[-] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Defence is absolutely a service the government is providing the country. Define it however you will, that is the nature of the thing.

As for the rest, everyone keeps banging on about junk mail but I seem to get other things in the mail regularly as well.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

I don't think government services need to turn a profit to exist. Including the military.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not that they are for that but rather they are for owning things that do that as a side effect.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

How much money is the military losing per day? As far as I can tell they aren't bringing in any income at all!

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, Canadian voters fucked up real bad and now we're going to suffer the consequences, it's true.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Except, once again, the last two elections resulted in a strong enough NDP to stop the Liberal's worst instincts. To such an extent that people were able to lie to themselves that the good things that came from those governments were the products of the Liberals and not NDP pressure.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What if instead of racing to the bottom we invest more in the public sector and create more good jobs that create citizens who can contribute rather than forcing more people into minimum wage or gig work?

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

The NDP isn’t even an option at the moment though

They were at the time of election. It was not a two party situation, that's just a lie people are telling themselves to soothe the foolish decision they allowed themselves to be tricked into making.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We don't live in a two party state, believe it or not.

"Oh, but only two parties had a chance of winning!"

Except in the previous two elections we gave the NDP enough power to hold the Liberals back from their worst tendencies to such an extent that people convinced themselves that the Liberals weren't financially regressive shitheads, so I really don't want to hear it.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Can we be totally honest and admit the only reason we still have door delivery is to protect the jobs of mail carriers?

Surely we'll make the country better when we make those people get minimum wage jobs at Tim Horton's in the name of making government services into profit centres.

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Older article but worth a read in light of current events, I think.

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Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security, and Canada has been consistently clear that Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.

While U.S. military action taken last night was designed to alleviate that threat, the situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile. Stability in the region is a priority.

Canada calls on parties to return immediately to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis. As G7 leaders agreed in Kananaskis, the resolution of the Iranian crisis should lead to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza.

(With apologies for the Twitter link, this post doesn't seem to have been copied over to Bluesky.)

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 190 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Now if they could just take this lesson and apply it to the rest of the 'information' that is supplied by the media environment they have immersed themselves in.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 323 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh no! Businesses whose 'innovation' is doing end runs around labour law, leaving? How sad.

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