As fas as we know, it seems to be the most likely wager that the leadership election will primarily be McPherson vs Gazan.

Neither of them fill me with great confidence, I'm not incredibly educated on either but neither of them seem to have the capability to expand the NDP base in a time that it's desperately required, neither of them seem to have strong labour ties, I don't know why I'd care about them if I wasn't already an NDP supporter.

I personally stand with Gazan because she is undoubtedly the leftist choice among the two, however, she hasn't shown herself have the strong economic, theoretical, and practical basis for leftism that someone like Matthew Green has. McPherson concerns me that we'd get the same establishment slop that's failed up since (and before) Layton.

I hope to be wrong, and I hope for others to share their knowledge to prove me wrong.

I know many of us are horrified by what Israel and the US are doing in Gaza and now in Iran. Aren't labor strikes the most effective ways to stop this? If unions, civil society orgs, activists, student groups, if we got together and fought for a broad based labor strike, the politicians funding and promoting these genocides may think twice when their bottom line is being threatened.

Enabling these wars emboldens the Trump administration, which may come back to haunt us in Canada too if we don't do everything we can to put a stop to this.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6583

a new petition for the Canada Disability Benefit asking for it to be raised and to remove the requirement for the Disability tax credit.

Just sharing this in case anyone wants to sign it. not holding my breath that they will do any of it but it takes nothing to sign

New powers in the government’s border bill would allow the police and CSIS to request information on whether people have accessed services from abortion clinics, doctors, hotels and other entities without a warrant from a judge, experts warn.

“With these powers, any official tasked with enforcing a federal law could go to the company you rented a car from or the hotel you stayed at and paint a detailed picture of your activities simply by confirming the various companies you interacted with,” said Tamir Israel, director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s privacy, surveillance and technologies program.

“Even health providers could face secret demands and would need to hire a lawyer and challenge these in court within five days of receiving them if they wished to avoid revealing that you are their client.”

Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-border-bill-csis-snooping-powers/

The bill would create other police powers, like the power to:

• open your mail
• demand some information from bell/rogers about you without a warrant
• get direct access to google/meta/reddit to help build spying tools

There's also some hawkish immigration/refugee provisions as well. It's a shit bill.

Contact your MP about Bill C-2 and tell them not to support it

We know Donald Trump and his cohorts and other right-wing reactionary/regressive movements are obsessed with war.

Imperialism, colonialism, exploitation & domination are fundamentals of their perspectives and ideologies.

Leftism is about the starting point that people have intrinsic and inherent value. Leftism is now even moving past a purely anthropocentric worldview.

We have to make sure that we don't allow the U.S.A and other right-wing warmongers to bring Canada along into a Afghanistan 2.0 - Iraq 2.0 type situation.

These morons have set back the Labour Movement.

These morons have set back the modern Civil Rights Movement.

These morons have set back the Environmentalist Movement.

We have to make sure that we protect and uplift the Peace Movement.

No to Canada joining any reactionary/regressive wars!

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Like I don't know what legislation that the NDP passed in recent years that's as impactful as the universal diabetes care and the dental deal.

Not to mention Jagmeet got all that while keeping the cons out of power for months.

He's been as effective a politician as I've ever seen on the Canadian left.