#Ottawaoccupation It’s time we collectively get over the myth of Cdn exceptionalism concerning right wing extremism & the threat it poses. Canada is not immune from political forces, foreign or domestic, willing to exploit populist fears. https://t.co/a1eSXUwjUC
@CBCAtIssue on status of trade negotiations & the undiplomatic diplomat - a.k.a. the US ambassador to Canada - was very worth listening to tonight & @ChantalHbert was on 🔥. Very enjoyable and good job everyone on the panel.
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“In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere.”
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Ontario Regional Chief @AbramBenedict has invited Premier @fordnation to the Chiefs of Ontario Assembly to begin urgent dialogue on Bill 5, which was introduced without First Nations consultation and threatens Treaty rights. To date, there has been no response.
#onpoli
Never before have I seen a combination of photo and headline that so clearly have to be—on some very deep level—*fucking kidding*, and yet both the items below, photo and headline, are apparently 100% serious
ICYMI: MP expenses for 2024 are out and @PierrePoilievre spent nearly a million more than Trudeau and Singh COMBINED.
Poilievre @CPC_HQ $8.8M (!!!)
PMJT @liberal_party $4.1M
Singh @NDP $3.7M
https://t.co/E7NVdedxtj
Trump Solicitor General D. John Sauer tells Justice Amy Coney Barrett that Trump "generally" tries to respect federal court decisions but he has the "right" to disregard legal opinions he personally disagrees with.
Coney Barrett seems to be in disbelief.
BREAKING: Nova Scotia has announced parking is now FREE at all hospitals.
There is no reason that Ontario can't do the same.
Nurses and doctors shouldn’t have to pay to go to work.
I’m fighting to make hospital parking free across Ontario. #onpoli
@KatKanada_TM Under Constitution Act 1867, King is our Head of State & Parliament of 🇨🇦 is defined as composed of the House of Commons, the Senate of Canada and the monarch. The monarch thru the GG provides royal assent to bills duly passed by both the Commons & Senate.
🇨🇦 The King and Queen will visit Canada from Monday 26th to Tuesday 27th May.
Their Majesties will attend The State Opening of the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa.
🇨🇦 Le Roi et la Reine effectueront une visite au Canada le lundi 26 et le mardi 27 mai.
Le Roi et la Reine assisteront à la cérémonie d’ouverture du Parlement du Canada, à Ottawa.
"First Nations in Alberta want our treaties honoured, we want our sovereignty respected and we do not want to become the 51st state"
AB NDP MLA Brooks Arcand says FNs must be at the forefront of any talks about national unity as treaties are made with the Crown, not the province
@CTV_PowerPlay@AmbJohnBolton 🇨🇦 and PM Carney don’t need advice from someone who so enabled in DJT in his first term. So we’re good with whatever or PM has in mind. No contest between Bolton and Carney on foresight & integrity.
Robert Fife on CBC’s Power and Politics re: Conservative MPs feelings about Pierre Poilievre.
“MPs have told me that they found it really difficult going door-to-door because a lot of people were saying ‘we some of the policies you’re doing, but we think your leader is a dick’.”
free and fair elections in canada. campaign a few weeks long, not very expensive. ballots counted same day. nobody contests the outcome.
when democracies work they’re the best political systems we have.