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Those organizations you mention - Fox, and I’ll extend the list to the rest of the large right media network, NGOs and think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, CATO and so on - they are not some directionless NPC orgs that serve and bankroll Russia’s direction. This kind of interpretation is ahistoric and not consistent with the material interests behind them. Look up their history, who and why created them. They were created by the American owner class following the leftward shift under FDR that took a lot of owner class money and gave it to the peasants, with the express purpose of moving the country back to a non-dustributive right position. Any current alignment with Russia is tangential and merely tactical and that’s a pretty recent phenomena, given some are over half a century old. The MAGA / Trump movement is also not fundamental to this, they’re the latest political face of it. They did not exist when the same interests pushed the US to destroy Iraq. They’ve been openly giving American governments direcrion (e.g. Mandate for Government which Reagan proudly imolemented) since Reagan if not before.

E2: BTW I don’t disagree that MCGA would’ve happened without American involvement. It would have happened without any external involvement. There have been internal interests for at least 50 years that believe Alberta is getting shortchanged by Canada through equalization payments and other other means. America is supercharging this pre-existing condition for their own material interests - extracting resources for cheaper.

The scal, the target and what we can do about either. Countering what the US does would look very different than countering Russia. We can hurt the US much more than we can hurt Russia, and the US can hurt us back much more than Russia can.

Yes the vast majority of the money is American. The separatist movement is in open collaboration with American politicial and corporate actors. Some 60% of our fossil fuel industry is American-owned and there’s cross-polination between it and the separatists. Of course there are other foreign actors and it’s good to know their influence but the US is unmatched in scale.

Some news outlets specifically hammer the non-US actors to distract from the elephant. The Walrus isn’t one of them AFAIK so their reporting is indeed intended to inform. I wouldn’t take it to mean that America is not the main problem in this context. Well, American capital, not so much American workers.

This confirms Mossad was unable to do it, doesn’t it. That means the Iranians aren’t as compromised by Mossad as it appeared during the 12-day war. At least not anymore.

Good. Now it’s gonna be undeniable that AIPAC is working against the American democracy. Both by not conceding to the will of Michiganders and by spending against the only party that isn’t actively trying to dismantle the democratic system. That’s gonna make it even more effrctive for the DSA to use AIPAC against opponents.

Def could be that. We’ll know better after Trump is gone.

Why would she do this? Currying favour with the USA?

Counterpoint:

Carney effectively enacting a conservative agenda would get lefties to uncompromisingly vote NDP and probably shift a part of the centre-left in the same direction. An effect similar to what’s happening to the UK Labour vote going to the UK Greens.

I don’t think so. This is all happening because of whatever leverage Israel has on your leadership. Israel refuses to comply with withdrawing form Lebanon.

Are the reports abt refinery hits fake?

I don’t know about that. At some point the machine gotta turn towards inside. Maybe not yet.

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Apparently he lost by 19 votes.

Looking at the list of potential candidates, there are some potentially salient faces and a lot of candidates that I think would lead to similar results like the last several elections against Ford:

• Lee Fairclough - MPP for Etobicoke—Lakeshore, health administrator and former president of St. Mary’s General Hospital, declared May 8, 2026, endorsed by MPPs Lucille Collard and Ted Hsu and former MPPs Murray Elston and Deb Matthews
• Dylan Marando - 38-year-old former political staffer and policy advisor for Justin Trudeau, Kathleen Wynne, and Dalton McGuinty, named to Top 20 Under 40 in Canadian Life Sciences in 2025, declared April 21, 2026

• Navdeep Bains - Former federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (2015–2021) and former MP for Mississauga—Malton and Mississauga—Brampton South
• Stephanie Bowman - MPP for Don Valley West (2022–present)
• Rob Cerjanec - MPP for Ajax (2025–present)
• Nate Erskine-Smith - MP for Beaches—East York (2015–present), federal Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities (2024–2025), finished second in 2023 leadership race
• Vikram Handa - Human rights lawyer and 2014 Liberal Party of Canada candidate in Davenport
• Eric Lombardi - Financial technology consultant, housing activist, Chair of Build Toronto and founder of More Neighbours Toronto
• Marco Mendicino - Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (2025), former federal Minister of Public Safety (2021–2023) and Immigration (2019–2021), MP for Eglinton—Lawrence (2015–2025)
• Adil Shamji - MPP for Don Valley East (2022–present), withdrew in 2023 leadership race
• Tyler Watt - MPP for Nepean (2025–present)

I hope Marit Stiles plans to ramp up the populist rhetoric in order to fill the vacuum :D

"This is a guy who was convicted of precisely the thing that we want him to be convicted of in this context, and yet the minute he’s released from house arrest, he’s off in China,” he said.

Perhaps imprison him for a few decades of slave labour at the Hyundai plant in Alabama. That ought to do it.

I’m not saying immigration fixes unemployment. I’m saying that over the long run, it doesn’t make it worse. When I say this and throughout my comment I mean immigration where newcomers have the same labour rights as the existing populatiom. I’m talking about PR immigration.

TFW immigration is a whole other matter which is obvious vehicle for cheap labour, which cannot create jobs, which increases PR/citizen unemployment, especially among youth because youth often works retail and that’s a major use of TFWs. That’s before we even consider the abuse TFWs get from their employers. I think the TFW program did most of the damage you speak of, along with the diploma mill foreign student program, which essentially functions as another TFW program. Temporary immigration for work should be shutdown yesterday. Any immigration for work must come with the same labour rights and that must include at least delayed PR. That guarantees fuckers can’t pay them less.

True but general increase of the population also creates jobs as some portion create new businesses. It’s why unemployment hasn’t exploded over the decades of population growth via immigration. Not saying immigration can’t lead to higher unemployment under specific conditions. We’ve hit other real resource constraints that the system we have hasn’t provided enough of like housing, healthcare, etc. I think we need our gov’t to step in to fill the gaps. We also need the gov’t to start employing people the private sector won’t take and do the things it the private sector won’t do. Like filling those gaps.

We are calling very clearly for a single-tier immigration system, based on permanent residency and status on arrival, that gives rights and stability—like our grandparents received when they first came to this country. We need an immigration system that reunites families, welcomes refugees fleeing wars around the world, and does not create two classes of workers.

We will reverse Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cuts to immigration levels. Through Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, we will hire 3,000 immigrant caseworkers immediately to address the backlog of 1 million immigrant applications that are stuck and going nowhere.

We will end provincial rules that restrict and tie foreign workers to specific employers. We will end limits based on sector, hours, occupation, or category—restrictions that make workers vulnerable. We believe we should create a network of reception centres for refugees across the country, with real funding for shelters and housing. We also need to fix credentialling problems. Many people come to Canada because of their skills, but credentialling issues prevent them from using the skills they brought with them.

Yup, this is how you fix it without suppressing wages. Couple that with strengthened labour rights which he also wants to do - especially easier unionization and we’re looking for wage growth in addition to expanding economy that comes with growing population.

I’d think staying silent would achieve this goal.

Oh yeah, I see that in the graph now.

Government spending on R&D in China increased by 90% to US$133 billion in the decade leading up to 2023, according to the most recent purchasing-power-adjusted data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). By contrast, in the United States, spending rose by just 12%, to $155 billion.

I think they’re not taking into account PPP. China is very likely spending more on science in PPP terms which is what really matters.