We’ve already debates this you and I. By the way, Canada’s population just fell for the first time in history. Did that fix the crisis?

Sure let the courts decide. At the same time, the other thing that makes us a democracy is that we also get to call that money hoarder an asshole if we think she acts like one.

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The Grassy Mountain project, which Rinehart purchased from Riversdale Resources in 2019 for $740 million, proposed to dig up 4.5 million tonnes of metallurgical coal a year over a 23-year period in a critical watershed of the Oldman River in southern Alberta near the Crowsnest Pass. That major prairie river provides water for communities and farm irrigation downstream. Due to water concerns, a broad public coalition of ranchers, farmers, First Nations and conservationists strongly opposed the project as well as related mining developments in the Rocky Mountains by largely Australian coal interests. In 2021 a joint review panel firmly recommended after an extensive public hearing that the Grassy Mountain project was not in the public interest for economic and environmental reasons, including selenium pollution. It also raised issues about the quality of coal Northback proposed to mine.

Yea, fuck that asshole and fuck whoever thought this was a good idea in the first place.

This is pointless cruelty.

What is the PRTE?

AFAIK, there is nothing that holds us back from passing a law that says “GDPR applies to Canada”.

If you find the link, I’ll edit the post to add it.

That’s what’s funny. We both agree that joining the EU is losing control.

You want that control to stay in Canada because you want to keep people out and you think the EU will force us to let them in.

I want that control to stay in Canada because I want to bring people in and I think the EU will force us to keep them out.

We arrive at the same position (Canada must retain control) from precisely inverse paths.

So we agree on what Canada’s EU policy should be. And we are in diametric disagreement about what Canada’s immigration policy should be.

Huh, my take is the exact inverse. The EU is structurally averse to external immigration in almost all its aspects, whereas we are a constitutionally multicultural settler society with a long term structural reliance on immigration.

The recent course-correction to lower immigration levels is just that, a correction to a larger more long term direction without changing the fundamentals of that direction. We need to be able to have immigration policies that are much more open than what the Europeans can tolerate.

I don’t understand where I lost you. What I meant is: what’s important here is not the amount of money. If the guy was connected to billionaires, he could have raised all that money from like 3 people. The impressive thing about the Lewis campaign is that because of the lower average donation, the overall amount is an indication of a much broader appeal. So it’s not the amount that’s impressive, it’s the broad appeal of the candidate to the NDP member base. This is compounded by the higher average donation of his opponents, which means that they appeal to fewer, more well-off donors, and still didn’t manage to out-fundraise him.

Elections Canada interim campaign returns show Lewis has taken the lead in fundraising, having brought in $1.2 million from more than 10,400 contributors. Elections Canada data shows MacPherson has raised $560,000 from more than 3,800 contributors, while labour leader Rob Ashton has raised nearly $360,000 in contributions from more than 2,000 supporters. McQuail has raised more than $112,000 from over 800 contributors. Elections Canada has yet to publish Johnston’s fundraising numbers.

Lewis’ average donation comes to 115$ per donor

McPherson’s comes to 147$ per donor

Ashton’s is 180$ per donor

Mcquail’s is 140$ per donor

So in fact the person who has raised the most, has done it for as smaller average donation per donor. That tells you something about his appeal to the electors.

It’s not about more money, it’s about more commitment from more people.

We should definitely have closer relationships with the EU. But we should not join outright. We don’t need the Euro and we definitely don’t need the European Stability and Growth Pact. The Canadian economy should not get too tired up to the European one. We are not the UK, we don’t need this, it would be a weight not a booster. And I’m saying this as a dual Canadian-EU citizen.

Unapologetically Left, motherfuckers. That’s how we will defeat the fascists. Enough with the charade of centrist respectability politics.

Let’s not jinx it folks.

So, we should now see house prices come down, healthcare improved and all our problems solved, right? Right?

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He also said that he’s not going to attend physically the ceremony because of Trump:

« Tant que le petit dictateur est au pouvoir, je ne vais aux États-Unis sous aucun prétexte, même pas pour ça, lance-t-il dans une allusion évidente à Donald Trump. Je vais être là sur Zoom, mais il est hors de question que je mette les pieds dans ce pays qui nous a déclaré la guerre. »

https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chroniques/2026-03-18/plus-haute-distinction-en-informatique/le-quebecois-gilles-brassard-remporte-le-prix-turing-et-fait-un-pied-de-nez-a-trump.php

On a single income? I don’t think so.

By the way, our healthcare system is in serious crisis, take that into account too.

My understanding (and I’m no economist) is that (a) some of the productivity metrics are weird, because they compare with the US which counts their idiotic for-profit healthcare sector in productivity, (b) part of the low investment is caused exactly because our capital is tied in real estate, and (c ) low investment is also a result of our god-damned oligopolies in so many key sectors of the economy. High taxes is not the only tool of course. What we need is a very aggressive policy against the wealthy. That can take the form of taxes, of improving social mobility via the welfare state, and of breaking up their cartels, i.e., their stranglehold on the economy.

Let’s tax wealth to fund quality universal basic services first. Healthcare, childcare, education, transportation, social security, elder care. Social non-market housing, public utilities for electricity, water, telecommunications/Internet. None of these are increasing inflation, because they are not part of the market.

The idea of “nest egg” is only important as a privatised form of elder care. I couldn’t care less about the value of my house if I had a publicly guaranteed quality of life as a pensioner. I wouldn’t even care to own a house if I had strong renter protections in non-market housing (basically if renting was not equivalent to someone holding power over my life decisions).

And of course, of course, the capture of capital in unproductive real estate is beyond stupid. Instead of feeding a real estate bubble, it should be ingested in productive sectors of the economy, like building up renewables and the green transition.

A social democracy is just common sense.

I was being cheeky with the “complacent” bit. Of course we need class solidarity. The reason I went out the way to self identity is because I am finally one of those fucks that I’ve always been told the system works for, a respectable taxpayer. And as a respectable taxpayer I demand high taxes and a welfare state.