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- www.pqbnews.com Singh makes his case to Alberta’s new NDP leader amid party separation talks
But Nenshi intends to ask party members if they want to separate from the federal party
> Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe both often draw links between their NDP opponents provincially, and Trudeau’s decisions in Ottawa, many of which have been backed by Singh and the federal NDP. Smith and Moe contend Trudeau is overstepping into provincial jurisdiction including in health care, energy and the environment.
> “Naheed Nenshi, Trudeau’s choice for Alberta.”
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[BC] Les Leyne: What John Rustad is pitching: Tax cuts, addiction treatment, nuclear power, fire Bonnie Henry
www.timescolonist.com Les Leyne: What John Rustad is pitching: Tax cuts, addiction treatment, nuclear power, fire Bonnie HenryB.C. Conservative leader said he’s offering a “common sense” approach to governing
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23546146
> His common sense vision for public safety involves a big increase in addiction treatment programs, most of them private and some of them involuntary, meaning during incarceration. He wants indefinite apprehension of permanently brain-damaged habitual offenders now wandering the streets, on mental health grounds. That could involve invoking the notwithstanding clause in the charter of rights to bypass constitutional concerns if need be, he said.
> Hospitals now cut services to meet their budget because they look at patients as a cost, he said. “We actually need to reverse that, we need to look at patients as revenue generators.”
- theconversation.com Canada’s settler colonial violence in three acts: Calls for solidarity on National Indigenous Peoples Day
Limiting who public space is for and how it can be used is central to settler colonialism both in Canada and other settler colonial places. Here’s how it’s used to silence and criminalize dissent.
Good explanation of why Canada is supporting Genocide in Gaza.
- breachmedia.ca Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto
A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement
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Are there any Canadian news and current events comedy options?
I watch a lot of late night shows and British current events shows (have I got news for you, the bugle podcast). Really wish there was something equivalent for Canada. I know there was “this hour has 22 minutes” and Rick Mercer but I don’t think they’re around any more.
Any other Canadian comedic current events options?
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[AB] So many self-inflicted wounds, so few allies. Alberta's energy war room was long doomed
www.cbc.ca /news/canada/calgary/war-room-canadian-energy-centre-jason-kenney-danielle-smith-analysis-1.7233216> Kenney, at a 2018 gathering of his United Conservative Party, pledged a "fully staffed rapid-response war room in government to quickly and effectively rebut every lie told by the green left about our world-class energy industry." > > That line worked well in a room full of pro-oil partisans who felt their province's main industry under siege. And it surely felt familiar to Kenney himself, who'd spend so many federal elections in the Conservative Party war room, pumping out attack after counter-attack against the Liberals, NDP or any other would-be threat to his own faction.
>It tried to take down Big Green. It instead picked fights with Bigfoot Family.
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NDP leader says he's more alarmed after reading unredacted intelligence report
> Jagmeet Singh said Thursday he's "more convinced than ever" that some parliamentarians are "willing participants" in foreign states' efforts to interfere in Canadian politics after reading an unredacted version of a bombshell report
> May said she was 'relieved' reading the report
> Yves-François Blanchet said Tuesday he's inquired about getting security clearance
> That would make Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre the only major party leader to refuse to obtain the necessary security clearance to read the report.
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Poilievre says Tories will vote against capital gains tax hike, calls it a 'job killer'
'We're stepping up for Canadians. They're stepping up for the rich,' Trudeau says of Conservatives
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[BC] Editorial: Provincial politicians need to decide where loyalties lie | Times Colonist
www.timescolonist.com Editorial: Provincial politicians need to decide where loyalties lieThe Oct. 19 provincial election could be one of those rare watershed elections, like the ones in 1941, 1952, 1972, 1991 and 2017.
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Opposition set to amend election bill to curb MP pension eligibility
> But holding the election on that date would also mean that up to 80 MPs — those who were first elected in the 2019 general election — would have served the six years required to qualify for a parliamentary pension, even if they don't run and win their seats in the next campaign.
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> "Canadians don't want to see members of Parliament putting forward legislation that personally benefits their own pensions," said MP Lisa Marie Barron, the NDP critic for democratic institutions. > > Barron said when the bill reaches the committee, her party will introduce an amendment to strike the date change from the bill and return voting day to Oct. 20 — meaning MPs first elected in the 2019 general election would have to be re-elected in 2025 in order to qualify for Parliament's relatively generous retirement benefits.
- www.canadianaffairs.news Liberals' response to Israel-Gaza conflict puts off religious voters: poll
A new poll shows low support for the Liberals among religious voters, including two groups they've traditionally counted on — Muslims and Jews
> Foreign affairs usually don’t play a role when it comes to voting in Canadian federal elections. But the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is having an effect on religious voters in this country. That’s the finding of a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute that shows low support for the federal Liberal party among all religious groups, including two groups they have traditionally counted on — Muslims and Jews.
> The poll, which was released in mid-May, shows
- 41 per cent of Muslims support the NDP, 31 per cent support the Liberals and 15 per cent support the Conservatives. By contrast, in a 2016 Environics Institute poll, 65 per cent of Muslims reported voting for the Liberals in the 2015 election, 10 per cent voted for the NDP and just two per cent supported the Conservatives.
- Jewish support for Liberals is also low, with 42 per cent supporting the Conservatives compared to 33 per cent for the Liberals. Liberals have traditionally performed well in federal ridings with significant Jewish populations, the Angus Reid article notes.
- forty-five per cent of Roman Catholics prefer the Conservatives, 24 per cent the Liberals and 16 per cent are for the NDP.
- Among mainline Protestants, 58 per cent are for the Conservatives, 25 per cent for the Liberals and 11 per cent are NDP.
- Seventy-nine per cent of evangelicals would vote Conservative, five per cent for the Liberals and 14 per cent NDP. -Fifty-three per cent of Hindus would vote Conservative, 22 per cent support the Liberals and 18 per cent the NDP.
- For Sikhs, 54 per cent are Conservative, 21 per cent Liberal and 20 per cent NDP.
- www.cigionline.org The Road to Digital Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.
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16 year olds should legally be allowed to vote in my opinion
Seriously it really grinds my gears that the Canadian government thinks that 16 years olds are mature and intelligent enough to drive a car, work a full-time job, pay taxes, apply for a passport, and are able to live independently on their own without a parent or guardian if they want to and get married with parent consent.
But when it comes to voting the Canadian thinks 16 year olds are not mature and intelligent enough to vote. Its completely ridiculous in my opinion.
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Will Poilievre flip a 'kill switch' on Canada's Constitution? | About That
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I got an email from Leadnow recently and they used this phrase about Poilievre "flipping a kill switch" on the constitution. I usually trust their emails, but this is one of those instances where I wanted to double check this one. I copy pasted the phrase into a search engine and came across this video.
I wanted to ask: What are your thoughts on the notwithstanding clause? How should it be used exactly? How shouldn't it be used? Should it be used/exist at all?
- www.ctvnews.ca 'I'll take that call': Housing minister open to negotiating with Alberta
Housing Minister Sean Fraser says he is willing to negotiate with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who plans to adopt the Quebec model of federal-provincial relations when it comes to issues like housing.
- www.winnipegfreepress.com After countrywide pre-budget tour, Liberals reveal Tuesday how they'll pay for it all
OTTAWA – With Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promising to keep the federal deficit from ballooning in Tuesday’s federal budget, all eyes will be on the Liberals’ plan to pay for...
- www.winnipegfreepress.com G7 countries to convene to discuss Iran's attack on Israel
Canada and other G7 countries are expected to hold a meeting today to discuss a potential response to Iran’s Saturday attack on Israel. U.S. President Joe Biden said he would convene the meeting of the Group of Seven advanced democracies today to coordinate a united diplomatic response to an attack ...
- www.ctvnews.ca What we learned from the inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada's elections
Here's what we learned over the past 10 days of fact-finding hearings, which ended Friday and included testimony from politicians, bureaucrats and representatives from several intelligence and security agencies:
- www.winnipegfreepress.com Canada advises against all travel to Israel, West Bank due to heightened risk
OTTAWA – Canadians are being told to avoid all travel to Israel and the West Bank because of the “unpredictable security situation” in the region. Global Affairs Canada says there is...
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Breaking Down the Housing Policy Blitz | #onpoli
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I wasn't aware Steve Paikin and John McGrath had a podcast on Ontario politics. I like it!
- www.winnipegfreepress.com New Brunswick rejects proposal for new regional police force to replace RCMP
FLORENCEVILLE-BRISTOL, N.B. – New Brunswick’s government has rejected a pitch to replace the RCMP with a regional police force in the western part of the province. District of Carleton North Mayor Andrew Harvey told council this week he was disappointed in the province’s decision. Harvey has told lo...
- www.winnipegfreepress.com French PM in Quebec: News conference with premier at legislature
MONTREAL – French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will be in Quebec City and Montreal as he wraps up a three-day visit to Canada today. Attal and Quebec Premier François Legault will hold a working...
- rabble.ca AB drug treatment strategy ideologically driven
It would be fair to conclude from the minister’s own words the government wants only to evaluate what it’s already decided will work.
- www.nelsonstar.com NDP backs Tory push for national carbon price ‘emergency meeting’
Prime Minister Trudeau has rejected calls for summit with premiers over controversial tax
- www.winnipegfreepress.com Dental associations are 'negotiating' ahead of federal dental plan rollout: minister
OTTAWA – Canada’s dental associations, which say some of their members are reluctant to participate in the national dental care plan, are in fact just negotiating with Ottawa over the program, says federal Health Minister Mark Holland. “They’re doing their job. They are negotiating,” Holland told re...
- www.winnipegfreepress.com Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to testify at foreign interference inquiry
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to testify today at an inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada’s last two elections. The inquiry has already heard that China and other s...