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nichollsndimes

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Fair warning: I use harsh language a lot.

He/Him. Canadian Insomniac. Aspiring labour activist and unionized worker, democratic socialist, and established coffee addict.

Northern Ontarian, my heart belongs to the North.

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It's kinda beautiful to see the Loblaws boycott being discussed off of social media - and permeate outside of social media silos - my retired father asked me what it was about and was like "oh I gotta do that too." It's getting difficult for him to save.

What I want to see is national discourse on food cooperatives. Let's tackle food sovereignty AND build/unite communities. Also, it lets us close the rural/urban divisions by supporting each other.

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Hm.

I don't think we've put the whole 'rent is now a part of your credit score' idea in the oven long enough.

Sounds interesting until you start realizing that it could prevent tenants from organizing rent strikes against scumlords.

It's a very neoliberal way of appearing pro-tenant when it will, in actuality, harm the powers of collective bargining powers of tenants against oppressive corporate property owners.

I'll be interested in seeing the fine print of the bill.

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nichollsndimes,
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@johnefrancis Considering the charter right to associate is pretty vague by design, I think you could argue it fits under it.

From a pragmatic perspective, I don't think many tenant strikes could hold on as long as it takes for the case to get to the Canadian Supreme Court to be clearly defined.

A rental property company could have the capital available to simply wait it out until the strikers dry up due to credit score hits and legal fees, no?

Granted, I'm not a law expert, just curious.

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Nicki Minaj killed Kissinger is my new headcanon.

nichollsndimes, to LGBT
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Jesus, just leave the community alone.

All this hate feels like it's being used as a smokescreen for the failures of Conservative Premiers in Canada.

Just stop.

Canadians are Canadians. Their rights and freedoms are just the same as yours and mine. In fact, they had to fight HARD to get where they are now in Canada.

Always remember Operation Soap in Canada.



Radical_EgoCom, to random

Never cross the picket line

nichollsndimes,
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@Radical_EgoCom

Not surprised at Maher. What I am surprised at is that he has writers. Maybe I'm not his demographic but his show can be boiled down to your typical Gen X wife jokes, blaming lazy millennials and Gen Zs with a smug shit-eating grin. I feel like he got where he is solely because of that 80s/90s HBO comedy wave and now he's stranded on a sandbar of mediocrity since all his wild takes in the 90s like legalizing weed aren't that entertaining or wild; just tepid centrist comedy.

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https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/mobile/ontario-police-will-refer-inquiries-on-ford-s-handling-of-the-greenbelt-to-rcmp-1.6530698

Two things to take from this:

  1. Great news! Doug now has to tango w/ the RCMP over the .

  2. Bad news, just how corrupt is Ontario that our provincal police force cannot do it's job when it's connections to the OPC and Ford cannot guarantee an investigation without a conflict of interest.


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Let's not soften language here.

Doug Ford's Greenbelt Grab is corruption.


nichollsndimes, to Canada
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https://housingrightscanada.com/fifty-years-in-the-making-of-ontarios-housing-crisis-a-timeline/

Reminder: The housing crisis in Ontario is a crisis that's almost fifty years in the making. It's almost like the move to shift public housing from the federal government to the provinces and then to municipalities was a terrible idea.

Let's do a National Housing Act like in 1938; housing co-operatives, mixed zone housing, transitional housing and rent-to-own housing. We can absolutely do this but government must build houses.


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Let me get this straight...

Students getting relief from onerous debt is unconstitutional.

But justices secretly getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in gifts, vacations, and free housing and education for their family members is just fine.

Hello?

nichollsndimes,
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@rbreich

The US operates off the motto: "Rules for thee but not for me."

Folks kicking down ladders behind them that helped them get to where they are in the first place.

nichollsndimes, to Canada
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Feel like reaching out to on here.

I feel like supporting independent journalism, let's share links to respectable journalism sites that aren't controlled by PostMedia. Yet.

Are there any left?


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Honestly, let PostMedia crash and burn.

Not one Canadian dollar for any American-funded media groups in Canada.

Now is the time to establish a domestic news revolution; all these journalists and staff being laid off - their talents would be better suited to build an effective and modern independent journalism revolution.

No more corporate news media with editorial priorities based on what benefits their owners - let's create a strong independent news sector.


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As a leftist who identifies most strongly and is a member of the NDP, here's my take on what the party needs to do to get better:

  • Dump Jagmeet Singh. His leadership has become increasingly parrot-like, he regurgitates speaking points without creating shadow policy to back up his words.

  • Create progressive shadow policies and actually show the public. Explain it in multimedia in open, transparent ways like animated videos on YouTube. (Think like Kurzgesagt style simplicity.)

1/4

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  • Create national/provincial platforms that are co-operative between your NDP premier candidates and your Federal party. Most people do not realize just how decentralized Canada is between it's provinces and the Feds. (Again, a political video essay on the structure Canadian political system would be fantastic.)

  • Platform on voting reform federally. Literally go hard with killing FPTP, and replacing it with PR/STV voting. This gave the Libs a boost of leftist support in 2015.

2/4

Jgmeadows, to random

Saddened but not surprised by the election results in Alberta. Smith in Alberta, Ford in Ontario, the shit show in US red states and Trump with a huge lead to be the GOP nominee again, between the two large cohorts of ignorant/entitled who vote these types in and the apathetic who don’t vote at all, we are truly doomed.

The world is facing crises that require solutions that will need to rise above partisanship, and require the 1% to pay their share. So naturally we are going the other way.

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@HabsFan @Jgmeadows

Stiles is an surprisingly good Opposition leader in Ontario, better than Andrea, but I've noticed she is suffering the usual fate of most left-leaning leaders in Canada. Media is darlings to Ford but Stiles gets nothing.

If you watch QP, she constantly hammers Ford and his ministers and more often than not, they refuse to answer anything. This is shit that needs to be spread more and Ontario's news media is failing. No one is watching QP when they should be. It's nuts!

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@Jgmeadows @HabsFan

Absolutely. I've submitted recommendations that we do animated essay style videos on YouTube, and social media in the style of Kurzegsagt on Youtube. Literally spread shadow policies for Ontario online to counterpoint Ford.

"What Canada Under Proportional Representation Would Look Like In Under 5 Minutes"

"What is Social Democracy In Under 5 Minutes"

"Canadian Labour History in Under 5 Minutes"

"Canadian Decentralization Explained"

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@Jgmeadows @HabsFan

Here's what I picture. A simple art-style. Vector art based with lots of gradients and attractive high sat colour palette - NDP Orange, anyone?

A small stylistic Stiles in that art style pops up and explains the subject matter. Tone needs to be fun, folksy and educational without being condescending. We're not aiming to cause hate towards Conservative voters, just criticise party policy. Conservative voters are Canadians, our party is about unity and fairness.

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@HabsFan @Jgmeadows

Haha not surprised. She is rarely given any headline space.

I've actually had to explain to folks that the Ontario Liberals are not the Opposition. The level of political literacy and information that is being filtered to the public is concerning.

Manufactured consent. Establishment news knows who pays their bills and who will pay for endorsement. And they win both ways, whenever Ford shits the bed they win too.

Kinda like a I Like/Hate Elvis buttons situation.

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Apparently some folks are in an uproar over new designs for passports in Canada?

Really? We got wildfires in Alberta w Canadians losing homes and all their unrecoverable life memories, a housing crisis, anti-trans hate rising, and stagnant wages with skyrocketing corporate profits - and the thing that gets blood boiling is the redesign of a fucking book w a maple leaf on it.

Jesus christ. Sometimes I don't know if I want to cry or laugh at the times...

rbreich, to random
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Bankers get bailed out, and the biggest banks do even better.

Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25/hr since 2009.

And 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Is it a surprise that so many see the system as rigged against them?

nichollsndimes,
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@rbreich

Not surprised at all.

Not even surprised that workers in North America that typically do live paycheque to paycheque also habitually vote in politicians and parties that are dead set on keeping them living on the edge of those paycheques.

It's honestly tiring to watch. Even from North of the border.

Unfettered capitalism kills the poor and seeks to enslave those it exploits.

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