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Henry Ruler
Henry Ruler@latemixes·
Canada’s current situation is being reframed here as a “timed self-use” opportunity. The political and media rhetoric supplies “liquidity” (collective speculation, belief, attention, and commitment) to a novel “possibility,” namely a self-reliant, economically diversified, and “strong” Canada anchored in middle-power alliances rather than the old US-backed bargain. This “liquidity” flows through three temporal structures. The unfolding of different levels or priorities in time (what gets ranked higher now), sudden shifts or reversals in how events unfold (tipping-point moments), and Canadians’ own active use of these structures in self-understanding and practical confrontations (we actively project and “confront” in order to make an outcome real).
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Henry Ruler
Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@terrynewman Does the Liberal strategy make use of a hostage video shot in a windowless Ottawa boardroom?
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Terry Newman
Terry Newman@terrynewman·
A newsletter is coming out tomorrow morning discussing the Liberal government and how it ensures continuity.
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redeerF@fr33d3r·
@latemixes @BohuslavskaKate Do you really think your country wouldn’t pay more to have hegemony, and that it would have been granted by paying the same amount? If you want hegemony and total power, you pay more, if we all pay the same, then you are at the same hegemonic level than europeans.
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Kate from Kharkiv
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate·
STUBB: I think, at the end of the day, United States will find themselves in quite a lonely place. I'm most pro-American president in Europe. I'm avid transatlanticist. I want relationship to work. But I also fully realize that, with certain patterns of behavior, there's going to be a feeling of, "Okay, if you treat me like that, I don't feel very good about it." We can see that with European states, Gulf states and many others. I hope that it's in interest of United States to have close friends and allies, if it wants to continue to be one of the world's hegemons.
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Henry Ruler
Henry Ruler@latemixes·
This is how the illusion works. A press release becomes a promise. A promise becomes a headline. The headline becomes proof that the good times are just around the corner. Carney stands at the centre of it. By the time September arrives the summit will likely deliver what these things always (often?) deliver. A handful of photo opportunities and a few carefully worded MOUs (that mean almost nothing). The 50 trillion will have shrunk to a more modest number, then to a target, then to an aspiration, and finally to something best forgotten until the next announcement. The Canadian commentariat will still be there, though, ready for the next round.
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Henry Ruler
Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@ColinDMello They ping, they buzz, they summon dopamine hits more reliably than anything. They are actively hostile to the quiet. Throw them in the sea, I say.
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Colin D'Mello | Global News
Colin D'Mello | Global News@ColinDMello·
NEW: Ontario’s education minister is considering a total, province-wide ban on cellphones in schools, along with a potential social media ban for children under the age of 16 — following a growing global trend to reduce addiction and distraction. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/11806574/…
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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@P_Ratchford She's the bourgeois subject who discovers that history happened to other people, and now demands reparations for the fact that it happened at all. The lightbulb becomes a stand-in figure for the entire crime of technological progress.
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Paul Ratchford
Paul Ratchford@P_Ratchford·
BC Conservative House Leader Warbus says her ancestors never asked for the lightbulb. Listen to the disdain in her voice for the civilization that we built. Yes, the same Conservative MLA who uses her name to “decolonize” us “one tongue at a time.”
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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@JoshDehaas The content they want banned is probably "harmful" because it introduces competing possibilities. Different ways of seeing group identity, different rankings of what matters, different futures that don’t line up with the one being pushed.
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Josh Dehaas
Josh Dehaas@JoshDehaas·
The Canadian Media Guild, the union for CBC and Canadian Press, is asking the government to pass a bill that would ensure "harmful content" is removed from social media. In my day, journalists opposed censorship. How embarrassing. blacklocks.ca/media-seek-cur…
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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@MarkJCarney Some Canadian journos are pining for the pre-Charter veto. Today it would be federal politicians in Ottawa telling Quebec or Alberta what their own people can and cannot legislate.
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Mark Carney
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney·
44 years ago today, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed into law. It laid the foundation for a stronger, more just Canada. It is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter — to keep building a better Canada, for all.
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Henry Ruler
Henry Ruler@latemixes·
I genuinely wonder whether Canadian journalists and pundits grasp the long arc consequences of their "doings."
Vesper@vesperdigital

𝐓𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 “𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫” 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐃𝐌𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 “𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝,” 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭. I’m a constituent with a viewpoint. You’re a reporter with a job, and those aren’t the same thing. Nobody said you can’t have opinions, I do too, at least I don't pretend to be a reporter "reporting". The problem is that you people don’t just have opinions, you sneak them into your reporting and then act offended when someone calls it out. That’s the scam. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭. 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡. You wouldn’t want your doctor treating you based on politics, your dentist drilling based on feelings, or your electrician wiring your house based on some personal agenda. 𝐒𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐨-𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬. If you’re bending facts, framing everything to fit your politics, and spoon-feeding people the conclusion you want them to reach, you’re not reporting anymore. You’re doing tabloid work. Real journalism reports facts. It doesn’t gossip, speculate, hint, and manipulate its way toward a narrative. This is true on both sides of the aisle. So stop hiding behind “ everyone has bias” like it excuses your duty to truth and impartiality. Or at least state your opinion without lying. You’re not being honest. You’re not being neutral. You’re not even being subtle. You’re a political influencer with a press badge, and people are getting tired of being spoon-fed your opinions like they're unbiased facts. Rant over!

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Henry Ruler
Henry Ruler@latemixes·
The collective output of Canadian pundits and journalists socializes deference to federal authority and judicial supremacy as the default stance. They rarely pause to trace how their daily choices, story selection, language calibration, and guest curation function as infrastructure for that centralizing current. Long term, this isn't neutral stewardship of discourse. It's participatory engineering of the polity itself, with accountability forever outsourced elsewhere.
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Vesper
Vesper@vesperdigital·
𝐓𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 “𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫” 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐃𝐌𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 “𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝,” 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭. I’m a constituent with a viewpoint. You’re a reporter with a job, and those aren’t the same thing. Nobody said you can’t have opinions, I do too, at least I don't pretend to be a reporter "reporting". The problem is that you people don’t just have opinions, you sneak them into your reporting and then act offended when someone calls it out. That’s the scam. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭. 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡. You wouldn’t want your doctor treating you based on politics, your dentist drilling based on feelings, or your electrician wiring your house based on some personal agenda. 𝐒𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐨-𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬. If you’re bending facts, framing everything to fit your politics, and spoon-feeding people the conclusion you want them to reach, you’re not reporting anymore. You’re doing tabloid work. Real journalism reports facts. It doesn’t gossip, speculate, hint, and manipulate its way toward a narrative. This is true on both sides of the aisle. So stop hiding behind “ everyone has bias” like it excuses your duty to truth and impartiality. Or at least state your opinion without lying. You’re not being honest. You’re not being neutral. You’re not even being subtle. You’re a political influencer with a press badge, and people are getting tired of being spoon-fed your opinions like they're unbiased facts. Rant over!
Vesper@vesperdigital

They're not reporting on Poilievre. They're shoving biased innuendo down our throats persistently. No evidence, just innuendo on repeat. This isn't journalism. It's opinion/gossip dressed as reporting! -Illusory truth effect -Rumor laundering -Perception management Watch⬇️

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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@acoyne The same Liberal government caught violating Charter rights with the Emergencies Act is positioning itself as the noble defender.
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Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne·
"Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use at the federal level..." If the provinces are the problem, and they are, why only restrict it at the federal level? The plan at Confederation, and for decades after, was that the federal government would prevent provincial governments from abusing rights, using the disallowance power. Eventually that role was taken over by the courts, and the Charter. But if the Charter is fast becoming a dead letter, via the notwithstanding clause, then Canada would be left, for the first time in our history, with no effective protection for rights. That is, we will, unless the feds act. The feds have the power to protect our rights. They should use it. Charter at a turning point as it turns 44 | CBC News cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
@OlesenPanduro @BohuslavskaKate That history includes the annexation of Crimea and subsequent shifts in US policy. Trump et al have repeatedly said they want a stronger Europe, a Europe that can defend itself.
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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
The EU’s circling Canada like a desperate divorcee at last call “We share a tiny rock in the Arctic!” they squeal. If we’re playing the “proximity equals destiny” game, the better fit is the union to the south. EU cities are looking like open-air festivals for knife crime. But sure, let’s drag the Great White North into this circus so we can pay for Greek pensions and German solar farms.
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Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: New study shows Mamdani's "affordable" city-run grocery store is 10x more expensive than Whole Foods per square foot.
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Henry Ruler@latemixes·
To solve the problem of high earners once and for all, introduce a strict "No Repeat High Earners" system. In the first year someone exceeds $180,000, they face a 100% marginal tax on everything above that threshold, plus a 50% wealth redistribution levy on the excess. Repeat offenders in any five year window trigger a 150% clawback, a three year professional blacklist from high paying roles, and a 30% freeze on liquid assets over $1 million. Chronic offenders receive a lifetime personal income cap, permanent revocation of professional licenses, forced relocation to equity adjustment zones, and intergenerational penalties that limit their children's access to federal aid and scholarships. Realtime AI surveillance closes all loopholes, turning any attempt to earn big again into career ending financial and personal ruin.
Dr. Rita Ded 🏳️‍🌈🇻🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸@DrRitaDed

Here's an idea. Tax the rich. Anyone earning over 180k per year should get taxed at 100% No one needs to be earning that much. Redistribute the wealth.

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