Notices tagged with cdnpoli, page 3

As we approach the Canada Day long weekend, let's take a moment to consider the myth of Canada as a peacekeeping country.

http://peoplesvoice.ca/2018/06/28/canada-is-this-really-a-country-of-peacekeeping/

#cdnpoli #canpol #canada #imperialism

Hack columnist Graham Hicks opens this piece by claiming to offer 10 good things the Alberta NDP government has done, then proceeds to list only seven.

He also laughably keeps referring to the NDP as socialists. Oh, if only...

http://edmontonsun.com/news/provincial/hicks-on-biz-giving-albertas-ndp-praise-where-praise-is-due

#cdnpoli #alberta #yeg

This makes me imagine an alternate history in which the US and Russia team up to squeeze Canada militarily. At least in the timeline we actually live in it'll only happen economically (for now?).

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/braid-is-donald-trump-a-threat-to-canadas-sovereignty/wcm/8605cf6b-a084-4faf-8940-022d15254836

#cdnpoli #politics

This is...a little too real.

The case for invading America: https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-case-for-invading-america/

#cdnpoli #uspol

Centrism is dead. That's probably a good thing, though. The final sentences of the article sum it up nicely: "It was a pleasant run while it lasted. But now it’s time for voters to truly decide what type of society we’d like to live in. At some point, everyone needs to choose a side."

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/centrism-is-dead-doug-fords-victory-in-ontario-just-proves-it/

#cdnpoli #onpoli #politics #centrism

Jesus Christ.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Part of the joy of coming to Canada was getting away from this corrupt, racist shitshow.

Now I'm going to have to join the Ontario Resistance.

I don't have time for this shit. We gotta fix this electoral process.

#cdnpoli #onpoli #canpol

Have we seen a strategy like this before in Canadian politics? Wynne has admitted defeat efore the election and is now urging Ontarians to elect as many Liberal MPPs as possible to ensure whoever wins has a minority government.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/wynne-liberals-ontario-election-minority-government-1.4689222

#cdnpoli #politics #onpol

I wish the Alberta NDP had put forward something like this. Election reform is an NDP policy, but they rarely actually act on it when they get into power. And since it's increasingly looking like the ANDP will be a one-term government, it would have been nice if they'd attempted to change the electoral system before getting booted out.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/electoral-reform-referendum-question-eby-1.4683919

#canpol #cdnpoli #abpol #bcpol

This is a bizarre situation, if only because the police are nominally on the side of the anarchists, stating that the anarchy @ is not a hate symbol and that the city is not acting on police directions.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-anarchy-symbol-1.4664192

#anarchy #anarchism #hamilton #cdnpoli #canada #politics

Canada is not a country, Scott Gilmore says. We're just a collection of people who happen to be moving in roughly the same direction.

This is...kind of true. I'm not sure it's a bad thing, though. It makes it harder for hateful nationalism to emerge here.

http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/canada-is-not-a-country/

#canada #politics #cdnpoli

I love that this is actually a discussion in Canada - and poverty isn't so extreme that this is out of reach.

"Three points on the GST, to end poverty? Guaranteed income sounds like a good deal."

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-three-points-on-the-gst-to-end-poverty-guaranteed-income-sounds-like-a-good-deal

#cdnpoli #basicincome #ubi #Canada

Concordia University in Montreal has a "political party in residence."

It's sort of weird that they're working with a Danish party instead of Canadian one but I guess, ironically, they didn't want to appear partisan.

http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2018/04/13/fofa-invites-first-political-party-in-residence-the-alternative.html

#canada #cdnpoli #politics

This is really cool. Local First Nation gains a large degree of energy independence and good jobs for community members by installing solar panels on public buildings.

https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/04/10/a-brighter-future-how-green-energy-is-changing-one-alberta-first-nation.html

#cdnpoli #canpol #cdnpol #solarpower #solarpunk

...is probably not getting built. This is probably a good thing, but it will have the unfortunate side effect of almost certainly guaranteeing the demise of the Alberta NDP in the next election. Not that the Alberta NDP have been particularly socialist, but I'd MUCH rather them than Kenney and his dreams of bringing back the Klein years.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/kinder-morgan-puts-brakes-on-trans-mountain-pipeline-activities-1.4610626

#cdnpoli #canpol abpol

@bobjonkmangreen So do we want to use !cdnpoli instead of #cdnpoli, or both, or?