Ehhh, I’m mixed with feelings on this. I’ve seen crazy stats about the usage of drugs like Ozempic, and don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to be out here judging people for choosing how they want to lose weight, but I really worry how much this will be used by people to replace lifestyle changes, rather than being used in conjunction with them.

“We have a cost of living crisis… because you’re not paying nearly enough”

Honestly if he repairs it, he’d get credit for that in my book as small as it is in the grand scheme of things

I have to catch myself to not say “Dragon Ball Zed”.

Who does that economist serve? The working class, or wealthy CEOs, investors, and company shareholders?

The high speed rail project he’s putting in place is, as always, going to be a public-private partnership rather than a public crown corporation like Via Rail is. His affordable housing strategy has simply been “build more homes” and poking for the private sector to do the right thing when they’re the ones price gouging us to begin with by treating a home as an investment rather than a human right.

He still hasn’t said anything about the efforts of Ford and Smith to further privatise the healthcare industry and how he’d protect public health with the Canada Health Act. His government forced arbitration on airline attendants striking against Air Canada over unpaid work. He’s laying the groundwork for a new pipeline when the oil & gas industry has abandoned workers through automation leaving them nowhere else to go, and he’s unwilling to ban surveillance pricing when we’re in a cost of living crisis.

“Whataboutism” is conflating foreign policy with foreign policy, and expecting consistency with it in our dealings with the same country in question. Alright.

As opposed to Avi Lewis for one.

Cool, now that you have that money back, is that money going to go to, idk, nurses? Teachers? ODSP recipients struggling to get by?

Or is it just going to continue getting shunted into the pockets of your corporate buddies and American advertisers like was the case before?

I swear this was covered years ago in a CBC Marketplace segment or such.

The man has already moved the goalposts time and time over, why should we continue to capitulate to him?

Carney hasn’t proved to me that he’s the man to meet the moment whatsoever. You tell me that the man who stood by and asked “both sides” to respect international law in both Iran and Venezuela rather than call out the U.S. for the initial violation of international law is the guy to stand up to the U.S.? That the man who gave up the digital services tax the last time around is the person to stand tall and not capitulate?

The man has been talking about the possibility of not renewing CUSMA for ages now, why not take that as a sign to not engage?

If the Liberals don’t ban prediction markets, then that should be the ultimate signal that they have no issue with money in politics and the rich pulling the strings of their administration.

But hey, let’s just keep excusing the actions of Carney and the Liberals by saying that “things are complicated” a full year later and talk about how much of a 5D chess move this is

I’m so proud of the Carney government for doing this. Why should I care about greenhouse gas emissions and reversing our progress on them when I now have limitless power at my fingertips in generating images of anybody I dislike getting run over by the Hummer Guy from Family Guy.

NK News reports on North Korea, they’re not owned by or operate in support of the North Korean government.

armada of ziganwus

I implore you to go outside. I don’t know what you’re even talking about unless there’s content from lemmy.world or .ml in this community that’s getting blocked by my instance blocks, but even with that in mind, you’re not a warrior for posting this stuff to “combat” that. You’re sowing one-sided narratives just as much as they are, and that annoys the hell out of me as someone who wants to look at what’s new without obvious narratives getting pushed by community members

“We have already seen propaganda outlets from… North Korea”

First, I’d like a source, second, it’s so rich that you call others propagandists when well over 90% of your activity here is anti-China.

I don’t care if people have a good or bad opinion of China, that’s for them to form their opinion on, but when just about everything you do has to do with anti-China sentiments, it’s clear you’re pushing a certain agenda and are only around to push a certain agenda. You can’t claim that of others when you engage in the same behaviour you claim to be against.

Used to be homeless in Edmonton. It’s not fun. The services are lacking, and the best decision I made in my life was to just come to Calgary on a whim with nothing to my name and a hope that things would be better despite knowing nothing about the city. I literally had to make the decision between my high school diplomas, or losing my spot in the youth shelter because I’d need to leave before the curfew ended in order to make it in time for my diplomas, but leaving before the curfew ended would result in me losing shelter for three nights, so I opted to let the diplomas go to sort out shelter.

The vast majority of my time being homeless in Edmonton was just trying to find anything to fill the time between when the shelter closed at 8 AM, and when they’d open their doors again at 9 PM. There was next to no resources you were made aware of to connect with, no employment connections, literally two housing connections, one being 2SLGBTQ±centric, which I didn’t identify as at the time, no mental health supports, you were kinda just expected to “sort it out” with no resources given to gain the skills to do so. I knew a 13 year old kid addicted to heroin there, and after he attacked me when high, he and his sister slept in the nearby ravine for the next few days in a tent since the shelter didn’t care enough to tell them where else to go for addictions support or shelter that’d accommodate their risk level.

Also trying to get on Alberta Works in Edmonton was insane. Both times I tried getting on, I was waiting three hours to be seen, the first meeting I had was with a person who told me she “didn’t see how I needed income support if (I) was living in a shelter”. In Calgary, that process took 20 minutes to enter and leave, and I got connected with housing within a month just after receiving my first payment.

Edit: editing to federate my comment

“Maybe things would be better if the left stopped being the left and everybody was right of centre”

And this is why he is bowing to China? Are the China ties strength?

And this is why he is bowing to China? Are the China ties strength?

If you’re going to make China and Russia your main identity on the platform, at least don’t go lazily copy-pasting the same comment.

(edit to federate my edit, instance issues)

You don’t understand, he needs to land in Gatineau! So far away!

Whataboutism at it’s finest. “Other people engage in similar behaviour, so is what I’m doing really that bad or annoying?”

I’ll just stop bothering while I have the opportunity to do so.

Again, do you post anything that doesn’t have to do with China?