How can we use climate targets to require MPs take the train for all trips between Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal? It wouldn't take long for that to produce fruit in improvements to VIA.

Feels different when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn't it now, Disney?
Don't get me wrong: glad to see someone fighting back against AI's wholescale theft of intellectual property. It's just kind of ironic for a company who has famously made most of its $$ stealing other people's stories.

And what about those who support and profit from Israel's brutal genocide of Palestinians and the RSF's violence against people in Sudan? Oh, wait, that's you! By your own estimation, what dire consequences should be visited upon you for your callous enabling of torture and death?

If you care about unions, why did you do away with the department and labour (focused on workers) and change it to department of jobs (focused on bosses' ability to extract labour from people for as little as possible while calling it success for everyone)?

Also Liberals generally say all the right things on climate but fail to do any of them and Canadians stupidly fall for it over and over again. This is the most extreme example where "green" banker Carney who has acknowledged the climate crisis in the past suddenly just wants to extract fossil fuels.

Canadians voted Liberal to prevent the Conservatives with their anti-science perspectives from winning. We're all a little bit surprised to end up with a Conservative government in red capes.

"We're tried nothing at all and it didn't work, so I guess we just need to use more fossil fuels!"

It's ludicrous to think the tools of armed conflict with protect our sovereignty against the American threat. You've already sold us out to the USA in myriad ways. This only helps war profiteers not real Canadians.

This isn't a budget for Canadians. It's a budget for your rich cronies. You have not delivered what you promised in your campaign.

You're running roughshod over ordinary Canadians so that a few wealthy folks can gain even more short term wealth and selling all our future into a climate change hell hole.

Proportional representation won't "fix" democracy either BUT it will equip us to better engage with the process and get real results and thus keep us encouraged enough to repeat. It is this never-ending hard work of participation that can "fix" democracy. But that's less pithy. ;)

For one octogenarian? They're a game changer for everyone who invests in one. There is no problem with ebikes. There is a problem with insufficient bike infrastructure (not wide enough; too many busy MUPs) and with the breakdown of society resulting in a loss of consideration for others.

And if that's all too challenging, can we at least make sure we are not asleep at the wheel while democracy veers off a cliff. We don't *have* democracy; we *create* it through participation. It takes more than voting. Know your reps. Talk to them. Talk to your neighbours. Build communities.

Let's not self congratulate that we didn't have slavery (we kinda did); let's take a hard look at how much racism is baked into Canadian norms, especially for Indigenous people but for all Canadians of colour, and let's put some real effort into dismantling those systems.

Let's not pat ourselves on the back for being a country of immigrants: let's actually treat new immigrants among us as though they are welcome, have equal rights to longer settled Canadians (they should); let's not cut immigration targets when climate change is creating more refugees than ever.