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Would it not be better to argue for fair forms of taxation that alleviate some of the underlying inequity? Increasing capital gains taxes does a similar thing but economy wide. As would raising top marginal tax rates. Neither of those options would threat the popularity of OAS.

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Means testing cuts spending on programs, certainly, but it also takes more administration, creates edge cases, and can make a program less politically popular if you take people with the most money and influence out of the scheme entirely.

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Someone making $100k + $9k from OAS pays $22k in taxes in BC. Maybe a bit less depending on how much is drawn from a TFSA. This hypothetical person is still a net contributor, with OAS working effectively as a tax break for being retired.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 17/09/2026

I'm seeing a few obvious AI ads around town. It does raise credibility concerns for me, especially when they are sloppy. Definitely makes me less likely to try the product because I don't know if it's even real.

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Mark Carney is often described as a “disruptor prime minister.” But for writer Linda Thornback, he’s less of a disruptor than he is a dismantler. A disruptor changes an inherited system—a dismantler removes it and leaves space for something else. ow.ly/rRv450ZOvBF

On the left: a photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney waving in front of the open door to a plane. On the right: text that reads “Mark Carney is dismantling Canada. The prime minister is taking apart the political order he inherited. What replaces it?”

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The Amargi @theamargi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” did not begin in 2022. It emerged through decades of Kurdish women’s struggle before travelling from Kurdistan to protests around the world. Rojin Mukriyan traces the history behind the global slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom.” www.theamargi.com/posts/the-tr...

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The transnational journey of ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’

Political theorist Rojin Mukriyan traces the Kurdish women’s struggle behind ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ and its journey from Kurdistan to the world.

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Democratic Socialists YVR @demsocsyvr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a $2.1B subsidy. Canada is an oil producing country and oil companies are having their best years ever with profits increasing by billions of dollars. A sensible policy is a windfall tax on oil companies and using the revenue to invest in infrastructure that makes us less dependent on oil.

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Joey Broda @joeybroda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's all kinds of AI that doesn't have alignment problems. Waymos can mess up but no one is worried they don't have the ethical understanding to not destroy humanity. Spotify's recommendation feature hasn't convinced anyone to kill themselves. These problems are AI companies being reckless.

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Joey Broda @joeybroda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

*As of 11:05am on Sept. 4th.

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Joey Broda @joeybroda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's interesting that you can see outside of this map. My dialect is from Manitoba and you can see an epicentre that's north of the Dakotas.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

- Canada has warmed ~2C since 1948; Northern Canada ~2.6C - Since 1970 Canada has warmed nearly 2x as fast as the global average - “Human influence…is the only explanation for the collective changes observed” “The minister was not available for an interview” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...

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Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation

From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds

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So if we want to fight them, there has to be alternative ways of getting at these benefits and plans for what removing a subsidy will do throughout the economy.

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All this isn't too say that we shouldn't reduce subsidies. But pressures to bring prices down for consumers, build capital projects that promise jobs, get interest payments from big projects, and stabilize profit margins for pension funds are all the nice-ish reasons that these subsidies exist.

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Changing that credit would cause a panic among gas producers and it would cut into their profitability. Their profitability mostly benefits the super rich, but it does also have an effect on everyone's pensions which are invested in these projects and in the banks that support these projects.

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And some tax credits like BC's deep well credit run on inertia. The credit was initially used to encourage fracking when it was a new and expensive technology. But now everyone fracks, so the credit is effectively built into the royalty structure.

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there's a double win of getting jobs in a community and getting interest payments back from the company. A lot of subsidies are for investments in technology, decarbonization projects, and well clean-up. Usually these require a 60% cost commitment from a company to get a 40% subsidy.

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think it is worthwhile to think about the political calculations of these subsidies. The biggest form of subsidy is low cost loans and tax incentives for new construction. There's an incentive for governments to invest in new infrastructure. And since they can borrow money cheaply

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Stephanie showed true leadership with her statement this morning at City Hall. She named the system we're up against, was honest about the left's capacity at this time, and gave us a road map to continue the fight. Stephanie Allen for Mayor 2030.

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Joey Broda @joeybroda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's entirely likely that Pete Fry could become mayor but no Green councillors are elected.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Richmond Conservative Party has announced a candidate for council, Adam Dobrer, who in 2023 was fired by Hillel B.C. after posting stickers that said "I ❤️ Hamas" with text that made it look like it came from UBC's Social Justice Centre. In the B.C. Supreme Court, Dobrer argued it was satire.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026

Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets. I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap. Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.

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Joey Broda @joeybroda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Splitting up Meta into Facebook/Instagram, Whatsapp, and its ad tech platform would have been much more devastating.

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Joey Broda @joeybroda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

David Eby was having a rough start to the year with DRIPA and the budget. Clear lines for the opposition to attack. Let's see how the BC Conservatives are doing...

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Community: Troy Barnes Enters Chaos Meme

ALT: Community: Troy Barnes Enters Chaos Meme

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 25/08/2026

As trade tensions reignite, Doug Ford is reviving a threat from an earlier phase of the Canada-U.S. trade war: cutting off electricity exports to the U.S. Can he really do that? What would the impact be? And how much power does Ontario export anyway? @fatimabsyed.bsky.social has answers:

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Ford’s threat to cut power to U.S. amid trade war, explained | The Narwhal

With Canada-U.S. trade war escalating, Ontario Premier Doug Ford could use electricity as leverage against U.S. President Donald Trump

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Democratic Socialists YVR @demsocsyvr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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The best option is to weaken IP laws forced on us by NAFTA. Enact right-to-repair laws, shorten copyright, and make it legal to jailbreak tech for commercial purposes. We could make it so that Americans drive up to Canada to unlock their Teslas and iPhones.

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The other obvious tool is putting on export taxes to double the pain on the USA. Aluminum, oil, potash, and electricity are all things that the US needs from us. The other obvious target is US tech, which is a major backer of Trump. Bring back the Netflix tax and ban new fed contracts with US tech.

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Carney is a true neoliberal who sees all tariffs as bad. I'm worried he will buckshot tariffs, rather than see them as elements of an industrial policy. The play is to enact tariffs to build domestic industry and implement complimentary policies to support that development.

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