acargitz @ theacharnian @lemmy.ca

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Yves-François Blanchet said it best: oil and gas is not an identity.

I counted them as refugees because of their stated intent. They are privileged enough that they can use non-humanitarian avenues to do it. First class vs economy...

The story of the Bergs is heartbreaking. I wonder what happened to them.

The "Safe Third Country" agreement will come under stress, I think, when the shit hits the fan.

I don't know if that town in particular is super big on Maga. Of all the Americans, these are our closest kin.

Keep the "other option" american-style bullshit out of Canadian politics. We have a multiparty democracy that can operate with minority governments and coalitions. This country really does not need a polarized American style two party system.

We are in complete agreement.

The trend I'm pushing back against is uncritical yimby-ism, that doesn't account for the financialization of housing.

I don't know why you're bringing federal politics into this. But since you went there, let's go.

Carney popularized the slogan for a supposedly easy solution to a problem that has festered under decades of neoliberal housing policy under the LPC and the CPC. I don't have confidence in a Liberal government to go against this deeply ingrained policy. Specifically, I don't think they have any interest in going against the richer half of the electorate that has invested in real estate. In their attempt to placate the propertied classes' need for housing values to keep rising, they will screw this up, which I'm afraid will further inflame the resentment of young men driving them towards the open arms of the far right.

“Build baby build” with sensibility ofc.

Exactly. This is an example of what "build baby build" without sensibility looks like.

...and my bow

Yes, however scientific papers aren't always linearly formatted PDFs (eg 2-columns), so pdftotext tends to be brittle.

If you only mean reading a file from a specific selection of text, I’ve never seen something that,

Okular actually does that, and with Pied I can use nice Piper voices, but the controls are very basic (start at the stop of the page, pause, stop).

ReadAloud sort of does but it requires sending the pdf to their website, which is obviously not ideal.

You say unsold condo, I say future student housing.

Jokes aside, this is why "build baby build" on its own is not going to solve the housing crisis.

A screen reader reads what's on the screen. What I'm describing is reading a document. ReadAloud does exactly that for Firefox, I am just asking for standalone applications.

A lot of anti-latino racism really boils down to colonial anti-indigenous racism. The fascists are usually fine with white latinos, but something really stirs in them when it's about mestizos, i.e. people whose family tree includes indigenous ancestry. Think of the stereotype of the Latin American gangster, the Mexican cartel rabid dog, like the ones in Breaking Bad. What do they look like? They never look like Ricky Martin, now, do they?

Nope.

"Once the votes are counted in Ontario, the election is over. We don't matter. We never matter," she said.

You know what Quebeckers do that's smart? They don't have party loyalty. One election, they vote NDP, next one BQ, next LPC, sometimes they give CPC some seats to push them over the edge. We make every single party want to cater to us. We aren't in anyone's pocket.

Do you want to matter? Stop being a fucking CPC stooge.

Even the "for them" is such bullshit. It isn't like they are taxing the oil and gas companies to build a better social welfare state. They have the lowest corporate taxes in Canada, very low income taxes, no sales tax. If they wanted they could have made themselves into fucking Norway but no, better lick Oil and Gas boot and identify as a derrick well.

They are so brainwashed it boggles the mind. Alberta could be a solar energy powerhouse, they could build shit, develop a manufacturing sector, but no, it has to be fucking oil and gas forever.

You know what, Justin Trudeau should also run, for shits and giggles.

Fuck, that's 700 families impacted, this is huge.

Edit: and 1500 more impacted in the supply chain.

This is where government should step in.