"Democracy dies in darkness, and we're on the side of darkness"

Does the wine get it's redness from the blood of Palestinian children?

Orr, we can ditch oil and gas like scientific evidence has proven countless times to be what we should be doing, and instead build on renewables.

If I'm not going to see the government using oil profits to benefit the everyday man, then then I say fuck the oil and gas industry. They fuck the worker over by replacing them with automation, and leave the taxpayer to pay for their mess such as with the oil well cleanups here in Alberta.

His speech was incredible!

Also holy crap Tanille beat out Rob Ashton in the vote count, I'm shocked.

And just like that, the province has spent and lost money for no reason lmao.

He made it very clear in the speech that he did not stand with the war in Iran seeing that it was a violation of international law, and that Canada has no place endorsing it.

If the Liberals don't ban prediction markets, then that should be the ultimate signal that they have no issue with money in politics and the rich pulling the strings of their administration.

But hey, let's just keep excusing the actions of Carney and the Liberals by saying that "things are complicated" a full year later and talk about how much of a 5D chess move this is

If he can talk about the issues of American hegemony at Davos, he can hold true to that word in a statement like this.

Oh no, the U.S. is gonna negatively affect trade with us... as if Trump isn't literally out there threatening to abandon CUSMA, a deal that he made in his first term to replace NAFTA.

If their word never seems to matter, why should we hold ourselves to their standards?

Cool, then why continue to support their war in Iran and not decry it?

Why not reinstate the digital services tax?

Why not protect our public health care by enforcing the Canada Health Act?

All Carney is doing is making us more like the U.S., and I'd like to see him do more than posturing. Congrats, you got a deal with China... What else have you done to sever ties?

I never used lemmynsfw much, but honestly I think things moving from Lemmy to PieFed is a positive move in general.

The man has already moved the goalposts time and time over, why should we continue to capitulate to him?

Carney hasn't proved to me that he's the man to meet the moment whatsoever. You tell me that the man who stood by and asked "both sides" to respect international law in both Iran and Venezuela rather than call out the U.S. for the initial violation of international law is the guy to stand up to the U.S.? That the man who gave up the digital services tax the last time around is the person to stand tall and not capitulate?

The man has been talking about the possibility of not renewing CUSMA for ages now, why not take that as a sign to not engage?

I have to catch myself to not say "Dragon Ball Zed".

This just reminds me of Tanille Johnston's remark during the NDP debate, where she was talking about the removal of interprovincial trade barriers, and how she was waiting for agriculture to be mentioned.

Part of the reason food prices are so expensive isn't just because of inflation, but also because of lack of consumer knowledge paired with a lack of proper domestic production and transportation of food.

For example, many recipes online will call for olive oil as a healthy food option, but the cost of olive oil is insane. Consumers need to be informed by the government that Canadian-produced sunflower seed and canola oil are just as effective in these recipes.

Another example is sugar. If people want to remove political tensions between urban and rural areas and help loosen the Conservative grip on rural communities, you need to appeal to and support farmers. Alberta has the only sugar production plant that works with domestic sugar in Taber. All other sugar production plants import sugar cane from abroad, which costs money in shipping, uses more resources, is environmentally damaging in the harvest process, and has a lower sugar yield per kilogram than domestic sugar beets. A Domestic Sugar Policy would benefit farmers, and lower the end cost of a pantry staple to Canadian shelves. It could also help us produce our own pantry essentials that we don't currently produce domestically, such as molasses which is often imported from Guatemala, a country currently in a political crisis with María Consuelo Porras.

Why are we making and buying peanut butter when we hardly grow peanuts, importing most of them from a country actively tariffing us, when we grow sunflower seeds and can make sunflower seed butter a pantry staple with ease? It'd support domestic farmers, dropping production costs we see with peanut butter. Why is it that when I go to Dollarama, they sell beans imported from China and Turkey when we're the world's largest producer of pulses?

Inflation is an issue, but this is also a failure of domestic policy when it comes to feeding ourselves and keeping money in our own economy. By investing in domestic food production and getting domestically-produced food on grocery shelves, we keep money in the Canadian economy, lessen political divides, reduce the cost of groceries at the till, and create a food landscape that further distinguishes ourselves as different from our American counterparts.

Great!

I get the argument of saying this is a diversion from the actual issue, but even then, sometimes things happen, and even if you're getting by alright, issues can pop up suddenly.

Few months ago I was donating to Amnesty International and Save The Children. I've stopped since funds are tight, but I remember starting off was really awkward since I was told by one that there would be no immediate donation needed, to which I was later told there would be. Ended up with $150 in NSF fees because I couldn't cancel that initial donation, followed by the other trying to withdraw funds I would have otherwise had twice.

I'd have taken being $120 less in the negative any day.

Antisemitism is wrong, but honestly I don't understand how the same people that pull this crap get all shocked Pikachu face over antisemitism being on the rise.

I couldn't believe it. I knew Tony (God bless that man) would come in last, but I was certain Rob would come third behind either McPherson or Lewis.

Tanille beating him out either shows that people were more peeved about the AI thing than I would have expected, that I underestimated Tanille's charm and hard work, or both.

Glad to have had Tanille ranked second on my ballot, but I wasn't expecting her to have had that much momentum. Genuinely proud of her.

"Maybe things would be better if the left stopped being the left and everybody was right of centre"

"We have a cost of living crisis... because you're not paying nearly enough"

This is the issue with the Heritage Fund. When Peter Lougheed established it and started funding it, the funds were supposed to be put towards investments in other sectors of the provincial economy so that we didn't have to rely on the boom-bust oil cycle.

Premier after premier has failed to address the issue of the fund. We just hit $30 billion in the fund last year when the value in 1985 was $14 billion. We have done fuck all to diversify the economy here, it's been all talk, with the only action being backwards investments like a new AI data centre that'll end up costing more money than it's worth.

"We have already seen propaganda outlets from... North Korea"

First, I'd like a source, second, it's so rich that you call others propagandists when well over 90% of your activity here is anti-China.

I don't care if people have a good or bad opinion of China, that's for them to form their opinion on, but when just about everything you do has to do with anti-China sentiments, it's clear you're pushing a certain agenda and are only around to push a certain agenda. You can't claim that of others when you engage in the same behaviour you claim to be against.