SomethingWentWrong

This article is well written and provides detailed connections between "Freedom Convoy" protesters, Alberta Separatists and other disgruntled people/organizations. A few highlights from the article:

Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe

“In order to really turn the page here to become not just an independent country, but a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” Pardy said. “Let’s just list some. A Westminster system of government. A Crown. Single-payer public health-care system, a managerial state and Aboriginal rights, you have to get rid of all of these things. And of all those things, perhaps the elephant in the room is Aboriginal rights.”

Pardy is the executive director of Rights Probe, and the sole staffer listed with the organization, which warns of “the end of Western liberal civilization” on its website. Pardy is also a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank.

He has created a video paired with California Governor Gavin Newsome making a friendly wager on the Dodgers/Blue Jays series with both together taking shots against Tariffs:

https://xcancel.com/fordnation/status/1981843665669750995

Cross posted to https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars

Doug Ford and his supporters talk about "the war on cars". So on one side of this war we have cars. Who's on the other side of this war? I think it's a war between cars and people and unfortunately Doug is fighting on the cars side against people.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/premier-doug-ford-is-fighting-the-war-on-cars/article_0388e1ea-76d6-11ef-8a55-87d030a59687.html

BC Premier David Eby is preparing a digital ad campaign stating exactly that. Canadian lumber has higher tarrifs than Russian lumber imported into the USA:

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/24/bc-digital-campaign-american-audience/

A lot has happened today after Trump's tirade. Ontario's Premier Doug Ford announced he would be suspending this Ad Campaign after consulting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/doug-ford-says-hell-pause-anti-tariff-ad-that-infuriated-trump-as-of-next-week-but-will-still-show-it-during-world-series/

Manitoba's Premier Wab Kinew has a short video in the same style as the ad where he supports this Ontario Ad Campaign. It's a well done quick response:

https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219

I think the Ontario Ad is very well done and I'm glad to see a NDP Premier supporting a Conservative Premier on this and a Conservative Premier publicly supporting a Liberal Prime Minister. Canada is uniting and Trump is unhappy.

A term for that is underemployment

Statistics Canada collects data about this under the category of "Supplementary unemployment rate": https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410007801

Their categories of underemployment include:

• discouraged searchers
• waiting group (recall, replies, long-term future starts)
• involuntary part-timers
• discouraged searchers, waiting group, portion of involuntary part-timers