Hear me out, but aren't these people supposed to be professional?
Wondering whether "happy" or "angry" variants of a person will show up should stop being a thing around sixteen to eighteen years of age.
Maybe thes story should read: "Trump grossly unfit for office and the Republican party is so badly broken that they can't manage to replace him"?
Let's re-write that in truthful language: Tim Hortons franchisees, who are multimillionaires, don't want to pay people a market wage and is looking to the government the bring in cheap labour to help them get richer.
Tomorrow's news: House prices increase.
Public housing is part of the solution. Taxing capital gains far more aggressively is part of the solution. Rezoning and infill are part of the solution. Punitative taxation on ownership of multiple single-family homes is part of the solution.
This isn't the solution, it's just kicking the can down the road. Again. Because we've decided that the rich shall never, ever take a haircut.
More like seventy five cents, given Google's profit margins.
Do more for the poor.
It's really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.
That's why the Right is eating everyone's lunch: they're promising they'll make things better. They're lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they're speaking to people's insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.
“Neither party is willing to compromise”
What a load of faux-centrist bullshit. One party has been captured by a grifting demagogue and his protofascist enablers, while the other's run by milquetoast technocrats that have been Lucy-footballed since 2008.
But sure Joe, tell us again about "both sides".
The problem, for the likes of Reuters (who is owned by the Thompson family, who are the richest people in Canada) that the problem is the very system that's enriched them and people like them over the last fifty or so years.
They'd need to admit they were wrong in their desires to dismantle the post-WW2 New Deal era, and that while neoliberalism has worked out just dandy for them, it's been a net loss for a lot of people and is only getting worse. And that admission would mean they'd have to make do with less. Not that they'd be poor, but they'd need to be less obscenely rich.
And because this is such a hard admission to make, and because neoliberal technocracy has been working great for them so far, they'll nibble at the edges of the problem, maybe scapegoat a group or two, or fret about culture wars or indulge in the macroeconomic version of bikeshedding instead of dealing with the core issue.
Upton Sinclair was bang on with "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
So we're supposed to truck ourselves for an hour or more in a car, at our expense, to spend money in a downtown that we can't afford to live in, so that landlords--who are already rich--can get richer? How about landlords pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop buying lattes and avocado toast, and cancel their Disney+ subscription?
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And this is why the LPC will never pass electoral reform (except for ranked ballot, because they're more likely to be everyone's second choice) because under full PR they'd never, ever, get another majority government despite having tepid support among the voting population. For the record, the CPC wouldn't even support ranked ballots as they're almost never the second choice of anyone (because their policies--when they can be bothered to articulate them--are unpopular, believe it or not)
For the record, no Canadian political party has had >50% of the popular vote in half a century, and even before then it was exceedingly rare. FPtP allows the LPC or CPC to sneak a majority in, anyways.
Want to know the reason?
The same applies to Law, frankly.
It's the same reason our political class is dominated by law and finance, and why labour of any kind if highly underrepresented: they're the professions of the idle rich. If you work a day job--even medicine!--good luck taking the time off to do something like running for office or working on multiple boards.
"Blurs the line?"
Ok, let's try an experiment: "Hitler blurs the line on Jews, Romani and actual criminals ".
How does that read, Mr Journalist?
Fuck these false-objectivity, milquetoast, water-carrying fascist apologists.