actually happy now

A Conservative senator is facing criticism after he encouraged a crowd of protestors to “roll over every Liberal left in the country.”

Saskatchewan Sen. David Tkachuk made the comment while addressing a few hundred “United We Roll” protestors on Parliament Hill Tuesday. The senator said he was invited to speak by the Greater Ottawa Truckers Association, a municipal lobby group.

“I know you’ve rolled all the way here, and I’m going to ask you one more thing: I want you to roll over every Liberal left in the country,” Tkachuk told convoy-supporting protestors. Cheers erupted from the crowd.

“Because when they’re gone. These bills are gone,” he said, referring to Liberal government legislation proposing an oil tanker ban in northern British Columbia and another to rehaul the pipeline review process.

There’s no such thing as “monosexual privilege” or “LG privilege”

There’s no such thing as “bi privilege”

There’s no such thing as “straight passing privilege”

There’s no such thing as “allosexual privilege”

There’s no such thing as butch or femme privilege

There’s no such thing as “binary privilege”

There’s no such thing as “‘afab’ privilege”

There’s no such thing as “monogamy privilege”

I see apologists for the Liberals have moved on from “Trudeau and the PMO have done nothing wrong in the Wilson-Raybould/SNC-Lavalin case!” from “Hey, they might be corrupt, but at least they’re on our team!”

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Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society? 

You literally can’t. 

The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle. 

It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon. 

The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.

The vast majority of freshwater use is from industry and agriculture. http://www.worldometers.info/water/ 

The vast majority of CO2 emissions is from industrial and electrical generation sites and associated vehicles. http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

Alberta’s Opposition leader says if his party wins power it will seriously consider reducing the minimum wage for youth and alcohol servers.

Jason Kenney of the United Conservative Party says that would help struggling eateries keep their doors open while allowing them to hire more people.

He says servers have told him that they would rather have the extra hours, given they can make far more in tips — about $30 an hour or more.

“I always talk to the servers (when dining out). And every single one I’ve talked to in the past two-plus years across this province says they would rather have extra hours than an extra buck-fifty as a base wage,” Kenney said Tuesday.

This will harm vulnerable youth who are living independently and are working to keep a roof over their head while in school

Section 15:

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”