I called it earlier.

They’re just dangling tariffs as a sword of damacles to hurt Canadian companies without increasing prices.

We need to treat this the same as tariffs.

That is a growing debate in economics, or so I read it is.

Respectfully centering workers is the social safety net.

I don’t even consider it a safety net, education and health are the foundation of the workforce.

It’s a loss in productivity when someone can’t work because they need but can’t access dental care, glasses, mental health care, or out of reach pharmaceuticals. Those should be solved problems stuck behind arbitrary barriers.

It’s a loss of productivity every time a brilliant mind is stuck selling real egg sandwiches at Tim’s or can’t get employed due to education costs.

If we take care of those foundations then people are free to contribute to their fullest.

Why pick two?

This is partially what motivated me to post.

It is so frustrating seeing my nieces and nephews in huge ineffective classes where they check out and lose interest in the subjects they used to love.

I want kids to see the world as a place where motivation and cleverness meant you could do and be anything you wanted. It hurts my heart seeing them fall behind and feeling hopeless.

This election the conservatives have really bothered me by not even bothering campaigning.

What stood out to me in this article was:

The OECD paper also found a link between productivity decline and stagnating human capital development. Since 2003, young citizens of OECD countries have underperformed on standardized tests in science, math and reading.

This is why we need strong provincial policies supporting our youth, and this is something that the next 10 years I think will punish us and the US especially hard on.

Without educating and motivating our kids, we don’t have a strong economic future. Immigrants are kind of a bandaid, our youth (and the children of these immigrants) need to be engaged and motivated and educated to become _efficient productive.

Reminds me of when my high school principal got transferred because our school was doing too well. It really sucks when that happens.

I’m glad you have someone who is good. My conservative dad even sent a text the other day saying each time he sees Mr Kinew he likes him more.

My disdain for Ubisoft is chafing against my Canadian patriotism!

I might sit this one out until they stop requiring an account for every game.

Off topic: Sunshine I appreciates you posting so many articles to our communities. I don’t know how you keep up!

Good reminder that I should post articles too.

He said that last time.

If they as low walk it they can still scare companies to break supply chains without driving up prices.

We should enforce retaliatory tariffs as long as there’s a threat of tariffs.

John Oliver wants your rat erotica dot com?

The Conservatives have lost a few expected seats but you’re right, we’re seeing the NDP quietly implode and lose half their seats, and we’re seeing Quebec voters shift to Liberal.

Since the tariff threats Ontario voters are actually shifting from PC to LPC though.

We need BC to save our democracy.

The Liberals have made almost no headway there, it’s still holding firm Conservative.

The Conservatives have been their weakest in QC, with them hating Pollievre the most and very few blue seats.

Good for them, but why not Mastodon too?

Going from one US billionaire to another is just doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Pharmaceutical tech and bio students are getting offers rescinded to universities because of the US grant cuts.

We have the chance to eat the US’s lunch for the next decade of health tech right now.

I don’t disagree, but as soon as parliament resumes we’re getting an election.

The only way that doesn’t happen is if the NDP look at their polling numbers and decide to hold off for a new leader, which they should have done a month ago like the Liberals did.

Honestly though proroguing is probably the best thing that could have happened. If they hadn’t done so we’d have majority PM Pollievre, the death of the Liberal party, and would be stuck with Singh for the foreseeable future.

Now we’re getting an actual competitive liberal party and a real election, with real hope for Canada in the future.

Pollievre has always been a protest vote candidate and the drop in their numbers shows Canadians have little faith in him. He’s one of the least popular leaders in Canadian history. All hat and no cattle.

My support has coalesced to the NDP this election, but frankly I’m not feeling motivated by the parties.

The Conservatives need a swift kick to the nuts though for refusing to campaign in Ontario except shitty tv ads.

No costed platform (again), no media interviews, and the only promise is “if just you give us another majority we’ll fix the problems that we let fester through 9 years of majority governance”

Mine has been going to Mexico instead.

Love this community, I’m learning about a ton of new Canadian things this month

Are there any more details for this?

We will freeze income taxes for the 98.2% of Ontarians making under $220,000 a year.

Are we talking just increasing top bracket, more brackets, wealth tax?

Link to the PDF of their platform