Mark Power

Politics, Labour, Curling, Music, Film. Get political! The people we put in legislatures/parliaments are called 'elected reps'. Like them, WE are politicians.

[Mark Power @markattableone]

Respond/engage, if you are replying from a real name (& possibly real pic) account. I will only engage in respectful discussion/debate with those who do. 😉

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

[Kathleen Petty @kathleen_petty]

Danielle Smith's constitutional adviser quit post after promoting separatist petition
By @markusoff
https://t.co/GHHhugC5d9

[David Climenhaga @djclimenhaga]

Prime minister’s Wexit warning prompts western whinging by Calgary Conservative MP with ties to Oklahoma. https://t.co/IOqmuSoq7I #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

Trump's 'deal' with Iran was another fake, gas prices are heading back up. In today's @TheTyee I ask the obvious question: why is there NO connection between the cost of producing gasoline in Canada, and what it sells for: https://t.co/YpZc3ilzfP. #cdnecon #canlab /2

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Last year New Democrats said it was ridiculous that Tim Hortons had to have temporary foreign workers and couldn’t hire locally.
It appears we were 100% correct. https://t.co/0lOKEZ6Vgu

[Left East to West @LeftEasttoWest]

Can Mark Carney’s right turn be Avi Lewis’ opening? Our conversation with Jennifer Howard

And
- Chender’s Nova Scotia NDP close in on Houston PCs, poll shows
- Scott Moe’s $26B coal plant plan
- Carney puts contingencies on support to BC, but not Alberta https://t.co/4I2VQdOosc

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

I recently recorded a far-reaching conversation with @sunraysunray—founding editor of @jacobin—about the past, present, and future of the socialist project. I’m pleased to be able to able to share it with all in full.
https://t.co/5D3yVmotD7

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Putting the common good over profit is the essence of socialism.

Putting profit over people is the essence of capitalism.

Without corporate media influence, people choose socialism over capitalism.

This is why 6 corporations own 90% of the media to ensure people never wake up.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Scott Galloway just absolutely torched Jeff Bezos for trying to deflect from paying a wealth tax.
Billionaires always say: “If you tax us, innovation will die.”

Meanwhile workers are paying income tax on every paycheque while billionaires borrow against stock, avoid selling assets, and watch their wealth explode tax-light!

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Carney’s Liberals are directly attacking workers’ free collective bargaining rights in Canada. Poorly publicized, 30 day “consultation” is a sneaky ruse to erode union rights.
You can’t “build, baby build” by weakening labour. https://t.co/buADpbBM9n

[Bea Bruske, CLC President @PresidentCLC]

The ICJ has made it clear: the right to strike is a fundamental right.

Any government that undermines that right is undermining workers’ freedom and democracy itself.

This is a historic victory for workers around the world.’

✊

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A Lithuanian farmer discovered a church bell buried for 82 years while working his field.

Cast in 1908, locals buried it in 1942 to protect it from Soviet forces who melted church bells into weapons. It came out of the ground perfectly preserved.

[Left East to West @LeftEasttoWest]

Quebec political analyst Farouk Karim (@faroukarim) joins this week’s podcast as the province’s Oct 5 nears

- shifting support among CAQ, PQ and Quebec Liberals
- Quebec Solidaire’s focus on affordability
- Quebec Conservatives look to win seats

https://t.co/ifkIaoopOl

[Mark Power @markattableone]

@sarobertson_ And the PM is likely to shrug it off as .... asymmetrical federalism. 🙄

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Nathan Cullen: "For those that have somehow this equation that a single project is a determination of whether our country is functioning or not, that's insane. And you can't negotiate with someone who puts a gun to your head and expect good outcomes."

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Stop calling it a cost of living crisis and start calling it what it is:

unregulated corporate greed

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

You see recurrent versions of this everywhere, i.e. the idea people get more conservative as they get older. This is broadly true of exactly one generation blessed to grow up with shared prosperity and a welfare state that then decided no one else deserved those things.

[Mark Power @markattableone]

@RichardLBennett Absolutely does. The PM is likely to explain it as one of the by-products of asymmetrical federalism, which he is hesitant to get involved-in as it's a provincial matter. However, as we sometimes say .... you can't suck and blow at the same time.

[Mark Power @markattableone]

@leftylabourtech @TomPark1n Like the old saying, "you can only get so far on a smile and bad breath"

[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

Tomorrow's @StatCan_eng CPI report will be bad: 3% yr/yr or more. But that's just the beginning. New @futurework_cda research adds up the costs to Cdns from this new oil shock: https://t.co/divzwd9U7E. Inflation will hit 4.2% even if Strait of Hormuz reopens tomorrow. #cdnecon /2