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This week’s episode (Thursday at 7 am) talks about, inter alia, three recent news stories where levels of government are shrugging their shoulders as Canadians die:

Federal - DULF (BC, people who use drugs)
Provincial - Ontario bike lanes (safety evidence, protests, arrests)
Municipal - encampments (Victoria BC, independent journalists’ airtags)

Possibly more Charter law than people care about but, like, we gotta stand for something while we’re saying no to the United States.

Also stuff about being human in a society that forcefeeds AI. Plus some Canadian music. Consider donating to campus-community radio (which pays royalties to artists).

#CanPoli #FediLaw #Radio #NoAI

https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/670/77675.html

"Ordinary Canadians must prepare, not for war but for chaos—economic, political, social, cultural. If your neighbour’s house is on fire, yours eventually will be too."
"Trump’s comments on #Canada
must be put in this context. 👉 He has to keep the world afraid of him, because the moment that stops, his power collapses. He is attempting to spread loathsome anarchy everywhere, not just here."

#News #Canpoli #Canada #US #USpoli

https://macleans.ca/society/canada-51st-state-america/

This platform has proved to be pretty quite for me outside of one math meme re-share that went a little viral :).

I'm still checking in now and then but I've set up shop pretty much on Bsky, Cara, and still have active Meta accounts but, that's up for review for sure now.

Links to follow if you find this and are over there.

https://bsky.app/profile/salgoodsam.bsky.social/

https://cara.app/salgood

#art #comics #canpoli #rants #noai

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#poilievre #canpoli

Canada (fifty) first!

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🤔 🇨🇦 Over the past 4 or 5 decades I've noticed across this country there has been a drop in Canadians voting for governments who support the most vulnerable; subsidized housing, financial support, etc...we are abandoning our sense of community spirit, our social democracy.

Truly discouraging and disappointing.

Millions, yes that many, are barely surviving, living in squalor; crammed together in basements, or aging and crumbling social housing. in unsafe unsanitary conditions. or are on the streets.
The shortage of old subsidized housing units has increased wait lists up to 12 years in some areas.

Meanwhile Canadians are falling for political rhetoric of trickle down economics that is really, trickle down selfishness, or , the Americanization of Canada .

A country is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable, we are failing--and polls say we are one of the best, the most free but are we when we leave people trapped in despair due to extreme poverty?

#Canada #Canpoli

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/98-of-canadian-households-tracked-receiving-social-assistance-live-below-poverty-line-report/

🌱 Congratulations to Emily Lowan, newly elected leader of the BC Green Party!

She is now the first political party leader in Canada on Mastodon — a milestone for healthier, community-driven digital spaces.

I look forward to seeing Emily share more here about expanding Mastodon adoption and supporting her MLAs as they join the Fediverse. Perhaps also a friendly challenge to other party leaders.

@emilylowan @mlabotterell #yyj #Cdnpoli #Canpoli #GreenParty #BCPoli @Paulatics

I highly recommend this article about the massive U-turn that Canadian immigration policy has taken over the past few years. I've always taken Canada's self-mythologizing about how welcoming the country is towards newcomers with a HUGE grain of salt, but this essay encapsulates just how heartless our immigration system currently is.

"Welcome to Canada! Please help prop up our massively underfunded post-secondary education system and then get blamed for how similarly underfunded healthcare and infrastructure is. Oh, those pathways to permanent resident status? We changed our minds! Sorry, eh!"

It's not mentioned in this article, but isn't it beyond time that we revisit our "safe" third country agreement with the U.S.?

#Canpoli #immigration #racism

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/bye-canada-im-going-back-to-where-i-came-from/

Must read for #cdnpoli #canpoli #Canada #NDP @avilewis

@pluralistic nails the Liberal Party and Mark Carney. Carney is setting Canada up to fall to fascism with his old, failed approaches. He and the Party are plutocrat-enablers, despite their BS about the working class (which is almost everyone who's not a plute).

"Austerity is how we lose the country. Austerity — more than any other force — drives working people into the arms of fascists"

Carneyism without Carney https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-05-30-rupture-deeds-not-words-da1ee21d081f

If enough Canadians contact
their local representatives, as well Mark Carney's office this week, we might be spared from this authoritarian mass-surveillance measure called "Age Verification" in Canada.

The time to fight back is NOW: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/social-media-ban-for-kids-under-consideration-in-online-harms-bill-carney/

Privacy is a human right essential to safety and democracy. If we do not fight to protect it, we will lose it.

#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

#CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadaPolitics

Justin Trudeau: "reporting requirements and voluntary codes of conduct!"

Mark Carney: "nah, not even."

Stephen Harper: [laughs]

#CanPoli

As a patriotic "#ElbowsUp" Canadian, I'd rather provide free word-of-mouth marketing to fellow Canadian businesses than to penalize Canadians for having bought American.

#CanadaPolitics #CanPoli