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4.7.0-nightly.2026-08-14
Advocate for electoral reform, UBS & UBI, affordable housing, public transit, climate, & generally doing things differently.
The Liberals housing plan:
Developer losses get socialism. Everyone else gets capitalism.
This is not a housing policy. It's a wealth protection policy.
#canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #capitalism #lpc #ndp #housingcrisis #markcarney #liberalparty #CanadaPolitics
The Liberals are pushing Bill C-22 to force companies to retain a year of your metadata and hand it to law enforcement on request.
Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN would rather exit Canada than comply.
This majority government that can't seem to build affordable housing is building a surveillance state instead.
Write your MP!
The Internet Society's tool: https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/keep-canada-protected/
#canada #canpoli #canpolitics #cdnpoli #ndp #lpc #surveillance #markcarney #privacy #duckduckgo #vpn #encryption
Liberals are now considering privatizing airports.
The phrases "broadening ownership" and "getting full value of our assets" are doing a lot of ideological heavy lifting.
Translation: The things the public built together are being sold to people who can afford to buy them, and investors will extract rent from them forever.
Privatization is a transfer of wealth from everyone to someone.
#canada #neoliberalism #LiberalMPs #Liberal #polcan #cdnpoli #canpoli #NDP #LPC
The Liberals didn't win a mandate to fix healthcare. They won a mandate to manage its collapse.
NL's own health minister said being shut out of pharmacare "speaks volumes about inequity."
Free diabetes meds and contraceptives, but only for the right provinces.
This is what a national pharmacare program looks like when the people running it don't actually believe in it.
#canada #healthcare #canpoli #canpolitics #newfoundland #neoliberalism #LiberalMPs #polcan #cdnpoli #NDP #LPC
Liberals aren't cutting healthcare because they have to, but because they can. They just won a majority and now $29M is gone from PEI alone.
Prescription drugs, mental health, palliative care, contraception, rare disease coverage. These programs disproportionately affect people with lower incomes and serious health conditions. They're the difference between someone affording medication or not.
They're the difference between life and death.
After September 2026, Google will decide what apps you can install on Android phones. I filed a complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau. If you care about owning your own phone, so should you. keepandroidopen.org
#keepandroidopen #Android #google #enshittification #canadatech
Jeff Bezos looked at skyrocketing housing prices and thought: “more landlords!”.
His "arrived.com" turns the housing crisis into a game of Monopoly for the rich and wannabe landlords. Expanding landlordism to the masses and inflating housing prices even more.
Housing shouldn’t be a profit machine.
#capitalism #wealth #housing #housingAffordability #poverty #rent #bezos #amazon
Food prices are expected to increase in 2026.
PM Carney recently said Canadians must prepare to make "sacrifices" for our economy.
Housing, food, healthcare. So much is already out of reach for so many. We have nothing left to sacrifice.
Instead, maybe grocery executives should make sacrifices for a change.
But I dream.
AI companies have a right to set rent prices?
Rent is already out of control. Algorithmic rent-setting allows landlords to conspire to artificially inflate rents even higher.
Housing should not be a commodity.
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/realpage-new-york-algorithm-lawsuit-21212854.php
Toronto food banks received 4,124,313 visits between April 2024 and March 2025, an 18% increase from last year and a 340% increase since 2019. Is this sustainable? (source: dailybread.ca)
P.S: Loblaws just announced a 4.6% increase in revenue last quarter.
Alberta Premier Smith and her supporters are content to make medical decisions for others. After all, she feels "so strongly" about it.
I usually consult a local conservative about their feelings before seeing a physician. /s
Monday morning reflection.
Early childhood educators cannot afford daycare with their wages, as the cost of daycare is prohibitively expensive.
Professors can't buy a home, yet tuition is out of control.
Continuing care assistants barely earn over min wage, yet retirement homes can force seniors into bankruptcy.
The money we pay seems to not go to the people doing the work.
Beat the game Half-Earth Socialism. I managed to save the planet while keeping the population "ecstatic"! :catjam:
If passed, this bill would create a framework for a possible UBI in Canada. A small, but significant step.
A reminder to humans:
While distress spreads due to the felling of the Sycamore Gap Tree (and rightly so), we are also presently engaged in endless deforestation.