First it’s very funny to state Canada has a pandemic plan. Second the fact that the system of food production isnt even of question but that of “how fast can governments help fund for profit creation of vaccines” isn’t surprising. There’s been a steady drip of H5N1 news about the levels of acceptable panic, but with basic transmissible infections like whooping cough spreading, I feel like optimism is just bullshit #cdnpoli#canadahttps://apple.news/ALiMWGdUQQxy0nK-NEj0ppg
There is a beautiful irony that Poilievre has to cancel Axe the Tax rallies due to wild fires and smoke choking communities - though generally speaking the kind of people showing up to them would be happy to let everything burn, as long as it's not them, until the rapture
I was going to gripe a bit about the cool temps and rain but with thousands of people already evacuating (or on stand by like Fort McMurray again) I probably won’t. It’s not even mid-May… #canada#cdnpoli#wildfire
State or State Sponsored attack on BC Government systems happened a month ago but was kept secret until this week on advice from cyber security experts.
"Using shields, batons and flashbang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly removed a group of protesters Thursday night from an encampment set up on the University of Calgary campus."
The chicken and egg game of all this is pretty fucking tiresome… don’t raise fees because it’s an affordability crisis, but let’s continue sprawl of single family homes that cities can’t afford to maintain the infrastructure for. All the games to protect profit margin because we don’t “really” believe housing is a basic right for people. Profit is for sure tho at least for some #ottawa#onpoli#cdnpoli
@dmacphee The headline is misleading. It doesn't surprise me that the Fraser Institute, the Montreal Economic Institute or the Macdonald Laurier Institute say foolish things about #ClimateChange, but environmental issues are a very small part of what they do. It's like describing U of T as a place to play soccer.
As for @acoyne personally, he believes climate change is real and that humans are responsible. He's told the public we should have a #CarbonTax for 20 years or more.
CPC debating about drugs tonight. Eh, I don't think we're watching the same ads 😂 🤨
"I remember growing up as a teenager in the 1980s, and we would see commercials on TV. One commercial said, “This is your brain, and this is your brain on drugs.”
What are the commercials that we see right now? “Do drugs with a friend.”
"If there was any doubt remaining that Alberta's nearly seven-month moratorium on renewable-energy projects was a political decision — made in the halls of power rather than in the offices of expertise — it was erased by internal documents released to the public last week."
My latest analysis for CBC, based on original reporting by @drewanderson for @thenarwhal
This is what happens when you run anything, including universities, as for-profit businesses rather than what they are and should be.
"It's a cash cow," said Richard Kurland, an immigration lawyer and policy analyst in Vancouver. "Each student likely generates at least $20,000 for an educational institution, and we're talking about thousands and thousands of students."
The House is sitting until midnight tonight and tomorrow, and it's not even June yet.
It will suck to do this for six more weeks and not get the summer off like the other translators (I'll get a few extra days). Going back will suck until we figure out a way to bring me over permanently.
... "think about the future, think about the future" 😆
Also, the reason they're sitting until midnight (thanks CPC)
"I must say, however, that this evening I have a little bit of a challenge in discussing this motion. It is a disgusting motion that we are discussing, actually, because it is a motion that has been put forward to delete the short title of a very important bill, Bill C-59.
Just to be clear, the long title of the bill is an act to implement certain provisions of the fall economic statement tabled in Parliament on November 21, 2023 and certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023. The long title is a mouthful so, as is the normal course of business, the bill has a shorter title.
The short title is simply the “fall economic statement implementation act, 2023”. The motion put forward by the Conservatives tonight, requiring debate for five and a half hours, is to delete that short title. Just so that everyone is clear, because I know this is a very important motion for the Conservative Party, we are talking about deleting the title, the “fall economic statement implementation act, 2023”, and not the long title."