folks think getting @cafreeland as a PM would be like having NZ's @jacindaardern for a PM. Don't fall for this crap, folks. Freeland is a neoliberal, not a progressive. Aardern is a social democrat and a progressive who leads a coalition of her Labour Party, Greens, NZ First.
The Labour–NZ First-Green Government has focused on the New Zealand housing crisis, child poverty, and social inequality. In March 2019, she led the country through the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, rapidly introducing strict gun laws in response.
Freeland is one of those people whose very privileged life means that she has some enormous blind spots, made worse by her focus on economic systems issues (business) and not socioecological systems issues. She bought the myth of free trade: rabble.ca/columnists/201…
She is an ideologue of the most dangerous sort, as her public persona creates the myth she is not one. Freeland perpetuates the Canadian Imperialism we've come to expect from the Libs and the CPC (Reform) that rose from ashes of the PCPC thecanadafiles.com/articles/cfoun
She is to the RIGHT of PMJT, who campaigns left and rules tot he right. He has continued many of Harper's policies, and has failed to undo the worst of Harper's policies cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…
Freeland is not going to prioritize public housing, ecological regeneration, workers
"“I believe that capitalist democracy has proved itself to be the only compelling, universalist vision of how to live the good life,” Freeland wrote.
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This is what happens when one is born into white millionaire family and engage in organized crime and so fail upward all the way to the premiership of one of the planet’s remaining boreal forests without *any* general arts (incl policy) or science (incl ecology) training:
This farce of a human gets hugh on his own supply. He’s a puppet for far smarter far more nefarious creatures than he.
Stone and Ballingall and their cohort including IDU buddies play him like they do Trump and other “useful idiots”
(A theme today)
If I were to ask an AI to draw and write a character for a film about the Hokey Pokey of electoral politics in settler colonial Canada featuring a failson lacking entirely an education but with enough privilege to make it to the Premier’s seat we’d get Ford.
So much time spent in conflict over concepts that are simply not being utilized in an honest and generous way by the IDU/ Blueprint/ Right to Life stans.
Each of these concepts have volumes written on them over decades from various standpoints, holding diverse theories of change and underlying cosmologies that shape and alter the viewpoint
And —
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— there are schools of thought that represent broad consensus and often controversy in every field. Teacher extraordinaire .@realJ_Mitchell talks of a controversial topic in algebra. The concepts in the first post are far more than the dictionary meanings one can google.
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So, this is the list the regressive right is circulating to uplift their bigotry-approved list of folks running on an "anti-anti-racism/ anti 2SLGBTQ+" agenda ... largely obstructionists with NO clue what the .@wrdsb actually does
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2/n And while some of the people on this list may have the best intentions and may have a more developed policy lens than simply reacting to anti-anti-racism and anti-2SLGBTQ+ propaganda coming out of the Leadership Institute, FAIR, and from pundits like Kay, Levy, and Peterson,
3/n There has been very little evidence that this is the case forthcoming from these candidates...
To be clear: the Venne Diagram between Anti-maskers, Convoy supporters, pro-racists, climate deniers, and anti-2SLGBTQ+ bigots is a perfect circle.
Here is an example of the bible study like content circulating on line right now. Ramsay of course has never actually read through any of Kendi's works. But there is an exchange Kendi had discussing "discrimination" and just like the "I have a dream"
3/ speech, the regressive right takes only the parts of the discussion that serve their agenda, ignoring the actual argument being made. Kendi challenges us to reconsider the notion of "racial discrimination" and what we mean by it.
@vickitabhatt@DrsDefundPolice@SURJto exactly: "Not a Second Longer" campaign in the last provincial election focused on wait times "while
drawing attention to poor government decisions" along with " In Sickness and in Health" campaign earlier were OMA's big market pushes leading up to the election of Ford
@vickitabhatt@DrsDefundPolice@SURJto The Board at the time: Allan O’Dette, CEO; Dr. Shawn Whatley, OMA President; Dr. Nadia Alam, OMA President Elect Dr. Timothy Nicholas, Chair, OMA Board of Directors;
UW is the only major university within Canada to not have a union for working students. If the anti-labour/ pro-capital forces within our employer's admin offer us more $, we must hold out for that amount AND a union!
Why do I urge my fellow employees to look beyond wage offers in favour of demands for union? Students at UW earn approximately 25-35% less per hour and work 12-25% more hours per course. More work per funding dollar means less time for research and study. #UnionsMakeADifference
UWaterloo is the only school in ON, and one of very few in CA, where graduate TAs have no union. By voting to bargain collectively for their wages and working conditions, TAs at other schools have secured fair wages and lower hours, freeing up time to focus on their studies.