I wouldn’t know anything about that 😏

Are you part of the Reclaim the NDP movement?

As I posted below, I wouldn’t mind if it was just reframed as a minimum of 50% needing to come from cis women, non-binary, and trans. The exact same rule but worded in a way that isn’t so potentially alienating for a major group of voters.

It’s just so incredibly lacking in any political nous that it makes me feel like the party is politically clueless, which is not a great feeling when you support the party.

But hey, I’m not a leadership candidate. What’s your idea for it?

Do you recognize the political incompetence of framing the rule the way that it is on the books?

I don’t see this as rocket science. These are supposed to be people vying for roles in governing the country. If they can’t figure this out pretty quickly, they shouldn’t be given the responsibility of governance. I mean, to make it simple, they could have just set the rule as a minimum of 50% of votes must come from cis women, non-binary, and trans people. Mission accomplished. It would have been the same rule, but with a framing that is encouraging diversity rather than limiting cis men. Framing it the way they did is like watching them have an easy layup but then tripping on their own shoelaces.

This is idiotic. The NDP could easily just make a rule that no identity group from some big list, including cis men, can be more than 50%. Instead, they have a rule just for cis men that gives their political opponents easy ammo. The CPC are explicitly targeting this same demographic, and the NDP gives ammo to them and conservative media like the NP for taking easy shots.

It is so stupid politically that I seriously question the NDP’s basic competence as a political party, and I’m an NDP supporter. I want them to make a comeback, but this will just needlessly alienate a key demographic. 🤦

Seeing as how we’re coming up on the UNGA meeting again this month, anyone else remember how Kris Reyes misrepresented the facts when covering the Israeli delegation’s speech last year? She completely avoided mention of the mass protest walkout by other member states and instead spoke more about the cheers and applause from the people in the general audience balcony seats that Israel had bussed in to cheer for them (without mention that Israel had brought those people for support).

It was gross, and total journalistic malpractice that mislead CBC News viewers.

Kris Reyes is still working there. Never a correction. Never an apology.

The CBC has improved in tone and coverage on Gaza, but improved from a very bad position. The coverage was strongly pro-Israel in bias for a long time. I support the CBC broadly, but they have undermined their own credibility substantially. They have deserved to be bashed.

Low-competence teacher.

This is not for military defense against the US. All the investment is focused on the Arctic and on deepening military alliance with Arctic states and states that border Russia.

Which border do we share with the US? Any hardening of that? Nope.

We are basically all-in on supporting the US defense strategy. We are part of the team to face Russia so the US can focus on China. Also, we are basically investing in defense infrastructure to provide security for the resource supply chain between our far north and the US.

We may not love them right now, but we’re still team USA. We are still basically a resource colony, and we are doing as the empire’s strategy demands of us.

I remember when Francesca Albanese was interviewed on Front Burner, Jayme Poisson seemed likely sympathetic to Albanese’s arguments but was dealing with clear lines that had been set for her not to cross and canned phrases that had to be inserted presenting Israel’s narrative. It was awful. That was November of last year and at that time it seemed she was pushing CBC limits just by having Albanese as a guest.

The National cleary pushed the Israeli narrative for a long time, even regularly having Israeli spokespeople on to push their narrative while having no Palestinian representation. They have improved on that now, when it has become completely untenable to deny the horror of what’s being done, but they seem to have been dragged there against their will.

Good. The CBC has been biased on this. Only recently have they started more openly sharing critical views, but for most of the time this has been going on there was a strong pro-Israel bias. Even now, they are very cautious on the national programming about how they describe it. Compare it to how the situation with Ukraine and Russia is covered and the contrast is stark. The CBC is capable of putting blame on a party and making stark accusations of brutality of intent, but they’re still very cautious about Israel.

Carney is restrained by the decision space he has to work within. When this kicked off, Carney looked to the UK and to Europe for support. The UK and Europe have both caved. Also, look at what’s happening in Alberta. The US has a long history of executing regime change in democratic allies by fomenting internal conflict. I have no doubt Carney is feeling the pressure from that as well. The reality is simply that Canada is pretty stuck. Carney’s government has at least made moves to diversify, but he’s leading a country without anyone to turn to for help, with an information and media system that’s basically controlled by US entities, and that’s under threat of serious disruption to internal stability by a country known for regime change efforts.

To my eyes, he’s pretty screwed.

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Men must really have weak hands, feet, eyes, and skulls compared to women, and be much harder to see. Sounds rough.

The Hunka thing was legitimately dumb and embarrassing, but not close to being on the same scale as the US treatment of Netanyahu.

Have people forgotten another wanted criminal getting 50+ standing ovations in Congress not long ago? On a scale of how America honours war criminals, a red carpet in Alaska seems relatively minor in comparison.

I’ve signed up, and would be happy to see it succeed. Canada desperately needs a popular off-ramp from US-owned social media. They have a long way to go to become that, and a lot to prove along the way in trying to offer Canadians something better than what’s out there, but there has never been a better time to try.

The CIA and the US defense industry worm their way into everyone’s business, especially so-called allies. I have very little faith in either CAF or CSIS to operate free of US influence.

Sad to say this, but we are still very much in the fold of the empire. The US has an explicit strategy of division of labour for conflict with Russia and China, and we are alongside Europe in the division against Russia. Just look at what we are actually doing. Our defense investment isn’t to harden our southern border. It’s to harden our northern border, facing Russia. We, as the public, are being played. US strategy documents last year laid out the need to apply pressure to create urgency among allies to reindustrialize their military industries, spend more on arms, and for those surrounding Russia to step up and shoulder the burden of facing them so the US can focus on China. This year we see the 5% NATO target demanded by the US accepted, a major bump in Canadian defense spending for the arctic (but not to defend against the US), and increased Canada-Europe collaboration on defense industry as NATO now talks about a two-front war with Russia and China. So, our defense officials won’t be evaluating purchases based on conflict against the US. They’ll be evaluating based on our integration with US systems as part of the larger strategic direction.