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• Post #4469208

  @crazy_canuck Respectfully, no. That would invite a reaction.

• Post #4469207

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@evdelen/117055331090002238 There is another explanation: #MarkCarmey could have just wanted to make all of these "concessions" notwithstanding trade negotiations - in other words, he wanted to make cuts or giveaways to industries and is using trade negotiations with the US as pretext. Either scenario is extremely concerning! #CDNPoli #Canada #CUSMA

• Post #4469206

  This is the definition of insanity. We've tried this several times already and it hasn't worked, but perhaps this time it will. No it will not! Every single time #Canada has made a concession with the #US on #CUSMA (#USMCA) #DonaldTrump has found some other pretext to #Tariff us again. #MarkCarney, STOP MAKING CONCESSIONS! https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-u-s-booze-bans-trade-negotiations-9.7299529 #CDNPoli

• Post #4469205

  For being the "most transparent government in Ontario history™" the #DougFord government sure loves participating in secret deals where they override the wishes of locals, all for no personal gain (🙄). https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/a-plot-of-abandoned-land-in-muskoka-is-at-the-centre-of-a-secretive-provincial-deal-residents-want-answers/article_dc2dd718-c8e8-4f38-8cc8-52a5dea8cadb.html https://archive.ph/hENXq #ONPoli #Ontario #Corruption

• Post #4397832

  https://archive.ph/KWonH Well, if 1995-2003 - the Conservative Mike Harris years - are any indication, #DougFord is hiding a massive budget deficit and is planning to privatize and sell off public agencies to plug the budget hole. This is exactly what happened starting around 2001. The agencies being reviewed are: - Metrolinx - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board - Supply Ontario - Liquor Control Board of Ontario - Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation - Legal Aid Ontario - Agricorp - Alcohol...

• Post #4382758

  RE: https://hci.social/@tod/117038807871995162 Meanwhile in #Ontario, despite the swell of medical professionals seeking to relocate to #Canada, #DougFord and #SylviaJones have managed to make access to care worse while shifting care from the "evil and wasteful" public system to the "well run, efficient" private sector. Perhaps it's worth considering moving to BC intra-Canada too! #ONPoli #CDNPoli

• Post #4336057

  I do not know of a democratic governing administration, anywhere in the world, that has taken unilateral action in order to increase their term of office. ... Except in #Ontario. I wonder when the people of Ontario will wake up to the fact that an autocrat is sitting in the Premiers Office at Queen's Park. #ONPoli

• Post #4264582

  It's looking increasingly like the 2026 #WorldCup may have been the last World Cup. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/30/uefa-agrees-to-boycott-fifa-competitions-if-world-cup-sell-off-plans-proceed #Football #FIFA #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup26 #Soccer #Futbol

• Post #4258509

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/117000428209221181 This is just as true in #Ontario and other Canadian provinces as it is in the US. #ONPoli #CDNPoli #ABPoli #BCPoli #MBPoli #NBPoli #PEIPolitics #NSPoli #Canada

• Post #4258267

  It is hard to photograph a #Butterfly in-flight. I haven't seen one of these in a while. #MonarchButterfly

• Post #4243468

  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117007634455854908 One small problem with that line of thinking Allister Heath: When the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation stops because too much fresh water melting from the Greenlandic ice caps thus interrupting ts flow, Britain won't feel like the Mediterranean, it'll feel like Svalbard, Norway. #ClimateChange #ShortTermThinking #DeathCult

• Post #4226137

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/117003649557836058 He could've been your Mayor #Toronto. Instead we got John Tory and SMRT Track! #TOPoli

• Post #4173865

  TIL: The chief electoral officer of Canada is not allowed to vote. If Billionaires have their way then that list would also include anyone whose wealth is less than $100,000. #CDNPoli #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-appears-to-endorse-giving-more-votes-to-wealthy-canadians-9.7286688

• Post #4173477

  I'd love to watch an episode of Hoarders where, but instead of someone who hoards things they visited someone who hoards money. To get visuals, rather than looking at spreadsheets, they could visit some of the "companies" and "ventures". Host: "Mr Moneybags, do you really need an eternal life venture AND a venture to copy your consciousness into computers? I think we can safely shut one of these companies down and use the money to feed people who could use a little...

• Post #4169628

  Fire Gary Anandasangaree. He's clearly out of his depth! He either doesn't understand all of the implications of what he's proposing, or is wilfully ignorant of it, and that is simply unacceptable! (Also, listing the Toronto Police Association, the same people who defend corrupt cops, and the Toronto Police, the same organization that has stated it can investigate its own corrupt police problem and/or claims it doesn't have one, as enthusiastic supporters isn't the flex you...

• Post #4148880

  #PeteHegseth is the real life Zapp Brannigan. #USPol

• Post #4126597

  Evan Dyer explores #Canada's path to obtaining a #NuclearWeapon, technologically we're the the closest non-nuclear nation state to obtaining a nuclear bomb if we wanted to. #CDNPoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-remains-antinuke-road-to-bomb-getting-shorter-9.7283194

• Post #4058228

  That corporations call them "Human Resource Departments" instead of "Human Asset Departments" really says a lot about the culture that produced them. An asset is something that you value, that you invest in, that you want to improve. A resource is something that you want to maximally extract with minimal cost. Which of those are you to your employer? #Workplace #WorkplaceCulture #Corporations #Work #Workers #Employee #Employees #Employment

• Post #4012272

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116963206337727977 I can't wait for all the depictions of disease and maladies that everyone had back then that all Hollywood films fail to depict. Actors with perfectly straight white teeth, perfect skin, tall... Yeah, that wasn't the pre-medicine times. Lack of adequate nutrition was a big thing, even among nobility. People were scarred from countless bug bites and parasites... Suffice it to say, it wasn't as pretty as Hollywood depic...

• Post #3966270

  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116953308647264290 Ha Ha, #Ontario's #DougFord beat you to it! Wait... that's not a good thing... #ONPoli #CDNPoli

• Post #3947555

  “The valuable capacity of the human mind to simplify a complex situation in a compact characterization becomes dangerous when not controlled.” -Simon Kuznets

• Post #3832652

  I wonder how many Managers play management simulations? My experience with management in large companies has been composed of people who haven't a clue about rational resource allocation or evidence based decision making, they've always been people who upper management finds agreeable and loyal. That doesn't seem particularly meritorious, but it also doesn't have good outcomes vis-a-vis productivity, relations, etc. What a world we live in!

• Post #3675395

  RE: https://mastodon.ie/@GurgelSegrillo/116884764402615405 The people who make these ad's really needs to increase emphasis on the Ray-Ban part. Everyone hates tech bro's, but if the fashion set start to boycott Ray-Ban because of their association with perverts then it'll get the attention of Luxottica, and they are obviously VERY conscious of their brand. #Luxottica #RayBan #RayBans #Fashion #Meta #Facebook #PervertGlasses

• Post #3658719

  Has Governor #AndyBeshear spoken with #MitchMcConnel? #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #Kentucky #USSenate

• Post #3653271

  Dear #Americans, You're a laughingstock! Signed, - Every nationality on Earth! #USPol #USPolitics #USPoli https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/article-belgium-vs-usa-world-cup-trump-infantino-balogun/

• Post #3541678

  A big Thank You to all the hydro workers out repairing the grid after tonight's #ONStorm #ONStorms

• Post #3480772

  How can there be any faith left in the United States or its economy? They are systematically dismantling every safeguard or protection afforded to private interests, human or corporate, and vesting more power into the executive. If you run afoul of the executive branch - currently vested in #Trump, but #JDVance is only an extremely unhealthy heartbeat away - you can expect that any rights you may think you have are suddenly not there. If you have ANY capital in the US, you cannot have faith t...

• Post #3438320

  Constituent mailers have always exhibited a bit of bias in favour of the party that the member represents, but Conservatives have taken it way over the top! That the Parliament of Canada is forced to spend money mailing "constituent mailers" that are nothing but propaganda and lies is not acceptable. Just as there used to be a requirement in Ontario that Government ad's be screened and approved by the Auditor Generals Office (IIRC) to ensure a lack of political bias,...

• Post #3438319

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@evdelen/116822138807688625 I've been asking this of proponents of #MMP Mixed Member Proportional for years and have never received a substantive response. At best, they hand wave my concern away claiming it wouldn't happen (we've seen how effective "norms" are at restraining despots and authoritarians) without addressing the fact that this is a tactic that is used extensively in many non-English speaking countries that employ MMP...

• Post #3399825

  https://mastodon.ie/@FSonder/116783604384957946 I'm reminded of the time in 2011 when #DougFord claimed, derisively, that there were more libraries in his ward than Tim Hortons. This was amidst a political debate around his brother/puppet Rob Ford attempting to drastically cut library funding. FTR, there were 13 library branches in his ward and 39 Tim Horton's outlets. And, Etobicoke, the Western 1/4 of Toronto, had the fewest libraries per capita across Toronto. #ONPoli