So let me get this straight... in an effort to differentiate themselves from Trump, the conservative strat is:
1) giving PM Carney a childish nickname
2) suggesting his election to leader of the Liberal party (and therefore PM) is illegitimate
Is it just me, or is this EXACTLY what Trump would do?
It's a good reminder than you can't be bigger than the machine if you're part of the machine.
Elbows Up.
This year for Black History Month we had a massive war on DEI... And we can discuss how it's a "not everyone" thing, but realistically I can't recall seeing less BHM content at any other point in my adult life. Thanks to anyone who put effort into telling stories of Black experiences this year.
Let's look at what they're saying in Canada's premiere national newspaper... www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4b1c9c4...
Watching a lot of ham-handed dismantling of DEI initiatives during Black History Month is a reminder that the path of progress is never a straight line. There's nothing noble about doing something because it's popular, rather than because it's right.
#Breaking: Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival in peril as large sponsors pull funding amid U.S. backlash against diversity
I wish people realized feeling uncomfortable isn’t a justification to harm people.
The US brain drain has to be coming, no? Funding for science is disrupted, anyone who isn’t a straight white dude has been effectively told they’re getting sidelined, and the entire federal workforce is now engaging in a weekly humiliation ritual. Time for other countries to offer a safe landing.
Horrible.
No black person is shocked that “ending DEI” has turned into firing qualified black people, and replacing them with unqualified white people.
Speaking as a Canadian, my community has just accepted that by and large your country *wants* this. Not all of you of course. But enough that we should stop being surprised.
This piece sums it up pretty perfectly: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Everyone needs a library card. Seriously. The number of things you get access to, at no cost, from a decent public library system, towers over most $20-$50 a month subscriptions you can buy.
I think we have a mass cultural problem of people not understanding that other people *also* have thoughts and feelings, of equal value to their own.
The problem with threats, is that they're still destructive, even if they're not followed through on. Relationships and trust tend to take much longer to build and repair than they do to damage.
Anything to distract from the news, even a deep dive on entrepreneurship in Austria. #pinkskyPost
Our current moment makes a lot more sense when you realize that people who have always felt like things were happening FOR them, now feel like things are happening TO them. If you've never been in that situation, I have to image it's terrifying.
Fellow Canadians: If you need to invoke the existence of the charter of rights & freedoms (or other human rights legislation) to explain why a politician isn’t a threat… that’s really, really bad.
For years we’ve read articles about the people who are angry that “woke ideology” was being “shoved down their throats” but, as always, it’s the ones complaining who start passing laws targeting small, vulnerable groups.
It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's worth reflecting on where societies go when we let hatred of the other, a desire for someone to blame, and baseless ancient bigotries, guide us as individuals and nations.
Imagine a world where we had Ontario had an extra $4.4 billion dollars to invest in healthcare and education... and all we'd have to trade for it is $200 apiece and buying beer & wine at the beer store & LCBO like we did for my entire life until this year.
A great and oddly prescient comic is Lazarus, by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. It’s set in a future where nations are basically replaced by a global oligarchy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus...
(The open source community might be the only thing outside of left leaning politics with as many purity tests.)
There’s an undercurrent of the “if it’s not open source it’s evil” vibe here, that imo fundamentally limits every open source project from consumer adoption. Bluesky is either going to grow out of that, or succumb to it.
There’s an odd thing happening right now where criticism is “political” but everything else is somehow not.
There's a weird belief that some people have, that any kind of diversity is lowering the bar, because previously these things were not considered and hiring happened purely on merit. In industries that are more white or male than gen pop, this indirectly assumes merit has a race or gender element.
When considering the attack on DEI happening in business and government, we should note that pretty much every immigrant, visible minority, woman, or LGBTQ+ person in an enviable professional position, has been called a DEI hire (or affirmative action hire) at least once.
