Everyone is suffering because of US & Israeli actions, but none of these leaders will even blame and condemn the US and Israel for doing this or take any action against them.

What a way to go. Burned to ashes in a literal dumpster fire.

Just the F-35s? The entire defense industry is about swindling public money. That’s why they spend hundreds of millions per year on lobbying and political influence in the US.

I was writing why I think it’s politically untenable and won’t be accepted by Canadians, not about my own views of immigration.

The point is the loss of control.

After joining the EU, it would open free movement to work and live in Canada to 450 million Europeans who can’t do that now. How many would want to move to Canada? I don’t know, but as many as wanted to come, and Canada would have no point system anymore to decide who gets in. The point system has been the core element of Canada’s management of immigration and long-term cultural and workforce composition. Turning over the keys to someone else is a huge ask, especially when there is so much political attention on finding the right mix.

The migrant issue is also about loss of control, but even more politically untenable.

Canada has a very high level of control over refugee and migrant admittance now, and we don’t have much of a migrant issue in Canada at all. That’s primarily because our only border is shared with the US. Join the EU and we basically share the EU’s migrant crisis. Under the new laws, distribution of migrants is up to Brussels, and there’s a penalty of something like €20,000 per migrant that you choose not to accept. We can’t say for sure how bad the migrant crisis will get in coming years, but it’s expected to get substantially worse for Europe. So, we would give up our current highly-controlled situation and end up effectively sharing the challenges of having borders with the MENA region. That is not a politically winning proposition in Canada.

Had he done it a year ago during the election, it may have moved the needle for him. Now? It’s too late. He’s already cooked. Might set him up to transition into being a podcaster for a career pivot though.

Look at how much of a hot button issue immigration has been in Canada already over recent years.

How’s the “join the EU” discourse going to go when Canadians realize it would mean any of the 450 million European citizens could move to Canada as they wished?

How about when Canadians realize Brussels would control the distribution of asylum seekers for the whole EU and could decide to just send whatever number of migrants Brussels deemed appropriate from the migrant crisis Europe has been facing and that will no doubt grow as climate change and war drive more migration in Eurasia?

That’s just one example, but my guess is that Canadians may like the sound of joining the EU because we like Europe, but the idea would tarnish pretty quickly when looking into all the details.

There are definitely people on the left who revel in pushing narratives generalizing about white men as though they’re all villains. Those people are the equivalents of people on the right who push narratives generalizing about minorities as though they’re all villains. In both cases their views are harmful and destructive, and in neither case are those views correct or representative of everyone on their side of the spectrum.

But, you’re falling into the same trap of generalizing about a group from a minority of them with idiotic views. The last 15 years of social media and algos that promote the extremes have made that way too easy to do, for everybody. Moderate takes don’t pull views. Still, it’s wrong.

The binaries aren’t real. It’s not like the choices are either hate all white men or become a Nazi.

Also, not all men play combat or team sports. Lots of men’s lives are full with other activities that Nazis aren’t targeting. The Nazis just target these sports because they’ve always been spaces that are pretty permissive for the worst sides of bro culture to emerge. Regardless, real bros don’t let bros go Nazi.

I was reading this and getting annoyed at such a bad take, but then I read “all you have are insults and a soup box” and I couldn’t help laughing.

I can only assume this is well-executed trolling.

This is so gross. Canada can decide for itself how to protect the liberties and safety of people in Canada. We all know that history has been far from perfect, but taking advice from a genocidal government that uses ethnicity as a cudgel is the the 100% wrong direction for how to make things better.

To me, there’s no obvious standout winner. I hope the wisdom of the crowd ends up picking out the one who can both be a great organizer and reconnect with voters broadly. I’m not sure who it is.

Authorities say the victim and the two accused were known to each other, though the motive for the killing has not yet been determined.

Most important line.

More sadism and white supremacy

Feels like we need a stronger approach to dealing with these active clubs.

“Protecting Indigenous Communities” lol

Canada has a long history of “protecting” the indigenous people.

You may be misunderstanding the data. This isn’t government holdings of treasuries. It’s public and private holdings, so it includes both the BoC holdings and the holdings of private investors. The government’s holdings at the BoC stayed pretty much the same over the year. The increase basically all comes from private investors, and the government can’t choose to sell their treasuries.

I agree. The NDP has been missing the mark on that. Not to say it hasn’t been part of the messaging from their MPs, but it really hasn’t been something cohesive and credible. Once the party has a new leader, they’ve really got to get their strategy pinned down for how to reconnect with the people and they’ve gotta go after it with a cohesive voice so they’re a party voters will trust and want to vote for when the time comes.

I’m broadly of the view that MPs really should seek to represent their electorate first, so, if she believes this is the best way to represent her electorate and that’s her motivation, fine. But, it’s not great for the health of Canadian democracy overall to move closer to a two-party system.

I would really like to see the NDP have a federal resurgence. It’s going to have to come through new messaging that can cut through and connect with voters. It will be tough to make that happen while fear of the US is the main emotional driver pushing non-Maple-MAGA Canadians to huddle together under the banner of the Liberals. That could well take years, but on the other side of it there will be opportunity if the groundwork is done right while the party is on the outside.

Yep. The right wing isn’t concerned about that kind of population growth. Canada was was still over 95% white when the grandparents of most people probably applying for citizenship via this pathway were born.

Joining our newly appointed ambassador to the US, also a BlackRock guy.