Advocate for electoral reform, UBS & UBI, affordable housing, public transit, climate, & generally doing things differently.
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J Palmer
Liberals are now considering privatizing airports.
The phrases "broadening ownership" and "getting full value of our assets" are doing a lot of ideological heavy lifting.
Translation: The things the public built together are being sold to people who can […]
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After September 2026, Google will decide what apps you can install on Android phones. I filed a complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau. If you care about owning your own phone, so should you. keepandroidopen.org
#keepandroidopen #Android #google #enshittification #canadatech
The Liberals didn't win a mandate to fix healthcare. They won a mandate to manage its collapse.
NL's own health minister said being shut out of pharmacare "speaks volumes about inequity."
Free diabetes meds and contraceptives, but only for the right […]
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The Liberals are pushing Bill C-22 to force companies to retain a year of your metadata and hand it to law enforcement on request.
Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN would rather exit Canada than comply.
This majority government that can't seem to build […]
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Toronto food banks received 4,124,313 visits between April 2024 and March 2025, an 18% increase from last year and a 340% increase since 2019. Is this sustainable? (source: dailybread.ca)
P.S: Loblaws just announced a 4.6% increase in revenue last quarter […]
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Jeff Bezos looked at skyrocketing housing prices and thought: “more landlords!”.
His "arrived.com" turns the housing crisis into a game of Monopoly for the rich and wannabe landlords. Expanding landlordism to the masses and inflating housing prices even more […]
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Food prices are expected to increase in 2026.
PM Carney recently said Canadians must prepare to make "sacrifices" for our economy.
Housing, food, healthcare. So much is already out of reach for so many. We have nothing left to sacrifice.
Instead, maybe […]
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Alberta Premier Smith and her supporters are content to make medical decisions for others. After all, she feels "so strongly" about it.
I usually consult a local conservative about their feelings before seeing a physician. /s
#alberta #canada #transrights
AI companies have a right to set rent prices?
Rent is already out of control. Algorithmic rent-setting allows landlords to conspire to artificially inflate rents even higher.
Housing should not be a commodity […]
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Liberals aren't cutting healthcare because they have to, but because they can. They just won a majority and now $29M is gone from PEI alone.
Prescription drugs, mental health, palliative care, contraception, rare disease coverage. These programs […]
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