Michela Marie 🏳️🌈
Wow. There is so much confusion on the carbon tax in #Canada.
Poll shows around 80% of Canadians believed they were paying more for fuel and products due to the carbon tax, in a survey taken two weeks before the tax was implemented. 🙃
https://abacusdata.ca/will-climate-change-be-a-ballot-box-question-in-2019/
Rising From the Abyss ꙮ
I honestly can't believe how hard it is to convince people to quit Twitter when they're only a source of evil.
Right now, neo-nazis have gamed their complaint system to block a ton of progressive accounts on the even of a divisive and critical provincial election in Alberta.
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/16/dice-lawyers-from-hell.html
and of course there's no way for their incredibly shitty appeal system to do anything about it in time.
Adam
Opinion column: It's not apathy. Our system is set up to drive voters away
Adam
Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average, most notably in the prairies and BC. Both the Conservative opposition and the media seem content to make sure this is not the major issue heading into the federal election later this year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/climate-change-report-1.5079886
Adam
Conservative climate change policy in a petro-province leaves much to be desired? Colour me shocked!
silverwizard
♲ @Picard_Resists@twitter.com: Canadians who think that racism doesn't exist here or that we don't have the same far-right nutjobs that America has only need to spend two minutes looking at a Yellow Vest Canada Facebook page. It's all there right in the open - and they're proud of it. #cdnpoli
Adam
Is #LavScan going to take down the government? Another cabinet minister has resigned over it.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/jane-philpott-resigns-from-cabinet
Adam
I'm not sure I buy the notion that the federal NDP are on life support, but this is an interesting analysis.
I think the NDP is set to lose a lot of their gains in Quebec (more than they did last time, I mean), and I would't be entirely surprised if the Greens pick up some votes, and maybe even a seat or two, in that province.
silverwizard
Adam
Oh, so that morally repugnant arms deal Canada has with Saudi Arabia? The Saudis haven't even been making their payments (I'm simplyfing for brevity; read the link for the full details).
Adam
"It may be the goal of liberal centrism to always flow with the power, reforming laws and institutions to meet its needs. But surely the labour movement was created to change the currents of power, not play in them. Whether, in the year leading to an election, the labour movement can effect that change is not clear. But the reason change is needed certainly is."
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-liberals-disregard-for-workers-rights/
Michela
"'We're sounding the alarm': half of #Canada's chinook salmon #endangered"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/05/canada-chinook-salmon-endangered
#vegetarian #food #diet #sustainability #environment #Cdnpoli
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
♲ @w_a_march@twitter.com: Remember when @JustinTrudeau promised electoral reform unconditionally, repeatedly, clearly, with a deadline, in his no-BS-excuses voice, making it a key campaign promise, staking his honour and reputation on keeping that promise? Remember that, Canada?
#ElectoralReform
#cdnpoli
silverwizard
silverwizard
Michela
"What if #Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of #oil?"
"Since 1999, more than $200bn has been invested into the #Alberta oil sands for that future. But what if that cash had gone into wind energy instead?"
Adam
The UCP is just blatantly admitting they don't care about public opinion and that they'll deliberately try to move legislation at a pace that's too quick for people to organize and oppose. Disgusting.
Peter V. Tretter ✅
It's time to have a national conversation about #Loblaws and #Weston companies.
WHEREAS Loblaws was found guilty of price-fixing bread; and
WHEREAS Loblaws owns 63.4% of the grocery stores in Canada; and
WHEREAS Loblaws has annual revenues of 46.7 Billion;
BIRT the Government of Canada should break up Loblaws for its monopoly in many places of Canada. #cdnfood #Food #cdnhealth #cdnpoli https://mastodon.club/media/XaAT5n1z-TJ6GIRHLhU
Michela
The end of #NAFTA would not be the end of the world. #Canada #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/nafta-negotiations-1.4802486
Adam
Holy shit. I did not expect this. It's almost certainly blown whatever small chance the NDP had of being re-elected. Probably, though, it's for the best in the long term. Regardless of environmental impacts, First Nations need to be *meaningfully* consulted, particular in BC where there are no treaties and everything is on unceded land.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-trans-mountain-federal-court-appeals-1.4804495
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