Mark Carney’s off making big speeches to distract from how he’s gutting the public service and by extension the capacity of the federal government.

As far as I can tell no grocery store sells vegan meatballs anywhere in Saint John anymore 😪 the Gardein ones used to be widely available. If anyone has a source plz let me know 😩

Watching the NDP become more cringe & wrong on every issue year over year is so depressing

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

Holy shit for my 2024 predictions, not only was I so close to getting the Trudeau prediction right, I was months away from getting the Hudson’s Bay one too! Wise before my time!

Once again, a bad year for my annual new years predictions. However, Holt did come in with a surprise finish on that gas pricing issue, so I’ll give her that one. What should i include for my 2026 predictions?? 🧐

I could simply never go back to work ever again and I’d never be bored and never look back. Why did we set up society this way?? Why do we all have to work bullshit jobs for our little kopecks

Merry Christmas Koodo, I’ve just formally reported your CASL violations to the gov’t for continuing to spam me with promotional content even after I repeatedly unsubscribe!!!

My partner & I are watching the Die Hard series this holiday season and I am devastated to learn that they aren’t all Christmas movies. WTF

Canadian postal bank could be transformative—both to the post office, and to Canada’s monopolized financial sector. By @rromard.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

SJ Today newsletter coming out with the most unhinged photo find & seek this week 🤣 Sir… a drain cover ???

My family just left town from our “early Xmas” We’ve done all the food, drinks, hosting duties, merriment..! It’s OVER. Yes, even the presents!! I can’t recommend this approach enough. If you have family afar, consider it!! (Short thread)

Cancel Microsoft Office! Cancel Microsoft Office!! Cancel Microsoft Office!!!

Happy #HarbourBridge is wide open day to all (Saint John) who celebrate. Only 3 years and 5 weeks past its scheduled completion date. Good job good effort

Every day I wake up and I feel fine. Then I sit in my office chair for 20 minutes and my back is fucked for the rest of the day. Then I just repeat that every single day til I die. I love my desk job. 🙃

CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG. Yikes!!!!! Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Solid oped. Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country. If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.

N.B. Power 'not alarmed' by power needs of data centres, but wants flexibility? Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom. What’s more “free” than cars, you ask? Choices.

I’d love to see some keen tech person start a site to crowdsource pictures of groceries & household items so that we can precisely catalogue over time the extent of shrinkflation, skimpflation, & greedflation.

Applies to the local context too… “If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”

Quite frankly I think this is a metaphor for all consumers in 2025. The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.

Mark Carney’s Liberals were not elected on a mandate to gut Canada Post, but they’re doing it anyway. The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.

Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”

I watched a horror movie the other day where the power went out and then landline phone stopped working, mid-call no less. People!!! That’s not how that works!!!

I just finished reading The Deficit Myth and I highly do not recommend this book if you want to keep your mental sanity. You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.

I feel like my entire life I’ve been seeking a high quality dark chocolate advent calendar, and it still doesn’t exist 😤

Happy bonfire night to all who celebrate

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

There is nothing optimistic about today's budget. Fuck you if you're not a member of the multi-millionaire class I guess. Our PM talks a big game about "sacrifices" but then cuts taxes on super yachts. 🙄

This season on the Hallmark Channel: “He’s a no-nonsense banker trying to run a country. HE’S a shit disturber who needs to learn the meaning of Christmas. When they meet under the House Floor mistletoe, sparks (and reindeer) fly, in “A Very Ottawa Christmas.” www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Not to be a cynic but if the gov’t were putting out a budget that they were really proud of and they thought everyone would LOVE, I feel like they wouldn’t be so tight lipped about what’s in it….

The quote, “This is the kind of budget you will remember” is breaking me out in hives www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Happy budget day to all who celebrate

Imagine fucking up so badly that you’re …… rewarded with a free house, relocation package, lump sum, and annual salary several times the average wage for the rest of your life with no expectation of work…?

I’m in this picture & I don’t like it

Giant game of chicken happening in Ottawa right now. Lots of gov’t staffers probably shitting buckets & pulling all nighters. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

At first I was hopping mad about shrinkflation but in addition, I’m now curious: how far will they take it??? Cardboard boxes that hold a single cracker? Giant tetrapacks that hold a single tablespoon of juice? Nutritional labels that have so little food they just say “zero” across the board?

My “congratulations I survived this round of mass layoffs” present to myself arrived 💕 #selfcare

"It is that time again. Time to wonder: Why do we turn the clocks forward and backward twice a year" #cdnpoli #nbpoli

The fact that the public sector AND private sector are laying people off en masse feels ominous & is giving me intense anxiety about my economic security

This chills me to the bone because I don’t want any AI company - and particularly not Google - to have access to mass consumer health data. One wonders if “curing cancer” is a facade for “stealing everyone’s health data”…

Beta testing for this new Gander Social platform is starting soon. I’m intrigued but there’s no point in trying if all the other cool kids aren’t using it. Sooooooo vibe check. How do we feel about this?

TFW @theonion.com hits a liiiiiiiittle too close to home 😬

100 years ago rich people built shit like libraries & monuments with beautiful architecture (*they were still evil, I know) Today, rich people will destroy literally anything to make a quick buck. Companies, gorgeous old buildings, mom & pop business, laws & policies… literally nothing is sacred

that's a new one....

Genuinely wondering if I should book budget day off work as self care