Amazing how "exceptional times" involve doing all the things certain demographics want to do in very unexceptional times. Namely reducing environmental regulations to speed fast-tracking resource extraction projects with government loans to dubious mining industry figures.
I love living in a country with no more ambition than to be a branch plant.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nunavik-rare-earth-mining-project-9.7138515
Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175-million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration.
According to the Bank of Canada inflation calculator:
$100,000.00 in 1996 would be $188,308.74 in 2026.
$53,104.28 in 1996 would be 100,000.00 in 2026.
Who does it serve to maintain constant downward purchasing-power pressure on qualification for the Sunshine List?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-sunshine-list-9.7144414
You can check my work here:
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/
About the Sunshine List:
Ontario released its 2025 Sunshine List Friday, the annual list that documents public sector employees with salaries of over $100,000, with former Ontario Power Generation President and CEO Kenneth Hartwick topping it yet again with a salary of just over $1.9 million.
If only we had trained them right in the first place. Now who knows how much classroom and field and in-station training will be needed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-police-charter-rights-report-9.7133967
Charges were tossed or evidence was excluded from Ontario court proceedings hundreds of times over the past decade due to police officers in urban areas violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a new report examining more than 600 cases has found.
Immigrant children in Ca are being asked to face immigration court alone—often in a language they don’t speak. The Children’s Holistic Immigration Representation Program (CHIRP) pairs these kids with attorneys & social services.
Call Ca legislators to fund CHIRP https://buff.ly/44SNFQw
Proving that Canada can do it too.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mental-health-worker-border-guard-arrest-9.7128359
A social worker who specializes in youth mental health is heading back to Ireland after he says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada cancelled his work permit without his knowledge and without giving him a chance to respond.
As much as I crab about the #CBC they are keeping up a steady stream of articles on the far right.
Pity there aren't quotes from, say, the local anti-fascists in the second one though.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/talking-about-looksmaxxing-9.7110048
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/active-clubs-report-public-safety-canada-9.7109011
RE: https://social.coop/@majdal/116128469634960798
More information about the action against #OSAP cuts in BILL 33 here:
https://www.handsoffoureducation.ca/
There's a petition to sign, and a rally at Queen’s Park on Wednesday, March 4, 12:30PM - 2:00PM
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