Barrhaven denizen
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Totally agree about electoral reforms of most kinds.
Sadly the NDP has drifted far from their socialist root, and doesn’t really talk about any kind of major reform to capitalism. They offer a lot of marginal policy change, but don’t talk about alternatives that would reverse the 50 year trend. When Mulcair was leader, h3me wanted to eliminate the federal deficit.
I think everyone can get behind interprovincial trade. Not much else that’s positive in there. Build pipelines faster, and double down on the fraud of carbon-capture. Nothing about any systemic changes that will help Canadians find housing or secure stable, increasing incomes. Nothing about shifting the share of economic growth from capital to workers. The inflation adjusted incomes of Canadians have be flat since the 1970s, and we are much less secure and have inferior services like health and education.
John@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Poilievre's pivot: Conservatives conducting internal surveys to adapt message6·2 months agoAx the Ax the Tax
John@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Trudeau to fill Senate vacancies before retiring: source22·3 months agoSounds good to me. No point leaving a bunch of open senate seats for some future govt to fill.
I look forward to Trudeau’s many non-partisan senators to blocking a future attempt by Poilievre to bypass the charter of rights using the notwithstanding clause federally. The senate would be right to reject that when conservatives try to advance attacks on whatever marginalized group they want blame for their own failings (probably transgendered people).
The senate would be right to reject that.
John@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Poilievre pledges to reverse Liberals’ capital gains tax changes if elected7·3 months agofamily farms are a tiny part of the ag industry. In the US it was under 10%. The image of a pastoral low-intensity 19th century family farm has been drilled into peoples’ minds by food industry advertising for 100 years. People like that image but it’s not real.
Ag is big business. Loans and leases for land, equipment, inputs, most of the labour isn’t from the business operator.
There’s probably under 10k family farms in Canada that would be impacted by a transfer to family and they can easily be exempted, it’s chump change for tax revenue.
John@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Montreal dockworkers' union rejects offer; lockout begins9·5 months agothe increases they’re asking for probably don’t make up for the high inflation in the recent past. Particularly if inflation, as measured for consumers at that income level, doesn’t stay at 2% or less for the next 4 years.
John@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claimsEnglish1·6 months agoThe NSA has many kinks. Watching people watch porn, precious bodily fluids/anti-flouride porn, that kind of thing. Good for them.
John@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claimsEnglish0·7 months agothe NSA or other intelligence org invented it and provides ongoing funding to collect an enormous library of SHA256 hashes to aid in reducing the decryption space of SHA256 so they can watch people watching porn.
Sounds good to me.