Andrew Varsanyi

Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, seeks to impose binding arbitration | CBC News Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said she has invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to allow binding arbitration between the airline and its union and has ordered operations to resume — although it's...

Absolute joke.

Unions in Canada need to wake up. Fight back!

Rights aren’t rights if they can be abrogated whenever something is “critical.”

The airline knew they could do this. That’s why there wasn’t a deal.

#solidarity #cdnpoli #aircanada

Crazy that the Canadian government isn’t smart enough to realize that they’re being played. Air Canada knows you’ll force the Union back, that’s why they weren’t really even negotiating. Corps in Canada play by a different set of rules than labour. #cdnpoli #solidarity

From a Semafor article about the New York Times's decision to print an article—multiple articles, actually—on Zohran Mamdani's college application. "The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting," one senior reporter told Semafor.

Legitimate reporting and illegitimate reporting both engender conversation and debate.

But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"

$2B funding rounds and $100M signing bonuses to individuals. Sure. There's no bubble here. Everything makes sense.

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance trade discussions with the United States | CBC News The federal government announced late Sunday evening it is rescinding the digital services tax, days after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded it gone and cut off Canada-U.S. trade negotiations.

There is an alternate universe somewhere where #Canada refused and worked with the #EU to create a new, more open, copyright and tax system that would help us get out of the neoliberal hellscape that American IP policy and Canadian regulatory capture have led us into
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

#Dems should abstain or absent in #Senate vote. Let the Republicans have this bill. No more Dems rescuing GOP from their own stupidity. Let the electorate feel how horrible this shit is.

This is actually true. It’s just that what we have now is not capitalism, it’s captured rentier monopolies.

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

He's probably off to negotiate the second half of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. #qualified!

Do we really think that wealthy Canadians are gonna be the ones who are asked to pay for this? Or will it be a combination of borrowing and austerity?

This is a test: Is Carney just Tim Geithner 2.0?
I hope he does raise taxes on Canada's monopoly corps and the wealthy. I somehow doubt it, though

This is it. It's pseudo-elite Clinton/Blair/Triangulation all over again.

We need to stop using the term neoliberalism (even though it's accurate), though. It's more reverse-Robin Hood bullshit.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

Of just about all the people, @davidfrum.bsky.social needs to not be saying anything right now. #axisofsilly Your bud GWB strengthened Iran through his idiotic wars of choice #Iran

Kemi Badenoch disowns Robert Jenrick's bizarre traitor insult against Keir Starmer Shadow justice secretary condemned for using the phrase ‘Quisling’ - a reference to a World War Two Nazi collaborator

Let’s just remember please, Quisling is often used by the right to demonize the left. Quisling was a nazi collaborator. This language is unacceptable. Adopting MAGA methods is no way to beat MAGA.

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Extremely disturbed that on #bluesky, a place that people joined bc it’s supposedly not like X, language like this is supported by so many. Quisling refers to a Nazi collaborator who was executed. This is supposed to be a place for better conversation, not this vile shit. Use better words.

Prediction: Things look so good right now for Netanyahu after he successfully manipulated Trump into this, but it’ll be hollow. In a few months, when Bibi’s own war of choice and lies about intelligence come to light, this will be the moment the Israeli left will reassert itself. #iran

The ugly truth is that "America First," or MAGA, is whatever Trump says it is. Trump just showed that he understands this core fact about MAGA perfectly well. He's redefining "America First" as bombing Iran as we speak. Most of MAGA will be just fine with that. 6/6

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Not seeing any news reports of most remarkable thing about Iran attack: a little over a month ago, Trump demoted his NSA for pushing this exact action.
Bibi successfully manipulated DT into undertaking a dangerous action he didn’t want to do that gets America nothing but pain economic and political

The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion

That loud sound you hear is all the MAGA people rushing to pretend this is always what they wanted.

Calling poll-following people Quislings is totally offside dude. Look it up.
Dems piss me off too, but this kind of crap is not cool.
Some might even say that Dems are most damaged by ridiculous circular firing squad behavior from progressives and liberals.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

Big money has long known that sports is the new mega-profit place. Netflix and streaming have disrupted cable TV, and the money it has unleashed in sports will eventually undermine the sports industry as well. Eventually, it'll all be extra content, ads, cross-marketing, and subscriptions.

Agreed, the neoliberal obsession with socializing risk and privatizing benefits is horrible. That’s a different argument tho. Government funding for science is good. Lots of important innovations started with gvmt $ and private companies. Also, heavy lift isn’t only useful to colonization either.

This is the same crap that Republicans do. Govt. finance for science is critical. Taxes should be higher to help the poor, make that argument, not this one. Elon is an ass, that doesn’t mean that government funded science is bad. Make better arguments.

Disaster if that’s the number they sign him to. I know I’m a minority here but my focus for Bouchard is a sign-and-trade. Unless they can trade Nurse. That kind of money for that lack of consistency in a D-man is crazy. His O skill obscures his generally poor D.

Early numbers suggest fewer people attended Trump’s birthday parade today than were in downtown Edmonton for the Oilers game tonight, attendance in Rexall not included.

I. Shit. You. Not.

Levy charged to Alberta oil companies too low to cover orphan well costs, says report | CBC News A new report is warning the annual levy charged to Alberta oil companies to fund the cleanup of orphaned oil and gas wells remains too low to keep up with the rate of surrendering.

While Danielle Smith is distracting Albertans with separatism & culture war BS, energy companies continue to rob the province blind.

This should be a scandal.

These companies socialize risk and privatize profits.

This is the story @albertandp.ca needs to tell. #abpolitics