Daniel Quinn

Yeah I share your issue with their stance on Nuclear as well (though having worked in the industry for a few years now, I’m coming to realise it’s a moot point). I’ll push back a bit on your other points though. I’ve always found their proposals to be well thought out and fully costed.

The reason I’ve long supported them (even when the leadership was chaotic) was that they were the only party with a platform that shared my priority: a world not on fire. the Conservatives muzzled climate scientists, the Liberals literally bought a pipeline and the NDP keeps cozying up to oil in Alberta and loggers in BC.

Sure we’ve got crystal-clutching anti-nuclear loonies in the Greens, but at least I can trust they actually believe the IPCC enough to want to do something about it.

What’s wrong with the Greens?

What the fuck is with this immigrant blaming? We’re supposed to be better than this.

What cowards we are.

challenging the place of Zionist leaders in mainstream progressive politics.

We really have to stop conflating Zionism with Judaism. Only the Zionists benefit from it.

You’re probably thinking of Cardassia, which I will also note has a judicial system where the state decides the defendant’s guilt in advance of the trial. In such a system, it’s typical that the rich & powerful simply aren’t prosecuted. So it’s the same system as ours, just with fewer steps :-(

Because post is more than just letters, it’s parcels too. Canada Post is infrastructure that ties the whole country together, not just the denser, more profitable cities. Imagine if there were only for-profit postal services in the country. What would it cost to send a parcel to 100 Mile House, or Baker Lake, or whole swathes of the country that only speak French? Think of all the things that go out by post, like Carbon tax rebate cheques and voting information. It’d introduce a massive disparity in service and access to basic services, and so we socialise that cost across the country.

There are always ways to improve of course, but you asked specifically about why the system was socialised.

That’s a fair point. So long as it’s addressed from a position of “is the community being served well” and not “this should be run like a business”. Canada Post has a difficult (and expensive) mandate: to service all of the country, no matter how remote, and the knee-jerk reaction to such headlines is often to privatise which would change that mandate to “earn as much profit for investors as possible”.

I’m living in the UK these days, with private post, and private water companies. Things have literally been enshitified, with raw sewage flowing down the river Thames, so I’m concerned when I see such headlines.

Public services aren’t meant to be profitable. They’re meant to provide a service that serves the community.

Can someone cobble together a list of video clips of PP just being an asshole? My family thinks he’s this great, clever “everyman”, and I think we could do a lot of damage to bike by supercutting all the times he’s demonstrated what a slime ball he is.

Of course, if the Liberals and NDP insist on running with their current leadership, they might as well just hand him the keys now.

Relevant Canadaland Commons episode.

Not all of the EU. I understand Ireland is very vocal about doing the right thing.

Germany on the other hand seems wholly in capable of being on the right side of a genocide.

It’s absolutely infuriating that a statement like that would lead to demands for an apology.

As a Canadian expat, these sorts of surveys are an embarrassment. Canada is not that great. It has some good things going for it, but “second best in the world” is a laughable statement.

• The wealth disparity is terrible
• Nearly every inhabited patch of land is a suburban hellscape.
• The government is routinely dedicated to accomplishing as little as possible, especially on climate
• The fossil fuel lobby is embarrassingly strong
• The cost of living is extreme for many, with little effort to reign it in
• The country suffers from an inferiority complex in relation to the US of all places.
• The electoral system is broken

I mean, I love my country, but I’ve seen a lot of places that I’d rather live. The idea that we’re 2nd best compared to even half of the countries I’ve visited in the last 10 years is just silly.