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.
Strange take. Presumably if Israel was replaced with a non-ethnostate, Jewish citizens of that state would get the same rights and treatment as every other citizen.
Emphasis on the sometimes. If you regularly put 80+ hours a week in even doing something you enjoy, eventually you will burn yourself out and there’s a good chance you won’t enjoy the thing anymore on the other side of that. Not for a long while, at any rate. Burnout is no joke.
Yeah, all that housing in Vienna appeared from nowhere.
But sure, you have a great day as well.
Yes, of course. Banning short term rentals for example is a regulation that would put downward pressure on housing prices. Banning investment companies such as Blackrock, Blackstone, etc from purchasing single family homes, duplexes, 4-plexes and the like would do the same. Whereas the lack of regulation around these things has contributed to home price inflation. The idea that people are unable to afford homes because there is too much regulation holds water like a sieve.
Our current economic situation is the product of decades of regulation cutting supply side (aka neoclassical) economics championed by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan, which still dominates today. You know where housing is not unaffordable? Vienna, Austria. A place where better than half the residents live in social housing. The product of a strong government and regulation.
In fact, minimum wage earners tend to put a greater portion of their earnings back into the local economy vs. savings and increases help or at least don’t impact particularly negatively small business. Neoclassical economics is a joke.
Regulations help protect people from corporations. This libertarian take is total nonsense. What makes competition difficult for new entrants is the overwhelming size of modern day multinational corporations and the capital investment required to wage any sort of real competition which is something that is only going to be fronted by other extremely wealthy interests. So, yes, we do need bigger, stronger governments in relation to those very powerful corporations, specifically strong enough to break them up. Or ideally nationalize them entirely.
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?
Gee, I wonder why the UCP might want the recall process made easier?
Last month, Project YYC was registered as a trade name with the province by Roy Beyer. A Project YYC Facebook page has also launched, calling itself a non-profit organization it says aims to make Calgary “a better place for all.” It includes a link to a Recall Gondek website.
Tuesday, when a document attributed to them began circulating on social media, there was widespread speculation about what it meant. It included a list of names of people known in conservative circles. The document states the goal of Project YYC, in addition to supporting the Recall Gondek campaign, is to support the creation of a “big tent coalition” to elect for a “common-sense conservative mayor and counsel (sic)” in Calgary in 2025.
It lists 11 individuals as part of a “recall campaign core team.” It includes two constituency board members with the United Conservative Party (UCP) and two Calgary “captains” with Take Back Alberta, a conservative political action group. There are also four people listed as “project advisors,” two of whom are current UCP board of directors.
Happy Canada Day to you as well.