Illegal: t-shirts Legal: travelling to a foreign land to put machine gun bullets into children's heads then returning to Britain like it's no big deal

Donald Trump's OWN tariff formula says we should be taxing ALL US-made services at 18.5%. The DST's 3% was just a baby step toward what the world's richest companies should be paying--wherever they do business. My take for Toronto Star: thestar.com/business/canad…. #canlab #cdnecon

The Edmonton region has hit an all-time high in opioid related deaths. Danielle Smith claimed less than a year ago that The Alberta Recovery Model was a success We wrote about why her statements are misleading in October 2024 People will continue to die theconversation.com/drop-in-drug-p…

Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data... 🧵 1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary. China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is

In addition to demanding the end of arms exports to Israel and declaring all shipments to Israel as hot cargo, Canadian labour must also demand the end of the "Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement" which violates international law. All major parties voted for its renewal in 2019.

In the 2027 Alberta general election we will have three parties all competing to be The Most PC Of Them All, with a new PC party joining the NDP and UCP calgary.citynews.ca/2025/07/06/alb…

NEW: While Ottawa considers spending 5% of GDP on defence, it should ask itself why we spend only 0.2% of GDP on our universities. This isn’t just budget math, it’s a statement of values and priorities, writes Eric Wilkinson. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

These plans to cash in on a Gaza from which Palestinians had been ‘relocated’, involving an apparently rogue Boston Consulting team with some contact with the Tony Blair Institute are really the quintessence of evil, They remind me of the victorious Nazi Germany … 1/

… imagined in Robert Harris’s novel Fatherland, from which almost all evidence of the Jews has been erased. on.ft.com/3If9Cpx Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

everything just feels like this all the time now

The fall of Hudson’s Bay is a huge wake-up call. Workers deserve better than being left behind during corporate insolvency. Unifor demands urgent reforms to protect workers’ wages, pensions, and severance when companies go under. #cdnpoli #canlab ctvnews.ca/business/artic…

New from @policyalternatives: Internal trade barriers in Canada are few and far between, and reducing or eliminating them is not going to lead to hundreds of billions of dollars in higher GDP. By Marc Lee and Stuart Trew #cdnpoli #cdnecon policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…

Does involuntary care work? Forced hospitalization under the Mental Health Act is controversial. Three BC residents share their personal stories. #mentalhealth #BC #CDNpolitics vancouversun.com/health/does-in…

Well, well, well, it looks like my big projections on federal cuts are coming .... worth 15% of spending. @policyalternatives theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic… 1/x

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art… 🧵

Farm workers are denied equal job rights in every single Canadian province. Over 40% of farm workers in Canada are banned from forming unions thanks to Charter-violating capitalist laws in Alberta and Ontario. Check out page 5 of this NFU pamphlet: nfu.ca/wp-content/upl…

Time is literally all the NDP has. They don't have any money, they don't have any seats, they don't have official party status and there is nothing on the horizon that might change any of that any time soon. They only have time.

Alberta now leads the CONTINENT in measles cases, with babies & children by far the worst impacted. As per AB's former CMOH, this should be no surprise given our government's "lackadaisical" approach to this growing **& entirely preventable!** outbreak. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/…

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. promised to deactivate thousands of inactive pipelines under a special deal with B.C.’s energy regulator. Internal emails show the company failed to meet its targets. theijf.org/cnrl-broke-dea…

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