There’s a certain idea that you hear a lot from the Canadian media that basically any random ass undemocratic thing that happens in Canadian politics is perfectly fine because that’s just “our system” and you should shut up and accept it. The voter should be understood to have zero influence over anything of actual consequence in terms of who runs this country, while the politicians should get to do whatever they want. Because that’s “our system.”
I feel like a lot of this stuff has a very gaslighting quality to it. When people make these blunt “our system” arguments they’re basically telling Canadians to not trust their own instincts of right and wrong or just or unjust. They’re told “this is just the way things are done here and if you complain you’re an ignorant simpleton.”
These arguments are ALWAYS made in the direction of giving more power to politicians and less power to voters. I’m getting sick of it.
Car headlights have gotten absurdly bright – roughly doubling in recent years – and it's dangerous for others on the road.
I encouraged the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to look into setting better maximum brightness standards in their upcoming infrastructure bill.
That was genuinely one of the best episodes of television ever. The writing, the dialogue, the action, the tension building up, the sense of danger hanging over the entirety of the episode, the action, and ofcourse the incredible acting performances. #TheLastOfUs
I absolutely love that the Canadian media has gone from “Here’s why so-called Canada is a colonial settler genocide state” to “here is the correct way to be a proud Canadian nationalist” in like 15 minutes
The Liberal platform is more of the same. More of the exact same regressive Trudeau-era energy policy that makes us weaker against Donald Trump, more unmoored fiscal policy, and huge spending with little to show for it.