GarlicBreath

GarlicBreath, 2 days ago to Canada

Canada, in March, passed a motion in parliament making tepid and uncertain commitment to recognize a Palestinian state. Now is the time for Canada to make good on that intention and follow the example of Norway, Ireland, and Spain by formally recognizing a Palestinian state.
#cdnpoli #canada #gazageocide #freepalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/palestinian-state-ireland-norway-spain-1.7210856

GarlicBreath, 9 days ago to random

“university's lawyers argued that the encampment was unsafe, posing a risk of escalating tensions on campus and preventing McGill from holding its convocation ceremonies at its usual outdoor location. But St-Pierre dismissed those arguments. He said no serious or violent incident had occurred at the encampment since it was established on April 27, and even a confrontation with counter-protesters was peaceful.”
#cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-injunction-request-1.7203666

GarlicBreath, 9 days ago to random

“As title holders to the land, the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples must constantly remind entities like McGill University, that they have built their institutions upon our unceded homelands and that as rights holders, we have the authority over our lands.”
#cdnpoli #qcpoli #kanienkehaka #mcgill #studentprotest #gaza #genocide
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/student-encampments-for-gaza-are-welcome-on-indigenous-land/

GarlicBreath, 23 days ago to random

“Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer.”
#cdnpoli #boycottloblaws #greedflation #oligarchs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-q1-revenue-boycott-1.7190272

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to random

I don’t know, the more I read about this outrage the more it sounds mostly like moderately wealthy people don’t want to pay taxes on selling their second homes and corporations are, once again, throwing around empty threats of leaving Canada. I’m unsympathetic to these complaints.
#cdnpoli #taxes #capitalgains
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/heres-why-justin-trudeaus-changes-to-the-capital-gains-tax-are-making-some-canadians-furious/article_9fcd05d2-fdb8-11ee-8731-931ee5e49e8b.html

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to climate

“the latest federal budget includes about $14 billion in net new climate-related spending, but that money is spread out over 11 years and is heavily backloaded. This budget announces only $2 billion in net new climate spending over the next five years.”
#cdnpoli #climatecrisis #federalbudget #Elxn45
https://monitormag.ca/articles/budget-2024-pushes-new-climate-action-down-the-road/

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to random

“The National Farmers Union of Canada has been calling for a shift away from industrial agriculture toward more ecologically-centred farming methods with 2015’s Nyéléni Declaration on agroecology serving as the primary guideline. Around the world, this approach to farming is often called agroecology.”
#nfu #cdnpoli #cdnag #agroecology #foodsovereignty #agriculture
https://theconversation.com/how-agroecology-can-be-part-of-a-just-transition-for-canadas-food-system-224039

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to random

I remember back in the 2000s when carbon taxation was the conservative compromise for emissions reductions, supported by oil companies. The Canadian left wanted to remove subsidies and have directly regulated emissions caps or cap-and-trade. There were always alternatives. But now we have conservative policy and conservatives are mad at their own conservative ideas.
#cdnpoli #carbontax
https://theconversation.com/fossil-fuel-subsidies-cost-canadians-a-lot-more-money-than-the-carbon-tax-226482

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to random

“Protester Haley Ward told reporters that two Mi’kmaq men in their 20s were fishing last week near Eskasoni when they were apprehended by fishery officers who dropped them off at a gas station in a secluded area without their phones or shoes.”
#mikmaki #elvers #cdnpoli #trudeau
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/extremely-troubling-mikmaq-protest-trudeau-event-after-alleged-fisher-detentions/article_5597672b-bf95-5d89-9b63-deed5147db58.html

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to climate

How about we boycott oil and gas to show Trudeau and the Libs how much we hate the carbon tax.
#cdnpoli #nspoli #carbontax #climatechange
https://www.ckbw.ca/2024/03/28/nationwide-protests-planned-over-carbon-tax/

GarlicBreath, 1 month ago to climate

“The New Brunswick oil giant sends most of its refined fossil fuels to the U.S., meaning efforts to lighten the carbon load of those products won't be rewarded with federal clean fuel credits. The company desperately wants to change that.”
#cdnpoli #climatechange #irving
https://thenarwhal.ca/irving-oil-clean-fuel-regulations/

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to random

“Mulroney’s time in office showcased the failures of neoliberalism, while his death has demonstrated how the Canadian political and media establishment have conspired to rewrite the historical record in real time.”
#cdnpoli #neoliberalism
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/brian-mulroney-canada-neoliberalism-privatization

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to random

“28 per cent of Canadians say they do not think any of the aforementioned leaders is suited to lead the country, and another one-in-10 say they’re not sure who would be best.”
#cdnpoli #Elxn45 #NoneOfTheAbove #ElectoralReform
https://angusreid.org/trudeau-poilievre-best-prime-minister-singh-canada-politics-polling/

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to random

“Nationwide, the numbers using food banks have jumped by 32 percent from last year and 78 per cent since 2019. And there is no one type of person who relies on food banks: for example, many in line have full-time jobs.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #foodsecurity #foodjustice #foodbanks
https://theconversation.com/dear-politicians-to-solve-our-food-bank-crisis-curb-corporate-greed-and-implement-a-basic-income-219086

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to random

“Despite Black workers growing and cultivating much of Canada’s food, many Black people can’t access affordable, culturally appropriate food, and nearly a fifth are food insecure – a rate 2.8 times higher than white people. In Toronto, which is home to more than a third of Canada’s Black population, 28.4 per cent of Black households are food insecure and 36.6 per cent of Black children live in food-insecure households.”
#cdnpoli
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/adopted-by-these-lands

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to random

Ugh, now Canadian PR firms are massaging rhetoric to get social license to increase defense spending. Pulling out all the fear of being seen as a weak country bullshit. None of the pollsters asked respondents if they think Canada should leave NATO. It’s sloppy social science predending to be neutral, objective analysis.
#cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/polls-canadians-defence-spending-trump-1.7133640

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to Canada

We don’t talk enough about settler Canada’s sycophantic affection for political elites. People who demonstrate nothing but selfish and corrupt behaviour when holding power get such dewy-eyed tributes simply because they held power. It always involves some false nostalgia for how politics used to be more civil, when it wasn’t. Frankly, it’s nauseating. Canadian political culture is sad and gross. #cdnpoli #canada

GarlicBreath, 2 months ago to random

"Chief Andrea was unaware of the Indigenous study or that she was participating in it," the statement of claim says. "The MRI scans generated data that reveal intimate medical information about her body without her knowledge or consent. She had been singled out for one reason — she was Mi'kmaq."
#mikmaki #nspoli #cdnpoli
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/atlantic/indigenous-leader-in-nova-scotia-accusing-radiologists-of-conducting-secret-tests/article_d60692d4-fc2c-5ca4-b71c-7fbc1a182d4e.html

GarlicBreath, 3 months ago to NovaScotia

“The abandonment of public housing by the federal government in the 1990s went hand-in-hand with a wider push to financialize the entire sector: rent controls were deregulated, rules were rewritten to make it easier for landlords to purchase buildings then forcibly hike rents.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #novascotia #housing #finance #business #investment #lease #landlords
https://ricochet.media/en/4033/canadas-housing-crisis-isnt-being-caused-by-foreign-investors-its-being-caused-by-investors-period

GarlicBreath, 3 months ago to solarpunk

You want to talk about disruptive technologies that solve supply chain insecurity, transportation emission, and price inflation: publicly-owned, slow, and local rail.
No moonshots. No white elephants. No scamy new technology.
Just well-planned networks of logistical and commuter trains based on existing road networks. With diesel trains upgraded to electric engines, powered by decentralized solar/wind stations. Cheeper than new fighter jets.
#cdnpoli #nspoli #solarpunk #climatecrisis #trains

GarlicBreath, 4 months ago to NovaScotia

Happening Now: Ceasefire protest (postponed from yesterday, due to storm) draws about 70 protestors at Bridgewater Town Hall. Protesters then marched to MP Rick Perkins’ office. Organizers have called on supporters to join them at the town council meeting tomorrow at 6:00 to hear their demands for a ceasefire declaration from the Town of Bridgewater.
#ceasefirenow #freegaza #nogenocide #freepalestine #novascotia #nspoli #cdnpoli

Crowd gathered in front of MP Rick Perkins to ask for the Government of Canada to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Yemen, and to stop arming Israel.

GarlicBreath, 6 months ago to NovaScotia

Join South Shore Ceasfire Now in Halifax on Sunday November 26th to support the Rally for Palestine: Immediate Ceasefire & End the Genocide
#nspoli #southshore #bridgewater #novascotia #ceasefire #gaza
https://mailchi.mp/399f92adcc84/sscn-chartered-a-bus?e=e000743d60

GarlicBreath, 6 months ago to random

“32% [1 in 3 of 2,000 people sampled from across so-called Canada] want change [in government] but are not completely comfortable with the alternatives.”
#cdnpoli #canpoli #noneoftheabove #electoralreform
https://abacusdata.ca/conservative-leads-grows-to-16-as-federal-government-approval-drops-4-abacus-poll/

GarlicBreath, 6 months ago to random

I saw a unsourced post about the emergency alert times by province across Canada. It didn’t have gov’t of Canada formatting, which seemed sus. So I looked up where it could be coming from. This may not be new info, but it was to me. Canada’s public alert system is owned and administered by the parent company that owns the Weather Network? Our public safety alters system essentially run by a private media corporation. #cdnpoli #canpoli #nspoli #alertsystem https://www.pelmorex.com/en/