Ontario NDP sets ultimatum for legislature keffiyeh ban, threatening to defy rules
2024-04-27 04:57:13
The keffiyeh holds strong political and religious connotations affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wearing the scarf in the Legislative Assembly would be considered a political statement. Overt political statements in the Legislative Assembly should be banned, this includes the keffiyeh. All political and religious symbols should not be present in the legislature. This is to preserve the separation of state and religions, religious neutrality of the state, equality of all citizens.
The NDP should continue doing their important work for Canadians instead of wasting time on this silly thing. Ban of political and religious statements in the legislature is a Canadian tradition and people should respect that.
Iran and Israel may have taken a step back from a catastrophic regional war
2024-04-20 04:53:59
The biggest takeaway from this article is at the very end: “Iran is a nuclear weapons threshold state.” Iran doesn’t want to escalate at this stage because the Iranian rulers know that if they start an all out war with Israel they’ll (1) lose, because Israel has been armed by the U.S. for decades and because U.S. and U.K. and other allies will take Israel’s side. And (2) they know if it gets to and all out war, Israel will destroy their nuclear research facilities. Iran wants nuclear weapons, and they are close to having them. They will not risk setting their nuclear program back years, so they backed off—until they have nuclear weapons which they will then use.
Anger, pessimism towards federal government reach six-year high: Nanos survey
2024-04-19 04:52:08
Why all the negative emotions directed at the government? Disagree with them about the policies, but both the Liberals and the NDP genuinely want what’s best for all Canadians. Granted things are worse then we’d like them to be but a lot of it has to do with Conservative tax cuts for the rich when the Conservatives were in power, long-term neglect of housing especially under the Conservatives and worst of all ‘greedflation’.
We have what’s called a free market system. Free as in freedom, meaning in part, that the government does not, nor should not, have too much power in the market. Consequently, there is much that the government simply isn’t able to do. Unfortunately, corporate managers, especially in the grocery, gasoline, gas, and housing industries do not ascribe to Canadian values. They don’t care about their fellow Canadians and are increasing inflation beyond what it would be if they wanted to give Canadians a break by reigning in the excessive, outrageously high margins leading to excessive profits. There is nothing wrong with companies making a profit, but there is such a thing as greed-fueled excessive profits.
Instead of being angry at the government for doing their best to help us, people should be angry at corporations. There should be boycotts and large-scale letter writing campaigns demanding that the corporations we do business with, such as landlords, grocery stores and oil companies, take into account Canadian values and give their fellow Canadians a break, by lowering costs.