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Attention Canadians!

Canada’s major left political party, the New Democratic Party (NDP) is having a leadership election this fall. They’ll be choosing their new leader, who will run for Prime Minister in 2019.

If you’re not happy with Justin Trudeau and want a more left alternative to him in 2019, you need to pay attention. If you want Canada to have a chance of a Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn type figure in Canada, you need to pay attention to this race. If you want a party that runs on free education, expansion of Canada’s healthcare system, electoral reform, action against oil pipelines, A guaranteed Minimum Income, taxing the 1%, etc, stay tuned to this race.

If you want to vote in the NDP leadership debate in October, you must be an NDP member before August 17th, 2017. That’s 1 month from today (July 17th, 2017).

Membership fees are usually less than $5. Buy an NDP membership here.

There are 4 candidates running for NDP leader, I’ll list their websites and twitter as well:

Charlie Angus:

https://twitter.com/CharlieAngusNDP

http://www.charlieangusndp.ca/

Niki Ashton:

https://twitter.com/nikiashton

http://www.nikiashton2017.ca/

Jagmeet Singh:

https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh

www.jagmeetsingh.ca/

Guy Caron:

https://twitter.com/GuyCaronNPD

http://en.guycaron.ca/

If people could share this, I’d appreciate it.

junglemean

As someone under 26 living in BC, my fees were literally $1.

hantisedeloubli

Stuffing flowers down my pockets is my new aesthetic

bob-belcher

please watch brooklyn nine nine

internetgoose-deactivated201507

I’m gonna depress the hell out of all of you. ready? ok go

so, that “stop devaluing feminized work post”

nice idea and all

but the thing is, as soon as a decent number of women enter any field, it becomes “feminized,” and it becomes devalued.

as women enter a field in greater number, people become less willing to pay for it, the respect for it drops, and it’s seen as less of a big deal. it’s not about the job- it’s about the number of women in the job.

observe what happened with biology. it’s STEM, sure, but anyone in a male-dominated science will sneer at the idea of it being ‘for real,’ nevermind that everyone sure took it more seriously when it was a male dominated field. so has happened with scores of other areas; nursing comes to mind

so the thing is, it’s not the work or the job that has to be uplifted and seen as more respectable. it will never work out, until people start seeing women as respectable

but there’s a doozy and who the fuck knows if it’s ever happening in my life time

pyrositshere

“observe what happened with biology. it’s STEM, sure, but anyone in a male-dominated science will sneer at the idea of it being ‘for real,’ nevermind that everyone sure took it more seriously when it was a male dominated field.”

Personal anecdote time! I’m in a biology graduate program. An acquaintance wanted to introduce some guy to me because his son was thinking about becoming an undergrad science major. When he found out I was in the biology department, he grinned and said, “Well, I guess that’s kind of related to science.”

I gave him what I hope was an icy look and said, “Isn’t it strange how men outside the field started saying that right around the time biology majors shifted from mostly male to mostly female?”

The guy got this look on his face like he was about to play the “just a joke” card, and then an older woman who had been standing nearby, talking to someone else, turned to me and said, “The same thing happened with real estate.” She went on to explain that, over the course of the career, the male-to-female ratio among real estate agents had dropped, and the pay and “prestige factor” of that job dropped along with it.

birdhead

This is also famous for happening to teaching. Keep an eye on medicine over the next fifteen years and watch as it becomes less prestigious and less well-paid.

hazeldash

It also happened to secretarial/administrative work - in the 19th century, clerical work was utterly respectable and seen as requiring quite a lot of talent and skill (which it still does!) but then along came the typewriter and women entering the field and HEY PRESTO “she’s just some secretary”

appropriately-inappropriate

There’s a reason that a lot of very important titles start with secretary–

Secretary of State, Secretary of Defence, Secretary of the Interior, etc

Secretary used to be the title for the person whose job it was to know the details and logistics. It still is, as you say.

gogomrbrown

Mother Of All Bombs: $314M.

Repair of Flint water: $216M.

thebestoftumbling

Adorable baby fakes crying when daddy tries to cut her fingernails. (x)

peachblossom-odyssey

Can anyone provide a translation? I kinda wanna know what he’s saying.

jucbw

Dad: Wait a little bit, it’s just this tip here. Can you wait please?

{Baby cries Dad laughs}

Dad: My love, wait! {laughs} wa- wait! Wait.

[tries again, baby cries, he laughs}

Dad: Ok. Wait, okay? Without crying, okay? Wait.

[Baby screams, he looks up laughing]

Dad: (laughing) You scared me! Wait, I’m just going to cut off the little tip. Oh sweet jesus what a riot. Okay wait, just the little tip. {baby fake cries} Okay, stay calm. Wait, just stay calm.

[baby cries again]

Dad [laughs]: Oh no.Okay wait, wait, just the little tip.

[He fails, they both laugh]

@a-greatbig-bottleof-fuck