The big crime lie
Crime is down but spending on cops and security is up. Why?
If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.)
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...
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Loreto rips apart the fallacies & corporate bullsh*t that led to current state of affairs, where corporations are profitable beyond comprehension, while our healthcare, housing, education, and many other essential services are in shamblesβthanks to privatization and corporate greed.
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Loreto documents how Corporate Canada governs actual governments. Profits are their only governing guide, & politicians are willing participants, either looking the other way at corporate greed or concocting tax breaks/subsides for already insanely profitable companies. β¬οΈ
31.10.2025 05:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Canadaβs traditional social programs, Crown Corporations & equity values eroded/slashed by Mulroney Chretien Harper Trudeau--because they restricted corporate profits. Profits > people's well-being.
Govts of all stripes across Canada now just lackies for corporate lobbyists & their oligarch bossesβ¬οΈ
31.10.2025 05:09 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Just read: βCorporate Controlβ by @nolore.bsky.social, who has ALL the receipts on successive Canadian governments complete--and willing--sell-out to capitalism/corporate greed.
GREAT book--200 concise pages, a must read if you truly care about what has happened to Canada in the last 40 years. β¬οΈ
31.10.2025 05:09 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Meanwhile his brother (I checked over on the Hellsite) has become a full-time Islamophobe.
29.10.2025 19:07 β π 118 π 21 π¬ 3 π 0
I recently discovered that the RSV shot costs $$$ here in BC (I already knew that about the shingles vax). This makes no sense! In our single-payer healthcare system, it costs society less to vaccinate for free than to care for sick people in hospital. #BCPoli
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Broken country that does not deserve my travel money
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BREAKING NEWS: Charges dropped!!!
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Breaking on MSNBC:
Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
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B.C. charges Canada's lowest industrial water rates, finds report
A new report finds B.C. charges industrial users a maximum of $2.25 per million litres of waterβ70 times less than Quebecβat at time funding for watershed protection has plummeted more than 80 per cen...
A new report finds B.C. charges industrial users a maximum of $2.25 per million litres of waterβ70 times less than Quebecβat at time funding for watershed protection has plummeted more than 80 per cent.
#bcpoli #watersecurity #watersheds #fracking
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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isnβt technological. Itβs just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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Thanks for watching! Everyone will like this i promise, unless youβre a big Trumper
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In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by βdonations from far left organizations.β
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you donβt already.
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Even for Trump World, this is a shocking outrage. Everything about thisβfrom LEOs threatening, then arresting this citizen (who committed no crime), the judge setting a mind-bogglingly inappropriate bond, then delaying the hearing five more weeksβis legally and morally wrong, and wholly un-American.
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Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
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US citizen, 67, βhas six ribs brokenβ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicagoβs Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a childrenβs Halloween parade
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
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"E-bike owners are reminded to leave their bikes at home on Halloween."
When have the cops ever β EVER β advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.
28.10.2025 22:02 β π 211 π 60 π¬ 6 π 4
Bari absolutely rocks. Her two ideas for stories are "I have this famous person's phone number" and "I heard libs were doing some weird stuff out there." Absolutely replacement level suburban dunce.
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1/ The attack on Alberta teachers by Danielle Smith may be sadly predictable - itβs also (obviously) unconstitutional and unacceptable.
It has nothing to do with students or improving the state of education in Alberta.
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Cowichan Tribes issues statement to clear up βmisinformationβ
They call the statements about the B.C. Supreme Courtβs judgement on individual private property owners βdeliberately inflammatory.β
The Cowichan Nation is attempting to set the record straight on what its Aboriginal title case means for property owners in Richmond, BC issuing a statement to counter what they call "inflammatory" comments by the mayor of Richmond and Premier David Eby.
www.aptnnews.ca?p=278929
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We stopped watching anything @cbsnews.com when the station owner went full MAGA. Turn them off! Shame on Margaret Brennan for staying there and allowing CBS "editors" to direct the line of questioning. Kudos to the @60minutes.bsky.social crew/director who quit rather than bend the knee.
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