There appears to be no statement from the Canadian Labour Congress (@canadianlabour.bsky.social) about working people being fired, suspended, or deciding to resign due to Quebec's Bill 94.
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Plus ... owning, not renting, the music.
Nor has @canadianlabour.bsky.social promoted this info.
Thin journalism from CBC re: "the facts" about the latest federal income tax cut. No mention that it's the most expensive new fiscal initiative in the entire budget, costing > $27 billion in revenue over 5 years. It's as if the only thing that matters is how much tax we pay, not what taxes pay for.
Great job by Ross here, setting out why the gas tax cut is ill-considered.
I like his final point that it is a sign of freedom and a free society to have prices fluctuate. Societies with stagnant prices that never move are not the kind of places you'd want to live.
The Manitoba gov't should not cut the province's gas tax.
Sheesh, this is a very big cost to public finances. It gives bigger savings to higher-income households, which typically consume more gas. And it runs counter to environmental goals.
The federal NDP should oppose this right out of the gate.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour reviewed 617 collective agreements bargained in 2025 covering 230,000 employees. Average wage rate increases for unionized employees beat inflation in every month of the year.
The province's union federation (@oflabour.bsky.social) has not promoted this information.
Some more DougFordesqueness from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: "We’re focused on you. We cut the gas tax once. Maybe we’ll do it again" share.google/gUoiRY6nQMQ0...
She has won four straight elections in my old hometown and has expressed some pretty firm small "c" conservative views over the years.
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Wab Kinew says his 2024 gas tax suspension was "the most important thing that a provincial government ever did in the history of Manitoba". If Doug Ford said something as odd as that in the Ontario context, NDPers nationwide would ridicule it. But it's pretty much silence about Mr. Kinew's words.
The USW and Unifor have not always been allied on every issue, but here they're on the same page. share.google/IXNewEKN6VFp...
It's good to see the CLC indicate zero support for Pierre Poilievre's demand for a suspension of federal fuel taxes. Hope the NDP shuns the Conservatives' tax cut proposal too.
Nice to live in a city where I can take an easy stroll to a local bar and see a really good band play a Doug Sahm cover.
This is some good municipal government communications. When public services work well, it's important to tell people about that. And aside from featuring the mayor (whose celebrity status is helpful here), it is great to see people who do the actual work getting highlighted.
Thanks for all of this. And the dearth of specific plans around organizing on an inter-union basis is for sure a very tough challenge, but it'll have to be faced squarely at some point.
Agree with this comment as it applies to the Cdn context. Three questions: 1) is there any on-line material? 2) What is the genesis of this process/event/consultation? 3) To what extent was there a focus on rebuilding private sector union density?
Absolute desert island disc.
I'm no polling expert. But these definitions seem not very hard to do. Or at least some basic framing info isn't hard. And so many tax questions come with no trade-offs. (Also, as I've whined about before, I don't think the NDP put much backbone into defending the capital gains tax reforms...)
These other interesting questions and responses you correctly note here and in your previous reply make it all the more frustrating that the poll had no definitions of "wealthy people", of "large corporations", of "lower income" or "middle income" people.
Bar window, College St., west end Toronto. Would fix everything right up if we walked in on a Thursday night and there he was, bent over the keys.
This article cites a poll showing good support for higher taxes on the wealthy. But the poll didn't define "wealthy". So, since most of us think we're not wealthy, isn't it equally likely that it shows, unsurprisingly, that there's good support for higher taxes on 'people who aren't us'?
I am giving serious consideration to opening up membership in my new political group, Brads Against Brad Bradford, to non-Brads.
Attention @paulisci.bsky.social, here's a possible contender for 2026 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
New Guided by Voices. These guys issue an album every 10 seconds. If they relocated to Canada, our productivity problems would be gone.
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Gil Scott-Heron, born this day in 1949.
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