Mastodawn

Good morning. I just wanna say I don't wanna be, never expected to be, the guy who cares so much about Canada Post. My granddad collected stamps and that's probably my closest connection. I barely am able to send christmas cards each year from executive dysfunction, so it's not like I keep it afloat (except we do, our tax dollars do, we WANT our tax dollars to do so).

It's just that I know history, how before there were things like Canada Post and libraries and public services if you wanted to do something "fancy" like read a book or send a letter you had to beg and pay a lord or other rich person to let you do it. So mostly you just didn't. You didn't read a book or didn't send a letter. Instead you worked the land owned by someone else to make them rich and then you died.

So when public systems are eroded, I sense a return to the age of "you work the land to make someone else rich until you die." and that's not acceptable to me.

So, I care about Canada Post. Damn.

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Marc "ACAB" Godin

I saw the line in the budget - cutting funding by 98.7% (if memory serves, it might not) for Canada Post.

On top of the provincial government cutting the ENTIRE budget for Nova Scotia publishing, I'm just kind of aghast at these clods who would drown children, provided they only have to give the order and not do it themselves. It's perverse.

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Marc "ACAB" Godin 2d ago

I got mad last night folks. I flamed out. I flounced. Because I want free stamps, lol.

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🔥Cassandra🔥2d ago

@quietmarc I read a news report about all the essential services being cut

(https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/116259171293690863)

and then got smacked in the face with a Gov of Canada ad that was all pastels and smiles and how great life is under their leadership.

Stéphanie (@[email protected])

To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs - The federal government has tabled details of how it plans to cut billions of dollars from programs that support science, tourism, harbour improvements, journalism, foreign aid, and even the development of a Canadian-made lunar rover module. - The Local Food Infrastructure — which gave community groups grants of up to $500,000 for greenhouses, cold storage and processing equipment — will end. The Department of Canadian Heritage will make reductions in the Canada Cultural Space Fund, Canada Media Fund, Canada Periodical Fund and Local Journalism, realizing savings of $76 million by 2028-29. Meanwhile, the CBC will get $192 million less next year, a seven per cent spending cut. Library and Archives Canada will cut its spending by nearly $50 million over the next three years, partly by ending the Documentary Heritage Communities Program and reducing Access to Information and Privacy functions. #cdnpoli https://globalnews.ca/news/11737460/mark-carney-spending-plans-cuts/

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