March 21, 2022
Public transit is much more than getting from point A to point B. It is implicitly linked to broader societal issues like climate change and social justice. Eliminating user fares would be a great first step in the right direction.
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Regina city councillors proposed legislation to ban advertisements from oil and gas industry. The industry responded with an astroturfing campaign.
Here we have yet another example of right-wing politicians supporting powerful oil and gas corporations. These corporations are so powerful that they can shape narratives and create false populist movements.
March 21, 2022
An all-to-familiar juxtaposition has arisen with the recent arrests of Indigenous land defenders and journalists by the RCMP. On the one hand, we have politicians like Justin Trudeau and John Horgan insisting on the importance of climate change and that we must act now. On the other, these same politicians buy or approve new pipelines, grant fossil fuel subsidies, and arrest protestors.
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Our political leaders have a deficient understanding of reconciliation. What they want to reconcile are the contradictory interests between Capital and Indigenous self-determination. Ultimately, our political leaders, embodied by the Canadian state, side with Capital. There is a much more radical, transformative understanding of reconciliation available.
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With the facts in front of us — with even further evidence that corporations overwhelmingly produce the majority of our global greenhouse gas emissions — it’s clear that responsibility for the effects of climate change is not universal like the Anthropocene narrative claims.
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Elon Musk gets the political spectrum so wrong, but so right – unintentionally
Ottawa Police refer to anti-vax protestors as “freedom supporters”
Neoliberal failures expose the need to defund the police
The Conservative Party has become the political arm of the trucker’s convoy
Vancouver Police release highly militaristic copaganda recruiting ad