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This is what happens when you have a Corporately run mainstream media and a corporately run government, neither of which actually acknowledges anything good the NDP does.

If you weren’t paying attention it would look like the Liberals just came up with these positive changes to the CERB (and the CESB wouldn’t even exist without the NDP), instead of the truth which is that it only happened because the NDP spent a weeks long campaign demanding that they make these changes.

PSA to all the peeps who still think NDP don't stand a chance in this election.

[…]But all three men reiterated the most important thing they could do was vote — and they encouraged others to do the same.

As a child, Alsaleh worked at a polling station in Syria preparing election cards.

“It asked a question: ‘Do you want Mr. Assad to be the president?’ My job was to mark yes, so when Syrians come to vote … it’s already marked yes,” he said. “That’s Syrian democracy.”

And compared to his Canadian ballot?

“For the first time, I see a ballot with different choices and I get to vote secretly and then cast my own vote into the ballot — it’s amazing.”

He finds it hard to comprehend that many Canadians do not cast their votes — Elections Canada says the turnout was 66 per cent in 2015.

“People are dying to have a say in my country, Syria,” Alsaleh said. “And here you can do it without being policed, without being harassed. You shouldn’t take it for granted. You should go out there, you should vote. Do your duty as a citizen.”

Ramadan put it even more simply.

“Check your privilege.”

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pledging to help oilsands workers find new jobs outside the sector if his party forms government and implements its plan to combat climate change.

His party’s plan calls for cutting subsidies to oil and gas companies as a way to encourage a transition to renewable energy sources — part of a general pledge shared by the NDP, Greens and Liberals to cut emissions over the coming years.

But the promise does not always resonate well among oil industry workers who are hear in it a pledge that they’ll be out of work if the New Democrats get power.

Singh is promising to take some of the billions in revenues the party is expecting from taxing those whose wealth exceeds $20 million and putting it toward helping those workers in Alberta find new jobs.

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It’s the latest viral moment for Jagmeet Singh.

In the media session following Thursday night’s French-language leaders’ debate, the NDP leader politely but repeatedly refused to answer questions from Rebel Media’s Keean Bexte, who identified himself as a reporter with “RNN.”

People who see the short exchange, in which Singh twice informs Bexte that he will not answer his questions, may be interested to learn about Bexte’s history of association with far-right groups and organizations.

Bexte was one subject of a multi-part Ricochet investigation last year that exposed members and staff of Fireforce, a Calgary company selling Rhodesian and apartheid South African flags and war memorabilia — symbols used by white supremacists.

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An excellent video about Justin Trudeau’s electoral reform betrayal by Jonathan Cassels.

Remember this when you vote next month in the Federal election:

https://twitter.com/JMCassels/status/1176226408814788613

i premise you that being over 30 is not the dividing factor here

i am begging of you all to please recognize class position as the relevant factor here

She wants to stop using foreign oil! By expanding use of Canadian oil!

She wants a universal basic income! But it will replace dedicated supports for people with disabilities!

She wants blanket decriminalisation of all drugs to deal with the fenatyl crisis! But only temporarily, until the crisis is "dealt with", whatever the fuck that means.

When the queen opened parliament in 2016 she outright gave a pro austerity speech sitting on a golden throne with the crown jewels on her head. The crown jewels worth. between 3 and 5 billion pounds.

A political billboard along a busy Halifax highway warning Canadians to “say NO to mass immigration” is being condemned by Premier Stephen McNeil and MP Andy Fillmore.

The billboard, which appeared this week in cities including Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Toronto and Regina, bears Maxime Bernier’s face and the logo of his People’s Party of Canada along with the word “VOTE.”

The sign sparked criticism on Twitter, and the Liberal premier added his voice to the opposition, tweeting:

“As premier, I welcome everyone to Nova Scotia - but I don’t welcome this negative, divisive tone. Our population is at an all-time high, unemployment is at a record low and our economy is growing, in large part thanks to immigration. That’s fact, not opinion.”

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