Category: politics
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Ontario doesn’t do accessibility. Also water is wet.
… Read the restIf you’ve spent time in Ontario, especially if you have any kind of disability, you become pretty aware pretty quickly we fail at disabilities. That includes, to the surprise of hopefully no one, accessibility for those who have them.
Three years after the Doug Ford government received a
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What he should have said: “No honey, I’ve got this.”
… Read the restInstead, Jon Reyes–a probably soon-to-be former cabinet minister in Manitoba took two thoughts that should never be said together and definitely should never be said together on social media and… put them on social media
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The government really did not think this through. … Or they did, and that’s the problem.
… Read the restSo we’re under a new Covid thing again. That thing, because otherwise Covid will bore the hell out of me, shall be known when I write about it as om-nom-nomicron. Naturally this means we’re also under a new Covid benefit again. I say “under” rather than “entitled to” because, well,
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I no longer buy the financial arguments against a basic income.
I used to be somewhat skeptical we could afford, as either a province or a nation, to experiment with what a basic income would actually do. Mostly because I don’t like borrowing, and am fully aware that the more we borrow, the more we’ll be paying back through taxes–at least,… Read the rest -
Piss poor planning prevents proper performance. Or, this is not how you reduce a deficit, Ontario.
Cuts hurt. This is not news. It wasn’t news when Ontario was a Liberal province, and it’s even less so now that it’s trying to be a Conservative one–though not trying too hard, given we elected a guy who wouldn’t know what the word Conservative actually meant if you handed… Read the rest -
Marriage: Not just for people in love anymore.
Depending on who you ask, marriage hasn’t meant what it used to for years already. In Austrailia, if you’re one couple in particular, it means even less now.… Read the restYou may or may not be aware that same-sex marriage is a thing. In Austrailia they’re becoming aware of that. And as
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Congratulations on the new government, Canada. I give it 6 months.
It should be said right up front that if someone had told me a couple years ago I’d be referring to a Prime Minister Trudeau in the present tense I’d be questioning their sanity. But, here he is and here we are. So sure, that plus the fact the liberals… Read the rest -
“We’ll reform the voting system! For really real!” … and other reasons I’m not voting this year.
So if you’re in Canada, there’s an election coming up in October. And if you’ve been paying any regular degree of attention to it, you probably have a general idea of what you’ll be voting on–hint: “yes or no on throwing Stephen Harper out on his ass” isn’t it. If… Read the rest -
Trigger Warning: In which I worry about an assisted suicide ruling.
Warning: I have no idea how triggers work, particularly related to depression and contemplation of suicide. I am your typical, undereducated thug in that department. But if any of this entry serves to trigger something, please know it was not intended, I apologise, and you can inform me of it… Read the rest -
I’d support a minimum guaranteed income law. Too bad one doesn’t exist.
If you’ve spent any amount of time out of work, whether you’re disabled or not, you know it hurts. It hurts twice if you’re out of work with any kind of disability–particularly as you’ve already got at least one strike against you. Governments think they’re helping, usually–when they’re not actively… Read the rest
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