For my Canadian friends
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That's bad
Perhaps we should nickname CitizenVoice.us "Satire cyber-City".
Making fun of any crisis involving severe human adversity / loss of life is callous, disgraceful. BUT !
U.S. citizens have earned a reputation for being accusatory, litigious. BUT !
Sometimes the forest just catches fire. Matter of fact, just in the past day or so we burned down an historic building near the Grand Canyon.
Mirth is surely no adequate substitute for a Trump administration kneecapped FEMA.
But at this point it seems perhaps satire is a practical tool to help impart perspective to the crises inflicted down here, from "up there".
Perhaps we should be grateful. Either fire or flood can jazz up the news. And now we have BOTH ! I never thought I'd be nostalgic for GWB.
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Reboot Alberta
Jon Auger · rptoenosSd07 fl507Mg:1P63ty28t7 ua85m ulJ6hu536m 0hfhul70983 ·This is what the Modern Conservative demagogues (the Poilievre/Smith gang) want you to forget. Ottawa is not the problem, Conservatives sold us down the river. When you realize the lie starts there it all becomes clear. Or it should ....
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NAFTA Section 6: How Canadian Oil Was Locked into American Hands
Introduction
The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 marked a profound shift in the control and direction of Canada's energy sector. Of particular concern is Section 6 (Article 605) of NAFTA, which locked in the proportionality rule, effectively requiring Canada to maintain a fixed share of oil exports to the United States. This clause cemented the influence of American corporate interests over Canadian resources, significantly rolling back the sovereignty efforts that had defined Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program (NEP) in the 1980s. The NEP had challenged foreign domination, particularly that of U.S. multinationals such as .....
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Among all the reasons that Pierre Poilievre chose Battle River-Crowfoot as the riding that would return him to Parliament, one seems to stand out above the rest: it wouldn't take a lot of work to win. After all, Damien Kurek took the riding with almost 83 per cent of the vote in April's election, and it's hard to imagine a scenario in which any Conservative candidate wouldn't win there in a walk — or even a crawl.
But Bonnie Critchley, a 22-year army reservist and farmer who is running as an independent candidate in the Aug. 18 byelection, is doing her damnedest to create that scenario — and she's getting an unintentional assist from Poilievre. “Rural Albertans tend to be ....
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If anyone's got a few minutes for a long read, here's my comprehensive effort to discredit the disinformation campaign against Mark Carney. For those who find it useful, please feel free to share the whole post or extract any arguments or soundbites to counter specific attacks you see online.
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People are free to vote for whoever they want, and I'm not here to tell anyone otherwise. I believe in democracy, where each individual votes for a leader based on what that leader has to offer.
What worries me this time around is that we're at risk of voters choosing a candidate not based on that candidate's experience, platform and ideas, but rather on emotionally charged opinions of a candidate that have been informed by baseless attacks, outright lies, and funded propaganda.
To that end, I want to counter some blatant disinformation that I am seeing with regards to Mark Carney, propagated by right wing lobby groups and propaganda mills such as Canada Proud, and foreign bots and lobbyists.
I know Mark Carney. I've met him, and ....
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