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With this week floor crossing and the Beaverton, what I wrote 2 weeks ago checks out.
The "Progressive Conservative" are back in Federal Government. They are just under a different banner.
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Are we still calling it #Alto?
The first segment of Canada's proposed high-speed rail network will connect Montréal and Ottawa... cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hi… #cdnpoli #cdntranspo #polcan
Our national railway is a global embarrassment. Canada is a transportation backwater.
#Transportation #Railway #Rail #VIARail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
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The shame of this G7 meeting is that the Canadian ministers give zero f*cks about Canadian sovereignty, as it applies to Canadians and their online information, financial data, etc. EVERYTHING, in one way or another, ends up going through AWS, or some other offshore BS. ctvnews.ca/politics/article/mo… #cdnpoli #cdntech #FAIL #clowncomputing
Montreal hosts G7 ministers to talk about artificial intelligence, quantum computing
Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
Recall petition targeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith approved
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🍿 nonwithstanding
Unless they speak a language other than French, wear fabric, or baubles, or are transitioning...
Even w/ it being a Federal program, the CAQists/PQists, etc. will sabotage it w/ their xenophobic, bigoted, pure laine policies.
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Montreal chosen as launch site for $1.7B federal push to attract top global researchers
The federal government is rolling out a $1.7-billion initiative aimed at attracting more than 1,000 top researchers from around the world to Canada over the next decade.Jessica Barile (CityNews Montreal)
#Carney ran on a build Canada platform that hasn't proposed any real nation building, rather we get pandering to foreign petro oligarchs.
Here's some nation building actions that should already be underway:
1. Get our govt data out of the USA. House it in the EU until we have a domestic datacentre.
2. Get schools across the nation off american software and networks. Like stop forcing my kid to use an enemy chromebook. This will take a large investment in infrastucture to update schools.
3. Retrofit schools, colleges and universities with renewable energy and batteries. Gift the installs and equipment to help reduce school electricity costs (and work toward climate action).
4. Similarly assist FN and especially Inuit communities getting off diesel generators. The soot is speeding melting in the Arctic.
5. Like the national railway that our ancestors built, build a national fleet of electric truck-trains (truck with 7-10 reefers). The railways are often plugged and reducing productivity.
Void in Québec b/c Québec has too much control over whom is given PR, etc. cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-fore… #polcan #cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth #cdnimm #healthcanada
There is something to be said when your own party faithfuls dissent on a major policy.
Hidden in the federal government’s 634-page omnibus bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, is a measure that has so far escaped scrutiny. Under the pretext of regulatory efficiency, Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years.
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While the bill lays out a plan for a minister to partially inform the public of such an order, there are no timelines. The minister may also “exclude information that, in the minister’s opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information.”
The Treasury Board Secretariat suggests the measures are necessary for regulators to keep pace with technological change and find flexible ways to evaluate whether products or services can be safely introduced in the Canadian marketplace.
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Canadian oligarchs gonna oligarch.
You know, oligarch priorities...
Canadians are gouged at Weston grocery stores, whilst the Thomson family spins it in the media that this is fine and Canadians should STFU... whilst they bid on baubles.
Why not take those millions and help Canadians?
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Thomson, Weston families win Hudson’s Bay charter auction: retailer
The Thomson and Weston families have emerged victorious from a process meant to decide who will be able to purchase the royal charter that formed Hudson’s Bay.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
BTW AWS is used across Québec websites... even #RAMQ's Health Booklet, AKA #carnet, which includes scans, prescriptions, sampling, etc., etc., etc.
THAT MEANS TRUMPISTAN HAS ACCESS TO ALL OUR HEALTH INFORMATION.
Canada.ca ALSO USES the #cloud... so all that Revenue Canada/CRA #data is AT RISK.
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY NOW!
#cdnpoli #polcan #assnat ##polQC #QCpoli #internet #digitalsovereignty
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Are you as enraged as I am by the new Canada-Alberta energy MOU?
One way you can take action is by supporting communities and grassroots movements that are fighting for climate and environmental justice, including land defenders facing unwanted oil and gas pipelines.
This pipeline will never happen, and we'll make f**cking sure of it.
Research for the Front Lines (@ResearchForTheFrontLines@cosocial.ca)
Attached: 1 image With giving season upon us, we'd love your help to fund the Community Research Lead program in 2026, so that more Indigenous, Black and racialized communities can lead their own research, exposing systemic injustices and informing …Research for the Front Lines (CoSocial)
The "Progressive Conservative" are back in Federal Government. They are just under a different banner.
*Mark Carney ne fait pas semblant d’aimer les pipelines*
Une entente qui vient de provoquer la démission du ministre Steven Guilbeault, qui était peut-être le dernier rempart environnemental dans ce gouvernement. Une entente qui range désormais le Parti libéral résolument du côté de ceux qui sont prêts à sacrifier l’environnement au nom de l’économie.
Jusqu’à la dernière minute, j’avoue avoir cru que M. Carney utilisait un truc, une manœuvre politique.
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En effet, ma thèse a un peu frappé un mur lorsque j’ai vu l’immense sourire de la première ministre albertaine, Danielle Smith, en conférence de presse jeudi, et que je l’ai entendue parler de « nouveau départ » et de « grande journée pour les Albertains ». La politicienne n’est pas du genre à lancer des fleurs au gouvernement fédéral pour rien, disons. Et elle semblait sincèrement ravie.
Puis, en fin d’après-midi, Steven Guilbeault a claqué la porte du Cabinet, montrant le sérieux de la chose.
Les experts que j’ai contactés m’ont ôté mes dernières illusions.
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Une autre preuve que Mark Carney est sérieux, c’est ce qu’il met sur la table. L’entente fait tomber une flopée de réglementations environnementales en Alberta.
Le plafond sur les émissions des secteurs pétrolier et gazier conçu par Steven Guilbeault, mais pas encore en vigueur, est suspendu. Mais aux yeux de Kathryn Harrison, professeure de sciences politiques à l’Université de Colombie-Britannique, ce qui fait le plus mal sont sans doute les délais sur les réductions de méthane, un gaz dégagé par les activités pétrolières et qui est encore plus nocif que le CO2 pour le climat. Steven Guilbeault avait accouché d’un règlement pour les abaisser de 75 % d’ici 2030. L’entente parle maintenant de faire la même chose « d’ici dix ans ».
« Il y a aussi l’abandon du Règlement sur l’électricité propre et ce qui semble être un signe de plus grande flexibilité dans la tarification du carbone industriel. J’ai l’impression que d’autres provinces feront maintenant la queue pour obtenir des concessions similaires », dit l’experte.
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Entente entre Ottawa et l’Alberta | Mark Carney ne fait pas semblant d’aimer les pipelines
À quel jeu Mark Carney joue-t-il ? C’est la question que je me suis posée lorsque j’ai vu le premier ministre signer une entente avec l’Alberta à propos d’un nouvel oléoduc vers la côte pacifique.La Presse
Imagine a Government putting as much resource into transporting people that they do into transporting dirty oil, then you could cross Canada at high speed....
Steven Guilbeault resigns from cabinet following pipeline MOU
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Not like he was great. Remember. He thought you could cross Canada by train...
Former environment minister quits Carney’s cabinet
Steven Guilbeault has resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet, citing his strong opposition to the federal Liberal government’s major new energy agreement with Alberta.Mike Le Couteur (CTVNews)
Alberta and Ottawa signed a memorandum of understanding that gives the province special exemptions from federal environmental laws and offers political support for a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast.
The deal ties approval of “one or more” privately financed pipelines to a carbon capture, utilization and storage project in northeast Alberta.
The pipeline proposal will be submitted to the Major Projects Office by Canada Day.
There are several references to supporting Indigenous “co-ownership” of the pipeline.
The B.C. government is opposed to the pipeline deal, which Premier David Eby said would allow some tanker traffic on the province’s North Coast despite a current ban.
Eby warned that carving out exemptions to a tanker ban “is like explaining to a vegetarian that they’ll still be a vegetarian if they eat a few steaks.”
Meta pitching app store age verification law to Canadian government
Me: No, no and especially not in the hands of a foreign entity
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Meta promouvoit une loi sur la vérification des âges par les App Store au gouvernement canadien
Moi: non, non et surtout pas entre les mains d’une entité étrangère
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#Meta #Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp
Meta pitching app store age verification law to Liberal government
OTTAWA — Meta has been lobbying the federal government for new rules to implement age verification at the app store level — which would put the burden on companies like Apple and Google, not individual platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.News Staff (CityNews Toronto)
Now, start stocking the shelves w/ better edibles!
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#SQDC #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #stopsellinginferioredibles #everyotherprovincehasbetteredibles #cdnpoli #polcan
Exactly what the C-suite wants... it's all by design to run Canada Post into the ground and break the union. ctvnews.ca/business/article/ca… #cdnpoli #polcan #canadapost #profitsbeforepeople
Canada Post reports ‘unprecedented’ $541M loss before taxes in third quarter
Canada Post is reporting losses of $541 million before taxes in its latest quarter, as the beleaguered mail service remains on track for its worst financial year yet.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
FYI On November 19, 2025 a test of the National Public Alerting System (NPAS) will be sent out in all provinces and territories over wireless networks, TV, and radio.
Canadians will receive a test message from their provincial or territorial government. A test schedule can be found on the Alert Ready website. #alertready #NPAS #cdnpoli #polcan #ocanada
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If you do not have prescription insurance coverage, through your employer, etc., you're obliged to have RAMQ prescription coverage.
However, RAMQ has changed who is eligible and is NOT COVERING COVID-19 VACCINES IF YOU'RE NOT ELIGIBLE.
150$ isn't even what Moderna/Pfizer, etc. spends to make each COVID-19 vaccine.
François Legault and the CAQ government are all about profits before people.
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#polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE #cdnpoli #polcan
The point of Santé Québec is to privatize almost ALL healthcare. It's doing so, right now, w/ the COVID-19 vaccines.Santé Québec oversees the ordering process for the COVID-19 vaccines given to at-risk groups, which are sent to wholesalers and then distributed to pharmacies.
For the paid vaccines, Santé Québec is not involved. Pharmacies place their orders directly with wholesalers, who order the vaccines from manufacturers.
#polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE #cdnpoli #polcan
The point of Santé Québec is to privatize almost ALL healthcare. It's doing so, right now, w/ the COVID-19 vaccines.
Santé Québec oversees the ordering process for the COVID-19 vaccines given to at-risk groups, which are sent to wholesalers and then distributed to pharmacies.
For the paid vaccines, Santé Québec is not involved. Pharmacies place their orders directly with wholesalers, who order the vaccines from manufacturers.
“Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there... there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19."
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#COVIDISNOTOVER #COVID19 #WEARAMASK #DEMANDAFREECOVIDVACCINE #cdnpoli #polcan #QCpoli #polQC #assnat
COVID Is Beginning to Surge Globally—What Are the Symptoms, and How Serious Is It?
Limited COVID surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers sayKatie Kavanagh (Scientific American)
Canada loses its measles elimination status — thanks to anti--vaxxers.
cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/c… #morons #idiots #Cdnpoli #polcan #healthcanada
But pharmacies are charging eligible Québécois/ses...
“Pharmacists are not allowed, under any circumstances, to offer paid vaccines to patients eligible for free vaccination. In this situation, pharmacists are encouraged to postpone appointments while waiting to receive the doses from Santé Québec."
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#backlog #postponedappointments #supplyshortage #CAQASTROPHE #LEGAULTFAIL #polQC #QCpoli #cdnpoli #polcan #COVIDISNOTOVER #COVID19 #demandafreevaccine #clicsantefail
Quebec COVID-19 vaccine appointments backlogged as supply shortage persists
Some pharmacies still do not have vaccination appointments available or have no availability until the end of November.Leora Schertzer (Montreal Gazette)
Good news though... I absolutely cannot see how PP can win his leadership review this winter. And he'll be stuck being a MP in the middle of nowhere 😂
After a Con MP crossed the aisle yesterday... Another Con MP (who was rumoured to cross the aisle) has resigned. And that's after we've heard of talks of threats made to them from PP's team.
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(I really do hope they're not actually getting threatened... I want our politics to be better, damn it)
I’m actually in favour of increasing our military spending, mostly because I anticipate the US deciding at some to point to switch to military means to annex us if their economic measure aren’t successful.
What worries me is how much of this new spending is going to be directed right to the hostile country that’s threatening us.
We should be lessening our dependence on the US militarily just much as we should be should be lessening our dependence on them economically.
#CDNPoli #CDNDefense #ElbowsUp
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Mark Carney promised to increase military spending to two per cent of GDP, and he does so in his first budget. The cost to nearly everything else government does is considerable. https://rabble.rabble.ca (Mastodon)
I encourage every Albertan (and Canadian really) to listen to what UCP MLAs have to say about the notwithstanding clause, it boils down to something very simple:
We support the Canadian Constitution, and that includes the notwithstanding clause, because we believe those rights were never actually meant to be for everybody. We’ll be the judge of who gets rights and who doesn’t.
Their position really is that simple: rights aren’t for everyone.
And that’s why *every* Albertan - every Canadian - should be working to get these people and their ideological cousins (in Ottawa and elsewhere) out of office and as far from any influence in society as possible as quickly as possible.
Thank the gods Carney cut the luxury yacht tax, eh?
No longer will people buying a yacht worth over a quarter of a million dollars be saddled with a luxury tax. Ditto your private jet or helicopter with a value above $100,000. Whew.
Corporations will enjoy a “super-reduction” of more than 2% points to Canada’s marginal effective tax rate, and the 1% tax on foreign-owned vacant housing is gone.
Trudeau's proposed increase to the inclusion rate on the capital gains tax is also scrapped.
At least they didn't call it the Canada Strong & Free & Proud Budget. #cdnpoli
The budget is available.
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Still early, but to me it looks like handing $300B-$400B to capital entities while punishing individual Canadians. And making all Canadians pay for it.