Excellent oped by Kiera Taylor: We’re sending BC’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people. Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Carney is throwing money at the war machine; we're fighting for a Canadian Green New Deal. Who's going to turn down cheaper bills for heat, AC, & their commute in favour of sucking up to weapons contractors? Join the NDP, & let's fund our future! avilewis.link/join www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFV...

Cowardly response from @harwindersandhu.bsky.social of @bcnewdemocrats.bsky.social who STILL refuse to ban sale of Israeli liquor in public liquor stores after 2+ years of genocide in Gaza Passing the buck onto the feds instead of acting like the "moral compass" party they claim to be. Pathetic

Carney’s deal with Danielle Smith is the sellout of the century: scrapping climate legislation for a pipeline that will never be built. We need powerlines, not pipelines. Our path is through climate leadership & building good jobs in the clean economy.

They're continuing to starve them on purpose

Wow, what a cynical thing for our mayor to say after all the Vancouverites came together to voice concerns over his budget

So to the workers of @unifor.org Local 88: stay strong! You've got your union behind you. You've got a whole country behind you. If they come for your machines....Fire the Boss! As they say in Argentina: Occupy. Resist. Produce. \end

For me personally, this story stirs deep emotion. My first film, The Take (2004) was the story of workers in Argentina who were abandoned by their bosses, and took their factories back. They took them over and ran them as worker cooperatives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=khjn... 7/

Not to mention the fact that the Government of Canada should have been this plant's biggest customer. You want a nation-building project? Convert the country's delivery fleet to electric, roll out the infrastructure, create union jobs and do it with Canadian steel. 3/

First of all, the government of Canada should never have let this happen. The US needs to sell cars in Canada - we're their biggest foreign market! $23 billion USD in sales here last year. We need the auto pact back: you want to sell a vehicle here? Build a vehicle here. 2/

Huge solidarity to @unifor.org local 88. 1,100 workers making EV delivery vans, laid off by GM. Now they're saying, enough! If GM comes for the machines, they'll occupy the plant. 1/

so the #LPC has dropped the pretence and become the Progressive Conservatives. The Conservatives are unserious western separatist populists. And the lane is wide open for the #NDP to become the progressive way forward which the younger generation wants. @avilewis.ca #cdnpoli

New Yorkers just proved bold socialist ideas can win. Ottawa just proposed the most harmful climate and care budget since Harper. Bold ideas win and we need to rebuild that kind of NDP. www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

Great overview of Poilievre's history of anti-worker and pro-billionaire votes by @queentiwa.bsky.social. Most stunning highlights for me were: 1 - he's literally never passed a bill 2 - he sold nearly a million affordable public housing units to private investors youtu.be/3ybUSDzV05w?...

Murray Bookchin: "[Anarchism's] central focus has always been the only meaningful goal social revolution can have—the remaking of the world so that human beings will be ends in themselves and human life a revered, indeed a marvelous, experience."

Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night. Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App TOGGLE OFF. You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡

Juuuuust gonna leave this here betterdwelling.com/canadian-cit...

Magdalena Bay and MGMT are sonic cousins youtu.be/DfcWOPpmw14?...

Yes, whenever I talk to musicians they *always* say the worst aspect is the music bit. If only that didn't get in the way of their interactions with Spotify, labels, promoters and the universally beloved LiveNation/Ticketmaster.

Advocates Demand Eviction Moratorium, Rent Freeze as LA Landlords 'Cash in on Crisis' | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/evictio...

Let's sidestep opinion and simply remind ourselves that Free Trade has obliterated our sovereignty and integrated us so far into the US that we no longer even have our own foreign policy. And Chrétien is to thank for all of that.

The numbers are in, unfavourability is rising and it's time for @jagmeetsingh.ca to step down Even committed NDP voters are leaning toward the party doing better without him Center-left independents believe the same, slightly better with somebody else Via @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social

NDP's comms strategy of never ever saying what they will actually do differently is super effective Publicly owned grocery stores? Maybe! Higher corporate taxes? Who knows! Breaking up the oligopoly? Flip a coin! Punishing corporate execs? Your guess is as good as mine!

Is it time for Canada to decide how we want to exist in the world -- and with others. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/its-time-f...

And Broadbent wasn't even the left flank of the party.

"The NDP would be doing better with voters if Jagmeet Singh were not the leader" All Canadians: Agree: 56% Disagree: 23% Committed NDP Voters: Agree: 42% Disagree: 41% Definitely Consider Voting NDP Voters: Agree: 42% Disagree: 37% Angus Reid / Dec 31, 2024 / n=2427 / Online

When Justin Trudeau prorogued parliament, he also killed a number of key pieces of unfinished legislation, such as - The emissions cap on the oil and gas sector - The Canada Disability Benefit - A tax increase for the wealthiest investors I wrote about it for @policyalternatives.bsky.social

Not to mention water and electricity. The Columbia river treaty created an enforced drought in the Kootenays while the US gets the bulk of the offtake Any discussion of tariffs that doesn't include strengthening control of resources in Canada shows the incredible weakness of our political class

I'm genuinely BEGGING the @ndp.ca to shut up about Poilievre and Trudeau and actually explain HOW you're going to fight for working class people I hear from frustrated rural Canadians that they want change but they also want a plan. I'm sorry @jagmeetsingh.ca, no one is standing with you without it

I have told many a young activist that if they want to change the world, they must practice talking to strangers and if that is difficult, they must practice talking to strangers even more. There are no shortcuts here.

Confirmed to be door dasher: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c...

Post-scarcity anarchism and degrowth are a match made in heaven See @srslywrong.bsky.social episode on Ecological Luxury youtu.be/0a7Aptzwtco?...

Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

It's the first workday of the year. At 10:54 this morning, Canada's top CEOs have already made $62,661— the average worker's annual salary. By year's end, they'll make 210 times what the worker makes. Lots of new data in this new @policyalternatives.bsky.social report on CEO pay in Canada.

As Trump returns to the White House, what can we do to prepare our communities to be liberated and safe? When: Wednesday, January 8th at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern Where: Zoom How: RSVP at municipalism.org/community-de...

Why the push to privatize public services? Look at the top CEO on this list: he comes from a garbage company. Privatization is a mass cash transfer of public services to the private sector to create an elite class of untouchable rich men. Who thought you could make money off of the garbage?

starting off 2025 with a hot take: arguing with people who post conspiracy theories online is pointless, and might just be spreading misinformation further. read my latest @thenarwhal.ca column for what to do instead!

Nothing like gardening on January 1st in the Canadian Rockies. Totally normal, nothing to see here 😬

O'Leary wants to sell Canada further into complete corporate control Instead of being ripped off on groceries by the Westons it'll be the Waltons Instead of the west burning down thanks to Suncor and Imperial it'll be Exxon Instead of REITs and landlords buying all the housing it'll be BlackRock

Meanwhile it takes more than 5 hours (assuming no delays) to go from Toronto to Montreal by train, even though it’s less than half the distance.

Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization. Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?

Art has meaning nooooooo 😭

Left populism is the obv answer to Poilievre and @ndp.ca stay completely flailing Where's the national plans for things like housing, energy, and food? Where's the coordination with the two active provincial NDP govs and their other prov parties that desperately need a boost?

We could have a proportional voting system today that would make this result impossible, but Trudeau had to put party interest above improving Canadian democracy.

Call me late to the party but Tremendous Sea of Love might be the best Passion Pit album At the very least it's his most adventurous and has aged tremendously

Liberals desperately betting on the foreign interference report to bring down Poilievre sound EXACTLY like Dems begging Mueller to take down Trump These people really are incapable of learning from their surroundings eh?

Listen to the SRSLY WRONG CHRISTMAS TAPE! Get in the holiday spirit!!! youtu.be/jGodnM2zQkU

Library with social housing on top + park (no cafe alas) arquitecturapanamericana.com/strathcona-l...

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.