Greg Fingas

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”

In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

“It’s offensive. There’s no indication yet that, as prime minister, Mark understands the role of Parliament in ensuring that there’s a democratic process around the passage of laws … to say it lacks transparency is quite an understatement.”

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And, even if Carney loyalists trust him to only use this for good*, it establishes the practice for use by the Cons next time they're in power.

(* Yes, many are still this delusional)

like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics

Read this twice.

“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”

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Exactly. Newsom translated is “we need to treat a lot of you as abnormal and we need you to be a lot less judgmental about it.”

Carney is going to waste so much money fighting Indigenous nations in court and deploying police or military to deal with the coming blockades, protests & strikes.

And for what? To make the rich a little richer. But their money won't save them from the consequences of environmental destruction.

Video evidence shows that the ambushed Venezuelan boaters had several minutes to connect to the internet, purchase $TRUMP crypto, and post their receipt on Truth Social before the second strike. They chose their own fate.

by Benny Johnson

Mark Carney basically sold his soul to Danielle Smith for an agreement, only to watch her trash it less than a week later. It’s like making a deal with Putin’s Russia. Not worth the paper it’s written on.

Billionaires already live in a magical reality where they're exempt from consequences for fraud, criminality, antisocial behavior. But that's not enough. Everyone else must be forced to live according to their precepts and be at the mercy of their whims. Perverse!

Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...

Update: Richard Hamelin, a forest pathology professor at UBC says the cuts are "mind-boggling."

“Once you pull the plug on a program it can take several decades, even with the best intentions, to get these programs going again,” he said.

Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta And trying to break the very idea of Canada

"Ungoverning is not a neutral act. It is an ethical choice. It shifts power from the many to the few. It transforms rights into commodities. It turns need into opportunity for private profit. And it abandons the belief that a society should be judged by how it treats the vulnerable."

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

The rich get richer, the poor get poisoned.

Anyone who thinks we should buy jets whose critical software is wholly controlled by a nation that has threatened us is insane

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

canadian liberals: "oh its an opinion piece! where is your proof"

me: right here in the legislation

canadian libs: ah no the truth it burns my eyes

Alberta rule changes undermine carbon pricing deal with Ottawa, critics charge Experts say it will weaken a major climate policy the province pledged to strengthen just last week in its accord with the federal government.

Carney was an absolute mug for believing that Danielle Smith would actually live up to her agreement, just like she and Kenney did with the last "grand bargain" with the federal government. Honestly...

I think we dramatically overstate the effectiveness of mass-influence operations (foreign, domestic, legal, and illegal) and neglect various kind of elite influence operations, essentially to the point of extinction.

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.

hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

IMO, the way to oppose Trump is via democratic reform, labour and human rights protections, funding of public services, arts, and academics, etc., ie, to build the opposite of what Trump wants. Instead, we have an authoritarian PM who insists that the best way to oppose Trump is do what he would do.

Blanche just straight up telling people this isn’t a justice department anymore

Carney believes in one thing, business. Not Canadian sovereignty and definitely not the welfare of Canadians who make less than $100000.

Canadians have to make a choice: Independence or the United States. Vassal or sovereign. Those are the choices we need to discuss.
Our leaders have already wasted a year missing the point. We need to get serious.

Canada and Canadian business also need to finally let go of the fantasy that a renegotiated USMCA would deliver anything but punitive terms. We should instead assume the USMCA is already gone and act accordingly.

We need to reduce our digital dependence on US companies. This doesn’t involve building data centres, but ditching US firms as tech providers and moving towards open source, government-created and non-US options.

Instead of implementing last century’s standard-issue conservative economic policy, Canada needs creative policy responses that fit the moment: strengthen & expand the civil service, not kneecap it; fortify the federation instead of cutting oh-so-clever deals playing one region off against another.

Carney’s entire strategy assumes that Canada’s problem is economic: tariffs and a capricious US. He’s wrong.
The real problem is that the US has embraced dominance as its governance strategy. As a result, Carney’s policies simply aren’t suited to preserving Canadian independence.