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The rising popularity of the Conservatives is really a sight to behold. A party who just a few years ago basically only existed on paper and now have a shot at actually forming government. A party of the most smooth-brained, reactionary, anti-vaxx, culture war dipshits whose success appears to be almost entirely due to riding the coat tails of Poilievre and the seeming inability of the voting public to distinguish between Provincial and Federal politics. Keeping them out of power should be a no-brainer, but concurrently I am so fucking pissed at the BC NDP for their arrogance and hypocrisy. Their climate / environmental policies, particularly LNG extraction / fracking / old growth forestry, make an absolute mockery of their stated cLiMaTe tArGeTs. And, in the same way that the Democrats in the Burgerland Junta beat back a popular insurgency by ratfucking Bernie (twice), so too did the BC NDP with Anjali Appadurai. There was a movement of thousands of progressive young people who actually gave a shit about climate change who were *slated to win the nomination* because Eby couldn't be bothered to actually run a fucking campaign, and instead inherited his political fiefdom because it was *"his turn"*. Granted, I like Eby ok, certainly way more than Horgan, and his housing policies have been great. They basically declared war on Air BnB, and the fact that they've yeeted public consultations for housing developments and are forcing the most insufferable rat bastard NIMBY municipalities in this province to actually build some fucking housing is not only effective but also incites a deep sense of schadenfreude in my soul - for there are few groups of people in this world whom I despise more than NIMBYs, perhaps only antivaxxers, fascists, and religious fundamentalists. But fuck me for *"making the perfect the enemy of good"*, right? I just need to get in line and vote for the people who sent jack booted thugs to pepper spray and assault my fucking friends at Fairy Creek. Vote for the people speedrunning the any% climate change challenge while at the same time claiming they're doing the opposite. Honestly, I feel like having the Greens as kingmakers such as in 2017 would be the optimal outcome. I really don't like the bike-riding capitalist party, and the Communists aren't likely going to run anybody for me to light my vote on fire with (although I hope they do, if even just to get them into the debates). Keep the socdems as administrators but punish them a little bit for their rat fuckery. But, on the other hand: mother of god, I certainly don't want us to become another Alberta and have SOGI123 summarily executed in broad daylight. So, in a sense, I feel like I am being held hostage because of the *" other worse party ™ "*. Anyway, [/RANT]
The resident zionism inspector lasted fewer than three months before crowing about how brilliant it is to murder lots of people
Link to paywalled original article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/freeland-knew-her-grandfather-was-editor-of-nazi-newspaper/article34236881/
once you know the lyrics are specifically directed at him (it's about his treatment of the homeless etc) it's hard not to take them as prophetic given his hilarious downfall
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5597930 > A good read on how Canada cultivated its "nice" image at first and how its ghoulishness has now inevitably bared its face.
  
> The Liberal Party of Canada is the latest major group to withdraw from the annual Ottawa Pride parade after organizers pledged solidarity with Palestinians in a statement earlier this month. [Not a lib](https://twitter.com/rachaiello/status/1825580060524601353) [Article](https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberal-party-pulls-out-of-capital-pride-parade-over-pro-palestinian-statement-1.7005938) I never want to hear these chucklefucks talk about human rights ever, *ever* again.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19182901 > https://archive.ph/BPuGl
This was an off-handed remark I came across in Mike Davis' *Late Victorian Holocausts*. I initially thought this might be another example of my incredible Canadian education leaving out our minimizing the significance of a socialist project. I don't know a ton about the Red River Rebellion but I've found it pretty difficult to find any other similar descriptions online of his group as socialists. Is this just a quick hot take by our boy Mikey Davis? Or is this a bird-brained statement? Surely Hexbear knows.
The human rights commissioner must have loved civilian slaughter all his life or he is an antisemite
>An Ontario megachurch has been forced to pause programming as its insurer won't renew abuse liability insurance in the wake of sexual abuse allegations against a former pastor. Today in man-made horrors fully within my comprehension, sexual abuse by churches has been converted into a financial product you can buy from insurance companies. I wonder how long until you can buy derivatives on these policies, Big Short style, to bet on which churches are filled with rapists.
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!canada@hexbear.netCanada is not the US's hat. The US is Canada's pants.