These dumbasses are handed such an easy path to getting a majority and they’re going to squander it on these stupid conservative culture war takes. I really hope Canadians see soon that if they feel let down by the liberals, the conservatives are only going to be a shittier version of the worst aspects of the liberals. We should be looking to the NDP or green parties for real change.

Good for Canada. I’ve been reading a lot about the Gilded Age lately and I truly believe we’re in the Second Gilded Age. Toppling oligarchs and monopolies required governments to start calling these greedy scumbags on their bluffs and rethinking how these businesses could operate more ethically. I believe we’ve finally reached a point of reckoning with social media and tech companies more largely. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Google, Amazon, and others have been reaching new levels of greed in the past few years. It’s time that we reject them and fight for something better. And where our actions fall short, we have to do everything in our power to push politicians in the direction of regulating them.

I think cellphones should be banned in classrooms and allowed between classes. I’m not sure why they should need to be banned during students’ freetime. This is how it was when I was in high school during the very early years of smartphones and it worked out fine. If I wanted to listen to music while walking down the halls or during lunch, that was a really important coping mechanism for me with how dramatic high school can be. It also allowed me to keep in touch with my friends and meet them around the school. I think it’s overly reactionary to do a blanket ban like that. I completely understand the need to ban them within classrooms. That’s reasonable to me as classrooms should only be for learning.