Thankfully, Toronto’s won so far in the courts versus Ford, and we still have rule of law in Canada. Props to locals who restored the Orlando memorial crosswalk

Israel’s war genocide

In 5.5 years we’ve done so much: create new vaccines, end a pandemic, and reduce access to those same vaccines

BB is a zionist organization and this happened in 2018

The normalization of the government siding with employers within hours of locking their employees out has far greater implications for this country and its ongoing affordability and inequality crises than a week of logistics associated with one company - that the corporation deliberately chose not to do anything to prevent (!). And if AC is so important, it should be nationalized.

Shocker, head of state isn’t an easy position. And yes, the Liberal government breaking something like the 7th strike in the last few years was a bad decision. You seem to be naively pro-capital and not have Canadians’ interests on your radar at all. I could get similar perspectives, if I wanted them, from corporate-controlled mainstream infotainment

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cleveland-cliffs-ceo-1.7613737

Earlier this week, the U.S. government announced it is hiking steel and aluminum tariffs on more than 400 products, including wind turbines, mobile cranes, appliances and heavy equipment.

So US is increasing its tariffs and we’re reducing ours?

Air Canada has been federally bailed out 3 times in the last 25 years. The purchased a $500 million stock buyback for themselves in June 2025. They deliberately let their CBA with the union lapse, because they were confident the federal government would prop them up again, even while they notoriously underpay their employees. Sure enough, the federal government did so within hours.

If you feel bad for Carney over this, you feel bad for him not being able to be nakedly corrupt without impunity. There are people far more deserving of your sympathy. Like the millions he’s complicit with Israel of starving to death in Israel

US big tech: We’re not here to respect creators’ IP, pay taxes in your country, or moderate our platforms. We’re just here to usurp your advertising, media, and news industries, and ensnare your population with foreign misinformation

I’m sick of hearing about increased defence spending that doesn’t reduce dependence on the fascist country south of us. If we’re not pivoting away from American shit, there’s no reason other than corruption to increase spending. Pivoting away from US should be priority #1

It appears that it does not matter if the target is an individual, organization, or government. As long as the legal request is considered valid in the United States, the target or location of the data does not matter.

As an example, the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces make significant use of Microsoft 365. They have their own defence-tailored instance called Defence 365, which serves as a common cloud infrastructure for collaboration across DND/CAF, with stakeholders and other government departments.

In theory, any data on or using Microsoft or a U.S.-based organization’s products and infrastructure which is not isolated from the Internet could be subpoenaed by the United States government.

In the face of Israel’s continued targeting of journalists in Gaza, Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine (CJJP) has issued a powerful statement condemning the August 10th killing of an entire Al Jazeera news crew in an Israeli airstrike. CJJP, a national coalition formed in April 2025 by concerned Canadian media professionals, includes reporters, editors, broadcasters, photojournalists, and media scholars united by a commitment to press freedom and journalistic accountability.

The organisation, with active branches in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, was established in response to growing alarm over the lack of accuracy, balance, and ethical depth in Canadian coverage of Palestine. Since its founding, thirteen more journalists have been killed in Gaza.

CJJP’s latest statement demands that the Canadian government uphold its moral and legal responsibilities by naming Israel as the perpetrator, ending its diplomatic hedging, and pursuing international accountability for the systemic killing of Palestinian journalists—killings that constitute war crimes under international law.

This is their urgent call to action.

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The systemic killing of journalists cannot be dismissed as collateral damage. These are war crimes that must never be normalised, excused, or forgotten.

I thought Ipsos did polling. This is marketing. It’s also bullshit.

How does one meaningfully answer a question about whether or not they support creating “pragmatic environmental policy?” There’s only one good answer: “Tell me more what you mean by that?”

Notably, Ipsos doesn’t tell participants who is paying for their study. However, in this publication of results, they’re happy to unmask that: “Canadians Support Policy Ideas Set Out by Business Council of Alberta”.

If you were to tell me that “Pragmatic environmental policy” was defined according to the Business Council of Alberta, that would clarify to me that you mean “no environmental policy.”

This is less polling and more propaganda. Personally, I don’t think ipsos.com publications like this are worth posting again

Nah, just everyday people sick of profits getting privatized and losses (e.g., Air Canada bailout in 2021) being socialized. Our social systems aren’t as broken as many in the UK and US but they can be if we let corporate lobbying continue to steal from this country and its people. I think you’ve got some reading to do

The source of data for the part of the headline telling readers what their nation has already decided

At least seven in 10 people responding to a recent Angus Reid poll supported the idea of one year of mandatory public service for Canadians under 30 — things like tutoring kids or working in national parks. Mandatory military service, however, was more divisive, with 43 per cent in support and 44 per cent opposed.

With the ongoing and relatively unaddressed affordability and housing crises in Canada, these had better be pretty well-compensated. Maybe just focus on expanding public services to face the myriad challenges facing our society devastated by neoliberalism

Thus helping lay the ground for the CPC to form the next federal government as more people than last election will undoubtedly ask themselves after 4 years of Carney, “is the LPC meaningfully better for me and mine than the CPC?”

Where’s the NDP with commentary on the shit around Air Canada and the Libs? Puh-lease!!! Wake up, federal NDP! I see a few posts on their website, but idk how much impact that’s having. I’ll email them and tell them to get on Mastodon

Procedurally fair. I don’t think it’s stretch though to say that white supremacy is not disciplined anywhere near seriously enough, either in the Forces or ‘civilian society,’ and this is well-known. Zero tolerance should be standard

suspended?! Canadian and other Allied soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight Nazism are rolling over in their graves right now

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for your comment and the article. The link didn’t resolve for me but I’d guess that was a globe and mail article.

Was the affordability benchmark not the same as the affordable housing definition (from 2003 or whenever) until this reports and the decisions behind it at the CMHC this year decoupled them?