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The deficit’s primary function is political: it is a cudgel used to enforce unpopular policies and coerce the public into accepting a diminished quality of life in the name of private profit. We must stop mistaking this political strategy for economic necessity.
The deficit is not an economic problem—it’s a political weapon
Mark Carney’s new budget exposes how Canada’s political class weaponizes the deficit to protect elites and justify austerity. Despite alarmist rhetoric, Canada’s debt is modest and self-financed. The ...
canadiandimension.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The deficit’s primary function is political: it is a cudgel used to enforce unpopular policies and coerce the public into accepting a diminished quality of life in the name of private profit. We must stop mistaking this political strategy for economic necessity.
Reposted by Charles Jergl
Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption.
In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.
In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Mark Carney is going “elbows down” against Big Tech
Canada’s AI agenda ignores potential harms in the hope of short-term economic gain
www.disconnect.blog
July 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption.
In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.
In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Reposted by Charles Jergl
Ontario won’t claw back social assistance from new Canada #Disability Benefit recipients. Federal program, due to start in July, will provide up to $200 monthly to low-income, working-age people with disabilities, by Erica Alini www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... @theglobeandmail.com #poverty
Ontario won’t claw back social assistance from new Canada Disability Benefit recipients
The federal program, due to start in July, will provide up to $200 a month to low-income, working-age people with disabilities
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Ontario won’t claw back social assistance from new Canada #Disability Benefit recipients. Federal program, due to start in July, will provide up to $200 monthly to low-income, working-age people with disabilities, by Erica Alini www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... @theglobeandmail.com #poverty
May 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Homelessness is not a crime, nor is it caused by "addiction." Homelessness is caused by a lack of housing people can actually afford, which Poilievre has no real plan to address — no plan for rent control, evictions, supportive housing. Nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Poilievre promises to let police dismantle encampments, arrest occupants | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to clean up Canada's streets and parks by giving police the power to dismantle encampments and arrest their occupants for setting up tents and shelter...
www.cbc.ca
April 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Homelessness is not a crime, nor is it caused by "addiction." Homelessness is caused by a lack of housing people can actually afford, which Poilievre has no real plan to address — no plan for rent control, evictions, supportive housing. Nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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A big reason that Toronto is increasingly unlivable.
“In 2020, Canada’s biggest financial firms purchased 90% of available rental stock in Toronto”
TORONTO'S NEW LANDLORDS
Meet the deep-pocketed firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying rent to.
Story by @emmapaling from the latest WEP
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...
TORONTO'S NEW LANDLORDS
Meet the deep-pocketed firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying rent to.
Story by @emmapaling from the latest WEP
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...
Toronto's new landlords — West End Phoenix
They’re ultra-rich, predominantly American, and over the next eight years they’re bringing 21,000 units without rent control to a new building near you. The West End Phoenix has identified 21,677 rent...
www.westendphoenix.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A big reason that Toronto is increasingly unlivable.
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Mark Carney’s vision for the future of Canada is an oligarchy of better-behaved oligarchs; a corporate technocracy that resolves the twin crises of declining living standards and environmental catastrophe without slowing capital accumulation.
I read Mark Carney’s book so you don’t have to
Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on campaign literature to discern Mark Carney’s vision for the future. The decades he’s spent in both the private sector and the public service, as well as his 2021 ...
canadiandimension.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Mark Carney’s vision for the future of Canada is an oligarchy of better-behaved oligarchs; a corporate technocracy that resolves the twin crises of declining living standards and environmental catastrophe without slowing capital accumulation.
Reposted by Charles Jergl
Ontario has been falling behind in housing, healthcare, and education, but Doug Ford is still contending for power
My latest for @breachmedia.ca on why Ford Nation
is still a thing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-h...
My latest for @breachmedia.ca on why Ford Nation
is still a thing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-h...
How Doug Ford keeps getting away with it
YouTube video by The Breach
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Ontario has been falling behind in housing, healthcare, and education, but Doug Ford is still contending for power
My latest for @breachmedia.ca on why Ford Nation
is still a thing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-h...
My latest for @breachmedia.ca on why Ford Nation
is still a thing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-h...
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You can't make rent in Ontario on $390 a month
Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance
Does any party in this election have a plan for real change?
My latest with @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/ontarios-ren...
Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance
Does any party in this election have a plan for real change?
My latest with @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/ontarios-ren...
Ontario’s rent allowance isn’t a safety net—it’s a poverty trap ⋆ The Breach
With an election looming, none of the major political parties in Ontario have a plan to fix the starvation-level housing allowance
breachmedia.ca
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You can't make rent in Ontario on $390 a month
Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance
Does any party in this election have a plan for real change?
My latest with @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/ontarios-ren...
Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance
Does any party in this election have a plan for real change?
My latest with @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/ontarios-ren...
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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
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Meaning there will be crippling austerity to pay for it
2% defence spending by 2027 if I am Prime Minister. chrystiafreeland.ca
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2 % de dépenses dans la défense d'ici 2027 si je suis élue première ministre. chrystiafreeland.ca/fr
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2 % de dépenses dans la défense d'ici 2027 si je suis élue première ministre. chrystiafreeland.ca/fr
February 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Meaning there will be crippling austerity to pay for it
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"The Internet Made Donald Trump"
Liberal democracies must fight back against social media, or perish, writes @whstancil.bsky.social for Zeteo, in what I think is one of the most important timely essays we've ever published.
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Liberal democracies must fight back against social media, or perish, writes @whstancil.bsky.social for Zeteo, in what I think is one of the most important timely essays we've ever published.
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The Internet Made Donald Trump
Liberal democracies must fight back against social media, or perish.
zeteo.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"The Internet Made Donald Trump"
Liberal democracies must fight back against social media, or perish, writes @whstancil.bsky.social for Zeteo, in what I think is one of the most important timely essays we've ever published.
Read/share/subscribe:
Liberal democracies must fight back against social media, or perish, writes @whstancil.bsky.social for Zeteo, in what I think is one of the most important timely essays we've ever published.
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You can say this till you're dead and homeowners will still say renters don't pay property taxes.
January 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
You can say this till you're dead and homeowners will still say renters don't pay property taxes.
Reposted by Charles Jergl
This is a beautiful tribute.
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is a beautiful tribute.
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Reposted by Charles Jergl
Woke up to RedNote being the number one app in the Apple store. People are deleting their Meta apps en masse. They’re comment bombing politicians that are using TikTok but voted for the ban to the point that the politicians turned their comments off. Monday is giving unhinged and I love it.
January 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Woke up to RedNote being the number one app in the Apple store. People are deleting their Meta apps en masse. They’re comment bombing politicians that are using TikTok but voted for the ban to the point that the politicians turned their comments off. Monday is giving unhinged and I love it.
Reposted by Charles Jergl
A reminder that already in the 1980s artist & activist David Wojnarowicz was modeling the kind of fuck-you energy we're going to need in the coming years. He had no illusions the government was there to protect him, the people he loved & his community, and neither should we
January 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A reminder that already in the 1980s artist & activist David Wojnarowicz was modeling the kind of fuck-you energy we're going to need in the coming years. He had no illusions the government was there to protect him, the people he loved & his community, and neither should we
Reposted by Charles Jergl
Yes, the person making food at McDonalds full time should be able to pay for rent and groceries with their paycheck.
January 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Yes, the person making food at McDonalds full time should be able to pay for rent and groceries with their paycheck.
@junobirch.bsky.social I'm devastated your new tour is going to leave Toronto unprobed 😓
January 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
@junobirch.bsky.social I'm devastated your new tour is going to leave Toronto unprobed 😓
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The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.
If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-thorough...
If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-thorough...
A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward
Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:07 PM
The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.
If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-thorough...
If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-thorough...
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Toronto food banks grapple with soaring demand as affordability crisis takes bite out of donations.
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
Toronto food banks grapple with soaring demand as affordability crisis takes bite out of donations
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
www.thestar.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Toronto food banks grapple with soaring demand as affordability crisis takes bite out of donations.
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
Reposted by Charles Jergl
There's actually now a lot of evidence that poverty is bad for people and that giving people money alleviates it. Stunning, I know.
December 5, 2024 at 3:15 PM
There's actually now a lot of evidence that poverty is bad for people and that giving people money alleviates it. Stunning, I know.
rabble.ca/podcast/whos...
In episode six of the latest season of the Courage My Friends podcast, co-executive director of Food Secure Canada, Marissa Alexander and executive director of North York Harvest Food Bank, Ryan Noble discuss the alarming outcomes of Toronto’s Who’s Hungry report #TOpoli
In episode six of the latest season of the Courage My Friends podcast, co-executive director of Food Secure Canada, Marissa Alexander and executive director of North York Harvest Food Bank, Ryan Noble discuss the alarming outcomes of Toronto’s Who’s Hungry report #TOpoli
Who’s Hungry? More than ever before
Folks from North York Harvest Food Bank and Food Secure Canada discuss the alarming growth of hunger in Toronto and across Canada.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2024 at 1:26 PM
rabble.ca/podcast/whos...
In episode six of the latest season of the Courage My Friends podcast, co-executive director of Food Secure Canada, Marissa Alexander and executive director of North York Harvest Food Bank, Ryan Noble discuss the alarming outcomes of Toronto’s Who’s Hungry report #TOpoli
In episode six of the latest season of the Courage My Friends podcast, co-executive director of Food Secure Canada, Marissa Alexander and executive director of North York Harvest Food Bank, Ryan Noble discuss the alarming outcomes of Toronto’s Who’s Hungry report #TOpoli