Lets put this in perspective, without knowing the motivations of the attack, blaming pro-Palestine sentiment is like blaming pro-Quebec sentiment for a Quebecer shooting up the British Bake Off.
It’s just patently absurd to blame an entire group for the actions of a single person acting alone when they’re actually connected to a group or movement, let alone just some stranger with a similar background.
Arm them with the technical skills to build and repair drones.
For this we need Canadian alternatives, but the tech monopolies having a stranglehold on the supply chain. For all the tough talk, all this American tech was built with Chinese labour, and with chips made in Taiwan.
To get Canadian alternatives we’d probably need a crown corporation, simply because under the current market conditions there isn’t going to be a way for a Canadian tech company to enter the market now and compete with the likes of Apple or Google.
I’m all for this, but it’s going to be a very hard sell in the current political climate.
I live in Calgary, and these laws come down to enforcement, and it will not be enforced evenly by CPS. We already have a Charter that CPS will just ignore on a regular basis because it will protect groups CPS brass doesn’t want to protect.
They never have a problem restricting the actions of groups that threaten the status quo, while refusing to enforce rules on groups they sympathize with.
I don’t think these laws really help because of that disparity with enforcement.
Considering Trump just relaunched Monroe 2.0, this is the correct answer.
We’re in what the American administration considers their sphere of influence. This is going to be true no matter what our relationship with the US is, friend or foe.
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Power is more important to the UCP than peoples lives, it’s that simple.
Oil companies win on both sides of the border.
This is the correct reaction to a criminal administration violating laws and court orders with impunity, however this is not the reaction we see from most police departments. Police are supposed to work for the community, upholding the communities rules, not for whoever wields the biggest stick, or whoever they agree with politically.
The UCP are desperate to hang onto the name conservative since they’ve given up on conservative values entirely and fallen to Christian Nationalism instead. But they are absolutely reliant on the portion of Albertans who consider themselves tribal conservatives, people who outsource their decision making to those whom they see as tribal authorities.
Heliocentrism was the one that replaced geocentrism, but geocentrism was the one championed by the Church at the time.
That said Darwinism should probably be creationism. I screwed up.
Christian nationalism always turns into a purity contest. I feel like this would be true with any religious based political movement, but my knowledge of these structures in other parts of world is limited.
It always seems to start with purging outsiders, but once the outsiders are not soliciting the right reactions anymore they need to turn inward, they need start eating their own. They need an enemy to point to, they need to convince their followers that they are victims, and that they need to take extraordinary actions in order to take revenge on this perceived enemy.
That collective “enemy” is one of the core principles that unites these scattered political groups, and keeps them working together. Because MAGA isn’t just one group, it’s a collective of right wing groups united under the banner of defeating the “enemy of the nation” which they’ve been convinced is this imaginary idea of the left. A group apparently so powerful its influence touches every scientific institution, regulatory body, school and university in the US, but also completely helpless to pass any government policy that might benefit the working class.
Their labeling trans identity an ideology, will go down into the history books along with Geocentrism and Darwinism. As just another example of scientific method coming under attack for going against church doctrine.
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I grew up in rural Alberta, and this is absolutely it.
I also think though it’s important to point out that many conservatives in Alberta are not Christian nationalists, even though they support Christian nationalism due to outsourcing their decision making. There are lots of those in Alberta that have bought into this “conservative identity” as portrayed by the oil industry, and when presented with Christian nationalism from the onset, it helped fuel the vote split that brought the ANDP into power.
The UCP was corrupt from the onset, but when the TBA bought out the UCP and made Smith the leader, there was concentrated effort from the conservative media in Alberta to paint her as a moderate. A pretence that was quickly dropped after being elected, but I think it adds some nuance to a point I agree with.
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Not exactly, the CPC was all in with trying to undermine NATO with Trump, I hate what the LPC is doing right now, but as one small example if the CPC was in power right now, PP would be backing Trump’s attempts to make Ukraine capitulate to Putin.
That said, the LPC can pretty much drop the L at this point. I think they’re taking advantage of the fact CPC policy is just vague assertions and thinly veiled revenge plots on democratic institutions. They know full well anyone voting for policy isn’t going to end up voting for the CPC, which they see as their only threat right now.
Doug Ford is still part of the PC wing, since the Reform wing took total control of the party after the pandemic the PC wing has had very little influence on within the CPC organization. Which is part of the reason for the infighting during the last election.
PP’s only goal is power, the CPC has no landmark policy, their campaign platform was just slogans and vague assertions, the leader lost his seat and had to run for the safest seat in the country. Under normal circumstances this would cause a push from within the party platform to more align with what Canadians want, but that doesn’t happen in today’s CPC.
This skit perfectly encapsulates the mentality of the CPC base. This partisan loyalty is doing so much damage to our political discourse, where a good portion of the country is voting purely on tribal identity, where the party is not held to the same standard of decorum or corruption.
It’s no wonder the LPC is shifting to the right, they know anyone paying attention to policy could not vote for the CPC right now, so they’ve been trying to peel CPC supporters away from the party by adopting some of the same aspects of that political identity, and passing policy that would’ve been right at home under the Harper government.
In this situation there is one thing that being left behind, and thats policy for average Canadians. As long as we’re voting to keep a cult from taking power and abusing the notwithstanding clause to punish those in society they deem undesirable, we are not voting for good policy that’s going to actually make a positive impact on the average Canadian, and thats depressing as hell.
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