I was an NDPer until they proposed exchange controls- the thought of young Canadians standing outside tourist joints whispering “Hey, Meester- change money?” was a bit too much.
When Mitterand imposed controls on the franc, the National Lampoon proposed nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize on the grounds that he had stopped many French citizens from acquiring foreign currency, thus preventing them from travelling abroad and annoying everybody else in the world with their claims to cultural superiority.
Unifor - a Candian public service union - has declared a strike on the St. Lawrence Seaway (a crucial maritime transport route). This has essentially cut off the direct delivery of seaborne goods from the Canadian interior and will disrupt the entire industrial base.
I’m going to come out and say this is utterly stupid politics, as it will (rightly) anger everyone else NOT from Atlantic Canada who will not benefit from this carve out. WTF!
he health care fiasco was a huge deal when I was a teen before leaving.for taiwan. it is truly saddening to see it still being utter shit today, in 2023. especially after the country went full on fear for covid. what memo will work in canada? i am.starting to think nothing. The little medical care available is ultra expensive and costs the tax payers obscene amounts and yet people wait forever to get actual help.
fail upon fail.
it wouldnt be so bad if canada wasnt so god damned proud of their medical care, as if it is the shining beacon of canadianism. if that’s the actual case, they ought to be actually/literally/extremely ashamed! I mean doctors suck now in Taiwan, but we are lightyears ahead of Canada, on the ground.
I feel bad for.my family and friends back in Canada that are literally needing to sell their homes, move and find new work just to have access to doctors. not even in remote regions. but, to be fair, they were screaming.about this decades ago, turns out they were, and still are, right
and Alberta is the “rich right wing” side of Canada.
nationwide we have fugged up roads everywhere (poor infrastructure), regions with banned alcohol styled Al Capone shit (literally), piss poor health care (whilst still getting credit for decent health care…haha. thanks to the neighbour being shttier for justifying their total shit reality), rampant: laziness/homelessness/real estate speculation/ etc.
even the canada I once grew up in a couple decades ago that was crumbling is no measure for whatever the fuck they are doing now! folks can blame justin, liberals, environmentalists, Tories or whatever. excusesto be sure. let’s be real, as canadians, for once in our lives. admit: WE made this shit happen. if not by actually being complicit, at least by being lazy f**king c*nts and doing the oh so cringy canadian thing: Oh, well, ya know (enter excuse here). Nothing makes me want to purge more than hearing a canadian justify being a total hypocrite.
every country goes through the same problem, after being rich and comfortable for a couple generations. lazy, entitled fucktards pretending they actually know how to operate even something as simple as a drill. taiwan is 20 years away from said full retard, but mark my words we are trying as hard as possible to become as fat, lazy, whiney and entitled as the worst in canada. It’s already here, just needs to evolve more and we can be totally crippled as a nation… china probably even bets on it! Frankly, good for them to have the foresight and patience to own us in this way.
PS. I am ultra left, liberal. just not whatever the fuck cananda calls liberal.
Which is why per capita it has the largest size of provincial government in Canada. For decades, the wealth has funded a very big bureaucracy. Klein cut it slightly but its grown again.
I don’t think Danielle Smith will cut it either. If they want a provincial CPP and go it alone, they are going to need savvy bureaucrats.
What I am essentially saying is that Alberta is not really right wing. It has the largest size of government per capita in Canada and hasn’t managed the Heritage Fund in the same way from an economic stewardship perspective in the same way that mostly social democratic Norway has.
Out of Province migration has also made it more liberal.
you saw my quotation marks and inclusion of "side if Canada " right? but to be fair, cananda has gone pear shaped,and now everything is jot as it seems. the liberals are what they claimed the right used to be now. i havent lived there for a long tome. forgive me. but Alberta was always the right wing texas before. but even texas now is more liberal than california (in some ways), so i dont know what to think anymore but Norway for sure is right, they just got super fucking rich and could afford to give people proper services. and that’s not a bad thing as such, but how it happens is kinda hypocritical thus funny…
It still is in rural areas. But huge migration from other parts of Canada have made Calgary and Edmonton much more liberal than before, especially the former. But if you judge a province by the MPs and party affiliation, Alberta is no longer the most right wing province. It elected two Liberals, for example.
Ironically that goes to the birthplace of socialism in Canada—Saskatchewan. All CPC MPs.
Calgary I will just say no comment. but Edmonton has always been more liberal. as per point above.
i guess it depends on the perspective one takes. population wise, most people live in cities and there is a slightly higher level of liberal, though liberal isnt that important as is. environmentally it is rural areas that matter. seems a no brainier the issues in al era on that sense. even the brightest of wings would.t want to.live near that hellscape. but no one minds reaping the benefits, financially sleaking
I mean no comment because I literally have almost no experience there. outside of travel and a few drug addicted clients I ave no idea that said, the folks I have dealt with tt have severe issues choose calgary. the ones I know from other provinces that moved there left withing a year or 2 Haha. for said reasons. though northern alberta has rampant jssues with similar issues, but theyvremian employed . but that’s a different issue. anyone wanting welfare, homelessness, drug addiction.etc always ends up west coast. in the end, climate always prevails.
but on economic disasters, BC and alberta are probably top in.the 21st century,.no?
but Norway for sure is right, they just got super fucking rich and could afford to give people proper services. and that’s not a bad thing as such, but how it happens is kinda hypocritical thus funny…
that said, the folks I have dealt with tt have severe issues choose calgary. the ones I know from other provinces that moved there left withing a year or 2 Haha. for said reasons. though northern alberta has rampant jssues with similar issues, but theyvremian employed . but that’s a different issue. anyone wanting welfare, homelessness, drug addiction.etc always ends up west coast. in the end, climate always prevails.