It's not a sincere gesture; it's the height of cynicism, trading on folks' ignorance to score goodwill points on a pittance while increasing profits for the richest at the expense of the public purse. The man has a PhD in economics from Oxford. You think he doesn't know how this will work?
"“Canada reiterates that Hezbollah must disarm..."
Why are you even talking about Hezbollah? Israel is the aggressor here. Israel is not respecting any ceasefires anywhere. If you are going to be naming parties, how about naming the guilty ones?
What a delusional, meaningless statement.
"all parties must fully respect and implement the ceasefire"?
The USA and Israel have shown themselves completely untrustworthy while Iran has demonstrated willingness to comply with fair stipulations.
A CBC investigation has found big grocers are overcharging for meat - AGAIN. Sign the petition to call on the CFIA to crack down on these scammy pricing practices: leadnow.ca/campaigns/cf...
Canada Post management does not make decisions to bring the organization toward viability. They are on a mission to do the worst possible things to ensure CP is killed by a thousand cuts so all delivery can be privatized and a few folks can make a lot of money while ordinary folks bear the brunt.
Let that number sink in. They can afford to pay an excess profits tax: $30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'm all about sweet on sweet but chocolate peanut butter is a very surprising combination with paska.
You're not saving us money; you're protecting the profits of oil companies! What happened to needing to leave all decisions in the hands of the market? The markets are telling us to reduce our oil consumption -- why are you artificially interfering?
The inflated cost of oil and gas is hurting Canadians, while fossil fuel companies reap the profits. Pausing the excise tax on gas doesn't solve the problem.
Real affordability & resilience means ending our dependence on volatile fossil fuels.
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Funny how we just need to trust the market - we can't possibly subsidize green innovation - until the market is telling us to cut down on oil & gas use, and then suddenly subsidies are totally okay.
Who is paying these disingenuous villains?
However, we also found that the program improved participants’ artistic output, including the time they could dedicate to their art and their satisfaction with the quality and the impact of their work.” ‘What art could we produce as a society if our artists could invest more time and money in their craft?’ Stephen Roll The GI program was found to reduce financial stress and debt; increase artists’ ability to invest time in their art; increase motivation and productivity; and improve mental health, while showing no reduction in other sources of income.
2,400 artists in NYC got $1,000 per month in basic income for 18 months beginning in 2022. Same as in Ireland, the results were overwhelmingly positive. Artists spent more time on their art and became more satisfied with the quality and impact of their work.
DO UBI
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A big problem is also that we've been trained to assume our convenience is of utmost importance. Everything must be disposable the second we no longer need it. We couldn't possibly be expected to carry anything with us, whether to be prepared (reusable mug) or to be patient (take your garbage home).
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Deeply troubling. Unfettered power for a man who already thinks his job is to be a CEO, not a servant of the people. And the left-wing party doesn't even have official party status.
Same text as in post. Via @UBIWorks.bsky.social #UBI #UniversalBasicincome
“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”
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And what are those other ways, sir? And will they be heeded in any way?
Your deep condolences and words of support for the Lebanese government are worse than meaningless -- they insult anyone with the ability to think critically and they are a mockery of the family's grief -- as long as you are still selling arms to Israel.
You couldn’t find a better word to describe our current state than “complacent.”
But treating democracy as inevitable is risky because self-government is anything but set-it-and-forget-it, writes @davidmoscrop.com.
Moscrop interviews authors Peter MacLeod and Richard Johnson. #canpoli
They are, and it's very insulting you have to hit the beg button to get a pedestrian crossing for Corydon at the main entrance to Assiniboine Park. However, in cities where delivery robots have been rolled out, one can derive a certain satisfication from the robots' inability to cross the street.
Director of the Infrastructure Institute at the U of T Matti Siemiatyck very quickly passes over a big "if" in his answer: the same $$ could fund all the rapid transit projects in Canada *IF* you had provincial support as well.
Boycott success
Huge BDS win on cultural front
Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank
In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation.
Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.
Highway filled with car congestion
Highway filled with car congestion
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people more CHOICE to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
Seek out good candidates and then champion them. Talk them up with friends. Volunteer for them. Work against the incumbency factor with every opportunity.
And thus we shall allow them to happen and only notice once they have thoroughly enshittified our lives and are so entrenched they are hard or impossible to undo.
Not unlike how our neighbours to the south didn't fight back against all the small indignities until they became enormous violations. :(
I despise the fact that people who choose to live in a far flung suburbs with no amenities seem to be owed city-provided recreation at the expense of (cheaper) maintenance to (and thus functioning of) existing facilities in needier neighbourhoods
And those suburban kids may or may not prefer that pool. They may drive across town to swim anyway. Whereas kids who go to Sherbrook are probably walking and don't have the luxury of choice.
Actually, data centres, a pipeline to Churchill and more gas tax holidays will make our lives worse. The PST holiday on groceries helps the grocery monopolies more than people feeling pain from pricing. Fare-free transit for youth robs WT of operations $ and threatens youths with law enforcement.
"a new divide in the left wing"? You mean a proper leftist leader for the left wing party? What divide do you speak of? It was a highly most congenial campaign. If you're talking about party divide, you might want to look at the Conservatives who are bleeding members to floor crossing.
Surely you know Chris Clacio has stated his intention to run just as firmly as the other guys you mention. And Tyler Crichton has also given intentions as clear as the other guy. Leaving out these supposed dark horses from coverage handicaps their races. What's going on?