BinzyBoi

I'm in Alberta, and I'm glad to have ranked this guy as my top choice on my ballot.

Hate the time changes as much as anybody else, get rid of them, but only if we get Standard Time from it and do away with DST entirely.

When we had the vote in Alberta to change to permanent Daylight Savings Time, I voted against the idea. I understand that it's better than changing the clocks at all, but it makes no sense to me whatsoever to basically change our timezone and stick with Daylight Savings permanently when we should be getting rid of it entirely.

I'd rather keep the flip-flop so that the option to do away with DST entirely remains on the table in the future. In my mind, it's a lot more likely that another vote appears to get rid of the flip-flop with going to Standard Time as an option than it is for us to get rid of the flip-flop and have a vote getting rid of permanent DST in favour of Standard Time.

Does the wine get it's redness from the blood of Palestinian children?

Rooommate of mine works in a theatre. She had her hours cut to a single shift a week because they just hired sixteen new people.

Reductions of hours like that should be criminal, how the hell is she expected to pay rent?

Reading through the article from CBC, I haven't really seen much reason to see that he actually endorses the material or mindset. Mostly seems like he's just an avid collector of historical memorabilia, especially keeping in mind other things he keeps.

When I did currency collecting, I used to have a Nazi-era German coin that I bought from the local antique mall. Didn't ascribe to the beliefs of the entity that minted the coin, didn't agree with the emblem that was pressed onto it, just thought it was neat having a little piece of history like that in my possession.

Besides, in high school I knew a few people that went out of their way to get Mein Kampf. Doesn't mean they agree with it, they were just people who were avid about political history like that. The same people also read The Communist Manifesto and other such books.

As someone who sees themselves as relatively progressive, I do think at times people take things a bit far, and this is one of those cases.

If you want another outlet, The Tyee is based in British Columbia and mainly focusses on BC news, but they do touch on Alberta news a fair amount to the extent that I believe they have a dedicated newsletter for it.

Like LiveWire they also have an official Mastodon account.

LiveWire Calgary has been around a few years now, they're a smaller independent local news outlet from what I can tell.

They're pretty good from what I've read from them. They also have an account on Mastodon that's pretty active.

If you want another local independent outlet, there's also The Sprawl.

Great!

I get the argument of saying this is a diversion from the actual issue, but even then, sometimes things happen, and even if you're getting by alright, issues can pop up suddenly.

Few months ago I was donating to Amnesty International and Save The Children. I've stopped since funds are tight, but I remember starting off was really awkward since I was told by one that there would be no immediate donation needed, to which I was later told there would be. Ended up with $150 in NSF fees because I couldn't cancel that initial donation, followed by the other trying to withdraw funds I would have otherwise had twice.

I'd have taken being $120 less in the negative any day.

Lmao, alrighty then.

Writing posts late at night and giving a detailed response = AI.

Have a good rest I guess.

Progressive Democrats at no point accomplished universal health care. Obamacare was simply a "meet-in-the-middle" situation if you could call it that, which has slowly been dismantled by Trump's Republicans. If Biden's Democrats had some progressive fight rather than being overrun by right-wing corporate Democrats and managed to pass actual universal health care, Trump would have never had a second term, full stop.

You fight an ascendant populist right not by merging with people who have also moved right, but by standing your ground in your values. Saying that the NDP is sticking a middle finger to the vulnerable is completely rich seeing how vulnerable indigenous populations already are only to have a Carney government stick the middle finger to them by saying "yeah, once again we'll fail to address the systemic issues that face you, and on top of that, we'll bypass your treaty rights to do what we want".

The Carney government has made healthcare vulnerable by not fighting the Alberta government when it comes to violating the Canada Health Act, has made union workers vulnerable by forcing arbitration on flight attendants striking against unpaid overtime, made Canadians as a whole vulnerable to U.S. foreign policy by falling in line with the U.S. with the official statement on the Iran war rather than following through with calling out violations of international law as the prime minister highlighted in his own speech at Davos, made the working class as a whole vulnerable by appointing a "Minister of AI" and being the first prime minister in over a century to not appoint a dedicated Minister of Labour, the list goes on.

The NDP has been vocal and unwavering in all of these things. To claim that supporting the NDP and being against a floor crossing to the party that has done all the above somehow sticks a middle finger to the vulnerable is a flat out lie.

Okay, but this comes with multiple issues:

With the federal Liberals moving to the right of where Justin Trudeau's Liberals were, and the increasingly right-wing rhetoric of the Conservatives with the party trying to appease and imitate Republicans down South, the erosion of the NDP like this further consolidates the system to a two-party one similar to that in the US.

In the federal Democratic Party down in the US you have a progressive wing of the democrats. How much have they been able to accomplish within the party? How much have they been able to accomplish in the party since Republicans took control of the White House, House, and Senate?

Idlout crossing the floor to the Liberals accomplishes nothing other than empower the Liberals and a two-party system in Canada. The Liberals have some more progressive people such as Erskine-Smith, but within the party what has been accomplished to move the Liberals to the left with him around?

You can move the Liberals left by opposing them, especially working with the Bloc Quebecois, Elizabeth May, and maybe Erskine-Smith on the rare occasion. Hell, on some issues, the NDP can likely work with the Conservatives, such as reforming the Labour Market Impact Assessment.

Working with the Liberals simply gives voters the impression that Carney's policies and issues "can't be that bad" because someone crossed the floor from the NDP. It also gives Carney the ability to apply direct pressure on her to fall in line.

The NDP was able to get dental care for low-income Canadians through outside pressure under Singh for all his flaws. There is no need to apply pressure from within the party when doing so from outside has proven to be effective and comes with less vulnerabilities.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, the prime minister who tried pushing a bill that would bypass treaty rights for the sake of "nation-building" projects is the right person to side with for the benefit of a territory comprised mainly of indigenous people.

Any respect I've had for her is gone, the logic is lacking, and all she's done with this is act as a pawn for Liberals to try to appear favourable to indigenous people or have the veneer of being such despite their anti-indigenous policies.