grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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Thanks, Jagmeet.

Poilievre personally holds investment in Bitcoin as he promotes crypto to Canadians

So he either believes in it or believes in rug pulling his constituents.

So we'll likely be heading into an election in June.

Reuters gives a certain number of free articles per month(?) before the paywall.

That's not what zionism means, Trudeau. Presumably Palestinians are included in that, "Like all people," and yet don't seem to have the same right to self-determination in the face of the very concrete Israeli state that's set up on their land.

the governor briefly mentioned Florida’s tourist numbers from 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

Speaking of weakening Canada:

Posing as Canadian

• Of the 48 corporations on CAPP’s board, 30 were confirmed to be fully or majority foreign-owned, while seven more are very likely majority foreign-owned. Combined, that makes up 77 per cent of CAPP’s board.

• The overwhelming majority – about 97 per cent – of the oil produced by corporations on CAPP’s board in 2018 came from fully or majority foreign-owned corporations. Majority Canadian-owned corporations were responsible for less than three per cent of all oil production by corporations on CAPP’s board.

• Most of CAPP’s revenue comes from foreign-owned corporations because CAPP corporate membership fees are based on each member’s oil production. The greater the production, the higher the fees. Since 97 per cent of the oil produced by CAPP’s corporate board members comes from fully or majority foreign-owned corporations, their fees must account for about 97 per cent of CAPP’s revenue.

If you think of the "fediverse" as being like email, an instance would be like an email provider. So you can get an email address from google, protonmail, microsoft, etc, but you can still communicate with other accounts from any of the providers via the standardized protocol. In the same way you can join any particular instance and communicate with other instances.

No, this is a crock of shit. Our best defence is the logistical nightmare of invading over an ocean, which we happen to be surrounded by three. No yank has ever died in defence of Canadian soil, only Canadian lives have been lost being dragged into foreign US wars. If we've let our military be underfunded it's because we haven't had any significant threats, and if we need to fund it now it's because our only significant threat is the USA.

Carney's housing policies aren't offering anything that Gould isn't, except that Gould is promising to make non-market cooperative housing an important plank of her platform, where I happen to think that non-market solutions are the actual fix to most of Canada's current problems.

But really, I was never voting Liberal anyways on account of their position that the 'right' to strike is contingent on the approval of the sitting government.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-had-a-chance-to-weigh-in-one-of-the-defining-issues-facing-canada/article_8bb1815a-1149-11ef-a91a-43a3f346fa12.html ( archive)

MP Nate Erskine-Smith asked Carney what he would do about Canada’s growing wealth inequality. Carney’s answer was a bit unfocused, but he made two points clearly: 1) Let’s hope wealthy people give more to charity, and 2) We shouldn’t only focus on redistribution.

This is within the context of the greatest wealth inequality that has existed in Canada, ever. Mark Carney is not serious about fixing what ails Canada. As far as not being to the right of Trudeau, economically Trudeau also represents the neoliberal status quo that is not addressing our issues. Even if I grant that is true, it's not a point in his favour.

As far as Liberal leader candidates go Gould is the one I'd prefer. Carney is an investment banker who's most significant appointments came under two different conservative governments and represents a neoliberal status quo which will fail to address any of the problems Canada is facing. This will set up the CPC for another potential win in the election after next, assuming they don't win the upcoming one. Gould on the other hand could be at home in the NDP and a lot of her positions could actually be transformative. Sadly, elections are won on vibes and Carney is the vibes candidate.

"Border security" was always a canard. Trump needed to trump up an emergency to levy tariffs without a law going through congress first. If what his deputy chief of staff said yesterday is true and, "[T]he best way to understand President Trump’s position is to take what he says at face value," then the goal of the tariffs is to cow us into accepting annexation. Failing that, it's certainly at best a shakedown to force us into a bad deal that enriches the US at our expense.

"If Mark Carney does win the leadership, we are hearing from many Ottawa sources that he intends on calling an election shortly after becoming Liberal leader."

Bear in mind that this article is talking about Carney calling an early election should he win the Liberal leadership, not about the NDP voting to bring down the government.

They gambled that the additional ad revenue they'd be able to bring in with a sanitized web site would be greater than the revenue lost from some of their userbase leaving the site. It was a bad gamble.

Why would he bother when the one organization that has total editorial control over the document is ideologically copacetic?

That's the same thing that's happening here.

Countries don't have brothers, they have interests.

Bitch slapping us? Where are those doubled tariffs he threatened to levy on us if we counter tariffed the US? Only bitch here is your bitch ass leadership.