[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

That's a SLAPP suit.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

Any framing of the story by the fucking Toronto Sun is going to be trash.

But it is true that the Canadian system has been overwhelmed. A lot of services and amenities have not expanded as massively as would be needed to accomodate the massive expansion of the population. We have 10 million more people than 20 years ago but the way we operate is the same.

Small example: we are not training as many more doctors and we are not recognizing as much faster foreign doctor credentials. So we have fewer doctors per person.

We are building mostly sprawling suburbia, and we're expanding mostly highways. We're still debating high speed rail. Our economy is still basically oligopolistic and extractive and our capital is mostly locked in real estate.

You can see all this and decide that foreigners are to blame, which is what the conservatives want you to think.

Or you can say, hey, we need to change and update the institutions, economy and structure of this country.

Because, this plot of land is actually prime real estate for the next century of climate change, and people are going to keep coming here.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Substantiate your extraordinary claim that Hadid was sharing Hamas propaganda or stfu.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

This kind of hate crime should be persecuted to the fullest extent. Lynch mobs like this should never be normalized.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

"Why are the Palestinians violent?"

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

Don't care. Also, please don't use "low class" as a slur.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

Getting rid of Netanyahu is not going to bring peace. Israeli intransigence is structural, it is literally built as an apartheid system.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

The fact that this is breaking on the BBC, also should tell you something about the state of press freedom in Mitsotakis' Greece.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bicycles on their own don't turn people into assholes, the same way toaster ovens or flip-flops don't do it, so we have to assume there is some percentage of the population that are assholes no matter what they drive. So before letting them loose in the city, would you rather equip an asshole with a multi-tonne metal murderbox or with a bicycle? The more assholes on bikes the fewer assholes with the means to murder people.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

Outdoors teaching is an idea we should really be doing more. It would have been useful to have during the pandemic, and it is still a good idea.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago

Macron was the leader that was being mocked for trying to keep talking to Putin and trying to find a way to talk through the crisis.

This reversal in posture I think is extremely telling of how far gone the Russian leadership is... When even your best interlocutor turns away, even more when they turn hardliner against you, that means they have seen something that has deeply deeply shaken them.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Saying there are no Palestinians is up there with Putin saying there are no Ukrainians. This is genocidal hate speech. Fuck you. Fuck you, profoundly.

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