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Another win for Wab Kinew and an example of what all provincial premiers should be emulating. Manitoba tax payers are getting value for their tax dollars.

Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew speaks at the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Manitoba surpasses goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers, says health minister www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/manit... @bhobs22.bsky.social

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Other provinces need to look to what Manitoba is doing.

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Who paid for the research?

Some fantastic finds there!

Prophetic sounding, whilst making one wonder what drugs he was on at the time. Damn good ones, by the sound of it.

Pretty much 🤷🏻

Pretty much 🤷🏻

Yes. Absolutely. Conservative disinformation channels have intentionally blurred the lines to the point that people voting in recent provincial elections have believed they are voting against Trudeau. It really should be a crime to deliberately mislead the public.

Absolutely! This is by design. They are systematically exhausting us and making us feel like we can't believe anything. They are inducing a sort of state of learned helplessness on the public. We feel powerless and depressed and we withdraw from the stimuli. Then we don't know what they are doing.

Of course. Because his followers don't read.

#cdnpoli An article points out Poilievre is unfit to be PM as Parliament has twice demonstrated they have no confidence in him. "If the Conservatives were more of a political party, and less of a cult, they would read the writing on the wall and hold a leadership review." x.com/cultmtl/stat... ⤵️

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.

We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

In this case, it is quite likely that the loudest thing of all will be that which Patrick Brown will be working very hard not to say (unless he has no more fucks left to give, after being screwed over twice by the Conservative machine).

#cdnpoli After all Poilievre's grandstanding re how he will not support the #GSTTaxReliefbill - he absented himself from the vote. Now he will claim at some point that 'no, he didn't vote against it'. x.com/TheJasonPugh...

Pierre Poilievre continues to prove that he's unfit to be prime minister Pierre Poilievre continues to prove that he's unfit to be prime minister.

“Rather than proving Parliament has no confidence in Justin Trudeau, Poilievre has twice demonstrated Parliament has no confidence in him.”

Pierre Poilievre continues to prove that he’s unfit to be prime minister | @taylornoakes.bsky.social

Conservatives gather at " Harper Economic Forum" Including Roman Baber, Mike Harris, Andrew Lawton 🤢 Harper endorsed Trump. #InvestigateTheIDU

wow. it’s like a mad magazine cover except it is reality.

Spending some time in a sane province. It really puts things in perspective. MB has been having problems w/ healthcare since COVID, but the new NDP government is (checks notes) "recruiting and hiring more healthcare workers into the public system". WHAAAT??? Meanwhile, AB is doing what?

truth in a firehose of misinformation. And we need to speak up. The only thing that can change the course we are on is if people mobilize to keep the CPC out of power here and to minimize the impact of Trump in the US on us. You cannot ignore it anymore. NOW is the time.

about politics. YOU need to write letters and sign petitions. YOU need to VOTE. Never let yourself be in the position of explaining to the youth of tomorrow that it all just sort of happened while you weren't paying attention. This is our country. We all need to care. We need to find

at whatever they are told to be enraged about (trans people, environmentalists, healthcare workers, immigrants, etc, etc, etc). And they have done this while quietly taking control of everything.

YOU need to pay attention. YOU need to read and fact check and think critically. YOU need to talk

billionaire owners...

They have convinced a lot of people to shut their eyes to what is going on. They have convinced people to hate one another over stupid things. They have convinced people to be greedy, to look out for their own self-interest at the expense of helping others, and to be enraged

our right to potable water and breathable air. It's a long game they have been playing since the 1980s, and they are winning. They have convinced an alarming number of people, actual blue collar workers, that unions are bad and we must support those poor, oppressed, put-upon millionaire and

n our society. George Orwell tried to warn us. Margaret Atwood has tried to warn us. Ray Bradbury tried to warn us. Corporatism is on the doorstep. Profits before people. Divide and conquer - keep us fighting amongst ourselves about gender neutral bathrooms while they take away

I know, I know. The news can be boring. It can be depressing. It can be frightening. It can be infuriating. But we cannot bury our heads and hope everything will be ok. We are sliding towards a very ugly and inhumane future if the far right continue to gain footholds in

everything is controlled by a few extremely wealthy individuals. That includes how and where we work, what we eat, where we can live, what healthcare we can access, how our children are educated, and who controls the resources that, on paper at least, belong to the public.

opinions based on facts, and being active in the political process, from writing letters to representatives to getting out and voting EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Things are so messed up right now. We are rapidly descending into a situation where regular people have very little power and

There seems to be a few responses to this question.

1) I don't vote
2) My parent/priest/significant other tells me who to vote for
3) I vote for the same party I have always voted for

None of these is helpful.

Democracy depends on the people educating themselves on all the alternatives, forming

things for the better, we must look the wrongs and injustices and corruption in the face and say their names. Ignoring the problems will not make them go away.

And if you don't pay any attention to politics, how can you possibly make an educated decision about how to vote?

misleading spin, even in our legacy media, it is even more difficult to sort out the nonsense from reality.

I know people who are proud to announce they cancelled their newspaper and their cable and they just don't read news any more. "It's too depressing". Yes, yes it is. But in order to change