The Liberal Party has learned nothing from the past few decades of disasterous privatization and public-private partnership schemes in Canada. It does nothing but enrich oligarchs, while degrading infrastructure and services. #CDNpoli

OK, so this is not a sovereign wealth fund, it's just a variation on the failed Canada Infrastructure Bank model where public money 'de-risks' private capital in order to 'catalyze' investment - www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRYa...

"Put simply, expanding export-oriented crop acreage does not translate into improved local food access, yet the legislation repeatedly conflates increased production volume with food security." #CDNag #CDNpoli #FoodSecurity

Nobody, by the way, is actually any good at predicting economic outcomes. Not fascist politicians. Not central bankers. Those who say they can are either grifters or practicing pseudo-science. #CDNpoli

"On the policy front, it’s a substantive way to help people with affordability while correcting for an inherently unfair practice. On the political front, it’s a really easy way to expose politicians who don’t actually have the interest of Canadian consumers as their top of mind." #CDNpoli

"Corporate power is the common enemy of Canadian farmers and consumers, and it is a time for all of us to come together to fight for meaningful, structural policy changes that will curb corporate greed." #CDNag #CDNpoli

How we got to the far right political consensus in Canadian politics today. #CDNpoli

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

"The speed and relative ease of developing solar projects means countries like Canada, even if they are lagging behind now, can adopt solar at large scales very quickly, he said." #CDNpoli #SolarPower #WindPower

What are public grocery stores? How could they work in communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast? Join on Thursday, April 23 to hear from NFU President Jenn Pfenning and others. fcn-rcn.ca/uncategorize...

Indigenous people and supporters protest Avon River aboiteau, treaty violations Story by Madiha Mughees @mmughees.bsky.social www.halifaxexaminer.ca/indigenous-n...

"Toronto city council recently passed a motion introducing a similar pilot program. The plan is scheduled to be presented next spring. Newly minted federal NDP leader Avi Lewis also made the push to establish a public grocer in Canada a key plank of his party leadership campaign." #PublicGrocery

www.swiftcurrentonline.com/articles/aaf... Halt the cuts to public agriculture research!

🌱 Land is the source of our food – and our life. On the International Day of #PeasantStruggles, we honour those killed in Eldorado dos Carajás – and the fight that continues. The “land squeeze” is pushing farmers out. We must put land back in farmers’ hands. 🎥 youtu.be/jodPbCasyIQ?... #17April

The bickering between liberals and conservatives about the quality of their leaders' education in economics is telling of their ideological consensus around neoliberal capitalism. They can't debate different visions of political-economy so they spar over doctrinal correctness. #CDNpoli

“To now suggest the work cannot continue because of my absence is not only misleading, it shifts responsibility away from institutional decision-making and onto an individual,” Gem Roberts-Zwicker (anti-racism and discrimination regional co-ordinator) #NSpoli #NovaScotia #AntiRacism

Mark Carney is governing like a right winger — but Liberals are giving him a pass. At this weekend’s Liberal convention, Martin Lukacs pressed delegates and MPs on the gulf between Liberal rhetoric and reality. youtu.be/HmPqacqk1nc?...

"committing to a 60-year project without proper foresight will rob from the next two generations the opportunity to deliver HSR in Canada" #CDNpoli #HighSpeedRail #Trains

"I swear to God these people couldn't have chosen a worse location if they tried." - Raymond Plourde, EAC's seniors wilderness coordinator. 🔗 www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/ener...

I don't think folks fully grasp the implications of Carney getting majority government. Its not a win over Poilievre's fascism (a movement in collapse), its a consolidation of power around plutocrats. The Carney regime and its program of austerity may prove to be an even greater threat to democracy.

(1/) Grocery giants and other corporations have teamed up with big tech to raise profits through surveillance pricing. They're using personalized data to set individualized higher prices based on where you live, what you search online and how often you shop.

Hundreds opposed to fossil gas plants in Pictou County gather for Mi’kmaq healing ceremonies to honour the land and water reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

"'We have long offered solutions to the provincial government on how Mi’kmaq could exercise our right to self-govern... Nova Scotia has not been open to having any conversations with Mi’kmaw leadership,' assembly co-chair and Glooscap First Nation Chief Sidney Peters said" #Mikmaki #NSpoli

“'We demand a moratorium be put on any other raids in our communities until we’ve had an opportunity to have real Nation-to-Nation conversations with Nova Scotia on the issues at hand,' said Chief Sidney Peters in the release." #Mikmaki #NSpoli

"We need to fill the “missing middle” between Lewis’s campaign team, and the vision of vibrant countrywide organizing hubs. We need a “constituent assembly” of sorts to discuss these difficult strategic and organizational questions frankly ... " #CDNpoli #NDP #SocialistMovement

Avi Lewis: "We have a very clear plan to cut grocery prices by 30-40% for Canadians at a cost to the federal government ... We'd subsidize it. It costs $350m to launch and $300m a year, which is one-half of 1% of the current defence budget."

I think I deserve some kind of luddite badge for forgetting my phone overnight in the car.

3/ Canada must bring sanctions against Israel, cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, implement a real two-way arms embargo, and use every diplomatic and economic tool at our disposal to rein in Israel.

Canada's unique system of supply management protects dairy, poultry, and egg farmers from extreme forms of consolidation, and protects consumers from price changes due to international mechanisms like tariffs. Supply management must continue to be defended. www.nfu.ca/defending-ca...

This is what a Prime Minister of Canada ought to be saying right now. #CDNpoli

Higher fossil fuel prices are causing countries to expand their biofuels production and blends: This is expected to increase food prices (for instance, cooking oils will become more expensive as supply tightens) leaderpost.com/pmn/business...

We should all be watching very closely to the Carney Government's responds to this statement. Genuflecting to a clear messge of genocidal intent would be utterly damning. They must firmly condemn Trump for this statement. #CDNpoli

There was once was a time in rural Sulieweykikt (New Germany) when one could walk to access a continent-wide train network. Those tracks were replaced with trails for recreational ATVs. Train whistles of connectivity replaced with the nauseating drone of useless petro-masculinity #NSpoli #NovaScotia

We don't want this. It is going to make government services suck. I probably won't even save any money. Not to mention the high environmental footprint of using AI. #NSpoli #NovaScotia

First Nations set up highway protests after Nova Scotia RCMP raid Potlotek cannabis dispensary reported by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

Reserves in Nova Scotia are setting up blockades on the highways. Tim Houston fucked with the wrong Nation. Treaty rights or no access.

The federal government's cuts to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's prove to be devastating on multiple fronts. The immense costs to agricultural climate science is going to take a particular hard hit. www.nfu.ca/science-isnt...

"The protest, which began around noon Thursday, was announced on Facebook by Chief Michelle Glasgow. The post said 'it's not about 'weed shops' being raided. It's about the government asserting jurisdiction over our communities and over our unceded Mik'maq lands.'" #Mikmaki #CDNpoli #NSpoli

The conservative commentariat are already in the unfounded antisemitism allegations phase of attacking Canada's socialist movement. They did this to the Corbyn-led UK socialist movement in 2019 and the centrist section of the labour party panicked about it. Don't fall for this trap. #CDNpoli

Banger of an article: "Currently, there is no left-wing representation in mainstream political and media structures in Canada. ... We now categorize Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney as the centre, when he’s a right-wing banker whose top priority is not Canadians, but Canada Inc." #CDNpoli

New episode of Sandy and Nora Talk Politics! Sandy talks about robots, I talk about the NDP convention, and we offer the Lewis team a bit of advice ... sandyandnora.com/episode-368-...

This thread is a glorious collection of Irish history nerds in consensus on their hatred for Cromwell.

It has been an exhausting few years as a political scientist with ADHD working to get reseach published. Trying to get a tenure-track job under conditions of fiscal austerity in higher-ed does not help either.

"Funding for the arts, including for publishers, was created after WW2 to support distinct cultural production in Canada. Cutting this funding means giving over this entire, diversified, internationally connected industry to the US." #NSpoli #CDNpoli

"The centre of political gravity is about more than the number of seats a party holds. It begins with political vision and fierce determination." #CDNpoli #NDP #AviLewis #Socialism

What did you miss this past week in Winnipeg? Here are my top five notable things from the NDP Convention, ready for your re-living, re-watching or your vicariously-living-through pleasure. noraloreto.substack.com/p/five-takea...

What ideals drive community agroecological movements? In a new #FullAccess article, Claudia Fernandez Gonzalez et al, show how agroecology is contextualized in community needs and aspirations, through the study of Mexican peasant and Indigenous communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Conservatives (LPC & CPC) are going to kick up a huge stink about a socialist NDP. This is innevitable and a sign that we are moving in the right direction. It means we are registering in popular consciousness. Stay focused. Keep organizing and raising consciousness. #NDP #CDNpoli #AviLewis

Canadian socialism lives! #CDNpoli #NDP