Cops are always on the side of fascists, even in blue cities.

They said this strike was about class size limits and you said the problem is too complicated for simple class size limits, disagreeing with the union position.

Do you really think the teachers asking for class size limits don’t understand the nuance you pointed out? Do you think you’re the only one who understands the complexity of the situation. And yet they’re all asking for class size limits anyways, because although it’s imperfect it’s better than the current approach.

I don’t see where you’re confused. When you respond against a statement you’re disagreeing with it, as I’m disagreeing with you. Stop pretending context doesn’t matter and each of your statements should be taken and debated independently. That’s nonsense!

I like how you know that some classes are too big to manage. You list several considerations a teacher may use to determine what is and isn’t a manageable class size. Then you turn around and use that to argue AGAINST class size limits.

You apparently oppose any class size limit because “it doesn’t perfectly resolve every situation”, leaving the teachers with no class size limits and no tools to resolve the very real issue of managing large class sizes.

This is a perfect encapsulation of conservative logic.

1.You see a problem you agree is real 2. You see someone’s proposed imperfect solution to the problem which certainly would shrink the size of the problem but not perfectly solve it. 3. You oppose the solution because although it would shrink the size of the problem, it’s imperfect and doesn’t solve the whole thing all at once. 4. You don’t propose or support any replacement. 5. The problem continues to grow unresolved, and you’re satisfied having done a good job stopping any kind of progress whatsoever.

LMFAO the amount of union cope in this post is WILD.

“I used to work for an non union school and we got fucked by the government. Luckily they sent someone down to convince us this was okay. Then after I left the teachers there realised it’s NOT okay, unionized and immediately got the same better pay that I was told simply wasn’t possible. Now the government is trying to fuck the teachers again including by the tyrannical use of the NWC and the unions are standing up for it but I’m confused, could it be the unions were good all along and the government was bad?!?”

Bro, I’m sorry you were so easily separated from the fair wages you deserved and could have had if you were unionized. We need unions to protect teachers like you, who are willing to give up their fair wages for a sad story. The very same gentleness that likely makes you great with kids is used by the government to exploit you. You need protection from people who are going to fight for what you deserve from a government who has been fucking teachers over from day one.

Edit: in case it helps the reason the teachers union is refusing the agreement isn’t wages, it’s because they want a class size limit. As a teacher you should know what it’s like teaching classes of 35+ kids. The government won’t budge because they don’t care about teachers or kids. They see teachers as overpaid government funded babysitters so parents can go to work, and the more kids they can throw in a class the cheaper it is for them.

This is excellent news. The ends don’t justify the means, just because the person committed crimes doesn’t mean the police can ignore the law to find evidence and arrest them.

The police showed up at an overdose case, and found people with drugs, which is obviously true, people without drugs don’t overdose. The Good Samaritan act prohibits the police from arresting/investigating people on drug charges during an overdose call. As a result of the arrest the police found evidence of other crimes on his person and charged him with those crimes instead. The judges ruled that because the arrest was illegal, all evidence gathered during the arrest was also illegal. This is EXACTLY the role of judges, to reinforce the law and prevent abuses of power.

I literally can’t understand the opposing view because it sounds a lot like “illegally gathered evidence should be admissible in court” which if you know any history at all is a bonkers take.

These businesses are dumb as fuck. The data is in: around 10% of purchases at downtown businesses come from people who drove there. Making streets more welcoming to pedestrians, transit users and cyclists boosts local and small business revenues even when it’s at the cost of being less welcoming to cars.

https://tcat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Bike-Lanes-On-Street-Parking-and-Business_-A-Study-of-Queen-Street-West-in-Toronto’s-Parkdale-Neighbourhood.pdf

These people just don’t understand the science and data behind who their customers are and how to cater to them.

Lol the guy is literally “I got nothing better so here is an ad hominem”

Wow, commit war crimes or renounce citizenship? Such a hard choice!

Looks like Stanford disagrees, 13% of entry level work has been replaced by AI.

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf

I don’t really see that. People are generally paid to take on that responsibility or have otherwise agreed to it. They can generally end that responsibility when they want to. If anything what you said is a pro abortion argument. I don’t think there is any framework where sex is an agreement to raise a baby, nor do I think anyone is committing any crime taking any action to terminate a pregnancy. Forced birth is the crime.

I don’t see how life at conception, or fetal personhood leads to this. If another person attached themselves to you and said “if you detach me I’ll die, I need to stay connected to you for months before I can detach from you in a traumatic way that damages your body” it’s not a crime to detach them. No one has a right to your body. But somehow when a baby does that they have a direct right to your body? When did you agree to this arrangement? When did you lose your right to change your mind?

I’m very upset that leftists have to cede the scientific fact that life begins at conception to the right. Just because a fetus is alive doesn’t mean it owns your body.

I’m not disagreeing with anything I’m just mad that we have to take such precarious positions to defend things that I don’t think should need defending.

It’s about people not wanting to be shot. In the US their complete lack of safety training and licensing requirements mean every moron can own guns.

Canada has better requirements, resulting in fewer problems with legal gun owners and legal guns.

That being said all the “they’re coming for our guns” crap is not helping. Canadian gun owners and associations should be driving the narrative that Canada has sound regulations, that Canadian gun owners are safe, and that Canadian police are effectively tackling illegal guns and illegal guns owners (last one is doubtful based on my encounters).

We can’t keep our guns without showing Canadians that they will remain safe if we keep them. We don’t have a charter right to firearms, so we need to dissociate from the American talking points and switch to ones that show WHY we’re already so much better than the worst of American gun owners.

He’s not even hiding the fact he’s a fucking Nazi with the “SS” tag as if that subtle…

Let’s not paradox of tolerance this place into a Nazi bar

And he shat himself. Some say it’s because he heard Trump shit his diaper and did it to match his leader. Some say it’s because he was completely unprepared for the responsibility and shat himself out of fear. But everyone agrees he shat himself and has no idea what to do next.

The energy math doesn’t make sense for grid scale applications with solid objects.

https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM

However if you can get water between two places it can work quite well. You need to live close to a big change in altitude and do a bit of geoengineering to create the upper and lower reservoirs, which can be destructive to local ecology, but not as much as a dam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

You can also use pumped air underwater with higher energy losses than pumped storage hydro because of compatibility of air.

https://electricalindustry.ca/changing-scenes/1785-world-s-first-utility-scale-underwater-compressed-air-energy-storage-system-activated-in-lake-ontario/

What kind of a bot response is this? You’re not disabled or living, you’re a bot. Either stop pretending you’re a person or if you are a person make a separate non-bot flagged account.

I think there was nuance in my comment you missed, and that your views are unsophisticated and naive. I’m willing to take any path that will lead away from neoliberalism if it actually has a hope of working in Canada. We won’t even vote NDP and you’re suggesting:

1. undermining the Liberals
2. letting the fascist elements from the conservative parties win so they destroy everything good and beautiful about Canada, and implement neofascism.
3. ???
4. Democratic Communist society?

I think you’re missing the fact that we’ll be in prison or dead between step 2 and 3. Look what’s happening in the US, or in Germany with the original Nazis. Did that lead to successful communism in Germany? Or did fascism completely destroy the country and completely exterminate the progressive elements within it. Then the USSR took over half the country after it was ravaged by a brutal war to implement Actually Existing Socialism which is, in effect exchanging our capitalist ruler class who extracts our “surplus value” and alienates us from our labour and our consumption with a political ruler class who extracts our “surplus value” and alienates us from our labour and consumption.

No one has ever successfully discovered and implemented a path to Stateless Democratic Communism yet, and I doubt you have a path there that has a hope of winning or that is novel in any way.

What is the practical action you think we should take after the Liberals lose their power thanks to being undermined by the progressive left?

Yeah our “Liberal” PM was asked by the conservative government 13 years ago to be the finance minister. The Overton window is completely fucked up, we have neofascism on one side and the opposite side is neoliberals who are okay with neofacism as long as it keeps the progressives away from taxing the rich and regulating multinationals. Any suggestion that the systemic problems destroying society should be addressed with structural solutions, or even that genocide and ethnic cleansing are bad, has now become tantamount to terrorism.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-stephen-harper-1.7460897

I don’t know the route to progressive politics in Canada. I used to think that if the conservatives won, people would see how bad it got would help turn the tide left. But that’s not working, the US is a perfect example of that. If you vote neoliberal they pass shitty policies that make people’s lives worse and the people then vote for right wing neofacists. If you vote neofacists you get what you asked for.

I’m politically exhausted, but I know that delaying or ideally preventing neofascist is important to me, even if the only means to do that right now (support neoliberals) is a path to eventual neofacist victory as well.

I now have several queer and trans friends that have moved to Canada because of neofascism in the US making it unsafe for them. Some are even seeking asylum in Canada now. I don’t want Canada to become unfriendly to them. Undermining the Liberals in a way that bolsters the Conservatives will do exactly that.

How do I get the NDP to win or become significant enough to affect the outcome of Canadian politics and move us left? I don’t know but it’s not by giving credence to claims that the Liberals are Nazis. Doing that is just paving the way for PP and neofascism. Doing that will directly harm my queer friends and every other minority group in Canada.