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Wrote something for the local paper in QC, 🇨🇦.

Strongman premiers crave control and hate bike lanes

There is a trend among conservative provincial premiers in Canada to vilify bike lanes. And to use that play to weaken municipal governments and take power away from elected council. This piece is about that, and the importance of biking to meeting the climate crisis. It's also about how the climate crisis is driving up vehicle insurance costs.

#canpoli
#climatecrisis
https://lowdownonline.com/strongman-premiers-crave-control-and-hate-bike-lanes/

An image of the Low Down's Valley Voices column on news print.

Headline: Strongman premiers crave control and hate bike lanes

Full text: https://lowdownonline.com/strongman-premiers-crave-control-and-hate-bike-lanes/

The above link will become pay-walled after a time, here are the first few paragraphs.

When 13 democratically elected municipal councillors of 17 vote for something, it would be reasonable to conclude that the clear will of the municipality’s citizens has been expressed. For Canada’s strongman premiers, a municipal decision like this instead represents a “serious disconnect.” Many of Canada’s premiers crave control over their province’s big cities. These premiers are all from parties with a ‘C’ in their acronyms.

So which decision was seriously disconnected? Which premier? What city? It actually doesn’t matter – this is another example of strongman premiers coming up with a pretext to take control of municipal government. But specifically, the decision was to put in bike lanes in Halifax, and it is Nova Scotia’s Premier Tim Houston who thinks it is undemocratic when 76 per cent of elected councilors vote for needed infrastructure.

Nova Scotia’s premier seized on Halifax council’s decision to build a bike lane in order to paint its municipal government as dysfunctional, and to suggest that only a ‘strong’ mayor can make the right decisions. The kind of decision the premier expects...

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My cup overflows with anger toward these lying, deceiving, murderous, oil and gas companies. So this morning, I did something I've never done before in hopes the people coming home from their long weekends in Tofino and Ucluelet get the message.

Please Boost.

#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #OilandGas #LNG #Liars #bchwy4 #bcWildfire

https://bclngburns.ca

A large green billboard promoting BC LNG saying they “will reduce global emissions” has a large white tarp overtop the letters with “LIARS” in red and “BCLNGBURNS.CA”

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Today something happened for the #Fediverse!

Petition #e4769 was presented in Canada's House of Commons on behalf of over 1000 #opensocialweb supporters! The government must now respond!

It was a group effort including @Dragon @chad @Dunstable @bougiewonderland @LALegault @mike @stephanie @danamcfarland @bluefacedbeast and 1003 more!

In 🇨🇦? Write the Speaker and your MP! Send them this post! Outside 🇨🇦 ? Use this example!

We can make it happen!! 😊 👊
#TheMediumIstheMessage
#canpoli @GottaLaff

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“As long as Americans aren’t particularly attached to gassing up their cars, or eating beef, or using any electricity at all. Then they may not be forced to discover how much of that stuff comes from Canada. Oh, and it would also be helpful is a large portion of a major US city hadn’t recently burned down in a series of wildfires, and they aren’t looking for Canadian lumber with which to rebuild. Otherwise, oh boy, sucks to be them.”

#CanPoli #USPoli #TradeWar

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/americans-choose-most-expensive-way-possible-to-discover-what-goods-made-in-canada/

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“The doctors that we are talking to are embarrassed to say they’re Americans,” said John Philpott, CEO of CanAm Physician Recruiting, which recruits doctors into Canada. “They state that right out of the gate: ‘I have to leave this country. It is not what it used to be.’”

https://www.alternet.org/doctors-canada/

#CanPoli

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#mastodonmigration #canada #usa #cdnpoli

There are about 36 days left for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to shut down the @CanadianPM X/Twitter account. Mr Trudeau, stop clapping and waiving at the fascist in the gallery. #canpoli #leavex https://mastodon.online/@ZebKing/113913380438987656

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This platform has proved to be pretty quite for me outside of one math meme re-share that went a little viral :).

I'm still checking in now and then but I've set up shop pretty much on Bsky, Cara, and still have active Meta accounts but, that's up for review for sure now.

Links to follow if you find this and are over there.

https://bsky.app/profile/salgoodsam.bsky.social/

https://cara.app/salgood

#art #comics #canpoli #rants #noai

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Huge win. Huge. Canadian Court upholds government restricting crypto bullshit use of electricity

"B.C. wins case for power use limits by cryptocurrency miners"

(Its not "mining" its wanking, nothing produced, nothing mined)

"The decision upheld an earlier court ruling against Conifex Timber Ltd., a forestry company located in Prince George .... The company was seeking unrestricted access to B.C. electricity."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/11/news/bc-power-limits-cryptocurrency-mining-court-appeal

#victory #sanity #productivity #wealth #canpoli #Canada

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"The True North is indeed strong and free," said King Charles in his throne speech at the opening of the Canadian parliament today. This was only the third time in Canada's history a monarch has delivered the address, which is usually given by the governor general. Charles was there at the request of Prime Minister of Mark Carney and referenced Canada's unique identity and a renewal of "national pride, unity and hope" in a speech that underlined the country's sovereignty in the face of U.S. President Trump's "51st state" threats.

https://flip.it/fT6-BR

#Canada #CanadaNews #KingCharles #CanPoli #ThroneSpeech #News #TrumpAdministration

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