no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Looking at the Carney budget that just dropped: - slashing 40,000 public sector jobs - watering down Trudeau-era climate promises - $59 billion in new military spending - tax writeoffs for big businesses - cuts to foreign aid Yeah I can see why a Conservative would want to join the Conservatives

So Carney has cancelled the Digital Services Tax, the tax on planes and luxury yachts, and the tax on empty housing. Seems telling.

This paragraph sums up the spirit of Mark Carney's Budget. Taking healthcare from refugees to give yacht-buyers a tax break. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

I'm not sure this has ever happened before. Following the results of yesterday's Yukon election, the NDP is now government or official opposition in Nova Scotia and every jurisdiction west of the Ottawa River.

There’s an extremely important election coming up. That’s right, the Yukon election! polls close at 7:00 pm Pacific. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

✊ Mohammed Hasan Matar from our West Bank affiliate, the PSSC, is heading to Europe to share stories of resistance and organizing under occupation. 🌍 Help fund his tour and amplify Palestinian voices — donate via the link in our bio.

The Globe’s halloween driver safety editorial should run the other 364. 🎃 #autowa #pedestrians

The Rogers corporation manages to make themselves into the villain even amidst the joy and giddiness in Toronto. Fun to watch people navigate around them. Skydome. www.thestar.com/business/let...

I lived through the 90s. Hospitals closed. Infrastructure crumbled. Tuition doubled. Public investment in housing ended. User fees increased. I’d rather not do this again.

Less report writing more door knocking. That's what I say!

Audible "WE DON'T NEED YOU" chants for Shohei Ohtani at the end of hte game.

🚨 This is a huge victory for the organised tenant movement after YEARS of organising. We need to go further, and we’ll keep fighting for more, but the biggest change to renters rights in a generation is worth celebrating. This wasn’t handed to us from above, we won it💪

Seems a good day to re-emphasize this point. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

📢 On Tuesday ACORN shut down a conference of bailiffs and delivered a clear message to Leeds City Council. Support the fight for dignity, not debt. Support Bailiff Free Britain. ✍️ Sign the petition: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

Frankly, this is madness. Reeves says "This is about getting Britain building again..." That flies in the face of the very reason why institutional capital loves residential real estate: The ease with which supply can be constrained. What's bonkers is that this is explicitly stated here by... 1/2

Good for OPSEU. I hope other unions follow suit. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Shorter: Trump is bad and that's why we must do what he wants.

It's been 25 years since One-Big-Ottawa was imposed on us. The world has finally taken note: this thing doesn't really work for urban or rural residents. I wrote about why and what's next. glebereport.ca/articles/ott... #ottawa #ottcity #deamalgamateottawa

youtu.be/LKdHy18rZcI?... Spaceman 4ever

NEW: Unions and industry groups that endorsed Premier Doug Ford’s ⁦‪@OntarioPCParty‬⁩ shared in $237M in Skills Development Fund cash for training. ⁦‪@robferguson1‬⁩ and ⁦‪@MoiraWelsh‬⁩ with the scoop. #onpoli www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

These people are at best a well-meaning menace to Canada

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ACORN members held a rally outside the Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) head office at 173 Chapel Street. Tenants came together to speak out about serious problems in their buildings that have gone on for too long; some for over six years.

🔥 The days of bailiffs & debt collectors sitting around at conferences, enjoying a buffet, & discussing how to line their pockets at our expense are over. You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours. 🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

But between arguing they can't sell EVs here, lobbying to keep better and cheaper EVs out, and showing limited commitment to a country they've repeatedly held hostage, traditional North American automakers are practically begging Canada to consider whether it can maintain an industry without them.

Not to say that sort of policy change is imminent. I'd bet against it, largely because Ottawa is probably not inclined to poke Trump that way right now.

I have to say, if Stellantis had been trying to time the news of its (planned) production move from Brampton to increase pressure on Carney to open things up to China, it couldn't have done much better.

I feel like, centuries from now, if humanity survives, students will ask, "Why did 21st century people allow the oligarchs to run rampant with this technology when it was obviously destroying their society?" And the teacher will reply, "Because they really really wanted to post shit anonymously."

Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not. I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”

The liberal technocrat’s anti-poverty measure is… simplifying online tax filing in three years. Can’t make it up.

The Great derangement syndrome: People telling me to stop talking about a burning planet when our Prime Minister has a "nation-building" plan to build oil pipelines, repeal the tanker ban, kill the emissions cap. Trump is a convenient excuse for the plant burners. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

When did Nobel jump the shark? I still think 1973 takes it but this year is a contender.

Remember when everyone said China was engaged in a massive spying operation and the Americans scrambled the airforce and it turned out that what they were shooting down was actually a hobby project by the "Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade"? www.politico.com/news/2023/02...

NB Power wants decades of reliance on an American-owned gas plant backed by Energy Capital Partners—who funnelled 75% of their U.S. donations to Republicans. Tenants + workers deserve clean, affordable energy instead. Click here to take action!: buff.ly/7e1bQ6t

A huge congratulations to our Scotland affiliate @living-rent.bsky.social on their historic victory! After years of tireless organizing, their government has officially passed the Housing Bill, securing rent controls for tenants across Scotland. When we organize, we win!

We could give into a new cold war era hysteria, and send billions of Cdn dollars to Donald Trump's defense industry donors in a new arms race... Or maybe, we tell our American "allies" to rejoin the several treaties that were making the world safer befor the US unilaterally abrogated them: 1/4

Majority of Canadians oppose Canada joining Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system “Just 23% of Canadians — almost all of whom vote Conservative — say they support the idea.”

On the Rideau Canal and why we need to defy Trump's pressure on the golden dome. Trump's comments on 51st state are tied to his claim that Canada is open to discuss his golden dome protection scheme. The sovereignty of our airspace cannot be up for negotiations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkiG...

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

"Publicly, Ottawa has yet to confirm Canada’s participation in the Golden Dome, but... Maj.-Gen. Smyth said in an interview that the military is already working toward that goal." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"Un-Canadian" you say?

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

"Mr. Carney was effusive in his praise of Mr. Trump" 🤮 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

On the one hand, positive trend for humanity. On the other, I am posting this on social media.

You know those assholes who speed through school zones honking at kids when they dare to set foot on the street? That's who governs Ontario. Assholes like that. globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

Unrelated to the findings but: Cable news has really transformed Harry Enten into the Jim Cramer of opinion research.

It seems like the federal government has never cared about Jordan’s Principle or about the well-being of Indigenous kids. I’d sure rather see my tax dollars spent on mould remediation for these kids than for lawyers. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...