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Tony McQuail is fundraising for the last bit that he needs to make sure he's on the ballot for the NDP leadership vote.

You can donate to him here:

Donate today for Green Progressive Cooperation Help Tony McQuail ensure that we discuss representation, regeneration, redistribution and red

I think he's a great candidate. He's strongly in favour of proportional representation, and I really like what he has to say about the environment and community. I also really love that when Tanille Johnston was struggling a bit, Tony put his fundraising on hold so that she could stay in the race.

These folks running for leader are helping pick each other up. I think it's admirable.

I've donated to his campaign now. He might not win, but I'm glad to see this kind of person spreading his message.

Also, I think his website design is dope. https://tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca/

#ndp #tony mcquail #cdnpoli

allthecanadianpolitics

The NDP leadership race is coming up this year, & anyone who's a member of the party by January 28 can vote. It looks like there's some sort of scale for membership fees, so idk if it's the same for everyone, but for me it was only $10 to register as a member for the year.

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loonie-tics

Buy your NDP membership! Vote! It's ranked choice, so VOTE FOR WHO YOU THINK WILL REPRESENT YOU THE BEST.

I think all the choices are relatively good!

#ndp #leadership

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Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can bene

Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney speech at Davos. It was a good one. This is how he ended it, but it is worth watching in full, including the Q&A afterward.

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.

The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.

That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”

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A special address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada.

A video for watching as well, question period included. This is the third speech at the world economic forum to ever get a standing ovation, the last one being President Zelenskyy’s address over Ukraine.

@allthecanadianpolitics

loonie-tics

I have not meaningfully changed my mind about Carney—he's still a neoliberal banker, more conservative than most Conservatives, fiscally—but I will give him 3 (three) compliments:

He is an excellent public speaker and writer. This speech was full of quotable lines.

He's extremely adept at international politics. He just is. This speech was good, the content was good. He's clear-eyed and pragmatic; he knows that international law is a scam. He's called it out clearly now.

He answers questions well. In interviews, he dissembles very little. I may not agree with his answers, but he basically never references political opponents and other parties. He answers what's asked of him.

I'm still not going to give him huge accolades as a PM; I think his position on oil pipelines, EVs and climate is weak. I don't think he's handling indigenous concerns well. I don't think that Canadian jobs are safer or better with him as PM. I don't think his housing plan is going to do anything that wasn't already happening. He somehow believes that the people we've got handling the CPP aren't huge grifters.

But still. Good speech. Good message. Let's see how he delivers.

#cdnpoli #canada #mark carney

allthecanadianpolitics

The group petitioning for a referendum question on Alberta separation can begin collecting signatures on Saturday, Elections Alberta says.

The group petitioning for a referendum question on Alberta separation can begin collecting signatures as early as Saturday, Elections Alberta says. The province’s chief electoral officer has issued petition signature sheets to the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group seeking an answer to the question of whether the province should leave Canada to become an independent state. The group now has until May 2 to collect 177,732 signatures, or 10 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the 2023 provincial election. The project’s communications team said it planned to start collecting between Jan. 5 and Jan. 10, giving Elections Alberta time to process the registration of their canvassers.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland @abpoli

loonie-tics

If these people come to your door, remember to tell them to get absolutely fucked.

#cdnpoli #alberta #alberta politics

Even in a nominally multi-party system like Canada's, this is true. Despite a 3rd party saying, "hey, we could probably do better than the numbnuts that keep screwing you, just give us a chance," the established parties' defense of, "not the new guys, they don't have the EXPERIENCE," seems nigh unbeatable.

Anyway, thanks, I hate this.

#cdnpoli #pearls before swine #comic

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"I don’t want to hear about the affordability." —Donald Trump (11/6/25)

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Here's the whole thing, not just the chopped part.

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PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be miti

“I know that people are scared of AI, which nobody asked for, destroying jobs,” explained OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “That’s why I’m asking all you little people out there to focus instead on how UBI could supplement lost income and allow workers to enter a golden age of leisure time and artistic pursuits. I mean, we billionaires are never going to let that happen, but we’d still rather you focus on that.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “It’ll frankly make it a lot easier to turn you all into powerless feudal serfs if you’re focused on a pipe dream fiscal policy that we’re going to lobby into oblivion.”

Reports show a consistent trend of tech CEOs responding to interview questions about AI-fuelled layoffs with a consistent “We’ll do UBI probably”. When pressed to elaborate on this complicated economic plan, most CEOs answer by bragging about the Hawaiian island they just bought, repeating the previous answer louder, or demonstrating an AI deepfake of your mom committing a hate crime.

For the next election, don't vote with your heart, get kicked in the head by a horse

Tan covers British politics, but her points stand when considering any far right party. The Conservatives in Canada, the Republicans in the USA.

She's funny and smart, and you should follow her even if you don't care about the UK in particular.

#Youtube

Three very different visions are emerging for the post-Singh NDP, with plenty of time left in the race

I actually like all 3 of these candidates. All of them bring something different to the table.

#ndp #leadership #cdnpoli

newsandstuffisee

No help is coming. WE are the help.

Do what you can, talk about wealth inequality. Mail your MP about it, run for office. Help people in your community if you can. Make dinners for people, help them fix things, let them help you however they can.

It doesn't matter if it's a little or a lot, if we all do it, it becomes a lot. You don't have to be rich, you don't have to be giving money that you don't have. But the one thing the rich have always tried to do to us is divide us away from our neighbours. Even just being kind and helping the folks around you can be a transgressive act. Don't sleep on the small stuff.

#Youtube

I think this is worth filling out. I think a lot of people in Canada would benefit from the government just automatically filing their taxes for them.

#canada #cra #taxation