The issue with this is that we have MAID because of the courts, not because it was legislated. This will certainly be taken to court and based on previous rulings has a very high chance of being deemed unconstitutional.

Sorry, we’re worried about offending the US at this point?

I’m having a hard time finding my empathy on this one.

Even Eby hasn’t gone this far. Pretty disappointing from Kinew. It also gives Liberals a convenient thing to point at to make the NDP look like hypocrites on labour rights, so thanks for that Wab.

Nothing, the star of the story is a moron who has been brainwashed by right wing social media.

Anyone remember a year ago when Liberals were posting opinions like this?

5D chess, this pipeline will never, ever happen, just placating Danielle Smith, etc. Turns out the tricked one here wasn’t Smith.

American newspaper agitates for the death of a Canadian politician? That seems like foreign interference. I wonder what the government will do about it.

and the rewriting of Section 107 to explicitly authorize the labour minister to end a lawful work stoppage and impose binding dispute resolution where the minister believes the “national interest” is threatened.

We are the national interest. If we aren’t, what the fuck is this all for and why should I buy in to it?

Just the general anti-US boycott many are participating in. Not an official thing, really.

2022-24

So preceding the current boycott, unfortunately.

I love how conservatives use their own failed ideas to paint their opponents (read: everybody) with the now-toxic terms they once rallied behind.

I’m a socialist. Why would a conservative complain about trickle down economics.

Carney isn’t the best option, not by far. His party was just the best of the feasible options; and by far. Politics and voting is like that, and the moment we let perfect be the enemy of good we’ll get Proudboy Milhouse or theTool or Harper or Sneer selling off Canada’s sovereign rights to China again.

No, it turns out the party that absolutely did not run on privatizing everything and limiting the right to strike but is doing those things anyways was not the “best feasible option”. He’s a dishonest liar who it turns out was a terrible option but now some people who got tricked into voting for that terrible option feel the need to justify that choice to themselves.

And it’d be good to remember that Trudeau was an Orange lib to win the orange seats where Carney is a red one.

Trudeau was not an “orange lib”. He broke multiple strikes and never saw a P3 he didn’t like. Trudeau was Liberal to the bone. Carney is a Harper conservative (or perhaps a British conservative would be more apt) who really wanted to be PM and saw that in the current political climate his best chance to do that was via the Liberal party. Mostly by lying through his teeth about what he intended to do until he bribed his way to a majority.

Yeah, the US is coasting on an impression of their might that used to exist but is now only a product of decades of Hollywood propaganda. Capitalism has enshittified their military the way it has everything else. A trillion dollar+ military budget that has never passed audit and pretty much isn’t expected to is actually just a corruption budget.

That said, I do agree with the video that Carney is using the threat of Trump to push for things that people might push back against without that threat hanging overhead.

Crossing Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect…Again. This year.

Is Anita intentionally trying to insult our intelligence?

Carney is a duplicitous snake who regularly speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Basically right from the start. Remember during the election when he basically had people convinced he was going to start up a public home builder?

Turns out it we’re just taking our umpteenth crack at trickle down.

Poillievre was never more than Stevie’s attack dog which might be why it feels like we are living conservatism: six of one or half dozen of the other.

Copying Britain now, are we?

“I can stand here and say that we will never interfere with a worker’s right to bargain or to strike,” Hajdu said in response.

“But …we do all agree that there are circumstances where better tools are needed to both foster relationships and employer union relationships that are struggling, and to also help resolve resolutions in a way that leads to longer-term industrial peace.”

“I can stand here and say that we will never interfere with a worker’s right to bargain or to strike…But I won’t.”

Do we all agree, Patty? I don’t recall ceding my voice to you.

It’ll probably still cost them when we inevitably have to bail out these necessary services.

Inasmuch as we must invest in the military, this is a smart way to go about it. It’s clear that drone technology is a tectonic shift. In the same way that artillery made castles obsolete, tanks and planes made trench warfare obsolete, the aircraft carrier made the battleship obsolete, now the drone torpedo will make the aircraft carrier obsolete, as merely one example of the ways drones are changing how war is waged.

Of course, one of the ways drones are revolutionizing things is that they are relatively cheap. Iran spends something like 20 billion a year on defence and is getting a lot of value out of those dollars. So I’m skeptical that we needed to triple our military budget.

The headline is using ‘state’ in it’s more universal sense which is synonymous with how ‘country’ is used. State in the sense implied when Louis XIV (apocryphally) said, “L’etat, c’est moi,” rather than in the sense of American subnational divisions.

Obviously it’s also calling back to the ‘51st state’ rhetoric coming out of the US, but ‘state’ does work here regardless.