My latest for Canadian Dimension; good things can happen, they could even happen here!

Canada loses as much as $25 billion a year to tax avoidance and profit shifting. Instead of strengthening the CRA's capacity to recover that money, the Carney government is cutting the professionals who investigate complex tax files and enforce the rules.

My latest for Canadian Dimension: financial interests continue to devour our national housing system, 1000 units at a time.

Thrilled to finally be publishing under my own name!

Mark Carney cut the CRA budget by 40%, reportedly advising a group of Canada's top corporate tax evaders to "let 'er rip". When questioned about his decision to defund the government's revenue collection mechanism Carney stated: "Capitalism doesn't decay into anything, what are you talking about?"

Begging news outlets, especially @globalnews.ca, to refuse to report Alberta government propaganda around drug death rates without context. 1. Alberta's capital Edmonton is breaking fatality records. Report that first. 2. Lethbridge is the 4th biggest city in the province. It still has...

As an aging millennial trying to keep up with things is it fair to say Spain is sovereigntymogging the anglosphere? Or?

brb getting a "social services are nation-building" tattoo

But what if I don't want to be a morlock?

The myth of the immigrant freeloader is a wizened one. It isn't the sole purview of the Alberta Premier. But it's a myth. Migrants give more than they get. And just as with citizens, where they do need services, it's cheaper to provide them early.

I'm not going to applaud the government for funding food banks because food banks are by definition, a policy failure 🙃

Very precedented behaviour... www.democracynow.org/2004/3/11/in...

CorruptCare is the biggest and costliest scandal in the history of our province. There must be a public inquiry immediately into the UCP government’s health-care procurement practices.

'To understand Smith’s ideology is to situate it within a long lineage of anti-central-planning and anti-welfare-state politics that have defined Alberta conservatism for more than 60 years.' canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

A few companies have made a great deal of money under the Alberta Recovery Model and there's little to show that they have actually delivered on the outcomes Albertans expect. Are people's health outcomes better off with a two-tier, American-style healthcare? The answer is almost always NO.

The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...

Reminder that Edmonton AND Calgary police used public resources to hold town halls + other events to steer business communities & other stakeholders in favour of UCP drug policy. The specified timeline for this campaign was “before the May 2023 election.” drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-poli...

BC Involuntary Treatment Taking Place in a Solitary Confinement Unit via @godfrey.bsky.social | @filtermag.bsky.social filtermag.org/bc-involunta...

Carney carved out exemptions in federal environmental regulations in exchange for (checks notes) a Very Serious promise from Alberta that they will start complying with some other environmental regulations they've been ignoring for years? Truly, 4D chess...

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise. Coral reefs continue to die off. Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters. Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer. But at least we'll have a strong economy.

We should never underestimate the potential of Indigenous resistance in Canada. The Carney government will find that its drive to unleash oil and gas projects—steamrolling over Indigenous rights in the process—is a risky proposition.

Albertans deserve answers and transparency on how a brand new company with deep, close ties to the UCP government got $70 million in government contracts.

@janeteremenko.bsky.social did incredible work at yesterday's public accounts committee meeting, her efforts to hold the UCP accountable for their mishandling of the mental health and addiction file are precisely what Alberta needs. assemblyonline.assembly.ab.ca/Harmony/en/P...

"Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act — which will allow for the involuntary admission of people who use substances, even when they have[..]capacity to make decisions about their care — lacks sufficient evidence of effectiveness + poses substantial ethical concerns" www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

I had no idea Art Young illustrated the Compassionate Intervention Act back in 1914.

Canada’s housing crisis isn’t random. It’s the result of decades of decisions that put profits ahead of people. My plan treats it like what it is: a class war over who housing is for. Read the full plan at robashton.ca/housing #NDP #Rob4Leader

Beautifully written & reasoned 3 min read. “To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵 www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Truly terrifying. #anticapitalist

Mark Carney: "if we just teach the biwwionaiwes bettew vawues, they wiww stop destwoying the pwanet and wooking aftew theiw cwass intewests and use neowibewaw capitawism as a fowce fow good." The book. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Mark Carney’s commitment to shoring up the neoliberal status quo will only undermine Canada in the long term—and when he’s through we will be even more vulnerable to far-right demagogues like Pierre Poilievre. We deserve better.

“If right-wing leaders succeed in their efforts to abolish safer supply the only result will be more people using unregulated, toxic substances. There will be more death and more chaos, and we will be no closer to freeing our society from the horrors of addiction.”