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ElkeB
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Progressive voter. Reformed Conservative, Dog lover, Mom, Grandmother, News junkie, & Albertan. Created Lietracker.ca for those needing an accurate history of how a CPC Gov failed Canadians.

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elkeb.bsky.social
yes & no to Bernie's statement:
lietracker.ca/2019/10/23/b...

the party "wedded to the billionaires & corporate interests" is the GOP! In 🇨🇦, it's Conservatives.

There are probably *more* RW billionaires than LW billionaires who support political campaigns, including media! 😭 #cdnpoli
The Bible Brigade and the rising clout of the authoritarian religious right https://lietracker.ca/2019/10/23/bible-brigade-and-the-rising-clout-of-the-authoritarian-religious-right/ “The Grand Old Party is more religious cult than political organization.” President of the Alamo City Republican Women’s club, 1993 http://theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm
November 24, 2024 at 1:53 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
yes & no
lietracker.ca/2019/10/23/b...

the party "wedded to the billionaires & corporate interests" is the GOP!

There are also *many more* RW BILLIOINAIRES than LW billionaires! 😭
November 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
July 16, 2015: Harper’s 10 Year War on First Nations
www.theharperdecade.com/blog/2015/7/...
While all past governments have had a hand in the colonization and oppression of First Nations, the Harper government stands out as one of the most racist and aggressive governments that First Nations have had to work with in many generations. His government’s pattern of victim-blaming, racist stereotyping, and using misinformation to vilify First Nations leaders in the media has led even the most reserved voices at the United Nations to conclude that Harper’s actions have put “social peace” at risk. It should be no surprise, then, that Idle No More, representing the largest, most coordinated social protest movement in Canada, arose during Harper’s regime. http://www.theharperdecade.com/blog/2015/7/14/harpers-10-year-war-on-first-nations
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
THE HARPER DECADE
www.theharperdecade.com
OCTOBER 15, 2015: Canada has Changed The Harper Decade represents an attempt to dissect the past ten years, and to discover just what has changed. https://www.theharperdecade.com/blog/2015/10/14/the-harper-decade-canada-has-changed MAY 14, 2015: The Harper Decade & the Loss of Civility & Democracy in Canadian Politics & Governance "... these developments challenge civility & democracy; they have made Canadian politics more partisan & divisive, & less democratic." http://www.theharperdecade.com/blog/2015/4/18/steve-patten
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
Any CPC MP who didn't know that Harper muzzled his MPs, staffers, scientists, Gov bureaucrats, burned books, attacked Democracy & our Charter & that Poilievre will do the same should stop whining & resign because they're not representing their constituents.
#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics
Conservative ideology is rife with attacks on Science & Data https://lietracker.ca/2019/02/06/conservative-ideology-is-rife-with-attacks-on-science-and-data/ “So Harper’s War on Science has some obvious goals, including getting rid of all federally-funded science that would impede water export, as well as any science standing in the way of aquaculture, tar sands and offshore oil development, and natural gas export."  War on Democracy & Science with Stephen Harper https://lietracker.ca/2019/01/20/war-on-democracy-and-science-with-stephen-harper/ “It is no secret that the Harper government has gone to extraordinary lengths to seek to control the agenda and thwart journalists’ dual purpose of holding politicians to account and making government more transparent to citizens."
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 10:42 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
Conservatives are #RageFarming conspiracies like this to deflect from the fact that they have zero positive policies to offer Canadians. It's about keeping their base angry.
Conservatives are #RageFarming conspiracies like this to deflect from the fact that they have zero positive policies to offer Canadians. It's about keeping their base angry.
November 16, 2024 at 8:25 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
We need Canadian education standards like Finland has

How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...
How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools Country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from school pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information "In maths lessons, Kivinen’s pupils learn how easy it is to lie with statistics. In art, they see how an image’s meaning can be manipulated. In history, they analyse notable propaganda campaigns, while Finnish language teachers work with them on the many ways in which words can be used to confuse, mislead and deceive. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/fact-from-fiction-finlands-new-lessons-in-combating-fake-news
November 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
Given Poilievre & CPC is in lockstep with BC's CONs on the bug conspiracy, we need national education standards to mandate teaching school children how to recognize & debunk Conservative nonsense.

origins: www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1...

#cdnpoli #bcpoli
November 16, 2024 at 8:10 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
As an Albertan who worked in the Oil patch in the 80s, I'm sick of people like Morton who blame PET for the oil bust in the 80s when it & the recession was global. Get over it already & stop whinging.

AB doesn't need more autonomy from the Fed Gov.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 16, 2024 at 6:03 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
Anyone know what #InvalidHandle means? this was new for me today
November 14, 2024 at 3:50 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
I get it. on subjects I have researched extensively I am more knowledgable than those who claim expertise but who are, in fact, woefully ignorant. It's important to recognize who is afflicted with Dunning-Kruger & who doesn't get that "Real Knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance"!
November 13, 2024 at 6:50 AM
elkeb.bsky.social
You're letting Poilievre off the hook way too easy. He does this on purpose bc he's been schooled by experts & knows he's peddling disinformation. He wants his guillable base to believe that Progressives are Socialists.
November 12, 2024 at 7:21 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
Poilievre’s #RageFarming disinformation serves his agenda because he's been schooled by experts: he's hoping his base will believe that Progressives are Socialists.
November 12, 2024 at 7:16 PM
elkeb.bsky.social
Poilievre is doing his disinformation play on purpose to serve his agenda bc he's been schooled by experts yet he persists with his #RageFarming: he's hoping his base will believe Progressives are Socialists.

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics
Contrary to Poilievre's falsehood, Hitler was NOT a Socialist. He rounded them up and sent them to concentration camps.
November 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM