Do not cross the border unless you have to.

Totally understandable. I also did vote Carney to block PP. I wouldn’t vote NDP in my riding if it’s lib/con race as it usually is. I would help the movement win where it can tho. Insisting on wins in ridings where it’s virtually impossible isn’t useful. It’s also a bit of waste of resources.

which if they are substantial are traditionally supposed to be in blind trusts in the case of the leaders

I’m referring to the various real estate developers, banking and other corporate donors who donate through organized individual donations and otherwise have access to politicians that voters can only dream of. Like Mirko Bibic having drinks with the CRTC chair.

I think you’ll see a gradual, but dramatic shift in perspective about the governments involvement in housing strategy.

Probably, but fascism may not wait that long.

The government thought, couldn’t run a lemonade stand without 40 layers of bureaucracy, so I mean be careful what you wish for.

I don’t believe that, especially given how many serious industries the gov’t of Canada used to run and still does to this day. I’m the opposite of a Thatcherite believer. I prefer gov’t bureaucracy to corporate bureaucracy. :D There’s little choice in-between for many sectors.

E: Or at least a choice between gov’t and corp bureaucracy.

Lower amount per donor suggests Lewis had the grassroots support.

Yup.

Who are the “big” donors pushing up the average of the other contenders?

No idea. Maybe union donors in the case of Rob.

To be clear, there’s a difference in terminology of profit in economic context vs colloquial. When they say profit / non-profit, non-profit doesn’t mean that people don’t make money for their work. Rather it refers to what’s done with the extra money made above the costs of the firm, after it’s paid its employees and officers. Is it given to the firm’s shareholders, is it reinvested into the firm, are prices reduced to have less excess the next quarter, etc.

I guess they’ll have to board and kidnap those tankers then.

Holy Toledo! Avi has lower avg donation than Rob, wow.

Jagmeet raised 920K during his leadership campaign with higher avg per member too.

A few bombs ought to help with that.

Proton AG is owned by the Proton Foundation which is a non-profit.

Wait what happened with systemd?

E: Thanks both!

I also enjoy discussing attack vecrors with my wife.

Oh damn, I had no idea Peevski was sanctioned. Good to know.

This guy wants power. Political power!

I think one thinf Lewis said is that during the first minority gov’t where the NDP holds the balance of power they’ll make one demand - electoral reform - and won’t let up on it. Cause delivering more for people hinges on acquiring political power and as you said, FPTP isn’t helping the NDP in this regard.

I’m very much talking to real people. The conversations I’m having were unimaginable just 2-3 years ago. My own views have changed a lot. A shift’s happening. Very likely not evenly distributed but there was no talk about socialist policy where I am either until recently. According to my conversations people just see everyday problems not getting solved or getting worse for a very long time and they lose faith in the solutions offered so far. For example my immediate real social network is around 10 people. We’ve been discussing the free market’s pros and cons for decades. These days all but one thinks the free market can deliver prosperity for them. Everyone else has lost faith in the model.

Or it’s like profit-driven markets deliver profit, and only sometimes decent housing. Governments haven’t even attempted to sigtificantly control the market because it would impact various real estate and financial interests supporting the politicians. There are good options for taking care of individual owners if we wanted to significantly deflate the market. They’re just not good options for finance and RE corp interests.

Just checked some nums, it seems like Canadian electricity is 2-4x cheaper than UK’s. Also in Ontario where this article is about, only about 16% of the electricity is produced by fossil fuels. The rest is nuclear, hydro and renewables.

Maybe. I’m confused by what you’re saying. If perhaps you elaborate on why you believe this, I might be less confused.

E: Nevermind, I read your other comment. Not confused anymore. Thanks!

I low-key hoped she’d run for leader but I think she’d be a vluable part of a left rebuild of the party either way.

True and I think there’s an opportunity for change at this juncture. It hasn’t happened yet.