Compare NDP platform and Socialist Manifesto ideas and it’ll become clear where disconnect is. All the parties shifted to the right on political spectrum, with NDP firmly planted at the centre now rather than being to the left. And since we’re voting on right-of-centre parties might as well go all out and vote cons, which is what happened. Pelple asked for off-centre solutions NDP did not have them.
effective city planning would be better like a lot better. Having environmental clues and enforcement techniques is way more effective as it prevents and not punishes. Person injured from speeding incident is not going to be saved by $500 or whatever fine. When driver physically feels unsafe crossing certain speed limit - there’s no reason to monitor or fine him/her. “More cameras” is a cheap brand bandaid that peels off two hours later. It is trying to save people “after the fact”, when it’s way too late
there is available independent research, but since it’s an expensive endeavor and industrial complexes funding “their own” research to say “it’s fine” (insert meme here) chances of quality research dropping into our laps are slim-to-none. So best we can do is by experimentation and observation ourselves. Several chronic conditions magically disappeared for me by paying more attention to my food origins and methods of preparation, moving away from pollution centers etc. People around me report very similar outcomes so I’m willing to trust those scarse and rare “contradictory” reports pitting industrialized lifestyle against “simpler” life.
Tech could be an answer, but you have to also pause and think about the impact here. When FB or twitter screws up we shrug and move on, when people get improperly audited it could be literally life and death situation, or approval of drug grants for those with “exotic” illnesses. Modernisation of work has to happen however “just throwing tech” at it won’t work. Instead of laying off 60k people they should be trained and equipped with better tools to do their jobs faster and better. So tech would be part if that, tech alone is a sure recipe for disaster. Now if we add government tech procurement standards - I see no hope in tech at all as surely winner of any contract will deliver past due date, over budget and with missing features.
One way to flip it would be mandating procurement OSS products only, produced in the open from day 1. This may help expose deficiencies early on and call BS o over-billed hours if all commits are accounted for. Still you need people with domain knowledge to steer those processes and to be able to actually scope future solutions.
China has aggressively acted towards neighbouring countries, redrawing borders and setting up for outright occupation. Assuming that now is not the time of military unity is reckless and dangerous. Yes we do have other problems we need to tackle but even if we do tackle them and not China expansionist politics we soon will find ourselves outgunned and with no allies. It’s a tough call but oversimplifying it down to “we don’t need to spend more on military” is very uninformed.
Couple of wild guesses: lack of exposure to industrialized food chain, settlements outside of cities designed for “pollen storms”, lack of exposure to chemicals… “stupmed”? Hardly. We all kind of know it just rarely admit that progress comes at a price.
Market is over-saturated with devs at the moment North or South 🙁. SRE-style jobs is a lot less co.petitive if that’s
you didn’t answer to the issue some of the affected nations have with the language.
are you claiming that nation protesting the language or assumptions are also right-wing propaganda? In times of renewed russian aggression one has to be rather precise describing reality and qualify when terminology used is referring terminology from the past. Fact is that russia frequently leapfrogs ambiguous statements twisting them into supporting argument of their narratives.
reality is not great. Opposing Russia means cutting it’s raw exports (that compete with Canadian exports), and supplying weapons to the nation’s armed forces. Palestine has no regular army and barely has any state, all due to how Israel governed there. So while Canada may condemn actions of either russia or israel helping Palestine is a much more complicated matter. Fact that israel physically destroys humanitarian aid makes all sort of help very challenging. Thus I’d refrain from calling it hypocritical. I’m fully against genocide in Gaza however it is hard to see direct line of involvement Canada may take there to help other then sending military which is understaffed right now and uses aged equipment… 🙁
wtf? Liberals dumped into AB oil more than Harper did… yet Carney is to change attitude? To what? This is prime gaslighting right there.
Inflammatory statements towards AB will not change AB election outcomes. Plus labeling entire province well… not very intelligent. Fact that Nenshi turned out to be toothless and bland is why polls show what they do. Notley got AB NDP pretty far but failed to pivot back to party roots so we have NDP in name only but Liberal when it comes to policies and absolutely gutless under Nenshi so when asked people choose from available options and NDP has nothing to offer at the moment. I dislike Smith with all.my heart but to turn public opinion one has to do something. And nothing is happening.
Idiocy always seeks legitimacy
Here’s the pattern as practiced by POTUS47, PP, Putin and Smith: describe all of your shortcomings and failures but pin it on the opposite side and you’re golden as nobody can blame you back in that same sh#t. Or so the thinking goes
that is assuming Carney understands remote, which I’m not certain of.
entire piece sounded like “sponsored by Liberal Party of Canada”… RTO mandate is idiotic as issue of “under-performance” is largely a management issue and not an employee issue. In other words it’s a free admission that management is clueless and has no idea how to harness remote to it’s full potential.
in response to all “it’s just practical” posts: politics is not about practical (esp. in PP’s case) but about optics and gestures. Politician who wants to project integrity and confidence would make it known that they will not be using the place that doesn’t belong to them until such time that it becomes OK again. There needs not to be a “move” even, but the gesture of not utilizing residence could go a long way. Alternative is a projection of entitlement and arrogance.
Consider this: if you’re working for corporation and reside in corporation-sponsored residence, you’d be expected to vacate the place within rather short timeframe despite the fact that you’ve supplied your resume to HR for position that just opened. And considering that PP views are very corporate I see disconnect with rhetoric.
Funny that Conservatives more likely to claim misinformation, exactly the group most frequently (as of recent) subjected to incredible amount of misinformation (mainly from their own leaders). Unfortunately poll doesn’t disclose what kind of disinformation did they perceive.
To be fair, Western provinces cannot really outbid QC+ON combo in both chambers. While Parliament represents provinces based o population, I think Senate should’ve been an equal representation from each province balancing out inherent inequality of Parliament… It’s not unprecedented for PM to appoint “extra” senators to represent West so Carney can do that to help things along.
unelected individual tells elected official that official holds a one man opinion… hmm. math ain’t mathin’