Smith's been behaving rather strangely around all of this. She's doing the Tulsi Gabbard routine, getting her face out there next to promanent conservative talking heads, which is an exit strategy when you've just torpedoed your political career in a more liberal riding.
But she in True Blue Alberta, with no real sign that the NDP is resurging.
Is there reason to believe she's going to fail her next leadership review?
I noticed many of the same things mentioned in the article, and I noticed it almost immediately.
There's a New Brunswick-based company -- Bourbors -- that makes, among other things, peanut butter. Sobeys does not list the product as Canadian.
Right below it is Kraft peanut butter, which gets a big ol' Maple Leaf next to its price tag.
Now, I know little about peanut butter, but what I do know is that A) we don't grow peanuts in Canada, at least not to scale, B) Bourbors is a Canadian company, and C) Kraft is not. Even if Kraft is grinding the peanut butter in Canada, its operations are not more Canadian than Bourbors.
I wandered the store looking at other products, and noticed the same thing: Products from bigger companies were labeled as Canadian, with very little pretense, while things I knew were made in Canada and sold by Canadian companies were not. Almost anything with Compliments branding was labelled as Canadian, even if I knew the product likely wasn't made in Canada.
You can't trust the big grocery stores. Not for a second.
Alright. Ford threatened to cut off the tap entirely. Let's see it happen.
These are not protectionist tariffs. He's not trying to encourage US manufacturing.
He's trying to get other countries to bend the knee, and abandon their right to regulate their economy and their environment.
A company headquartered in Canada and "Canada" are very different things.
I can't believe I live in an era where we celebrate blocking ourselves off from space for the sake of private interests selling higher resolution porn to rural communities. Especially when we could just be investing in public, terrestrial infrastructure.
You don't need hundreds of millions of users, though. You only need a few dozen users active in each community to make them worth while. A couple of hundred makes them downright vibrant.
Reddit-like communities with hundreds of thousands of users are a waste, and become nearly impossible to moderate effectively.
Jesus F. Christ, that's a stunning victory.
You should understand the rules of the places you are posting to, yes.
This is why "let's pretend this is centralized social media and ignore the fact that we're all on different websites" is a bad idea, actually. You don't get to parachute into someone else's house and expect the rules of your own home apply.
Carney has a reputation for being a Keynesian, as far as I know, which means we should hope to see a new wave of federal investment in infrastructure and a topping up of social programs. The wave of painting him as "every CEO's best buddy" seems really weird in that context, because the CEO's mantra since Regan has been "austerity and tax cuts".
Like, yes, he's not going to overthrow the system, but maybe Loretto should spend more time talking smack about the NDP's choices in the last eight years rather than complaining that the party of the system isn't radical enough to upend it.
I'm so tired of the leftist obsession with the Liberals, and how our constant attempts to be "right" do more to empower the far right at the expense of the centre than they do to bolster the left in any meaningful way.
It's like the whole movement is built on being a wet blanket.
Hey b'y! How she goin'? Originally from Sydney Forks, currently living in Halifax. Welcome to Lemmy!
Tankies are people who play apologetics for authoritarian dictators who have claimed to be socialist or communist, and who will often excuse any action in opposition to "the west".
More formally, they're the cathartic branch of Marxist-Leninists (MLs). Lemmy's a small space, and it's a place that many MLs landed after bouncing off of Reddit, and the core developers count themselves as MLs.
The flagship Lemmy server is lemmy.ml, but the Tankie trolls have their own server, lemmygrad.ml where they go and be all 4chan-like.