News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
As an American, was he bad? From my limited POV I feel like he was doing a decent job. I've seen comments lately indicating otherwise, and this article points to COVID, immigration, costs of living, and housing as reasons. I feel like most of those topics are not easy answers or directly related to a lot that can be done without drastic changes that will most likely not see the result I think people are looking for. Is this another case of spreading propaganda long enough that people who want answers believe the worst? I am genuinely curious about what is really taking place here and why.
Canada has a history of ping-ponging between Conservative and Liberal governments every ~10 years.
I think Trudeau was fine as a Liberal PM. The one difference this iteration was that they formed government on a promise to change the electoral system, and they didn't follow through. That could have ended the cycle. They burned everyone on the left with that move, and they lost the right because the right has gone Trumpist. So now they're fucked, and we're all fucked too. 🎉
This sounds incredibly familiar
He's human.
He's made good choices and poor ones but overall decent.
If he stays on it would hand the election to Poilievre as Canadians are sick of Trudeau but by resigning he's giving someone else a chance.
There's your problem. You need to be electing Lizard People, like we do in the states.
I've lived in Canada my whole life and lived comfortably up until Covid hit. After the pandemic everything went completely out of whack. My grocery bill tripled, the cost of everything exploded, and we're experiencing a housing apocalypse (crisis isn't the correct word anymore). Canada is basically 3 corporations in a trench coat and we're heading in all the wrong directions.
What we need is a complete housing rugpull and to kneecap grocery chains or to increase wages to keep up with corporate greed but I don't think thats going to happen. I've also seen a bunch of anti-worker policies become popular in general like leaning on contract/part time work so employers don't have to pay out benefits and pensions. I could go on and on about that lol. Anyway a lot of people I know straight up left the country and get paid way more to do less work and live in much more affordable conditions, I myself might be doing that soon. Basically its a lot of short-sighted thinking resulting in massive brain drain where I work. I think most of our problems stem from unchecked corporate greed across every industry and we have to put up with it because most major companies operate in a duopoly. I'm not an expert but thats my take. its time for a MAJOR course-correction.
US here. Same! Except I was hoping to flee to Canada...
😞
100% true, and the fact that Shaw just got rolled into Rogers in the middle of anti-monopolist popular fervor is pretty depressing. The grocery industry is absolutely vile. Trudeau was acceptable and mostly made reasonable choices but my God I'd vote for anyone who forwarded stronger antitrust legislation and rulings.
Fucking Pierre ain't gonna do it, the Cons always end up pushing legislation to get cushy megacorp board positions after their terms are up. Jagmeet seems more interested in fucking around than doing anything, and Trudeau was palatable but failed to tackle the monopolists at all.
Insanity to me how much the corpos own our country and how none of the parties seem to care.
Thats what I find so frustrating! If I were the NDP right now I'd be going all out with ads and a plan of action! I want to hear something different for once instead of maintaining the status quo. They have a golden opportunity to leap frog over the libs and get some momentum. We've been complaining about the same issues over and over for years, you'd think at least someone would try to leverage that! I hope they don't just roll over and let pierre waltz into the leadership position I can't stand that guy at all!
Right? But no Jagmeet's gonna do the Conservative team up no one asked for and vote no confidence! PP's ideas are just dumb and the Liberals seem hell bent on ignoring the monopolistic cancer that's finally metastasized over the past 5 years after lurking for the past 30.
I'd vote for anyone that said they'd force a breakup of Loblaws, Safeway and others.
As I understand it (not Canadian), the big problem with him was that he straight up lied about a lot of his platform. Other than that it seems like he was kind of a Canadian Biden, decent overall but not what the country needed/needs.
He's happily committing mass extinction by permitting tar sands oil extraction. That existential threat is pretty bad..