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But not to work....

How about that legal right to strike among federally regulated workers? What’s your plan there?

The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 1.97°C.

"One of the biggest business tax policy changes in half a century" as per the Director of Policy to the Minister of Finance. www.canada.ca/en/departmen... I guess we're getting so much cash from higher oil prices that we don't need the extra revenues? Cuz we have no pressing needs in housing/care.

I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...

*province, I think the city would like it gone/changed

So if I am understanding we are signing a trade deal with tariffs (ffs) lower than (most recently) threatened but higher than pre trump status quo and that is…winning?

Any chance you could you spare $100 million for more childcare?

Here's a graph of global surface temperatures since 1940 by their decadal average. Notice any pattern?

Whoops

So, once again, rest of the world, what is the value of a "deal" if the White House decides it has a feeling and invokes 338 on items, regardless of trade agreements? Canada is again being used as the test case.

Good thing Mark Carney decided climate change isn't worth addressing.

Why is it so important to me that Canadians understand how little the incomes of the rich were taxed in 🇨🇦 in the 1950s and 1960s? Much less than in the U.S. 🇨🇦 did not tax capital gains until 1972. The top marginal rate was high, yes, but easily avoided. Why do I want ppl to know this? 1/5

Why would I say it is an odd renaming? Aside from the fact that CGEB isn't a great acronym, we don't charge GST on most groceries. I looked at my receipt from shopping last week - spent $172 at the grocery store, HST was applied to only $42.

Here lies the rub: how many times does Trump have to threaten any of us with the iron fist only to barely make contact with a whiffle ball bat before we all have to agree we’ve lost trust? For me that was last year. For Carney it was two days ago. For Danielle Smith, we are still waiting.

So he actually posted an altered image to Truth Social with the US flag over Canada along with Greenland and Venezuela (and we know what has happened in Venezuela 🇻🇪) and Canada has done what with the US ambassador?

As someone with a bad bladder, I wish there were more publicly available and clean washrooms.

The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh

"Maduro’s wife" has an actual name — Cilia Flores. She's not a great person, but so far as I know, there are no criminal complaints or arrest warrants for her anywhere. You can't even put a legal fig leaf on her kidnapping.

Home for Christmas Maud Lewis c. 1958

Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…

But cutting $1.2 billion from student aid.

Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment. Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?

Second-biggest line item in the budget. Largely ignored this week because it was old news. bsky.app/profile/arad...

called it

I can't find the defense budget figure for 2025. Sigh

Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....

We're cutting $s to low-income 18 year-olds to access education, but we still have half a billion a year to make student loans interest-free for early-career 20-somethings "to help with the rent" AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.

I don’t care. You are literally starving the woman’s state

Mandatory minimum sentences are bad because they force a harsher sentence than what a judge thinks is fair. They are only relevant if they are an unfair punishment.

I think there's this tendency in the Canadian discourse to assume that in any situation where another country is mad at Canada, it must be because Canadians did something wrong. Probably we need to most past that as the default assumption.

Why does a doctor earning the same salary as a PSW pay more taxes?

CRA was too busy to answer the phone 8.6M times last year

“"Canadians are expected to provide their tax returns on time and with accurate information. And I think, in return, they should expect that the Canada Revenue Agency will be available in a timely fashion and provide them with accurate information and I would say this is not the case,”

EXCEPT... Toronto doesn't meet the second conditions! Depending on the type of unit, development charges in Toronto are 20-40% higher than they were in April 2024. So they shouldn't qualify!

This particular cycle will happen over and over. Politicians and business types will never be able to resist dogpiling on the latest educational fad, because they never pay a price for being so excessively hubristic as to call the labour market five years out.

On Thursday, the Climate Institute reported the decline in Canada's GHG emissions had stalled and our 2030 target was no longer reachable. In the two sessions of Question Period that followed, a total of 82 questions were asked. Just 3 of those q's — 2 from BQ, 1 from NDP — were about the report.

Bank of Canada: Canada's economy is bad so we will lower rates. Minister of Finance: Great News! Canadians should celebrate!

Checked Hansard to see how many references to "wildfire" there were in the two days Parliament has been back. There appear to be two: openparliament.ca/debates/2025... openparliament.ca/debates/2025... Reminder: This was Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Just so i am clear, so we couldnt actually afford those tax cuts then 🤔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is gutting any chance of Canada meeting its greenhouse gas emission goals Morning File by me

The US trade policy is stupid.

Any time a company claims they can’t find workers in Canada check to see what wages they offer. It’s always the minimum wage. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Paging Canada's public pension plans. CPPIB in particular bdscoalition.ca/2024/05/31/c...

This act has nothing to do with Sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Nice vacant lot for only 5x median household income: www.remax.ca/on/kawartha-...

How much does it cost the gov't to guarantee $700M in loans to the forestry industry? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Bring back the Digital Services Tax Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance - Reuters apple.news/AEfHrL4KOSHG...