@NDP So nice of you to take time out from globalizing the intifada to show interest in healthcare. Tommy Douglas greatly admired Israel.
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Tomily in Calgary
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Tomily in Calgary
@steadystateyyc
Not Emily in Paris. Previously SteadyStateYYC. Sharing what I discover as I busk and make music in Calgary and beyond.
Calgary Katılım Temmuz 2016
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Today is the anniversary of the Canadian Health Act, a cornerstone of our universal public health care system.
Defending and expanding our cherished medicare system has never felt more urgent. We must reverse all efforts to privatize our health care — and then take it further and fulfill Tommy Douglas’s vision of truly universal, head-to-toe health care.
Will you take 5 minutes to share a story in the comments about what our public health care means to you — and tag Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and the Minister of Health @MarjoriePLC ?
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@RMapleCan Our democracy is quite feeble. Carney has effectively become our dictator after his party garnered only 43% of our votes. And literally no one actually voted for HIM to be PM.
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THIS IS CANADA 🇨🇦
The NDP lost its party status and funding because they have less than 12 MPs.
The Liberals, CPC and Bloc Québécois agreed to reallocate some of their parliamentary funding to the NDP.
See why I am PROUD TO BE CANADIAN?
Despite our differences, we still value democracy and diversity.
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CityNews Toronto@CityNewsTO
The cash-strapped federal NDP is getting a $670,000 financial boost. Members of the other main political parties on the Board of Internal Economy have decided to grant the parliamentary funds, even though the NDP does not have official party status. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/15/ndp…
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@MarkJCarney @avilewis A facade of working together. You're our dictator now (with only 43% of the votes). A lot of those votes were cast mainly to keep Poilievre from becoming PM. You're not shutting down the oil industry, building govt. grocery stores, re-escalatiing immigration, as Lewis would like.
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We get more done for Canadians when we work together.
Met with newly-elected NDP leader @AviLewis today to discuss how we can build a stronger, more independent Canadian economy for all.
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@raghu_venugopal @avilewis @MarkJCarney Lewis is not being helpful. He's calling for a re-escalation of immigration. This would strain healthcare even more, cause unaffordability of housing and other things, and probably lead to more mental and physical illness.
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Thank you Leader Lewis for raising with Prime Minister Carney the urgent need to "stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act". We need to stand up for average Canadians. @avilewis @MarkJCarney
Avi Lewis@avilewis
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today. I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing. I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity. It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now. But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%. That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.
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@judyrebick Thank goodness someone is looking after well-to-do online shoppers. It's so hard to make sure you're getting a fair price when you're all over the internet buying so much stuff and having it all delivered.
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Avi Lewis urges Carney to ban unfair pricing driven by AI - rabble.ca rabble.ca/politics/canad…
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@KevMVickers @avilewis He's a good salesperson, but he's selling swampland and worse. I'm sure he can throw a good party, but are we really going to get sucked in by a charming but substance-less, unintelligent, upper class armchair socialist who's so into posing and hobnobbing with our new dictator?
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This lad has been and is grossly underestimated @avilewis He reminds me of Dr Moses Coady “Masters Of Their Own Destiny” from St. F.X.U. coady.stfx.ca/wp-content/upl…
Avi Lewis@avilewis
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today. I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing. I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity. It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now. But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%. That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.
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@AndieWinnipeg @NDP Instead of filling the big left of centre gap, they're calling for a re-escalation of immigration, including of a lot of globalizers of the intifada; crashing our oil-dependent economy; leaving us with next to no defence; helping well-to-do online shoppers instead of the homeless
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I think…..I think the @NDP may actually be back?
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@Charles_string_ His 'cult of personality' is precisely that he's such a smiley nice guy who can throw nice parties. (He's so excited to be able to hobnob with our new dictator.) It belies the fact that he's a not-very-smart, armchair social democrat who shouldn't be leading a political party.
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People have been trying to claim Lewis is the left wing Poilievre
But in reality? He's normal guy who happens to be more left wing & wants to engage with politics in a professional manner
He's not lobbing unhinged accusations or building a cult of personality. He's no Poilievre
Avi Lewis@avilewis
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today. I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing. I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity. It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now. But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%. That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.
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@electeuraverti @OrangeLeafWave2 He's not necessarily hard on Israeli Jews. He'd just like them to be collectively obliterated by Islamist terrorists while he's far away smiling and softly hobnobbing with our new dictator Carney.
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@OrangeLeafWave2 as he said soft on people, hard on the issues, its a good strategy.
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The Layton style is definitely a good move right now. Will help break the media narrative framing him as uncooperative. That's not to say he can't throw hits. It's just a matter of doing so at the right time.
Avi Lewis@avilewis
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today. I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing. I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity. It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now. But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%. That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.
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@OrangeLeafWave2 What could be bad? He's added an additional salary to bolster his upper class status. He's gained the prestige of leading a party and being able to visit with our now dictator PM, while not having to sit in the House. I'd prefer that he daily, forcefully demand electoral reform.
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@FairVoteCanada @avilewis What has Lewis or the NDP ever really seriously done to advance electoral reform. Talk is cheap. It should always have been priority number one. The NDP should have always been in a state of non-confidence against the Trudeau government. Lewis is useless.
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Grateful to @avilewis for continually raising the importance of proportional representation.
Moving away from first-past-the-post is essential to ending voter cynicism.
It is time for a system that empowers the many rather than concentrating power in the hands of the few.
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@FairVoteCanada @avilewis I missed Lewis' 'continuous' mentioning of PP. It's gotten lost in his calls to leave Israel defenceless against millions of Islamist terrorists, his concern for well-to-do shoppers facing algorithmic pricing, his desire to dismantle our military and to crash our oil economy, etc
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@FairVoteCanada @avilewis It's a no-brainer for anyone other than the Liberal or Conservative parties to want electoral reform and more democracy. Did Lewis mention to Carney in their meeting that Carney has no business becoming the effective dictator with only 43% of votes? Did the NDP vote Trudeau out?
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@GSmurfet Lewis described his talk with Carney as "productive." What did it produce or hold any promise of producing? Carney with his majority has effectively become our dictator after his party received only 43% of our votes. That should have been what Lewis wanted to do something about.
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If that tone remains, that'll be a welcome breath of fresh air in our parliament. Poilievre's Cons have been poisoning our political discourse with personal attacks and insults on a daily basis, and that has to stop. We need unifying voices that'll drown the grating noise.
Avi Lewis@avilewis
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today. I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing. I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity. It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now. But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%. That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.
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@thesparklingred @avilewis @MarkJCarney I guess I'm a poor writer. I can't in all good conscience support any of the parties. Parties and leaders in general are more about themselves than about doing what's best for everyone. I joined the NDP in hopes of stopping upper class, armchair socialist Lewis from winning.
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@steadystateyyc @avilewis @MarkJCarney The NDP is the only party with a policy against floor crossing 🤷♀️ If you like the conservatives better, that’s fine, but don’t assume the NDP are the same as the Liberals. Many of us dislike the Liberals just as much as you do
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Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today.
I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing.
I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity.
It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country.
Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now.
But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%.
That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.
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@GJCMDP @avilewis @MarkJCarney Yes. The powers that be do not want deeper democracy. Big business money is behind the Liberals and the Conservatives. One or the other will do.
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@steadystateyyc @avilewis @MarkJCarney You mean the system that Poilievre chose not to vote for change?
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@thesparklingred @avilewis @MarkJCarney Yes. Actions by opposition parties would speak much louder than words, however. I see that Poilievre, for example, is so excited to be back in the House. Lewis loves his new salary and prestigious position. They're good with their position in the status quo of a shallow democracy
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@steadystateyyc @avilewis @MarkJCarney To be fair, he addressed this in a press scrum the other day, and spoke pretty forcefully against the floor crossings
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@gazaboyle @JeromyYYC @CJAY92 Alberta values? You know, it wasn't really that long ago when there no such thing as Alberta.
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@JeromyYYC @CJAY92 Such an embarrassment-Cjay used to not be woke—awful station now and this defines its idiocy along with the City’s useless mayor—these muni’s in AB need to wake tfup-these mayors are not Alberta values
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When a giant actor like Michael Douglas speaks, the entire media landscape trembles.
He’s not the kind of actor who posts a story and deletes it an hour later. He doesn’t write vague tweets that can be interpreted in every direction. Michael Douglas stood in front of cameras and stated plainly: the world has completely lost its moral compass.
Israel, he said, is on the front line of the struggle. Not a struggle over territory. Not a struggle for power. A struggle over the values of the entire Western world—democracy, freedom, human rights. All the things people love to talk about on Twitter but aren’t willing to fight for.
He outright rejected, without hesitation, any attempt to compare the IDF to extremist terrorist organizations. Such a comparison, he said, is an insult to reality. One side fires rockets at civilians and hides behind children. The other side calls civilians before a strike and tells them to leave. Comparing the two isn’t criticism—it’s moral blindness.
And then he said the sentence that summed it all up: a democracy must defend itself with force. Not with posts. Not with statements. With force.
Michael Douglas is not just an actor. He is a proud Jew who isn’t ashamed, doesn’t apologize, and doesn’t bow his head. While all of Hollywood stays silent out of fear, he stands tall.
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