Just as the far right extremists are the biggest threat to safety in #Canada, the #Conservative party is the biggest threat to safety in #Ottawa. The NDP and the Libs are claiming trouble getting people to run because of the safety issues faced by those on Parliment Hill, caused by the Conservative Party and #Pollievre spreading extremist hatred
The news cycle and awareness of the general citizenry is simple amazing...
in an entirely negative way.
The #CBC front page has no story, lede or link to anything regarding Israel, Gaza or Ukraine.
I guess Canadians are bored of it now... I mean, it's frankly kind of rude those "people" just keep killing and being killed and interrupting our lives... it's almost summer after all! BBQ, beaches, beer and bikinis!! Woooo! 😎
This sounds like a reason to call for our MPs and other government officials to remove themselves from toxic corporate social media spaces and create government-run, spaces, federated into the open social web so that Canadians can interact with their elected officials and those elected officials can be protected from harassment!
Here's the before and after of the lying BCLNG sign. The new rhetoric is significantly less sure of its lies... but don't be fooled, if you go to their website, they still have the original lie "BCLNG WILL Reduce Global emissions” prominently displayed. So they're still liars, and I'll still call them so!
Was it all because of the brief (5hr) protest action?
Probably not... but it's a good thought :)
I'm sitting in Urgent Care yet AGAIN. I'm tired of this. I don't want to survive. I want to live. But instead, I'm slowly dying inside.
Because that’s what it feels like to be a millennial. We’re a generation that uses alcohol & anti-depressants & mood stabilizers & beta blockers & psychedelics & porn & street drugs to cope with the terminally corporatized wasteland that has been left for us.
We're a generation that has seen parents panic over TV, movies, & video games that aren’t spiritual. We were told to recycle & we still litter. We've seen two teens shoot up a school & yet parents blame the same kind of machines that gave us Tetris. We've seen three planes take down three buildings. We've gone through lots of economic recessions. We watched a de-ranged billionaire become leader of the world in 2016. We've pushed through a pandemic & as a result continue to get more sick & more selfish five years later. We've seen our neighbors & friends strike & fight for their right to live & all we can do is cheer them on hoping for the best. And even in our sickness, trying to heal, trying to get better, just trying to speak up for what is truly right, we're called virtue signalers because apparently we're "lazy" but "healthy enough" not to be a "slacktivist" to show how "self-righteous" we are.
We’re a generation that is encouraged to monetize every thought or hobby we have in order to afford living in closets. Unless, of course, we’re willing or even able to move out to the middle of nowhere & live vicariously through the internet, or insert ourselves into tight-knit fundamentalist cults, an online self-help movement, or MLMs.
We were told to be nice to each other, to eat lunch with the kid that no one loves, to agree to disagree, to live in harmony & unity, to give our change or sandwich to the homeless man who can't afford to eat at Subway. Now, we're losing good people we cared about deeply to an "us VS them" virus while trying to get them to talk about something without conspiracy or trying to connect with their "old-self" in a healthier way at the dinner table. And now, if we say certain "impure" groups of people deserve an abundant life, it’s career or social media suicide.
Some of us work 2, sometimes 3 jobs to make ends meet (and some of us are stuck volunteering because no one will hire us) while baby boomers and yet simps for billionaires call us lazy because they live in an alternate dimension where the median price of a house is $20K. We're told that we're blessed and that we'll be fortunate and "to be envied" if we're rich hard workers who sacrifice our dreams and our mental health, or worse, we're sinners deserving our own living hell if we make less than $30K a year or do whatever we can to actually find freedom through sacrifice. And we're told we, the poor, who continue to dig looking for life, who are treading water in a sea of the so-called "developing world," deserve our exclusion, wage, sickness, or other issues we struggle with simply because we're disabled or intellectually challenged.
We’re forced to watch while many of these baby boomers and some of their Gen-X counterparts may usher in a US dominated Christian autocracy later this year as some warped act of revenge against the generations they raised. It is messed up the way older generations act towards us just for simply existing, just for simply being. They want revenge on us because we can actually articulate our feelings, our despair, and our on-going pain.
We’re dying prematurely, while they insist on living forever just to hold us hostage while we struggle and pour out blood, sweat, tears, and urine just to make it to tomorrow.
Meanwhile, we’re forced to listen to the ubiquitous, insipid droning on & on about “staying positive” or being "blessed" or "all things working together for good" from people who’ve never suffered in any real way. We're cogs in a giant machine toiling for a whole culture who loves anti-Christs and false prophets spewing false promises & gaslighting; a "thriving" economy of ableist grifters selling hyper-individualistic New Age, New Thought, human potential manifested Protestant work ethic gospel mysticism in the form of lower-case T'ed multi-tiered "answers."
Today, we're told "put family or church first / celebrate our health-workers / donate to charity / help the poor." Tomorrow, we're told "be yourself / let it rip / buy the latest thing for yourself / don't support welfare queens." WHICH IS IT? PICK A FUCKING LANE! Our values and boundaries are constantly being pushed, tested, and tossed in the way of cognitive dissonance! Now we don't know who to trust or what to believe anymore!
I'm one of the many whose life expectancy is declining, & I watch while the suicide rate became the highest it has been since World War II. But we just have to “realign our thinking” while we might soon start testing positive for bird flu, right? We just need to keep putting our faith in that promise that there are "plans where we'll prosper, & have a hope & a future" even if we suffer from Long Covid, right? I don't know. I don't know because the mantra of “accepting the things we cannot change” has led us to accepting the unacceptable.
We’re surviving on bad advice in bad material circumstances. We’re told to save for a retirement we won’t live to see because the sun will cook us alive before 2100. We’re told to focus on building “careers” to support an economic model based on infinite growth on a finite planet, because none of the people telling us these things can see past their own quarterly profits. They can’t see the burning forest through the trees while they’re bulldozing them with fossil-fueled vehicles to build condos no one can afford or bunkers they can shelter in so they survive post-Rapture "events of Revelation."
But hey, with any luck, maybe they’ll invent a drug that cures us of the human condition, reducing our nervous systems to a series of computations while the artificial intelligence we’re developing paints and writes songs and makes movies as we watch them from our phones while looking for food people in suits throw away on the street corners.
Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, & George Orwell were more prescient in their books than the ancient ones we use to justify the never-ending wars we pay for unwillingly with our tax dollars that are supposed to go toward making our lives tolerable. But they won’t, because war is the only thing North America exports. Thanks to Arthur Finkelstein, moral panics have now become the ultimate distraction from real issues affecting our livelihoods.
And if, somehow, "they" made it this far reading this, "they" only reply: Stop being woke. Take personal responsibility. Stop playing the victim. Be a rebel. Grow up. Buy guns. Buy land. Think for yourself. Take your mask off. Stay married. Start a family, a large family who will bring "herd immunity." It's the immigrants making our country impure. It's Justin. It's Joe (Biden). It's Bernie. It's the boy or girl choosing a made-up gender killing the binary. It's the colored people making everything about race (which it actually is). It's the lazy people who pretend to be disabled to get welfare! And then in twisted irony they'll be like, turn off the news, love Straight White American Jesus Christ, and stop living in fear.
And so, each day, I strive to live laugh and love, I strive to thrive and not just survive, and yet, I only find myself continuing to die inside.
We need a new way to live.
We need a new system.
We need it soon.
Tear it all down.
Because American exceptionalism and the American dream has become the worst nightmare that is killing us all.
David Cochrane interviewing Andrew Layton about Pierre Polievere so dude can shill is book which seems like fanboy fiction it’s unfortunately not surprising. Like, my guy, the fact that 98% of PP’s beliefs are still the same as when he was in college isn’t a bonafide that most people would be proud of. I mean, if you have paid any attention to who he is, it’s not surprising #cdnpoli#cbc
"We must ensure a two way arms embargo on Israel. We must support the work of the ICJ and the ICC and we must ensure sanctions are put in place against Israel's war cabinet including Netanyahu, now."
Blake Desjarlais, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Griesbach, Canada
Allow me to be the first on Canadian Mastodon to say:
This is not going to end well for anyone.
"Treasury Board President Anita Anand says she wants to increase the use of artificial intelligence in Canada's public service but insists there's no question of using AI tools like ChatGPT for confidential information like cabinet documents.”
Aside: In a way, the rise of "AI" truly has emphasized the word “Artificial" in Artificial Intelligence. lol
It's Part One of the plan. Israel's i24News just published Part Two of the plan between the 1pm and 2pm hour (CDT, that is): selling new luxury residence developments by hawking Tel Aviv real estate but making a point on the side that "peripheral" sites are cheaper. 3 different real estate developers were featured plus legal advice via a real estate lawyer.
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This company should be kicked out of Canada. We also need to see their #financials because they're #corrupt. The company should be banned from all business in Canada.
Apparently I’ll be getting the wondrous $7.85 from this LifeLabs “settlement”… I’m giddy that I’ll be able to buy a round trip pass on OC Transpo with this 🙃 curious what else I can buy with $7.86. Maybe we all pool our big earnings off of stolen data for purchasing power? #onpoli#cdnpoli#ottawa
The documentary was not broadcast in #Canada. Hansen said the reason B.C.’s wood pellet industry is a focus in #UnitedKingdom is the #Drax Power Station in #England.
#BCNDP#ChiefForester Diane Nicholls attended a #WoodPellet#TradeShow in 2019. After supporting the industry’s controversial growth in BC, she left the ministry of forests for a job with the UK company that now dominates the new industry in #BritishColumbia.
This analysis focuses on north central BC, where all material feeding #Drax’s pellet mills originates from #PrimaryForest, whether it arrives directly from #logging operations or byproduct from sawmills. Majority of commercial logging taking place in BC is of #OldGrowth#forests.
It makes sense that Ford would call an election because there is no opposition, voter turnout out would probably be the same as last time, the PCs have been using our $$$ non-stop the past few months to highlight their successes and because if PP wins, well there is historical precedent that shows the province would dump his provincial affiliation to the federal #ontario#ottawa#onpoli#cdnpolihttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/alcohol-sales-convenience-stores-ontario-1.7213546
My experiments going out with my CO2 monitor are discouraging. Tonight, with COVID in wastewater at its lowest in 11 months in my city, we went out to eat. We hoped for outdoor dining, but it rained, so we sat inside. CO2 readings:
4:30 pm: 50% crowd in a brewpub: 1548
5:45 pm: 75% crowd in a Mexican restaurant: 1341
7:45 pm: Long line at ice cream shop: 1896
I thought businesses upgraded air filtration & ventilation, but these readings encourage me to stay home. #COVID19 taught us nothing.
@augieray there is no incentive - either tax provisions, encouragement by public health, grants, or even public pressure
the entire clean air movement is being actively suppressed, you can't bring C02 monitors into schools in British Columbia, as a staff member or student - school boards, local, provincial and national politicians run away at the very suggestion
and it's literally the cheapest and simplest thing they could do
"Israel is brazenly flouting an order of a court it appeared before. It is indiscriminately killing civilians seeking refuge. This is a flagrant violation of the rule of law and a war crime. It is time the international community put sanctions on Israel as it did to South Africa."
Don Davies, Member of Parliament, Vancouver Kingsway, Canada