Older white guy rants to me and a fem colleague about how the Ford government lets private long-term care coorprations/condo boards and landlords grift the living hell out of regular people, but prefaces his rant with, "and beleive me, I'm no socialist." I couldn't get a word in edge-wise, but I'd love to a have asked, "why not? And what do you want then?" I'm so glad that generally folks seem much more willing to use socialism and identify as a socialist (at least in the Anglo-Americas I experience) than they were even just 10 years ago, but encounters like these are bizzare. If you have a problem with private ownership of land, you really ought to have a problem with a socio-economic system that privileges just such an arrangement and trends, pretty well inevitability, towards (neo)liberalism and then the slide to fascism. Socialism (/anarchism/communism/communalism, etc.) is the alternative, friend.

#OnPoli #CanPoli #TheFords #Ford #QueensPark #WagTheDoug #PoliticalEconomics #Socialism #Housing #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis #Socialism #Communism #Communalism #Anarchism #DegrowthCommunism #Degrowth #TheCommons #ABetterWorldIsPossible

This is from Whitby, ON, but apply it to the Ontario municipality of your choice: https://youtube.com/watch?v=troEeWrqO64

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Episode #57 of #Canadaland's #WagtheDoug podcast.

"Allison and Jonathan look at the ways the Greenbelt story could be told on screen and who’d be best suited to star in it."

#greenbelt #Ontario #onpoli #DougFord

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/57-greenbelt-the-movie/

The latest #WagTheDoug captures what's great and not so great about this podcast.

Smith and Goldsbie clearly have a great deal of knowledge and insight when it comes to our premier's corruption. But they choose to present it in a too-clever bit wherein they try to pick the best cinematic metaphor for the current debacle. It's hard to listen to.

Greenbelt: The Movie
Ontario’s Auditor General has confirmed what we suspected: that Doug Ford’s government effectively redrew the map of the province, opening up thousands of acres of land for development, based largely on solicitations made at a party. It just wasn’t the party we thought.

* Episode Download link (32 MB): https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/62f465da5b00440012ac2e83/e/64dbfa0800649a0011d3407a/media.mp3