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Rachel Notley probably going to lose do think she will go national?

yeah she’ll most likely lose. go national how though? she might be able to take a step down to be a federal mp (and that’s still a maybe as to whether she could win a riding nomination), but no way in hell she’d ever win ndp leadership, every passing year that climate change gets worse makes her staying in politics as a “progressive” less likely. maybe she could be mayor of edmonton, but would she really want to take a step down like that, probably not.

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Between 2011 and 2015, 241 Canadian children were held at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone, according to the report. Normally Canadian citizens cannot be subject to detention under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. These children became de facto detainees because they were in the care of a parent who was detained and is a foreign national or permanent resident. The children cannot, however, have their own detention review hearings. As a result they become "legally invisible," according to the report. [...]

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i am a canadian and i dont even fucking understand our politics, other than everyone hates Notley and Trudeau and everyone wants to fuck him

a settler aristocracy extending and deepening control over indigenous land to extract valuable natural resources, and importing temporary labourers from the global south without granting them citizenship, while simultaneously gloating about how multicultural and tolerant and benevolent this aristocracy is - sums up canadian politics pretty well.everyone wants to fuck trudeau bc canadian politicians are usually the most boring and bland capitalist mangers. it’s just low expectations

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Two executives at the Canadian unit of Texas-based Kinder Morgan are poised to cash in with $1.5 million bonuses after Ottawa offered to bailout their west coast oil pipeline system and expansion project, according to a new filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Both Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson and David Safari, the vice president of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, stand to benefit from the deal, according to the new filing posted on Friday. The bonuses would be paid provided that they remain in their positions over the next two years.

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to reiterate from that ask in shorter form:

to build the pipeline will require massive, sustained violence by the state against protestors and indigenous communities. standing rock in a major population centre. it will dwarf the war in the woods and be more reminiscent of the oka crisis.

if you’ve accepted that then you can’t pretend this pipeline is for “progressive” purposes.

if you can’t accept that level of violence, then this is a $5-$20 billion bailout and a waste of a decision that should never have been made, even if you approve of the pipeline

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I asked to receive a response, not to be derided. All I want is to have a civil conversation and discuss this stuff. And yeah I believe him, because after seeing how this country works, this is the way to get shit done. I dont like it as much as anyone else but if you think Canada is gunna elect a majority NDP government in one year and establish great rltns w indigenous peoples, guess again. Compromise is the means of action in the real world w the State apparatus as it is. Not changing soon.

why have you brought up the ndp in every single ask? i don’t give a shit about them and it’s not the topic yet you keep bringing them up. is it because you can’t actually defend trudeau’s actions on their own merits? 

“we can’t just establish great relations with indigenous people right now so we have to do colonialism!” is a pretty wild statement. don’t really think anyone saying that gets to talk about what’s “progressive” or not

honestly though you’re still not acknowledging the fact that this pipeline will never actually be completed. trudeau can compromise with the ruling class all he wants (funny how he never seems to compromise with indigenous people) but there’s a reason kinder morgan didn’t want to build the pipeline, and it’s because the protest opposition is way too strong. to build this pipeline will take billions of dollars more than the $7 billion or so construction the government’s likely estimating due to the costs of constant protest and disruption. it will also take violence. a lot of violence. if you’re prepared to inflict that on indigenous water protectors and the likely thousands of people who will show up with them to protest then you’re not “progressive.” if you’re not prepared to inflict that then this isn’t a smart political compromise, it’s $5-$20 billion dollars thrown completely down the drain, a massive bailout for oil CEOs and shareholders who don’t need the money.

anyway, see you back in this space in august/september when i assume you’ll be sending asks explaining why trudeau, morneau, mckenna, and goodale have to get riot cops or the military to tear gas, beat up, and sic dogs on protestors to stop the conservatives or something.

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** THE KINDER MORGAN BAILOUT IS A DECLARATION OF WAR BY CANADA AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLES **

A declaration of war has been issued against Indigenous peoples in Canada by the federal government. By bailing out Kinder Morgan’s investment in the Trans Mountain pipeline, Canada has announced its ongoing intention to violate Indigenous title, law and jurisdiction, as well as the constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples, and all protocols of international law protecting Indigenous peoples’ homelands and right to consent to development on their lands.

Kinder Morgan purchased the pipeline for $600 million dollars. They sold it for a return of almost 650 percent for a product that proved faulty only a few days ago. Canadians are increasingly complicit in this swindle because they are all part-owners now. But Canadians have legal, moral, and treaty obligations to respect Indigenous jurisdiction, especially in light of what is to come. So the strategy must remain the same: we must devalue the pipeline by blocking its construction by any means necessary and supporting those who do.

Indigenous peoples from affected nations along the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion have already been arrested and violently removed from the path of destruction that will expand tar sands production and multiply tanker traffic and the risk of pipeline spills through their watersheds.

While there is much talk in the federal government about respecting Indigenous rights, not only does the pipeline bisect the lands and waters where Indigenous Peoples practice their right to hunt, fish, trap, pick berries, and sustain themselves, rendering those rights vulnerable to the imminent threat of a spill, its direct contribution to climate change already cuts these rights off at the legs.

Furthermore, the law itself and the deployment of police forces must be an object of scrutiny in the protection of Indigenous rights. Canada’s use of legal and police forces to repress Indigenous peoples is widespread and goes hand-in-hand with extraction. It is done in conjunction with corporations like Kinder Morgan, where the risk of Indigenous rights to commercial profit is mitigated through state police criminalizing Indigenous land defenders.

When we write that this is a declaration of war, we mean it literally. The military will be called. But the threat is not only the criminalization of land and water defenders protecting their territory from pipeline construction, but from the harmful corollary effects of pipeline construction, such as the ‘man-camps’ that are being established in four locations along the route. As the Women’s Declaration Against Kinder Morgan Man Camps reads: “Today, wherever man camps are set up, we face exponential increases in sexual violence. As development results in the destruction of our land base and our food sovereignty, it also drives up food and housing prices. This further intensifies our economic insecurity and we are forced into even more vulnerable conditions”.

Indigenous jurisdiction is collectively held. This means the deals Kinder Morgan has made with individual bands do not replace the need for engagement with the nation as a collective, as the proper title and rights holder on a territorial basis. Canada now bears the risks from the company’s failure to obtain consent from the appropriate jurisdictional authority. They are now the ones operating illegally, not the Indigenous land defenders.

It is the national pattern to use criminalization, civil action, and other penalties to repress Indigenous resistance to these policies by bringing to bear the weight of the law and police forces against Indigenous individuals and communities. The widespread surveillance of Indigenous peoples – e.g. the “hot spot” reporting system established under Harper, or the RCMP’s Project SITKA that monitored “Aboriginal public order events’ – is also part of a pattern of intimidation and risk mitigation. The use of incarceration is a long-term strategy to contain Indigenous rights within the carceral state, rather than see them asserted on the ground.

It is the failure of Canada to find peaceful measures to resolve this fundamental conflict that must be examined. Indigenous blockades are not acts of civil disobedience, but encounters between Indigenous and settler law.

And they should be dealt with as political conflict between Nations through diplomacy, not by security forces. Together, we will shut it down.

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Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade

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Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Lubicon Cree, David Suzuki Fellow

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Audra Simpson (Kahnawake Mohawk) Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

The Indigenous Environmental Network

Janice Makokis, Indigenous Scholar (Saddle Lake Cree Nation)

Dallas Goldtooth, Keep It In The Group Campaigner

Eriel Deranger, Executive Director Indigenous Climate Action and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

Hayden King, Beausoleil First Nation, Director, Yellowhead Institute, Ryerson University

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ryerson University

Nick Estes, Kul Wicasa, Co-Founder of The Red Nation, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico

Erica Violet Lee, Nêhiyaw nation, University of Toronto

Pamela Palmater, Chair of Indigenous Governance, Ryerson University

Tori Cress, Beausoleil First Nation, Idle No More Ontario

Clayton Thomas-Müller, Stop-it-at-the-Source Campaigner - 350.org

Avi Lewis, The Leap

Naomi Klein, Writer

David Suzuki, geneticist and broadcaster

Bill McKibben, author and environmentalist

Dr. Damien Lee (Zoongde), Band member, Fort William First Nation

Deborah Cowen, Associate Professor, Geography, University of Toronto

Sherry Pictou, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Women’s Studies: Indigenous Feminism, Mount Saint Vincent University

Audrey Huntley, No More Silence

June McCue, Ned'u'ten. Water is Life!

Judy Rebick, Author and Activist

Harsha Walia, Activist and Author

Anne Spice, Tlingit, CUNY Graduate Center

Maude Barlow

Stephen Lewis

Sheelah McLean Idle No More Organizer

Tony Wawatie, Interim Director General, Algonquins of Barriere Lake

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honestly that’s the thing that almost everyone is overlooking about kinder morgan, that this pipeline will never be completed. the ground opposition is way too strong. this isn’t a construction project of any kind, it’s a $5-$20 billion bailout for a project that will be completely wasted. imagine what good that money could actually do

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1/2 1. Why don't you think bc legal action won't win? Aren't they in the right, constitutionally? 2. Trudeau literally said he made a deal with Notley to back the pipeline to get her re-elected. So that the carbon tax can continue. Again, political realities here need to be faced for what they are.

2/2 “John Horgan is ... trying to scuttle our national plan on fighting climate change. By blocking the Kinder Morgan pipeline, he’s putting at risk the entire national climate change plan, because Alberta will not be able to stay on if the Kinder Morgan pipeline doesn’t go through,” he said. If provinces then start picking and choosing parts of the plan, Trudeau added, it will “mean that there is no agreement, and there is no capacity to reach our climate targets.”

lol you actually believe what trudeau says about the climate? how’s that liberal bootheel taste?

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He's building a pipeline to keep Notley re-elected to make sure we can go ahead with a federal carbon tax. If they both don't get elected again, the carbon tax won't happen. Its slow ass change but it's what Canada can handle rn. Anything more than this-- a full out traditional ndp stance, if one will -- is a recipe for disaster at the polls whether we like it or not. Unfortunately, idealist millrnials don't make up the entirety of the electorate. Politics isn't as smooth as we'd like it.

lol they’ve both been in power the last two years they could have implemented a federal carbon tax at any point if they wanted to. they’re playing you like a chump.

the liberals are gonna get slaughtered at the polls in bc next election for this. so would the bcndp if they supported the pipeline, supporting the pipeline is political suicide for any left-wing party. it might not hurt the liberals in most of the rest of the country, but supporting the pipeline won’t help them either. they’re not doing this because of any political calculation about what will win elections, they’re doing this because they’re the party of business, and exist to push pro-business policies.

in any case it’s all irrelevant. the pipeline’s never actually gonna carry oil. the bc government’s legal action will fail, indigenous cases may or may not, but imagine standing rock in a major population centre. this thing’s never getting built. trudeau just threw $5-$20 billion dollars down the toilet, depending how much of it they end up building, and you’re camping for him because you think he’s anything other than a stooge of the upper class.

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Whatcha make of the idea that Trudeau had to support the pipeline to get the carbon tax w Notley , otherwise they'd both be booted out and replaced by Tories and no change would happen at all? I don't like the pipeline either but we need to be realistic. Canada will not turn around and elect a majority NDP govt next election. The left leaning policy of the Liberals with the pipeline as social credit and to keep AB re-elected is what is realistic. I've friends in caucus, they know how it works.

lol your friends in caucus don’t know shit, this ask is a mess of contradictions. 

trudeau’s building a pipeline to stop the conservatives from building pipelines, what a climate hero

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The City of Hamilton has forced a local anarchist group to remove the circle A anarchy symbol from its headquarters, saying it is "hate material" similar to the swastika.

City officials say they're taking direction from Hamilton police on the issue, but police say that's not the case. [...]

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absolutely incredible

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I just “love” how it has only been three days since ten people were massacred on the streets of Toronto by a depraved far-right misogynist and the Toronto Sun has already identified feminists as the real enemy. 

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“UberEATS will receive a commission from restaurants based on a percentage of sales on the app“

According to the Uber Eats delivery guy I spoke to last night, this percentage for Uber is a whopping 35% of the cost of the food order.

There is also $5 order charge to the customer (this does NOT go to the delivery person, but tends to reduce tips to zero in most cases).

The delivery person, on the other hand, makes $4.10 per delivery minus a minimum of $0.85 for Uber, plus extra for each kilometre (of which Uber takes a part too). There are bonuses for doing 20 or more deliveries a day, but since Uber distributes the calls, the guy told me it’s rare that he gets more than 10 calls a day, maybe less if there are more delivery people available to work that day.

So he makes about $4-5 per delivery, and averages $40-$50 a day, while Uber (according to this guy at least) makes 35% of the total order, and a fixed $5 dollar charge. This seems incredible for processing the order through its app, especially in comparison with what they pay the delivery person. 

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While we know the attacker was: a) not Muslim, b) raised in Canada, and c) not linked to any terrorist operation, none of these facts fit the right-wing narrative which demonizes Muslims. When the facts undermine your claims, one option is to make up your own facts — which is exactly what happened. Right-wing propagandists immediately began spreading misinformation about the attack online, using Twitter to insist that the perpetrator of the crime was Muslim and likely linked to a terror group.

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Anti-feminist killers like Rodgers or Minassian or Lepine would style themselves as guerrilla counterrevolutionaries in the sexual revolution that has been ongoing and periodically intensifying for more than the last half century. It is worth noting that the two biggest massacres in the last 40 years of Canadian history have been explicitly misogynist attacks. [...]