Canada

When those areas take hundreds if not thousands of years to create their structures of life, there is no such thing as replacing them. Have seen examples as well of replacing where they do no good or are out so far away the projects cannot even be monitored.

Far-Right Italian Senate Candidate Made Big Donation to Doug Ford’s Leadership Campaign

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Cortellucci also has well-documented ties to Ford’s brother, former Toronto mayor Rob Ford – his family gave $30,000 in support of Ford’s 2010 mayoral campaign.

Doug Ford and Cortellucci last made headlines together when the former Toronto city cou…[Read more]

When I saw the title I figured it was just some rich person using their connections, but —

–chartering a plane and posing as casino workers means they’re not as moguly as all that; they have enough $ to charter a plane from canada to alaska, but not good enough connections to get whatever they want from their equally well-connected private…[Read more]

Yeah, the fine’s a joke for them. If they could afford to charter a plane, then the fine is just part of doing business. But the notoriety is a different matter. Unlikely it’s a coincidence that he “resigned” shortly after this news broke. I suppose his aspiring-actor wife might get some work in a Q Anon video; but otherwise, it’s looking like…[Read more]

I’m sure that the bad press will bother those rich fuggers more than the fine!

Commercial fisherman are a very disgruntled lot. They used to be part of a big free-for-all and the indigenous people, called “first nations” in Canada, received no special consideration. Now the fish are scarce and indigenous people often get a share by court order. I hear the fisherman complain about this because they sometimes use ham radio…[Read more]

@joeshlabotnik

At one point after her election, she was asked if she supported the progressive policies offered by Lascaris and Haddad, and her reply was a coy “it’s all in our platform” non-response. Yeah, I’m sure there’s loads of stuff in the current platform that will eventually be nuanced out of existence. Yet another centre-leftish…[Read more]

I hadn’t spent much time following them, but she wasn’t even on my radar. You’re right about checking the Idpol boxes, the CBC article when announcing her victory prominently feature those credentials as well as calling her a ‘moderate’. Just what we fucking need. If Lascaris had won I would’ve switched parties. Who knows by next election, but…[Read more]

@joeshlabotnik

It’s appalling, and as I said, not unique. A few years ago, my partner and I attended a talk about Indigenous health services. There were several people there talking about their experiences in Toronto hospitals, which were all horribly negative. A few days later, at a senior staff meeting at his hospital, my partner mentioned this…[Read more]

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I feel like punching this woman in the face.