Profile avatar
h-vulgare.bsky.social
7 posts 7 followers 40 following
Prolific Poster

Do you love Canada enough to nationalize the grocery stores that, under private control, have repeatedly fixed prices and gouged consumers? Or do you just like hockey quotes and dreams of combat?

A right-wing banker doing right-wing banker shit because it looks left compared to the fascist regime next door isn't the win ppl think it is.

The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

I've been reading a lot this week about Austria in the 1930s. Successive right wing governments that culminated in a Fatherland Front govt (fascist) that presided over poverty and decline but opposed Nazi annexation bc they believed in "Austria for the Austrians" and urged people to "Buy Austrian."

Oh yeah? Cool I'm expecting price controls for food, housing and transportation, regulation of the telecoms companies, clean water on all reserves, protection of workers' right to strike... oh no sorry he just means he's gonna make it more expensive to buy products from the US

corey hogan and i agree: the correct response to the trade war is to start nationalizing things

“I can’t sit around a table where a cabinet feels it’s fine that dishonesty and conflict of interest is a normal course of business. I don’t want to be a part of that. “There is no amount I could speak in that room to change anyone’s mind. That became clear to me.” calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

SCOOP: Documents show the extent to which UCalgary administration was influenced by pro-Israel framing of the Palestine solidarity movement leading up to its short-lived encampment. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

We keep being told that scrapping "interprovincial trade barriers" is the answer to Trump's threats. But the barriers are so few you can list them on a paper napkin, writes trade expert Stuart Trew. This isn't about trade—it's about deregulation. breachmedia.ca/freakout-abo...

Since Trump’s tariffs, Canada’s so-called ‘internal trade barriers’ have been all over the news. One problem? The crisis is fake—it’s a right-wing ploy to gut key regulations. Stuart Trew of the @policyalternatives.ca exposes the con. breachmedia.ca/freakout-abo...

Jesus CHRIST. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic this morning (meaning a mic he didn't know was on) that Trump might be serious about the 51st state threat because he's after our critical minerals. This is deeply concerning!! Video coming as soon as I can film it:

NEW: It’s Time To Treat America As The Menace It Has Always Been Latest from @alexcosh.bsky.social www.readthemaple.com/its-time-to-...

Just when politics seemed about as miserable as it could possibly be, here comes a little good news to warm the heart

Honestly fuck America for making me engage in any hint of nationalism because ew

Today in local history: On January 21, 1793, the French decapitated King Louis XVI.

Meanwhile in Canada people debate whether or not protests slowing traffic are too disruptive.

The precise amount of say police should have in who provides them with oversight is zero. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

We are screwed in Alberta

Singh has been a big disappointment. "People are hungry for bold, progressive change." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

You will either become a fascist or a communist in the next 20 years so you might as well take your pick now

retvrn www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Waffle/...

NOW he regrets not pushing forward with electoral reform!?!

Trudeau's Decade of Promise and Contradiction www.readtheorchard.org/p/trudeaus-d...

House prices vs income 1984-2022 Canada #cdnpoli #peipoli

“What are we going to do about grocery prices?” Feels like “proletarian holidays “ may be a good one

Well that's a bit awkward

We could have a proportional voting system today that would make this result impossible, but Trudeau had to put party interest above improving Canadian democracy.

NEWS: Edmonton has invoked emergency powers to evacuate the apartment building where security guard Harshandeep Singh was killed, giving renters vague reasons about safety issues for displacing them with 3 days’ notice just before Christmas. #yeg #yegcc edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...

Postal banking is such a no brainer that solves 2 big problems (helps pay for the post office, basically eliminates the issue of Canadians being unbanked) that the only possible explanation for why it hasn't happened yet is the big banks said "don't you dare" and the politicians simply rolled over.

EPS having significantly more unmarked vehicles than visible ones is concerning.

Adding Chrystia Freeland to the Victims of Communism Memorial

Also, y'all read that and see that she's mad about lack of austerity, right? That austerity is her only plan for the future and she wasn't allowed to enact 1:1 the kind of austerity she wants in order to "keep the powder dry"?

Did … Luigi Mangione do this?

No charges in double fatal Edmonton police shooting that left innocent man dead. #YEG www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/c...

Calling it now, leaving behind a backpack full of monopoly money was a clue that he's going for a banker next

Edmonton got to be in a music video :) #yeg #abpoli #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3FM...