As a member of OPSEU, I've been watching the presidential campaigns unfold. After a few clearly inaccessible posts, I started to wonder just how accessible these campaigns were. So naturally, I spent my weekend looking into it.
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Would love to know what parts of Charlie's work the @liberalca.bsky.social MPs were giving a standing ovation to. You can't march in the Pride parade in June and then salute a man who spread divisive hate and lies in September.
Oh my goodness 👀👀👀
I can't stop thinking about the fact that the house I lived in the longest as a kid was purchased for $56,000 aka roughly what my dad made in a year. The house I live in was just under $500k last year which is.... much more than my annual salary.
A screenshot of a house listing showing a red brick house and the listing price of $815,000.
Gentrification is wild. I was just thinking about my grandmother's house and the rats that crawled across her feet when she was in the cold cellar. A house that they bought with a single income in the Italian neighborhood where no one wanted to live. A house that is now listed for $815,000.
I'm not sure I'm equipped to live in a world where keying a Tesla is considered terrorism but murdering an Indigenous gay man while yelling slurs isn't a hate crime.
Hot tip to the NDP: Shifting right as the left-wing option doesn’t work.
I truly hope that at the end of this deeply underwhelming night, the NDP resists the urge to blame strategic voting for their historical loss. This was an inside job.. Fixing the root causes will be difficult but is absolutely necessary if the party intends to survive.
The last time I attended an NDP convention there was a looping animation of Jagmeet riding a bike across the country but there weren't adequate supports for disabled delegates. This encapsulates the style over substance problem that has contributed to the rot in this party.
In order for the NDP to ever truly offer a viable alternative to the woefully inadequate status quo, it needs to clean house, gut the party's entrenched hierarchy and stop trying to court the centre. In a world of rising inequality, half steps to the centre will never inspire support.
It looks like this will be the lowest number of seats for the NDP in history. How did we get here?
• a party with notoriously toxic inner politics
• a party that has attempted to run on vibes for 10+ years instead of bold progressive policy
• a party that marginalizes most progressive members
Screenshot of voting results for the Carleton riding showing the Liberal candidate leading
Please, I need to sleep tonight 😭😭😭
Gif of teenage Milhouse throwing a garbage can through store window.
Live feed from the conservative HQ.
Folks who are thinking about their options, please keep in mind that Canada limits immigration of disabled folks, which is very in-line with our position of pretending to be progressive while being incredibly backwards on a variety of issues related to justice and equity.
“It is painful to say this, given my time in government service, but the United States urgently needs a strong alternative to the government public health guidance it has relied on in the past.” 🎁 wapo.st/4225Rdk
Me: I wish Liberals didn't sound like Conservatives.
Liberals: You obviously want the Conservatives to win.
Education Trump says Education Department will no longer oversee student loans, 'special needs'
The AP Stylebook says to avoid using the term "special needs" (and "special education" out of titles/quotes), and yet, I keep seeing such language when talking about Department of Education.
Let's talk about people who've received longer sentences than Pat King.
I'll start: Mandy Hiscocks. 16 months for organizing G20 protests.
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#cdnpoli #ottawa
My bellwether for the sentiment in rural Ontario is that my neighbour who has been flying a "Thank You Trump" flag since before I moved here has finally taken it down.
I sure wish the reason was based in human rights and not fired up nationalism, but here we are.
Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I am wary to turn to nationalism as an answer to our growing concerns because it tends to make us forgive a lot of ongoing subjugation in the name of “standing strong.” My personal preference is to focus on solidarity with others who find oppression and state violence unjust
Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.
I have never been invited to interview for any job I've applied for where I disclosed that I was a disabled candidate. It is bleak out here.
Like, I don't want it to be but also I need to prepare myself.
My unhinged 2025 prediction is that PP becomes the next PM and, during his reign, renames the Trans Canada Highway either the All Canadian Highway or the True Canadian Highway. Because this is the world we live in.
i'm also very proud of this essay for @thenation.com on Panera's heart-attack lemonades and the neoliberal aesthetics of Global Village Coffeehouse
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Screenshot of a news article with title "Canadians concerned country's children are too soft, with no coping skills: survey" and an image of a family walking outdoors.
There's an 80% chance temps will exceed the +1.5 degree threshold in the next 5 years but sure, kids being soft is the real problem.
Not sure I care about the opinions of a generation that threatened to give us something to cry about while actually giving us something to cry about (climate crisis).
A grouped bar chart showing hate crimes reported to police in Canada by year and motivation (race or ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation) All three categories show a marked uptick starting in either 2020 or 2021.
When people talk about the historical turn towards fascism after a pandemic, it's important to remember that Canada isn't immune to such swings. The Stats Can dashboard on hate crimes shows a truly chilling upswing in violence since the start of the pandemic.
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Canada is investigating Chinese tech companies, but it should be much more concerned with how dependent we’ve become on US tech monopolies that run roughshod over our rules and laws.
In @thestar.com, I argue it’s time for Canada to reclaim its digital sovereignty.
Court on another break but: Freedom Convoy figure Pat King has been found guilty on five of nine charges, including mischief and disobeying a court order.