignty

Oh look, the #BCNDP Government finally noticed the Post-Secondary system is collapsing. *slowclap*
Can hardly wait for that report next spring... maybe I will still have a job by then...
PS: I have a crazy idea: perhaps post-secondary should be majority-funded by government, not by exploitative international tuitions that can just *disappear*)
PPS: Domestic enrolment is not declining in any significant kind of way in the sector. From the “State of Post Secondary Education in Canada 2025” by Alex Usher:
"This decline in per-student funding is therefore not primarily a result of a significant decline in total funding; rather, it is a result of expenditures remaining more or less
constant while enrollments increased.”
WHICH IS WHAT EDUCATORS HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR DECADES
#layoffs #education #educationIsaRight #PostSecondary #VIU #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #University #College
https://albernivalleynews.com/2025/11/25/b-c-launches-independent-review-of-post-secondary-education-system/

Oh this should be…. entertaining*
*meaning infuriating and painful.
#canpoli #CdnPoli #politics #CPC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-press-conference-caucus-defection-9.6976025

"delivered papers for Calgary Sun”
“raised by a couple school teachers” (what the hell happened there?)
#canpoli #CdnPoli #politics #CPC

It is time for a Digital Sovereignty Act in Canada. @…
#cdnpoli #canpoli #digitalrights #digitalsovereingty https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/115530726173549468

The Carney Climate Capitulation is Crossing the Pond.
#canpoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #climateEmergency
https://masto.ai/@euractiv/115702468243503534

CBC now reporting (same link as quoted below) that Don Davies - Interim NDP Leader says he will have a press conference *after* the vote, but the NDP caucus will not be announcing how they will vote ahead of time.
The plot thickens!
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ndp #liberals #cpc #bloc https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115566966015324285

Congratulations to Japan on electing your first female leader!
I find this incredibly ironic… because Japan is often portrayed, with reason, as a place with deep misogynistic traditions/a highly patriarchal society that carries on to this day…
But here they are, finally breaking the government’s glass ceiling… and Canada? The USA? Many European countries?
A reminder not to throw stones in glass houses!
#feminism #patriarchy #government #cdnpoli #japan #canpoli #uspoli
https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/asia-c2h6qh4lz/-/a-VcyAhaNnSPuydKxiAXf-AA:a:3199720-/0

Great job right-wing/anti-vax fools. Great job.
#CanPoli #Health #Measles #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195

“Recalls are meant to address breaches of trust, serious misconduct, or a sustained failure to represent constituents, not political disagreements”
I mean... sure she's right. You really shouldn't use a recall petition just because you don't like the result of a vote.
But when there are *20 recall petitions* for government MLAs, perhaps it is time, as a government to look into ways you might be going wrong?
#CanPoli #ABPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-recall-petition-approved-9.7001541

Canada is just three Telecommunications companies in a trench coat.
#telus #rogers #bell #oligopoly #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli

this.
my dad's dad was in Spain under Franco, imprisoned.
my wife's mom's dad landed on the second day in Normandy.
They'd both no doubt be disgusted with what is happening in our country and especially in the USA.
#fascism #wwii #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli

Hearing from NDP leaders in Ontario and Manitoba.
Premier Kinew says the way to respond to Trump’s America First agenda isn’t Canada First, it’s Humanity First. Drawing big applause.
I honestly forgot that the NDP was actually the official opposition in Ontario!
#bcpoli #bcndp #onndp #mbndp #canpoli #cdnpoli

This is absolutely on brand for Ellis Ross. He was a known ____ when he was a BC Liberal MLA for the same area.
The BC Liberals were also well known for their boosting of the trophy hunting industry, so OF COURSE he's going to go to the local Rod and Gun club before he calls the Nation that was devastated by the Grizzly attack.
A good reminder that not all First Nation "leaders" are environmentally, or socially, conscious.
What an ass.
#CanPoli #BC #Grizzly #FirstNation #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grizzlies-bella-coola-ellis-ross-9.7012997

Would love to hear someone in the media ask a Conservative MP.
"Some MPs in your party are self-described as "anti-vax” or “vaccine sceptics”... is the Conservative Party of Canada concerned by today's news that Canada is no longer considered “measles-free”? What health measures are Conservatives proposing to return Canada to measles-free status?”
#CdnPoli #CanPoli #Health #Measles #AntiVax

CBC reporting that Elizabeth May has said she will be voting for the budget tonight. Which means the Liberals only need one more vote for it to pass, or for two MPs to abstain.
Seems unlikely we will have an election from this budget vote... but you never know!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberals #GreenParty #GPC #NDP #Bloc #CPC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/federal-budget-vote-2025-9.6981042#content

I would like to see the BC Liquor Distribution Branch do the same with any US inventory left here!
Send the proceeds to charities and food banks that are overflowing with need this year, some of it because of Trump's insanity!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Booze #TradeWar #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/premier-lifts-american-alcohol-ban-revenue-manitoba-holiday-charities-9.7002935

Carney is a carbon industry plant.
nothing says environmental “blank cheque” to industry like: “voluntary certification program”.
"But operators have another compliance option, which some may find controversial because it could give industry players some more leeway. Operators can design their own approaches, providing a facility meets "methane intensity thresholds" that are on par with standards from "leading international voluntary certification programs.””
That's what private forest companies (Mosaic) on Vancouver Island use to claim they are following ‘best practices' as they clear cut whole sides of mountains and leave a 10m ‘riparian zone' around streams while falling trees right over them.
It's a license to make up their own rules and do whatever they want, wider impacts be damned.
#ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Carbon #Methane #Emissions #Oil #Gas

Our national railway is a global embarrassment. Canada is a transportation backwater.
#Transportation #Railway #Rail #VIARail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-rail-toronto-ottawa-brockville-9.7011570

"Severe drought across Western and Midwestern Canada has wiped out pasturelands, leaving ranchers unable to maintain their herds."
severe drought. weird. I'm
sure that's fine. let's build another global warming pipeline so Premier Smith doesn't threaten to leave Canada.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #climatechange #endfossilfuels
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/canadian-butchers-feeling-pressure-as-beef-prices-stay-high-amid-historically-low-cattle-herds/

Carney has completely lost First Nations. (Smith never had them of course)
"…they had no choice but to come to Ottawa to make their appeal, and potentially take legal action. “And one thing with First Nations and the courts? We have a very good track record of winning,” Mike Mercredi said.”
I increasingly think the Carney government will fall before July 1st. Making the MOU potentially moot.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #Oil #Bitumen #ABPoli #EndFossilFuels #FirstNations
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-treaty-8-chiefs-demand-pause-on-pipeline-agreement-threaten-legal-action-9.7011963

In positive democratic news (for once!) the results of the BC Electoral Reform Committee and a recent EKOS poll of BC residents about Proportional Representation is very encouraging!
The question, as always, is whether we can convince the government in power, this time the BCNDP, to advocate for what the people clearly want and feel they deserve!
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElectoralReform #Democracy #ProportionalRepresentation #Polarization

In the history of our slightly incestuous democracy, I wonder if more Conservatives have crossed to the Liberals or Liberals to Conservatives.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #LPC #CPC #democracy #pickaside #bigtent #RedTory #BlueLiberal #FPTP #PropRep

Weird.... it seems people in the UK do indeed want to buy EVs, especially if they are not made by Tesla!
#bullshit
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Tariffs #China #Canada #Cars #EV

There were actually a lot of good recommendations from that Committee report, the one on PR was just the final one! Here's a few more.. including some that local #Fediverse proponents could dig into! @… was on the Committee.
—>FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “The Committee heard about a number of issues related to
the electoral information environment. Members recommend
that the provincial government collaborate with Elections
BC and the federal government to review existing legislative
and regulatory measures related to misinformation,
disinformation, and hate speech during elections, including
**mechanisms to ensure the timely removal of harmful content** (**emphasis added)”
—> FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “To better address challenges associated with social media and emergent technologies such as artificial intelligence, Members recommend establishing a working group to propose amendments to BC’s privacy and election legislation. To better protect all users, the Committee recommends requiring digital platforms to act with a duty of care and establish clear safety-related requirements such as data privacy, platform design, and content policy. The Committee also heard about concerns regarding foreign interference, and recommends that these be considered by the Electoral Integrity Working Group.”
—The Committee heard about the critical importance of
civic education to ensure the public’s understanding of
democratic institutions, processes, and participation. The
Committee recommends strengthening civic education
in the K-12 school system with input from experts and a
greater emphasis on applied learning.
— the Committee suggests enhancing data collection by requiring proactive enumeration on an annual basis and ensuring that registered parties and candidates can access poll-by-poll results. Elections BC should review and improve
voter registration practices and communication, as well as
access to and public awareness of voting opportunities. With respect to expanding voter eligibility, the Committee supports further examination of extending voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds as well as permanent residents in BC.
— Committee Members recommend modernizing the candidate nominator verification process, requiring Elections BC to collect and share voters’ contact information with registered political parties and candidates, and strengthening measures related to access to multi-unit buildings for candidates and their campaigns.
Full report to the Legislature: #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElectoralReform #Democracy #ProportionalRepresentation #Polarization

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

If you are into Canadian politics, even a little.. and/or into "Press Gallery" type political jokes. This 9 minutes flies by with Interim NDP Leader Don Davies. No holding back, self-deprecating, hilarious, slightly vulgar and absolutely brutal.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #abpoli #BQ #NDP #LPC #CPC #CBC #PopeLeo #TheAmericanFascist #ElbowsUp #Hockey #Carney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVfwyHooL8I