Laurel L Russwurm

Election Night in Canada

I am posting this final "Preliminary Election Result" table posted on the Elections Canada website on Election Night (April 28th, 2025) because they always remove the easily understandable table at some point after the election. The numbers will change/have changed as some…

I referring to the carbon pricing system implemented by the feds [what @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social called "CarbonFee and Dividend"] to ensure all Canada had something in place.

The only thing wrong with our carbon pricing was that the carbon fee wasn't high enough.

#CDNpoli #elxn45

I knew you had your own thing (as Ontario did until Mr Ford dismantled it), which is why I found it funny Mr Poilievre went to BC promising to axe the [Trudeau] tax. Sadly since the MSM neglected to clarify, it stopped being funny.
#WhyMisinformationFlourishesHere

I didn't know about your rebates.

YouTube video by CTV News Final carbon tax rebate payments being sent out

FYI

#Canada did NOT have a #CarbonTax.

We had a revenue neutral consumer carbon price that was rebated to consumers. Most Canadians got more back than we paid.

PM Carney axed the REBATE, now the gov't keeps the money.
NOW it is a tax.

#Vote #elxn45 #cdnpoli

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU0R...

What did the Supreme Court do that violated the Constitution?

(I'm a Canadian, its hard enough to keep up with my own government's malfeasance)

Same is true here in Canada: countries with #WinnerTakeAll political systems create politically disengaged citizens. Why vote if you're villified if you vote third party? You're told your vote will elect what you don't want.

Why pay attention to government if you've zero power to change anything?

And will these citizens will incarcerate such offenders... where?

Laws, like civil rights, are only as good as the governments that enforce them.

Or not.

The problem is that the system allows this to happen at all.

Elon Musk wasn't elected, Mr Trump was elected "king" with the power to hand him the power to do this.

Right. Mr Nixon's party held him accountable..

Mr Trump's party did not.

Did your Constitution change?

The real problem seems to be a Winner-take-all political system without any real checks & balances. Mr Trump was elected "king" & is taking full advantage of the power that came with the job.

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

You might call it government "by the people, for the people."

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

How to cross thin ice, #polar #bear edition: spread out wide to distribute weight and reduce pressure. This clever move helps avoid breaking the fragile surface.
A survival tactic perfected in the Arctic
#physics

Land of the not-so-free

One of the best features of universality is elimination of the bureaucracy designed to police the poor.

With (livable) #UBI, that would stop, with enormous savings. Better still: social workers would still be needed for those who need hep; they'd be able to do what they went to school to learn.

Poor Mr Nixon didn't realize he could have thumbed his nose and gotten clean away without any consequences.

We don't get to choose the Prime minister. If we're one of the lucky few, our vote for our local candidate might elect an MP. And if we're very very lucky, that MP might actually represent us in Parliament.

Luckiest of all would be any flavor of minority government.
#Vote4whatUwant

#CDNpoli

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.

This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

The irony that the Trump Administration "ordered Harvard to change its hiring, admissions and other policies, and to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs" to "protect' a diverse group ("Jewish students") from supposed "antisemitism" would be funny if it weren't so serious.

Paywalled links aren't sharable. Nothing truly important can be paywalled.

To prevent such future annoyances, I'm blocking you.

The lines were gone by mid afternoon yesterday and in minutes I was able to cast my vote at my advance polling location, Victoria Hills Community Centre. Thanks to all the good folks working this election that make this all possible!

To find your polling location, visit mikemorrice.ca/vote.

Pierre Poilievre’s voting record:

Bill C223

An act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed liveable basic income

Vote: Opposed

#NeverPP

How can I vote Green when there is no Green candidate in my riding?

On April 28th, vote for housing folks in our community can actually afford. Learn more at mikemorrice.ca/priorities

9-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour was fleeing an attack when he turned back to urge his family onward, one arm was completely severed, the other badly mutilated by an Israeli explosion in Gaza city in March 2024.

This haunting photo of double amputee Mahmoud Ajjour was World Press Photo's 2025 'Photo of the Year.' The 9 year old was critically injured by an Israeli explosion while fleeing an attack with his family in #Gaza.

Photo by Samar Abu Elouf, for the New York Times
www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

After more than a decade caring for family in LTC, I'm dealing with health issues of my own.

I was rear-ended 40 years ago. In the early days of OHIP, Physio was covered. No more.

Liberal/Conservative governments have been eroding Universal Health Care for years. Please VOTE responsibly.

#CDNpoli

TAX WEALTH.
Do universal basic income.