So, sortition? I’m not opposed to giving that a larger role in policy making. It would give voice to a wider range of life experiences than the lawyers and business owners who tend to dominate elected positions.
So, sortition? I’m not opposed to giving that a larger role in policy making. It would give voice to a wider range of life experiences than the lawyers and business owners who tend to dominate elected positions.
People have been treating a Conservative majority as basically foretold for the last while, but the election is still over a year out. Personally, I’ve been much more reserved with my feelings about our current political trajectory. Recent events from south of the border should make it very clear that even a few months is forever in politics. We’re not in what I would consider an ideal position, but it’s much too early to assume the sky is going to fall.
I’ve said this before, but coming up with no ideas of your own except to crack your whip at other people until they do something is bad McDonald’s manager level of leadership. Housing is an issue country wide, expecting municipalities to each individually come up with solutions for you instead of developing a country wide strategy is going to lead to extremely uneven results at best. Most likely it’s going to be a disaster everywhere because municipalities don’t have the power to deal with root causes like land speculation the way the federal and provincial governments do.
I also would bet money that if municipalities start getting homes built in ways the Conservatives don’t like, like public housing, they will be punished for that as well.
Better than yanks who you can depend on to drag you into a pointless war halfway across the world.
You’ve dragged us into more wars than you’ve defended us in. This idea that there are hordes of hostile countries just salivating at invading us across three oceans is a joke.
In fact, the most significant threat to our safety is your trainwreck of a country deciding it likes fascism actually and doing a Sudetanland to us.
Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.
Wow, I hate everything about that.
With a little research these culture vultures could have used an actual local “rebel” flag, this one:
But of course they appropriate a white supremacist flag from American history.
Historically this isn’t the case. Current polling does have Poilievre as the most popular choice among union members, however still at a lower rate than the Canadian average. So it seems like unions are stemming the growth of his support among its members somewhat, within the context of an overall upswell of Con support in Canada generally.
The USA is the largest source of foreign interference in Canadian politics by far, but sure, those guys as well.
I don’t know who they are, but they are most likely carrying a ceremonial mace.
The federal carbon price is not the “be-all, end-all” of climate policy, and New Democrats are open to alternative plans presented by premiers, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday.
I mean, okay, but when those alternatives are developing LNG extraction and exporting, maybe those aren’t good faith proposals.
“We believe that the province’s commitment to fiscal discipline and stability has wavered in recent years as B.C. has materially increased its spending for both operations and capital investment to unparalleled levels, while economic growth is slowing,” S&P said in its analysis.
So, punishment for Keynesianism? Is this that foreign interference I’ve been hearing about?
Surely Moody’s would never utilize it’s credit ratings dishonestly.
It’s sad that this is a battle at all. Never mind who Poilievre invites to photo ops. Look at who he invites to his fundraising dinners.
No, this is from Friday. The bit mentioning the January brownouts was making a comparison to those of yesterday.
Unfortunately the Liberals are pretty all in on the P3 model of doing things. We’d need either a (leftward) change of government or an ideological shift within the Liberal party to get that kind of direct involvement, I think.
Fire season is on the cusp of getting going again this year. I wonder if the tenor of the conversation will look different after summer?
This ‘plan’ is very Orwellian. The idea that other countries are going to replace local coal usage with Canadian natural gas usage rather than simply adding more capacity is already laughable. Pretending that, even if that did happen, Canada would be given partial credit is just not being honest. Canada exports natural gas right now. Are we getting any sort of credit for that?
To illustrate, one previous president of the organization was none other than former Conservative MP and UCP leader Jason Kenney.
Conservatives have adopted the franchise model and applied it to politics. They conform themselves to head office (in this case Republicans in the US) and get to piggy back off the propaganda that gets put out by them. The US being the media powerhouse that it is, it’s pretty effective. Alberta is the most obvious example of this.