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In Canada most understand what no money for healthcare means. Our system is underfunded and in pretty dire state in most places. It's a well known crisis that's universally experienced. No money for healthcare is understood as no money for improving the status quo.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    People have always had to strike for a fair share. Firms do not pay what is "fair" according to the profits they workers earn them. They pay what's "fair" in the labour market they get people from. Where "fair" is as low as they can get away with.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    While agreeing with most of the above, progressive candidates don't have to convince 50% of the population that minorities aren't the cause of their problems. They have to talk about the big, obvious inrerests picking people's pockets and offer solutions to that, as well as solutions to the material problems caused by 50 years of state abdication from fulfilling people's needs which markets refuse to fulfill. In other words the progressives have to describe the whole problem and let people make the obvious conclusions themselves. I bet that over time, not all, but enough of them will.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    If racism was a significant driver of this, I don't think people would have shiften in opinion so much, especially in correlation with the economic conditions. Racism tends to be stable and change over longer periods. I think it's mostly 2 and 3.

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    Q Question (short form) Leading
    1 Alberta takes increased control over immigration - lower levels, prioritise economic migration, Albertans first on jobs Yes +10.6
    2 Only citizens, permanent residents and Alberta-approved immigrants eligible for provincially funded programs Yes +13.4
    3 Non-permanent residents must live in Alberta 12 months before qualifying for social support programs Yes +16.8
    4 Charge a fee/premium to non-permanent residents for public health care and education Yes +14.8
    5 Require proof of citizenship to vote in provincial elections Yes +26.8
    6 Provinces, not Ottawa, select judges for provincial King's Bench and Appeal courts Yes +2.6
    7 Amend the Constitution to abolish the unelected federal Senate Yes +6.6
    8 Allow provinces to opt out of federal programs in their jurisdiction while keeping the funding No +2.8
    9 Province's laws take priority over conflicting federal laws in provincial/shared jurisdiction Yes +1.4

    These are arguably more important because unlike separation, they have slim to significant majority support.

     

    Yet one conservative mayoral candidate, Brad Bradford — and the conservative think tank backing him — want to turn Toronto Water into a separate corporation.

    Of course, the proponents insist their proposal isn’t privatization. They say a separate corporation would let Toronto borrow more by securing new debt against our water infrastructure. But we all know that if you default on the debt, the lender can force its sale. Do we want to put our water infrastructure in that position? Never.

    Vote like your water depends on it and tell your friends.

     

    I opened a YouTube video in a private window in Firefox (to avoid falling into the wrong rabbit hole) and I got greeted by an ad telling me how I'm gonna get murdered at home because Toronto was run by the current mayor. Didn't see any mayor's names on the ad itself, so I went to the source of the ad to see who's astroturfing and for whom. This is what I found:

    • Kelly Aizicowitz: Healthcare marketing executive (recently SVP Client Services & Business Operations at a US firm), ex-GM of a healthcare startup, and former Queen's Park government staffer.
    • Matt McClellan: Manages a Toronto real estate firm, with a background in investment management including time at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
    • Jeffrey Kroeker: Business lawyer heading the business law practice at Massey LLP, specializing in government relations, trade, and crisis communications.
    • Hunter Corcoran: Investment professional with a background in business, economics, and history, active in public and political life.

    I'm guessing this isn't the only NGO and they probably aren't funded by small dollar donations.

    I was thinking, maybe I could use this is whenever people tell me stuff that came out of Brad's ads, I could point out that he's funded by the real estate and corporate interests that are making life expensive, and point to this page for them to check.

     

    I've tried giving screenshots of phishing emails to a local Qwen instance and so far it always correctly detected it as scam, even points out the exact elements that it based its judgement on. Sending screenshots to it ad-hoc isn't too scalable for family and friends. I'd like to be able to either forward emails for screening, or perhaps have it screen everything from a mailbox.

    Has anyone done anything like this? Is there anything self-hostable that does this?

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