What Conservatives want for Canada:

“For more than 14% of people who use insulin in the U.S., insulin costs consume at least 40% of their available income, a new study finds.”

news.yale.edu/2022/07/05/ins…
Predatory capitalism is exploiting people based on a medical condition that they were probably born with. Extracting profits & making people terminally indentured. “Make us profits, or die.”

Not too different from how capitalism treats workers.

meme via @xghostnotesx
If the actions or policies of Conservatives (including the #UCP) ever seem confusing, this lens always helps to make sense of it.

To a Conservative, the only reason for a worker—sick or healthy—to exist, is to make profits for the rich.
This philosophy that people need only exist to make profits for capitalists also factors into why Conservatives see education as a commodity that they would rather be privatized.

To them money not spent in ways that benefit the rich is money wasted.

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Sep 25
Because Alberta diverts almost $300 MILLION per year FROM public education to subsidize elite private schools—to subsidize the rich—there is less funding to support your child. (See linked thread below.)

Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged
The diversion of tax money to from public education to subsidize the rich is why Alberta public schools have some of the highest school fees and highest bus fees in the country. 🧵👇

When funding was given out for covid supports, elite for-profit private schools like Webber Academy received hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in subsidies.
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Sep 3
Pollution remains unhealthy around #Calgary due to ongoing wildfires in the mountains.

Climate change is real. The fact that events like this happen almost every. single. year. is frightening. What kind of future are we leaving for today’s children?

aqicn.org/station/canada…😬
It is widely understood that wildfires are worsened by climate change.

cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/…
It is widely understood that climate change is worsened by the fossil fuel industry.

It is not widely understood that the fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidized by Canadian Governments.
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Jun 26
The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton. Alberta and British Columbia passed laws that created eugenics programs, in 1928 and 1933 respectively.
2,822 Albertans and over 200 British Columbians were sterilized through these programs. In 1937 Alberta amended its Sexual Sterilization Act to remove the need for informed consent for sterilization.

eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/world
Supporters of Eugenics made assumptions that Canadian society could be improved by encouraging reproduction among certain groups — particularly Anglo-Saxon Protestants — and discouraging or limiting reproduction of other groups.

thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eug…
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Jun 3
Doug Ford should give a huge thank-you to the @OntLiberal party for helping to ensure this victory for his second majority tonight.

@StevenDelDuca campaigned hard against the @OntarioNDP right to the very end.

#onpoli  #ONelxn  #OntarioVotes #OntarioElection2022 Source: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/ontario/20Source: https://twitter.com/cbcqueenspark/status/15319944542
I had a hunch that this was going on when I saw all the calls for strategic voting—which often just confuses progressively minded voters.

Small-C, conservative-lite, Liberals, will nver solve the problems created by big-C Conservatives.

Consider: of those who thought Ford was a great/good/OK premier, 13%/10%/33% of respondents were Liberal voters.

h/t to @christoaivalis.
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