Sarah Barker

I spoke too soon. It turns out that the legislature actually won't return until March 23.

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Bloc wants Liberal bill amended to remove religious exemption from hate speech laws: source | CBC News The Bloc Québécois is planning to introduce an amendment to a Liberal government bill that would remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws, a source has told CBC News.

The entire bill is redundant (covered in the CCC) and why the @blocquebecoiis.bsky.social isn’t asking for its entire withdrawal is beyond me. It is terrible legislation, a religious exemption for Jews to torture Palestinians should be your first clue. #cdnpoli

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Can @thestar.com un-paywall this article which is arguably the most important Carney story of the Budget?

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It’s really disappointing the assumption that people can only understand one language. @ndp.ca

Premier David Eby, speaking now, cites PM Carney's comments from earlier this week that pipeline would have to have agreement from B.C. and First Nations.

"This project does not have the support of Coastal First Nations," he says. Adds no proponent, no route, no money.

He has some strong pedigree and supporters for sure!

I feel so awful for the French to English translator on this NDP debate. When the French is incomprehensible, how do you translate?

I also hate I can’t just listen to it in the language they are speaking. I understand both. Let me listen to both without translation. @ndp.ca

And his mom! Michele is amazing!

He actually feels like he might have a plan. Needs to get much better in French.

Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal weakens climate policies | The Narwhal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ‘grand bargain’ isn’t just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies

The pipeline’s just the start:

#Carney’s deal with #Alberta weakens (at least) 7 climate policies.

For those that support #climateaction, this is relevant.

Heather is all over the map.

Avi is the only one who feels like he could stand on a stage and debate with Carney or Poilievre.

The other three… seem like nice people.

I tuned in late so about an hour behind but the lack of French language from so many of them is not great.

None of them are shining up for me as leaders so far…

Tuning into @ndp.ca debate a bit late

15 minutes in and the only person who seems to understand they are running for a federal leadership is @avilewis.ca

And the French is just… how do you honestly run for leadership when you cannot even speak the bare minimum of one Canadas official languages.

No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government

Speak now men on our behalf, or never be trusted again:

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“We have decided to put the interests of our country first—to vote against the budget but to help prevent an election,” NDP interim leader Don Davies tells reporters after the government’s budget motion narrowly passes in the House of Commons with two NDP MPs abstaining.

#cdnpoli

Our Parliament needs more Nate Erskine-Smiths, not more message control - Loonie Politics The simple fact is that we need more MPs like Erskine-Smith in our parliament, not fewer.

For the evening crowd, my latest Loonie Politics column on why we not only need more backbenchers, but we need more backbenchers who aren't party automatons #cdnpoli

While I knew the budget was going to pass (no one wants an election), I am so torn on the NDP being the ones to essentially pass it by abstaining…

Also Gazan. What the hell was that? You looked like an insolent child.

PSAC national president warns about the impact that thousands of federal worker job cuts for will have on Canadians who rely on those services.

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Carney government offers no sign of compromise in budget that will test opposition parties Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government is all but daring the opposition to vote down its first budget, promising Tuesday’s spending plan — billed as a mixture of "austerity" and

Carney government offers no sign of compromise in budget that will test opposition parties

Large majority of women in Canada have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre A large majority of women in Canada have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre.

Large majority of women in Canada have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities:

At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

This is fucking insane and I am astonished at how irresponsible Global News upper management is being with this.

They’re risking the credibility of all their journalists and for…what? Canada’s worst nepo baby?

Union raises alarm over pending Public Health Agency job cuts 'Eliminating public health positions while Canada’s health-care system is already stretched to the breaking point leaves Canada dangerously unprepared for the next health crisis and puts lives at…

Union raises alarm over pending Public Health Agency job cuts.

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Fully in support of the flight attendants. They should not have been ordered back to work.

“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”

Don’t be the person who walks into a subway car, with a ton of people behind you, and immediately stop in front of the doors. And if you do choose to be that person, don’t be mad when people push into you because you stopped.

He truly is shaping up to be the worst modern day PM

What folks need to understand is that WAGE is a - major - funder of community organizations in Canada. My sector clamours every time there's a call for proposals.

And the number one determinant of gender equity in a country is how strong its civil society organizations are.

We'll be cooked.

‘It’s being levelled’: advocates worried about potential 81 per cent cut to Women and Gender Equality Canada’s budget by 2028 Women's advocates call the department's three-year forecast 'extremely shocking' and 'disproportional' for the small ministry. 'The level of support will be radically reduced,' says Katherine Scott, w...

When Carney's first cabinet did not have a Minister for WAGE, my colleagues & I sounded the alarm that it was a huge 🚩; that he doesn't understand the importance of having gender based analysis.

Partisans called us hysterical.

Well, now we're looking at an 81% (!!!) budget cut.

Judge in Hockey Canada trial failed to understand trauma of E.M.: advocate Women's rights advocate Julie Lalonde says she's disappointed with the verdict in the sexual assault trial against five ex-world junior hockey players, saying the judge failed to understand the impact...

It's insulting that we have a legal system that doesn't understand how the human brain behaves during a traumatic event.

And we should *all* be concerned by the chilling effect because it means people aren't coming forward which means we're not apprehending people who are committing profound harm.