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Budget signals lower increases to health transfers, end of funding deals The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in coming years, one economist says, as the Ontario government calls for that to change.

Let's be clear: 'lower increases' means it won't keep up with an aging population plus inflation. This is a health care cut. Neoliberals want the same as the cons, and they'll do it by eroding public options to make private options not political suicide.

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Remember, Canada: "Nation-building" means "extractive industries to profit corporations".

As the Germans wisely said. "We don't have charities, because the need for charity is a failure of the obligations of a good government."

A semi-grade separated tramway on Carling is what we need, not a parade of buses that can easily be cut. BRT always cost more after construction, not clear it’s cheaper to build. We must demand better from our gov’ts

BRT was sold as LRT-lite. But was developed by the road building industry as buses eat up asphalt and concrete like there’s no tomorrow. Can we please stop advocating for BRT? They don’t cost less and aren’t quick to build.

That’s unusual as physicians are allowed in Canada to prescribe off label with informed consent from the patient. But indeed some pharmacists aren’t up to date.

Unfortunately, in my province in Canada they expanded the role of pharmacists into what was physician territory. I say unfortunately because their training is limited and I would prefer they spend their time advising physicians on medications instead of treating patients.

Oh yes. The one good GP I had was honest about how little training they got on pharmaceuticals. He leased his office from a pharmacy, so he told that in the lease agreement, there was a clause he put there that he could call the pharmacist for advice. He had him on speed dial! Loved it.

Policies like these — and the budget is rife with them — are incremental and reactive. They are the opposite of transformational. Canada is facing three intertwined crises: US instability, the climate emergency, the digital economic revolution. Old, incremental thinking simply won‘t cut it.

Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident It was policy.

The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

Gluttons For Punishment: Oil Industry Doubles Down Against Reality The world is facing a multi-year oil glut where the oil producers will be pumping more oil out of the ground than the world is using. This will keep oil prices at low levels – likely well below the le...

The consensus is that the electrification of transportation will destroy 5 million barrels per day of oil demand by 2030.

In this new piece I argue that this number is too low for a bunch of reasons.

Hard to conclude anything other than. They see Mamdani as more of an existential threat to their comfort than Trump.

And they aren't wrong

They saw us tasting hope after Tuesday and they REALLY did not like that, huh

Canadians React to Budget 2025: Split Views, Muddled Message, and a Test of Trust in Carney’s Leadership - Abacus Data %

Cult of personality.

"Among those with a positive view of Mark Carney, just 16% were very familiar with the budget contents. Yet this group offered some of the most supportive responses across every measure tested."

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4) *Even if* it were true that people had no choice but to "vote for Carney" (it's not), it would not follow in any way that we have to just accept whatever he does once elected. Quite the opposite: if it was a "lesser evil" vote, then we should be pushing hard for better (less bad?) policies.

Always voting for the "lesser evil" drives everything to the right.

2) This.

Carney is not a "centrist", he's a Harper-era conservative. However, everything has moved so far to the right that he now occupies a supposed "centre".

1) We have a multi-party parliamentary system. We don't vote for the PM, we vote for the MP in our riding.

In at least 8 ridings, "We have to vote Liberal!" created vote-splitting that gave the seat to the Cons over incumbent NDP or Green. So now there are more conservatives and fewer progressives.

Great thread

They are not caving, establishment dems are furious and terrified that they might let people win over the fascists, hence they are helping the GOP by going along with this. It’s been like this since Reagan days. Their only issue is that they aren’t the ones in charge.

While disappointing (and likely to not work), Carney’s reliance on incentivizing the private sector to lead an economic revolution is very much in line with his view of government as a burden to be minimized, not a unique asset to be exploited. See: tax cuts, austerity.

What's wrong with Rapley's argument is he talks about borrowing. The federal govt as the currency issuer is funded by endogenous cash flows. The fact Carney projects 1% growth tells all. And by the way, who are we going to war with? Goldman Sachs must have investments in the defense industries.

The long term effect of voting lesser evil is to move everything rightward.

I'm so tired of "We had no choice but to vote Liberal".

1. Carney is Harper 2.0 and is only a "centrist" because repeatedly voting lesser evil has moved everything so far to the right.

2. "Everyone must vote Liberal" handed at least 8 seats to the Cons at the expense of NDP or Green incumbents.

Tremendous to hear some veteran Ottawa city councillors argue that Lansdowne 2.0 is needed because the previous overhaul that they voted for is crap.

Ottawa just voted 15–10 for Lansdowne 2.0, a “revitalization” that saddles taxpayers with decades of debt so OSEG can call it partnership.

The city gets the bill, OSEG gets the benefit.
A ridiculous decision that will define Ottawa’s future for generations. Shame on council.

#OttCity #Lansdowne2

Three missed opportunities in Canada’s federal budget Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal budget comes at an important moment for Canada as we face an increasingly hostile United States and the need to chart our own path. The choices this gover...

Three missed opportunities in Canada's federal budget:

1) "Sacrifice"—but not asked of the wealthy;

2) Bold rhetoric but weak action on housing;

3) Productivity drive that misses key low-hanging fruit;

Some reflections for @bcpolicy.bsky.social bcpolicy.ca/2025/11/07/c...

Environment Canada issues Special Weather Statement for #Ottawa for snow Sunday. A Warning may be issued later. #ONStorm

Just a reminder to @octranspo.com: the number 1 winter adjustment LRT needs to make is activating door button at non-tunnel stations. We don't need doors open on windy platforms in cold temperatures.

The government has said repeatedly that it wants to use AI to replace up to 40,000 public sector jobs.

“The history of technology is that it always creates jobs,” says Liberal MP Evan Solomon of AI apprehension on 640 Toronto.

Brother, I know you’re not a journalist anymore, but damn.

The establishment is not worried that Zohran Mamdani's policies will fail. It is worried that they will succeed and prove the entire system is based on lies.