Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

This is what's at stake. The UCP is not only dodging its responsibility to explain how Bill 9 is in any way proportionate or justifiable in a free and democratic society. They are putting children at far greater risk of suicide.

This person might be unaware that the “choice” of suburban car-dependent living has been heavily subsidized for the 75 (not 100) years of suburban dominance in much of the United States, while being gaslit & shielded from the negative externalities that we ALL pay. What if it was an honest choice?

[November 18th, 1985] In the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, Episode 2096, the adults on Sesame Street finally meet Mr. Snuffleupagus and realize he is real, not imaginary. Elmo is also introduced as a new character.

Everytime they tell us they'll leave if we tax them, I think 'go ahead. I only want people here who want to be here.' youtu.be/6DXZMXZCY0I?...

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Listening to Ken Sim’s @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social interview and it’s kind of surprising his team doesn’t prepare him better for this tough interviewer. He says the police board has said no to some budget asks and the police have cut back their spending - but can’t name examples. #vanpoli

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that. But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

"If our dictator hero Trump can rule by Executive Order, we can rule by the Nothwithstanding Clause".

Quiet, Piggy.

happy bday Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, b.1939. “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones....

Wondering why the UCP is waiting until Wednesday to strip trans rights using the notwithstanding clause? The Auditor General is releasing his report into the Dynalife fiasco on Wednesday. www.oag.ab.ca/news-section... They don't think Albertans can chew gum and walk at the same time.

I need to tell you what's happening right now.

For the evening crowd, my latest Loonie Politics column on why we not only need more backbenchers, but we need more backbenchers who aren't party automatons #cdnpoli

If it becomes easy to override Charter rights at the first instance, then the Charter will soon no longer be worth the paper that it’s written on, which is especially concerning for queer and trans people.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Yes, you wish to abolish the police. You have said so in this thread. Not defund or delegitimize its worst policies, but abolish. Your words. In Baltimore in the last two and a half years, police and prosecutorial work has doubled the number of defendants charged with shootings and gun crimes...

Q - Why, given all the terrible things happening in the world, do people care about this? A - Micro-analysis: They see it as an example of government overreach and bureaucratic cruelty towards an independent farm. Macro-analysis: The world is getting dumber every day.

Study of a Head Mary Hiester Reid c. 1900

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

* Unless they're from Haiti.

Justin, saying that AI replaces cognition is exactly congruent to saying that Ponzi schemes replace mutual funds. Convincing simulacra that appear to be doing impossible things are not replacing anything except other grifts. As labor saving tech they’re more mechanical turk than spinning jenny.

it would be the honor of my career to be part of the office that prosecutes the lawyers who did this

Hundreds of workers making EV delivery vans were recently laid off by GM — and they’re threatening to take over the plant. Huge solidarity to the workers of @unifor.org Local 88. If they come for your machines, do as they say in Argentina: Occupy. Resist. Produce. youtube.com/shorts/4INYf...

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

All the fuggin smart Americans on here are really into American football. I have nothing to read about while I poo.

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Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.

weirdos keep mentioning Harry with Andrew, as if they are equally offensive to the Crown, which is dumb as hell. One married a Black woman. The other is a sexual predator. Absurd.

Clearly the players who play the sports we love to watch hate gambling; think it's ruining the game. The only people who want it are networks and the league. I think it's important to remember that. Whenever you fire up the gambling app, you're fucking with the people you love to watch every week

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Trump accuses all 342 million Americans of also being in Epstein Files

going to beg trump to tariff podcast equipment to keep it out of the hands of these brain dead degenerates

ICE vs the clergy

at this point, Los Angeles is the most NIMBY city in the country. I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.

5 conservative Aurora Colorado city councilors echoed Trump's claims that gangs had invaded the city. Voters just booted all of them out and replaced them with progressives - despite the conservatives massively outspending. wapo.st/3WYK1Fr

The reason that modern societies have so much trouble dealing with "private" forms of abuse is that the idea that you, as an individual, have a right to state protection against your spouse or father or family or community is relatively new, and depends on an impersonal system of justice.

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

Canada should seize Amazon's Canadian holding, nationalize the business and rename it Eatons Dot Ca. Free shipping coast to coast to coast. "Goods Satisfactory or Money Refunded."

Why is the Ontario government not giving this training money to the province's colleges that are being starved of funding by the government and forced to charge exorbitant fees to international students to make up the shortfall. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Avi Lewis is in Victoria this weekend. Saturday night, join him for coffee and a conversation about the future we're fighting for. Saturday, November 15 | 6:00-8:00pm Habit Coffee, 552 Pandora Avenue #cdnpoli act.lewisforleader.ca/meet-avi-in-...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race

Every case i see for “mls growth” prioritizes wealth at the expense of fans. Bigger franchises fees, more money, more subscriptions, more private equity. Nothing involved with growing the game apparently involves actual fans who make the game unique.