The whole strategy to “fix housing” is really just “give developers money so they can keep making a profit”. It’s ill.

Other than making non-experts think they know more than experts and turning experts into non-experts, AI is great!

I love places with two main political parties. Every election is basically "the party in power now has failed to fix the problems caused by the party in power before. So vote for us, the party in power before."

Never in my life have I met a man who called women “females” who was worth spending time with.

That said, I do remain an optimist: I firmly believe that eventually, enough survivors of our age will realise that the current system where the very few have the most, and the most have almost nothing, and <gestures wildly around everything else> sucks balls and there are better ways to live.

Value(s) was a lie. Value(s) was simply a tool to sharpen a political brand. "The consequences of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s methodical cuts to Canada’s environmental rules are not being communicated honestly to the public, two former government advisors say," writes @meyer.bsky.social. #CdnPoli

Almost 200yrs ago, the French novelist Honoré de Balzac wrote these words: ""Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oubli parce qu’il a été proprement fait.” "The secret behind great fortunes without an apparent cause is a crime, forgotten because it was well-executed."

Not a word about intellectual property theft, despite the government's own CHPC committee recommending it be addressed Gov taking the executive-class brainrot stance that AI adoption should be encouraged and funded, with no particular use-case in mind A document by and for starry-eyed suckers

“At its core is the concept of sufficiency – the idea that people can enjoy a prosperous, healthy life without constantly striving to consume or accumulate more material possessions that degrade the natural world on which all life depends.”

Chef’s kiss of a sentence

Police don't make communities safe. Anti-poverty initiatives make communities safe.

Democracy dies in the darkness.

1. For their own sakes--their minds need the frictions. 2. The fact its trained on stolen data. 3. That you're likely to fail messily in your chosen professions if you don't learn the things and use gAI instead. 4. Students dont KNOW when gAI fucks up. And they will own the mistakes. 5. This👇

I am honestly baffled. Does he not speak to the insurance actuaries? Damages of climate change are incontrovertible. Or is he thinking that O&G has an expiry and he is trying to help the industry extract every last penny they can before they are supplanted by renewables?

Like let’s say next time it’s marmots! Or caribou! Or turtles! Or owls! Are they just gonna make backlash-fuelled announcements every time? Or should they, perhaps, consider not giving themselves the power to make a species extinct???

My short experience in trying to facilitate the birth of a community land trust made it very clear that there are people with plenty of power at the municipal level who *can* do good (even within the constraints placed on municipalities) but *choose* not to.

And one final quote from Encampment: “It was at the Black Lives Matter protests that I learned the chant ‘the system isn’t broken, it was build this way’. It applies here. As it applies to many other places—

More from Encampment (seriously get your hands on it): “Their fear was, and is, utterly real, even if not utterly justified. The level of open affliction put before them in the encampment was genuinely foreign to their world, a world in which conflict and and illness are private, hidden things…

"To the right, they think we should murder 100 puppies. To the left, they think no puppies should be murdered at all. Therefore, we feel we've found the right balance." - Liberal MPs and Carney fans

This is my wish, too - at the municipal level, could our councillors and staff be honest about where they have power and where they don’t, and what we, collectively, can do about it?

I can already tell (on page 12) that I’ll be quoting this book regularly. “Remember that we have chosen, as a society, to set social assistance rates at a fraction of what we acknowledge is necessary to survive; that, essentially,

“We are standing at the edge of catastrophic climate breakdown and the fall of a long empire, and all the collateral damage which the fall of empire brings.

And now from The Beaverton! 😂 www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/carn...

Every time it seems that Mark Carney uses the word 'sovereign,' what he actually means is 'Canadian corporate profits.' I am compelled to share more from @nolore.bsky.social's post this morning: noraloreto.substack.com/p/carneys-ai...

Which suggests that the real fight we have is over that paradigm: we have to convince our neighbors that they are smart enough to rule themselves, and so are we, and so is everyone else. 27/

Axworthy here is far too generous to Mark Carney. He argues that Carney’s government has two energy policies: what it says (pro-renewables) and what it‘s actually doing (pro-oil). But when someone says something and does the opposite, that’s not pursuing two contradictory policies. That’s lying.

Despite this having all the appearance of a rigged game - finance industry insiders are always going to be better at betting on stocks than teachers, nurses, janitors and other productive workers - proponents of this system always insisted that workers weren't *really* the suckers at the table. 39/

From Worldcom to Enron, from crypto to AI, the point of the bubble wasn't ever the residue or lack thereof - it was a transfer from working people to crooks. Bubbles are a system for moving the painfully sequestered life's savings of people who *do* things to people who *steal* things. 36/

This is the kind of doctrine you can only fully embrace after sustaining the kind of highly specific neurological injury that is induced by taking an economics degree, an injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power. 7/

Related, from @lindsaytedds.bsky.social “You cannot do equity policy without these data. You cannot fund services without these data. You cannot tell whether anything is working without these data” deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/l...

Just a reminder that measures like the suspension of the fuel excise tax help higher income people most of all. They are terrible, leaky, inefficient measures to help working people with the affordability crisis. All posture, no impact. www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...

That gasp was me getting my census form. That sob was me realizing it was the short one.

The women's state in Canada isn't being killed. It's being postponed to a later date. The later date is how you say never in government prose. New on Dead For Tax Reasons: The Kill — On a Prime Minister who is finished with women, quietly. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/t...

How much do you know about the history of fascism in Canada? In my latest for Canada's History Magazine, I detail the history of fascist movements, what fed them and how they were sidelined. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/poli...

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

It was policy primarily to be seen to do something about inequitable access to housing, but - of course - not to actually, y’know, DO anything about it.

This is the prime minister who cut $2.7 billion in foreign aid despite promising during the election not to cut it. This is the prime minister who cut $231.9 million in funding for dental care and prescription coverage for very vulnerable asylum-seekers. Talking about kindness. #CdnPoli

Instead of cuts, if Carney was smart he'd invest $500 million in mRNA research in Canada, propelling us into a leading position in medical research.

Way too many people use the word "pragmatic" when what they're really describing is "unprincipled".

Good. Because this is the kind of shit that criminals do.

The old narratives are tired. Cut taxes. Slash spending. Watch the economy soar. We've heard it for 30 years. Gillian Petit and I built Inclusiecon to build the evidence base for something better. New blog is up. 👇 deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/t...

More from the Privacy Commissioner on FOI: “Taking away Ontarians’ access rights— retroactively and into the future— denies them the information they need to understand government decision-making at the highest levels & hold their governments to account.” www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...

…and you were carefully educated that to be “apolitical” is a virtue, and that you “dislike politics” making you, as Kim Stanley Robinson put it: “putty in the hands of your rulers, just like always”

Currently listening to the ON Housing Minister explain today's windfall policy announcement and I think it's probably just a good idea to read any "affordability" measure as a stimulus package for the housing construction sector.

*Ted Talk voice* What if I told you that *not* expressing “political views” or “engag[ing] in divisive or contentious issues of any kind” is itself a political view? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

"trickle down would work if it weren't for the sponges at the top"

The people with the most money-fueled power have always been envious of what can’t be bought, and sought to diminish and destroy it.

Found myself in a Pratchett book (again): “I’m losing my touch,” he said. “Imagine—me, working for someone? I must have been mad. It’s the cold weather getting to me, that’s what it is. Even…wages,” he said the word with a shudder, “looked attractive.”