Keep in mind it’s the CPC (repeatedly) trying to defund the CBC that’s another issue. We’re en route to a fully corporate media.

And kudos to the Bloc, that definitely shows a tendency to follow what their voters want, even at their own loss.

This is one of the issues with democracy: people vote in their own interests.

I vote for pro 2SLGBTQ+ issues, and am none of those things, so how does that square exactly? I vote for help for the unhoused, but am housed, how does that square?

this is the problem with democracy in a culturally fragmented nation. Without shared values and a sense of camaraderie, people don’t vote altruistically, but self-interestedly.

You seriously need to back this up with something, you can’t just say ‘we’re culturally fragmented, have no shared values’ as some sort of ‘known’.

I have family members who are trans, and I absolutely share your worries. That said, in this particular article’s case, they really can’t do much more. It isn’t an opinion piece by the CBC, it’s a report on a warning from CSIS. They even list many examples throughout the article, like:

A former University of Waterloo student accused of unleashing on a gender-studies class with a knife last summer — sending an associate professor and two students to hospital — now faces 11 terrorism charges.

and

Balsam was commenting on a document drafted by the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC) and obtained by CBC News through an access to information request. ITAC, made up of intelligence authorities, is set up to keep tabs on threat actors’ intentions and capabilities and to review classified and open-source information to estimate the likelihood of a terrorist attack in Canada.

Unfortunately, this is what journalism has to look like. Here are the facts. Here’s what was said. Here are examples.

And of course, I will admit, this isn’t great (but isn’t the CBC’s fault):

CSIS Director David Vigneault raised his concerns about violence directed at the 2SLGBTQI+ community in a public address late last year. He said the agency is alarmed when rhetoric turns hateful.

“We’re concerned about the sharp uptick in hate crimes across Canada, and the marked increase in terrorist and violent extremist threats and rhetoric from extremist actors, many of whom are consuming toxic media online, becoming radicalized, and may mobilize quickly to violence,” Vigneault told an audience at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

Yes, we are all concerned, what are your recommendations, Sir.

but most people own houses and it is their largest investment…

While this is currently true, it’s going down each year.

Between 2011 and 2021, homeownership declined across Canada and overall, there were 2.5% fewer Canadians living in owner-occupied homes in 2021 compared to a decade earlier.

So over the course of ten years home ownership went down 2.5%, but population went up from 34 million to 38 million. This quite literally isn’t sustainable.

Everyone 50+ who was getting ready to retire will loose most of their life savings

So at a certain point we have to ask, what’s worse, two generations who don’t own homes, or one generation loses it’s life savings.

Is it any less dangerous than exposure though?

Yes, you get measels (MMR and MMRV) at about a year old, then a booster around 1.5 years old, but is required to attend school.

In our case the doctors came and did a test. I am not sure of the kind, and found the levels were low. Then they repeated this each time. Sorry I can’t be more specific, it was… 17 years ago when he had the first one. Wow, time flies.

One thing I would really like to remind everyone is there are many people out there immune to some vaccines. My son could not get into the range of efficacy, and every year we were terrified some antivaxxer would get him sick. This poor kid couldn’t go to pools, amusement parks, etc, until finally at 16 it worked.

I didn’t understand how moronic the public was until I had a doctor say to us “I wish there was another way, but you basically have to keep him out of crowds.”

There is another way - get fucking vaccinated. So these people don’t just kill themselves, they bring people like my son with them.

My condolences, friend.

I’m oddly proud of BC, way to get a majority there guys.

But major kudos to Quebec, your MP’s are actually listening (here), but also NWT, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, PWI, and the Yukon.

As is tradition though, the prairies let us down.

Even accounting for the (bizarre, and embarrassing) shift of Gen Z men towards the Cons, they are still more into the NDP than any generation above them. In fact in a lot of young Gen Z (male) voters, while the Cons are first, the NDP are second, and it’s ~5% between them. (Sorry I don’t have the stats on me, but it was posted here on Lemmy not too long ago)

My kids are Gen Z, and (very anecdotally here, I admit) they have said everyone their age they know who would vote Con (and there are a few) are pausing on it, and are extremely concerned about the amount of Identity Politics (their words) the Cons are using. They are not ok with anti-SOGI, anti-Trans, anti-2SLGBTQ+, or anti-abortion laws/actions.

Even more interestingly, to me, of six of their friends who have said they would vote Con, 2 have already left - but not to the Liberals, to the NDP. I think a LOT of the Gen Z male Con voters just don’t like the status quo, and don’t understand that the Cons will not only keep said status quo, but make it worse. Once a Con government starts making all the mistakes they usually do, plus new ones straight out of MAGA USA, I think they’ll split quickly. I honestly would be shocked to see a two-term Con government when they refused to even admit climate change exists.That is a TOUGH sell to Gen Z.

What we think of as traditional Canadian fiscal conservatism is more correctly prudent fiscal liberalism.

Oh 100%: Justin Trudeau’s policies are either taken directly from the Con party (Carbon Tax credits, etc), or are directly in line with their values. The Con party has voted in favour/alongside the Liberal party in something like 95% of all votes taken since Trudeau came to power.

They just don’t like him. That’s fine, I don’t either. The issue is that, also as you’ve stated, they keep inventing this idea that ‘fiscal conservatism’ A) has worked in the past, and B) will work now. They shuffle past the fact that when they were at their best they were Neoliberals.

What will be interesting to see is how Gen Z/young Millenial voters respond to a federal Con government that targets 2SLGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, and starts rolling back social programmes, and looks at how to privatize more healthcare.

I have a suspicion that new block of Con voters, who’ve only ever really had the Federal Liberals in power, will understand why Canadians vote Liberal two times for every one time they vote Conservative.

People very quickly forget things like this that Cons do.

The Con party of today is not like older ones. I’m in my 40’s, and I’m used to a Nationalistic, yea-Canada Conservative party. What I am not used to is this:

And that’s from two years ago. The man who insulted our country, who is against all the things we favourably compare ourselves against Americans with (our socialized Healthcare, our lack of need to arm ourselves to go for a walk, etc), and they’re giving him the nod (Also the rape, the misogyny, insulting someone for their disability, the general incompetence, etc). Look at those numbers, 44% of Cons want Trump in power again.

Conservative voters should really be looking in the mirror to see what they want to be: Right-of-Centre economists, or Right-Wing boot-lickers. It seems for now they’ve chosen the later.

This is why CanCon laws and more recently the Online News Act are so important.

Which is why the Cons having the CBC in their crosshairs is so terrifying.

I’ve been through this a few times: Usenet, Digg, Reddit. They started off small and stayed mostly civil even though there is a wide range of opinion. Then they start growing rapidly and people see an opportunity to “get their message out”, whether that’s spam, personal aggrandizement, a political message, or whatever: exploitation vs participation. After a while it becomes just too much for some people, so they find somewhere else to congregate.

But is this a bad thing? Even if Lemmy ‘doesn’t survive’ (which I think is a fair way off, personally) something else will take its place. Something always does; ICQ dies, people move to AOL. Digg dies, people go to reddit, Myspace to Facebook and so on. Look at the absolute graveyards of websites where people used to congregate and play games and talk: Battle.net, Mplayer, WON.net, Digg, Usenet, AOL messenger, ICQ, Myspace, there are dozens of these things that, at the time, we felt like would always be there.

Enjoy it while it’s here. Make it the best place you can.

Maybe not payroll, but…

I was (temp) banned because I called Conservatives as ‘Cons’ (but not for Libs, NDP, etc). They are very delicate, fragile people.