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“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

It’s absolutely right that workers walk off the job in response to the government taking a chainsaw to Canada Post. If we lose the unique national infrastructure the postal service has, it will never be rebuilt. We should be using it to expand services to the public, not nickel and diming it.

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes. I encourage everyone to read the whole thing #CanadaPost www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

The mail shouldn't make money, it is a service like hospitals and roads and the armed forces.

Whelp….. that didn’t age well. #CanadaPost

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Make no mistake, this is a giant step towards complete privatization of our postal service. We could have pride in our vital public institutions & build them up to meet our modern needs. But no, instead, our “liberal” gov’t would prefer to be conservatives. #CanadaPost www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I very much cannot survive with the amount of vacation days available to workers today How is everyone surviving with little bagel bite sized breaks every 6-12 months???? Tell me your secrets

trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”

I’ve advised Helsinki, Finland a few times in the past, and among the many conversations I’ve had with the Finns, we’ve talked about what it’s like to live right next to an aggressive dictatorship like Russia. I’m not the first one to say it, but Canada needs to be vigorously learning from Finland.

I will not be sending ANYTHING cross border while this bullshit is in place. We have a public postal system for a reason - it safeguards our personal information & mail in the public interest.

"sign up to a zonos account" how about i just dont send anything to the usa ever again, this is not how postal services work

I’ve been a city planner for 33+ years, in both the private and public sectors. I’ve worked in countless cities around the world, in more countries than I can remember, on 5 continents. With all that, there’s one thing I know for sure. EVERY city can achieve a LOT more than they think they can.

no irritation quite like being emailed by a brand with some variation on "you forgot something [wink emoji]" like NO. NO I DID NOT FORGET. I GOT AS FAR AS CHECKOUT & SAW THAT SHIPPING + DUTIES COSTS AS MUCH AS THE ITEM, LEAVE ME ALONE FFS

Canada Post continues to negotiate in bad faith & the reason is becoming clearer: the goal is chaos, inefficiency & undermining of public trust to privatize our public postal service. ccu-csc.ca/is-canada-po...

I’m currently waiting for a bus that is 23 mins late (& counting). Maybe if SJ transit focused on more reliable service they’d have more ridership & wouldn’t need to raise prices twice in a year. But what do I know.

Everyone famously knows that regular price increases on bus fares is an excellent way to increase ridership & decrease our reliance on cars. Great work, Saint John, continuing to make alternative transit inaccessible! 👏👏👏 saintjohn.ca/en/news-and-...

For dinner tonight my partner fed me 1) tater tots, 2) ice cream, and 3) muffins 🤭

NB Power couldn't have picked a worse time of the day for their upcoming public review. Shows how out of touch they are with the average NB'er.

Turns out it’s not possible to ship something to the US anymore through Canada Post without giving your personal information to some US tech oligarch billionaire Heaven forbid I try to send a family member a birthday present without exposing my personal information

Happy Labour Day! jacobin.com/2025/09/we-d...

I seriously can’t get over this. As a vegetarian I eat these products multiple times and week & I know families across the country have relied on these Canadian-made plant based protein products for decades. Vegetarian protein options at the grocery store are SHIT & this will make it worse 😤😤😤

Seriously fuck neoliberalism and fuck this corporate takeover bullshit

#SaintJohn city council should be so proud of themselves, voting to bulldoze parks for parking lots & vital wetlands w/ old growth trees. Because, you know, those industrial profits will “trickle down”. The only thing trickling down on us is glysophate droplets!! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gawd, i sure hope the military turns a profit this year!

Of all the problems we face in New Brunswick, THIS is what the gov’t chooses to spend its time & money on..?! We have REAL problems. This is not one of them.

“We never used to tolerate such high levels of compensation and inequality,” @marclee.bsky.social said. “Now we do. We’ve just been beaten over the head with it for a number of years.” @policyalternatives.ca #inequality www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/national-new...

I am so disturbed by the way the media is reporting on Canada Post right now. “Beleaguered corporation”?! Make no mistake, CP executives are intentionally grinding the org into the ground & negotiating in bad faith while collecting a second paycheque from Purolator. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Uh-huh. And you don't even wanna know how much money the health care system lost this quarter. Or the RCMP. Or public libraries. Or every road and highway department. Public services shouldn't have to make money, because this isn't fucking Monopoly.

Stop reporting on Canada Post like it should be a for profit corporation, it provides a critical national service and should be regarded that way, it should not have huge CEO compensation packages and it be allowed to expand into providing financial services too

Saint John: giving the middle finger to pedestrians since 1785!

Don’t worry everyone, we’re keeping everyone safe by banning hiking in the woods during peak summer, but Irving is still allowed to clear cut & spray glyphosate because… reasons www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Big news day this morning…. Air Canada flight attendants reached a deal & PP won his seat back. Shot… chaser www.cbc.ca/news/busines... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What's the point of unions if the gov can just say lol nah

Air Canada is negotiating in bad faith and always does. Flight attendants deserved to be paid for when they're working not just when they're in the air. What a fucked up industry

What we are witnessing with air Canada is a complete breakdown in Canada's industrial relations regime. It's part of a trend that should be scaring the hell out of average people.

the canada post strike and air canada strike are good comparisons on how a good pr campaign from the union can make a load of difference to how canadians understand the issues and whether they support the workers’ demands. cupe did a fantastic job. sadly cupw let management dominate the narrative.

“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”

hate to say it, but cupe should give cupw some pr advice

🚨BREAKING: Canada Post votes NO www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"Critchley pointed out in her closing statement that several candidates, including Poilievre, won't be able to vote in the byelection because they don't live in the riding." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The longest-ballot folks balloted so hard they end up creating the shortest ballot. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

New Brunswick launches review to Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new...

if mark carney wanted a big project in the national interest that would set us up for a better future, he could pour billions into expanding the transit networks in cities across the country and build dense public housing around transit stops. but that won’t directly enrich private investors!

it’s wild that in canada we’re talking about building oil and gas pipelines instead of just hitting the accelerator on electrification. the longer we stay wedded to fossil fuels, the more we’re jeopardizing not just our environmental future, but our economic one too.

Housing Crisis!? 😮 How did this happen? 😱 2018: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...