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Bruce Elrick
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Married to a wonderful wife with with two adult sons, living in Calgary. I like getting out on my bike. I care about social justice.

Unemployed or semi-retired? […]

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@DavidM_yeg Don't forget that the Ontario PC convention is running this weekend.
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
@mick Yeah. That's likely.
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Progressive corporate tax effectively limiting maximum firm size.

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I like the wartime framing in the article.

A speech to the Canadian people calling out the lie of 50 years of neoliberalism third-way bullshit.

Call a snap election with these radical proposals to revitalize the nation […]
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January 31, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Beefed up Competition Bureau and enabling legislation. What capitalistism we will allow must in chains and competitive.

Split physical mobile network operators from retail service operators. Legislation to favour food co-operatives. Break up grocery monopolies.

Promote worker co-operatives […]
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January 31, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I want him to propose...

Effective wealth tax and replace GST and personal income tax with a land-value tax (modern Georgism). This will require a well-publicised transition with social safeguards. People will shit bricks out of fear.

Generational social co-operative housing program with low […]
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January 31, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Of course, Harper is thoroughly neoliberal, so natch.
January 31, 2026 at 2:36 AM
@timbray A hundred years ago, bearing witness was filtered through the lens of who would be believed, perpetuating power.

For all the negatives of social media and other information-systems technology, the ubiquity of digital cameras and network connectivity has resulted in a democratization of […]
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January 25, 2026 at 2:22 AM