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BREAKING: Canada Post workers vote to accept contract
20Are you serious? It should be the other way around and the employer should be thankful for employees to exploit in order to extract surplus value.
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THE PAIKIN PODCAST: Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre? He’ll get another shot
71Hi endofthrones,Why should Canada pursue a trade "deal" with a country that has proven time and again that it is not agreement-capable? I would rather that we diversify our trading partners, and make friends with the rest of the world, than rely on a single country for our economic well-being.
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EDITORIAL: What is Doug Ford hiding from you? Way more than ever before
55Hi Allan,I think it has been fascism (also known as corporatism) for a long time. Ford is just making it more autocratic/despotic. And it is his donors that are the autocrats; he is just a marionette doing their bidding.
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Majority of Ontarians oppose Ford's 'special economic zones' law: poll
18Both bills are terrible. Red tape is a good thing because it is one of the few times that citizens get to participate in decisions that affect them.
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THE PAIKIN PODCAST: Is America a bigger threat to us than China or Russia?
8What's wrong with socialism? It lifted over 800M people out of poverty in China. There are more poor people in the USA than China right now. China is also the largest economy in the world so the socialists are even better at capitalism than the capitalists.Socialism or feudalism are the answers to the World Economic Forum. Socialism is about liberating the working class from exploitation and colonialism/imperialism so that's my choice.
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BREAKING: Canada Post workers vote to accept contract
23So what you are saying is that large swathes of Canada should go without mail service? We have a private telecommunications system and I cannot even provide government programming to clients in Ontario due to their lack of bandwidth. If so, I do not believe that you understand the purpose of government services.Or are you saying the managers should all be fired because they failed to listen to the employees on how to modernize the Crown Corporation? If this is the case, then I agree with you.
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THE PAIKIN PODCAST: How should history remember the Freedom Convoy?
8It was an insurrection trying to oust a recently-elected government (and sour grapes for losing said election). It was not a working class-led insurrection with support from all sectors of society trying to cease power from rentiers, landlords, grifters, and other capitalist swine; it was on their behalf to simply remove COVID restrictions. Even colour revolutions need support from bourgeois society and this did not have it.This is not to say that I supported all of the government propaganda, it is just that I understand Trudeau/Carney (& Singh) & Poilievre are simply different sides of a two-headed imperialist coin. Moving the deck chairs on our sinking Titanic, like the Truckers tried to do, would not have changed the structures of power. Our choice moving forward is socialism or imperialism and so far only imperialist options are on the table (Engler was not allowed to run a socialist campaign for the NDP).
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THE PAIKIN PODCAST: Is America a bigger threat to us than China or Russia?
7Are your questions serious? China has the most advanced economy in the world so I want to be their partner. As for human rights, I do not see paramilitary forces murdering people in the street or sanction packages that result in 500,000 excess deaths (Albright said it was worth it for those kids to die) in China or Russia. China and Russia suffered the brunt of the fascist attacks in WWII and now they are demonized to making sure it does not happen again.Your analogy is apt but incomplete. A new hand will be dealt but it will still be the same fascist game. Trump, Obama, Carney, Harper... are all on the same team; they just play on different lines.The USA is the only country in the world that can invade us so that is where our Department of War should focus its resources. I'd rather be there friends but they don't seem to want any friends at the moment.
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Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts
4Looks like tax cuts and privatization for the owners, landlords, and rentiers while it is austerity and public service cuts for the working class. Both wings of our Imperialist Party (Liberals and Conservatives, as well as their donor class) must love this. More war. More pollution. We, the working class, have been tightening out belts since Chrétien failed to implement the peace dividend. It's time for the landlords, rentiers, and the rest of the FIRE sector to get a haircut.
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VIDEO: Yes, Canada does need to prepare for possibility of U.S. military action
5This should be Canada's only military concern. Russia and China cannot invade Canada because there is an ocean in between us. As soon as their troops are in boats on the way over, they are sitting ducks. Missile technology has made the aircraft carrier (and to a major extent the Navy) targets instead of assets. The Americans also only practice zero-sum wins; either they get everything or no one gets anything. This means that once they have exhausted attacking all of the "*hithole countries", they will turn to Mexico and Canada. Our only saving grace is that the military of the USA is only good at killing non-combatants (see: Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Iraq several times, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Palestine...). I see the Americans engaging in a civil war before attacking Canada or Mexico but we still need to be prepared to defend our country (instead of setting up bases in Latvia to attack other countries).
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THE PAIKIN PODCAST: Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre? He’ll get another shot
5The Conservatives are one side of our two-headed imperialist coin (the Liberals are the other side while the NDP flip flop between both sides). Without a party acting as the tails side of the coin, which is a transition to socialism (it could also be a reversion to feudalism but I do not see that happening), the working class will be stuck with continuous recessions, depressions, austerity, and precarity.
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VIDEO: Are you a student who depends on OSAP? Your debt load is about to soar
4The problem with this scheme is that it is a subsidy to the rentier class (banks). If the Provincial Government was both the backer and the financer, all interest payments would go back to the province. This would most certainly help with the sustainability issue that was mentioned as the reason for offering would-be students more debt. Then, as the sovereign of the debt, the Provincial Government could implement a jubilee after, for example, five years of continuous employment and/or payments. Everyone except the rentier class wins if this method was pursued. Students are incentivized to succeed while the Province gets the labourers it needs.I believe that education and health care should be complimentary for all Canadians (not free because we pay taxes) but we have a long way to go before we get there so my plan above can be a stop-gap measure until we get there.
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Violence against teachers, staff the ‘new normal’ in classrooms across Ontario
5Part of the problem is that we have been taught to hate the two most important providers of social services: teachers and nurses. Successive governments have gone to (class) war against these two service providers and the general public has swallowed it whole. The violence will continue until we begin to cherish these two services like we cherish our favourite hockey players/rock stars.
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VIDEO: ‘We can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away’
1Hi Yonko,Do not forget that Communist China is the largest economy in the world so that means they are better at capitalism than us!!!
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