sorry,what is unethical? proposal is to stop teaching religion in schools (different from teaching about religion) and now allow religious beliefs to be base for laws. all quite reasonable and no unethical bits as far as I can see. Nobody aims to persecute believers or ban faith, just stop making an arbitrarily selected religion the one driving policies. What is unethical is disregarding beliefs of people who’s religion doesn’t line up with religion taught at schools or making inroads i politics.

We’ve got a “range” but most fall into friendly category. People will stop to help you when you’re stuck.

alberta politics is awkward but people are friendly in larger communities. Some remote small communities may be awkward but not always.

will we be going back to Sheer? I mean their past several generations of leaders were all with Carisma in sub-zero territory, I think Harper kind of set the trend there.

identity politics is the easiest way to give populous something they didn’t ask for but feel like they always needed it

no. greens always suffered from identity crisis oscillating between libertarian and socialist values. Not to say that NDP didn’t completely lost their social democratic way etc. but to save the province we’d need an entity with core values unshakable and guided by firm principals,not flip-floping in the wind. I will vote for progressive candidate under any banner provided their party allows free voting for them which is rare in today’s politics.

agreed

CoOp, CanCo and… Costoco? Those seem to be relatively “Canadian” options.

Federal government has lead the way with complete ghosting and forced back to work legislation, so UCP are happy to be just like the Libs the hate so much.

with CBC breaking news of him inviting “project 2025” person to speak to cabinet it might aswell be true

Did you look at Greener Homes Plan? It’s a federal program and similar to First Home Buyer’s program where you get interest free loan for 10 yrs and power companies for the most part have a program of “buying” your excess power so you can start with that. BC Hydro offers $5k rebate on battery systems as well, so now is a good time to jump in.

Fun facts (that should never get in the way of PP rant) :

• Solar is government sibsidised
• Rural is the best location for solar (what with all those acreages, barns etc)
• Full off-grid capabilities where you don’t have to run to town for anything)… well.maybe dieselfor tractor
• I see quite a few rural installs and when I mention to folks availability of Solar at slight premium for the first 10yrs a lot of folk are “sold” on the idea

so yeah, Armageddon and killing a way of life… maybe hillbilly’s way of life but definitely not rural, 'cause we’re down with full power independence baby!

unelected individual tells elected official that official holds a one man opinion… hmm. math ain’t mathin’

Compare NDP platform and Socialist Manifesto ideas and it’ll become clear where disconnect is. All the parties shifted to the right on political spectrum, with NDP firmly planted at the centre now rather than being to the left. And since we’re voting on right-of-centre parties might as well go all out and vote cons, which is what happened. Pelple asked for off-centre solutions NDP did not have them.

effective city planning would be better like a lot better. Having environmental clues and enforcement techniques is way more effective as it prevents and not punishes. Person injured from speeding incident is not going to be saved by $500 or whatever fine. When driver physically feels unsafe crossing certain speed limit - there’s no reason to monitor or fine him/her. “More cameras” is a cheap brand bandaid that peels off two hours later. It is trying to save people “after the fact”, when it’s way too late

Tech could be an answer, but you have to also pause and think about the impact here. When FB or twitter screws up we shrug and move on, when people get improperly audited it could be literally life and death situation, or approval of drug grants for those with “exotic” illnesses. Modernisation of work has to happen however “just throwing tech” at it won’t work. Instead of laying off 60k people they should be trained and equipped with better tools to do their jobs faster and better. So tech would be part if that, tech alone is a sure recipe for disaster. Now if we add government tech procurement standards - I see no hope in tech at all as surely winner of any contract will deliver past due date, over budget and with missing features.

One way to flip it would be mandating procurement OSS products only, produced in the open from day 1. This may help expose deficiencies early on and call BS o over-billed hours if all commits are accounted for. Still you need people with domain knowledge to steer those processes and to be able to actually scope future solutions.

China has aggressively acted towards neighbouring countries, redrawing borders and setting up for outright occupation. Assuming that now is not the time of military unity is reckless and dangerous. Yes we do have other problems we need to tackle but even if we do tackle them and not China expansionist politics we soon will find ourselves outgunned and with no allies. It’s a tough call but oversimplifying it down to “we don’t need to spend more on military” is very uninformed.

you didn’t answer to the issue some of the affected nations have with the language.

are you claiming that nation protesting the language or assumptions are also right-wing propaganda? In times of renewed russian aggression one has to be rather precise describing reality and qualify when terminology used is referring terminology from the past. Fact is that russia frequently leapfrogs ambiguous statements twisting them into supporting argument of their narratives.

reality is not great. Opposing Russia means cutting it’s raw exports (that compete with Canadian exports), and supplying weapons to the nation’s armed forces. Palestine has no regular army and barely has any state, all due to how Israel governed there. So while Canada may condemn actions of either russia or israel helping Palestine is a much more complicated matter. Fact that israel physically destroys humanitarian aid makes all sort of help very challenging. Thus I’d refrain from calling it hypocritical. I’m fully against genocide in Gaza however it is hard to see direct line of involvement Canada may take there to help other then sending military which is understaffed right now and uses aged equipment… 🙁