I love everything about this, and I just learned there’s a vegan flag (yay!), but the vegan flag looks like an email icon to me 🧐

So straightforward. You nailed it

A pseudo-answer, because it’s all I know, that probably won’t be as helpful if you’re rural: I’ve gone to/called/emailed a local independent bookstore, given them the book details (the like the ISBN), they order it, and then they call me when it’s ready for pickup. Prices have been fair.

The Liberals have been running on “we aren’t the Conservatives” since the early 2000s. They got into government when they articulated a vision in 2015.

Yup.
https://www.readthemaple.com/trudeaus-failure-to-benefit-workers-has-empowered-conservatives/ (bold mine):

In 2015, the Liberals campaigned to the left of the NDP and promised renewed government investment following years of Conservative austerity and attacks on organized labour under prime minister Stephen Harper.

Wow. Hard to believe that is the incoming head of, currently, the most powerful country. It’s interesting that “Retweet” is “ReTruth” on Trump Social. A bit on the nose that, the truth is whatever we say it is, no? It feels like a collective delusion, which I suppose it is

Yup. Welcome to White exceptionalism. The framing of Thanksgiving is quite something too

Because “blame immigrants,” and the like, are highly profitable distractions for the oligarchs, and the politicians and mainstream news they control, to run on everyday people while wealth keeps getting transferred from public to private hands and debt from private to public hands

“Defense” spending is also good news for the fossil fuel industry and the politicians in bed with it. As far as I know, military CO2 emissions aren’t even included in most by-country greenhouse gas emission measurements

An example of the effects of such corruption Calls for Canada to ban bee-killing pesticides after damning CNO investigation

Here’s the article I was mentioning. Highly recommended reading:
https://lemmy.ca/post/33818735
https://thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980s-engineered-the-collapse-of-the-working-class/

Neoliberalism makes capital (ie, the wealthy) more powerful. I read an article this morning which I will add if I can find it again that said that 50 trillion dollars has been siphoned from US workers since the Reagan-era policies of the 80s, which continue to this day. If people think that everyday people are winning off of a 2-month ‘GST holiday’ on select items and a 1-time check of $250 for employed people - that’s like Stockholm syndrome in my eyes