Does Carney’s Gas Tax Cut Send the Wrong Signals? | The Tyee Experts warn that suspending Canada’s fuel tax offers limited, ill-targeted relief.

The oil industry is profiting $10 million every day because of the war in the Middle East... “We could tax that,” said @hadrianmk.bsky.social, through an “excess profits” or “windfall” tax. The government could then use that money to improve affordability for Canadians. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Back to Blakeney: Keeping oil industry super-profits in Saskatchewan | CCPA The province has implemented excess profits taxes on the oil industry before. With no end in sight to the Iran war, it should do so again.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/back-to-blakeney-keeping-oil-industry-super-profits-in-saskatchewan/

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

The Naked Budget 2½: The Smell of Expiry In my last post, I argued that the Carney government is dismantling Canada’s women’s state not through cuts but through the expiry of time-limited funding — and that the trajectory take…

The Naked Budget 2½: The Smell of Expiry deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/t...

Today, the Liberals rejected our NDP motion to ban surveillance pricing - a dystopian practice that will drive up costs for Canadians if we allow it to take root.

The NDP is the only party fighting to protect you from getting ripped off at the checkout.

What if we viewed tax time as a harvest festival? - CCPA Where we collectively gather the resources to support one another

“When we starve the state, we don't liberate the individual, we raise the cost of living,” Mohini Athia writes in the latest issue of the Monitor.
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Canadian mother held by ICE with daughter, 7, speaks out on families ‘suffering greatly’ in detention Tania Warner and her daughter were detained in Texas facilities deemed ‘unsafe and degrading’

"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband.

The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Alberta government is pursuing legislative reforms that are fundamentally at odds with the Canada Health Act. Here's our take the province's “me first” health care policy announcement by @alonghurst.bsky.social .

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The $1 trillion question: Why we are asking you to tax our inheritance - CCPA An estimated $1 trillion is moving from the bank accounts and real estate portfolios of the Baby Boomers into the hands of their children.

In the latest issue of the Monitor, Lindsay Wiginton of the Resource Movement calls for radical solidarity and attempting to reframe taxes as a civic duty and a source of pride.

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Exposing the myth of meritocracy - CCPA Over the past three or four decades, Canada has seen skyrocketing inequality, coupled with a growing ‘stickiness’ in wealth and opportunity.

It's time to shut down Canada's wealth pump. Daniel Hoyer of the Resource Movement exposes the myth of meritocracy and discusses the rise of inheritocracy. From the latest edition of the Monitor: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

SCOOP: The firing CityNews won’t explain Gone from air, and gone from the web.

Breaking from @policornerca.bsky.social: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-... #topoli #onpoli

If you think the Pope is a radical leftist, wait till you meet his boss.

Just when you think he can’t get worse …

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands.

Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller,

A graphic with a photo of Stephen Lewis wearing a suit, sitting in front of a red curtain. Text reads: Honouring Stephen Lewis (1937-2026). Sunday, April 26th, 2026 at 11am ET at the Chrysalis Theatre at Toronto Metropolitan University. 43 Gerrard St E, Toronto. Open to all who wish to attend. Please RSVP for in person or streaming link: www.bit.ly/honouringstephenlewis.

Friends, here’s the info for my Dad’s memorial.

Please do RSVP here (and you can register for livestreaming too).

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The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men.

Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Hope you got a badge number and complain…

On March 31, the 17th anniversary of International Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the vibrant lives and achievements of trans people. And we stand with the trans community at a time of rising hate, discrimination and backlash.

"Conversion therapy" doesn't work. It never has and never will. All it does is teach a young person to feel shame for who they are and that repression later manifests into unhealthy behavior. Today's Supreme Court ruling will result in a generation of shame and subsequent harm.

Ontario is underfunding public health care—and private health care is the beneficiary - CCPA $3 billion dollar funding gap drives privatization and downloads costs onto Ontarians

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'there is a deepening public health care funding crisis in Ontario. The new provincial budget encourages greater privatization—both out-of-pocket payments for health care services & outsourcing to investor-owned corporations' @policyalternatives.ca

Different but not unrelated, this morning in the bikelanes by queens park, the police horses got both lanes. Years, decades, of this shit. Window into the culture. Untouchable.

The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities - CCPA The 2026 budget fails to address the core responsibilities of provincial governments.

Check out Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives response to the 2026 Ontario budget by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social and @alonghurst.bsky.social: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Here in Costa Rica - let me know which beach and I can go kick sand in his face! 😏

Assuming you have actual elections… 👀🇨🇦

Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170M building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.

Follow the money …