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Canada’s Social Safety Net is Growing—Finally In just four years, Canada rolled out three new social programs

Despite our reputation for having a strong social safety net, Canada has long lacked key national programs that could adequately support its citizens.

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Carney vs. Pharmacare: When Liberal Nation-Building Hits the Pause Button Carney does not have the electoral mandate to undermine the nascent pharmacare program.

While Carney has spoken repeatedly about nation-building, it appears he’s perfectly comfortable with ditching a key Liberal nation-building initiative in the realm of health and social services.

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2/ I'm running to lead the NDP so we can finish what Tommy started. That means enforcing the Canada Health Act. Expanding Medicare to cover pharmacare, dental, and mental health. And never backing down to privatizers like Danielle Smith.

CANADIAN MEDIA: Unbalanced reporting relating to China and Russia makes rational foreign policy discussion in public sphere nearly impossible.

CBC’s Arctic Reporting Reads More Like Military PR Than Journalism: www.makeusgreat.ca/p/cbcs-arcti...

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Ontario Built a Profitable Train Business (Then Got Rid of It) Neoliberalism’s assault on the public sector: The UTDC story

In the 1970s, an Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier created a public train company so successful it had $1.5B in orders and made millions in profit. Then it was privatized into oblivion.

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This needs to change.

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Engler Blocked. Let the members decide! In a shocking blow to party democracy, the NDP’s three-person vetting committee has barred Yves Engler from the leadership race. Are they afraid that a campaign with the slogan "Socialism. Activism. J...

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A simple line chart showing the difference in growth in two resource funds—Alberta's Heritage Fund and Norway's Government Pension Fund Global—between 2004 and 2025. Norway's fund is worth nearly 100 times the Alberta fund.

Norway started its oil fund 14 years AFTER Alberta. Today, it sits at $2.4 trillion — 100× larger than our Heritage Fund.

Same-sized populations. Higher-value oil explains some of the gap.

But the real story? Alberta stopped saving.

Imagine what we could have built.

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The Rise of Canada’s Dental Care Plan: A Triumph for the Left Progressives should celebrate this milestone while continuing to push for improvements.

Three years ago, the Canada Dental Benefit began.

In that short time, we’ve gone from no national coverage to a full Canadian Dental Care Plan that’s already helping millions smile without fear of the bill. 🦷🇨🇦

How we got here: www.makeusgreat.ca/p/the-rise-o...

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The Fund That Could Have Been Alberta’s great savings failure.

Alaska’s oil dividend in 2024: $9,531 CAD for a family of four.

Alberta’s? The ghost of Ralph Bucks — $400....in 2006.

They saved. We squandered. They pay citizens. We shrug.

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Whatever Happened to Free Tuition? Free tuition isn’t radical. It’s doable. It’s overdue.

Almost 50 years ago, Canada signed the 1976 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, committing to higher-ed that is “equally accessible to all” and “in particular by the progressive introduction of free education.” www.makeusgreat.ca/p/whatever-h...

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The Rise of Canada’s Dental Care Plan: A Triumph for the Left Progressives should celebrate this milestone while continuing to push for improvements.

From @nikiashton.bsky.social‘s leadership campaign proposal to the Liberal commitment, the dental care plan took just five years to go from an opposition proposal to government program—an extraordinarily short timeline for a major social program. www.makeusgreat.ca/p/the-rise-o...

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The Fund That Could Have Been Alberta’s great savings failure.

In 2022, Canada’s 5 largest oil sands producers had profits of $35B. And to be sure, excess profits continue: Imperial Oil reported its best ever quarter in 2025. How is it, then, that Alberta can't properly fund its public health care system? www.makeusgreat.ca/p/the-fund-t...

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Alberta could have saved its oil wealth and used its dividends to build the world’s best public health care system. Instead, it mismanaged and squandered resource revenues—and Albertans are paying the price. www.makeusgreat.ca/p/the-fund-t...

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We’re basically dealing with a madman #cdnpoli

Such madness. $3.6B in just 1 year for U.S. bombs. Yet only $2.3B over 3 years for clean water for First Nations. Only $1B over 5 years for a school food program as kids go hungry. Nothing on national pharmacare. And cuts to global health funding. @mark-carney.bsky.social is a right wing ideologue.

Defence minister says 'we're good' to meet 2% NATO spending target by March | CBC News Defence Minister David McGuinty assured MPs on Thursday that the federal government is on its way to meeting NATO's old, politically charged spending target of two per cent of GDP — just as the Wester...

Alternate headline:

Today Canada bought $3.6 billion worth of bombs from the U.S.

What the hell are we doing?

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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Mark Carney is playing Canadians for fools. While people panic about Trump, he’s pushing pipelines and buying U.S. weapons — all while freezing pharmacare, cutting foreign aid, and slashing housing spending by 50%. Another broken promise in a worsening crisis. #cdnpoli

Is the NDP sabotaging its own leadership race? "Dans cette cohorte, Mark Carney passerait pour Molière" - La Presse

I wrote up a rare Saturday column about the NDP leadership French-language debate. And osti de marde c'étiat merdique.

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Jason Kenney ultimately got toppled by his own party's base because he took some tepid steps, belatedly, on COVID-19.

Based on the crowd reaction at the UCP convention this weekend, Danielle Smith might get turfed because she tried to co-operate, however reluctantly, with Ottawa.

Carney’s arrogance will catch up to him quickly in his new(ish) role as PM.

liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy

You say the Mar. ‘24 Montreal synagogue protest was a reaction to an event selling Israeli property. But the issue was that it included illegal sales of Palestinian land. Although a protest clip briefly mentions this at the start, you ignore this crucial fact after. Awful framing—what a hack job.

Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government.

Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?

Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:

The committee found that the current approach to access medicines in Canada undermines the right to health as well as Canada's identity as a nation committed to equity and universal care. www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

New National Pharmacare Committee of Experts report: "The committee rejects the idea of a limited "fill-the-gaps" model and instead advocates for universal, single-payer, publicly administered pharmacare based on human rights."

Or her attack on public healthcare. All this betrayal will come back to bite the Liberals in the arse

Around 80 per cent of the people in Canada support pharmacare, but the insurance industry and American pharmaceutical companies profiting from the current bloated system do not. Pharmacare is a test of who is driving, and what we really mean by, nation building. #cdnpoli

⚠️ Premier Danielle Smith announced the end of universal health care in Alberta this week.

On this week's episode of 'Whatever This Is', @zainvelji.bsky.social breaks down what it means — and why things will get much worse if she succeeds.

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