The CBC delivers more for less: report
06.03.2025 13:31
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The CBC delivers more for less: report
In Italy, the state-run postal service Poste Italiane is not just the largest mobile virtual network operator in the country, but just bought a stake in Telecom Italia.
Imagine if we unleashed and empowered Canada Post to do something similar in Canada.
CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster
Feels like we are living in the first third of a Star Wars opening crawl
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. Itβs not intellectually superior. Itβs the virus theyβre trying to infect us with. NO
One of our members was interviewed for this article about Ubisoft's forced return to office, and the growing unionization movement in the QuΓ©bec games industry!
www.lesoleil.com/affaires/202...
As I've said too many times to count now, the most anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist thing you can do in these times is form, join and/or support a labor union in your workplace.
At best
Trump unable to pursue military invasion of Canada due to bone spurs
βWe can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to existβ
James Baldwin
According to Pew Research, 86% of Canadians say that rich people having too much political influence leads to economy inequality in the country
The union organizing some B.C. Starbucks scored a big win at the BC Labour Relations Board, which ruled Thursday workers at multiple locations could be in one bargaining unit.
@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports for his first as The Tyeeβs newest labour reporter. βοΈ
New research shows these abrupt wet-to-dry and dry-to-wet swings, which can worsen wildfires, flooding and other hazards, are growing more frequent and intense because of human-caused climate change.
By @ianjames.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...
i do not understand how rotisserie chickens operate as a loss leader. you did not trick me into grocery shopping using the chicken, i had to go grocery shopping and now i have a delicious cooked chicken for only 7.99
Does everyone see thereβs at least some similarities between Paw Patrol and the Village People?
#pawpatrol
#villagepeople
#onaroll
Another reason why the #CBC is critically important to Canadians. Their support for charities is critical to the sector Poilievre & his Conservatives want to shut the CBC down in 100 daysβ¦ if they win. Letβs work strategically so the Cons lose. @paulnazareth.bsky.social
If youβve never read CUPWβs vision for the future of Canada Post, itβs worth checking out.
The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
I bet they got Kevin Lamoureux to do it
A Walk in the Snow
Jennifer Walton
2016
Is that why she quit, though? Be nice if it was
He knows the iceberg appreciates his values and demeanour over any other leader. He has a special relationship with the iceberg.
I understand some partisans don't like when people in a party speak up. But a political party isn't a cult. If people who care greatly about the party don't speak up when things are really are off the rails, then we're doing a disservice to the country & to ourselves.
Maybe theyβre trying to win over the electorate one voter at a time. Starting with Mark Carney.
After the Blizzard in Manitoba
William Kurelek
1967
Me watching Die Hard in 1988: Hans Gruber is a great villain!
Me watching Die Hard in 2024: Alan Rickman was a fucking genius.
