Jim Patterson 🇨🇦

Software engineer (retired). Old Folkie and political junkie (leftist)
#Ottawa #onpoli #cdnpoli #genealogy #nobridge

Poli Blog: http://galbraith-was-right.sheamuspatt.ca/
GitHub: https://github.com/SheamusPatt
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2026-06-16 02:01:26 UTC

If you're into folk music in Eastern Ontario, you might want to check out the Stewart Park Festival next month in Perth, just an hour's drive from Ottawa. A great lineup including James Keelaghan, Suzie Vinick, Cowboy Junkies, Amanda Rheaume, Valdy and more.
https://www.stewartparkfestival.com/
#Ottawa #Perth #Ontario #Folk

2026-06-04 13:08:01 UTC

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It may be symbolic but you could add your name to a petition to review his conduct (17,995 signatures this morning).
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7124
#cdnpoli

2025-09-30 21:05:23 UTC

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Clearly @npub1p29…jlak 's support for a Palestinian State is just posturing. How would it be an independent state if the IDF is still there, and Palestinian involvement is strictly at a "technocratic level".
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-gaza-peace-plan-1.7646844
#gaza

2025-09-23 12:59:39 UTC

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Maybe 'Fordian' would be more accurate. I hear Doug Ford and Danielle Smith are pals, and Ford seems to enjoy pushing his weight around in municipal affairs - bike lanes are a favourite target.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10825146/toronto-bike-lane-removal-plan-doug-ford/
#onpoli

2025-09-19 14:19:33 UTC

Pro tip for @firefox users. Blocked by those paywalls on many of the news sites?
Try toggling that "reader view" icon (on the right side of the address bar). It pulls out the text from the page and displays it, going around the paywall in many cases.

2025-08-24 14:56:55 UTC

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I guess my quibble is really his use of money when he's really talking about financialization, this #Neoliberal idea that instead of the government doing stuff, they should just throw money at the financial sector and let them do everything.
Their priority, of course, is always making more money. It doesn't "trickle down".
To fix the "resource allocation" problem, the tool is money. The problem as I see it is how the government spends that money (and yes, how it creates it in fiscally sovereign economies like ours). The government can't just redirect resources like in feudal times.

2025-08-24 14:36:26 UTC

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I'd argue that the problem isn't money per se but what the government does with that money. The Quantitative Easing approach is a good illustration. Rather than investing in the real economy to deal with the 2008 crisis, governments bailed out the investors in the hope that they would spend into the real economy.
This is the #Neoliberal approach, and it isn't working. Before the 70's governments invested directly eg; building the Trans Canada Highway and St. Laurence Seaway here in Canada. MMTers would agree with this (as well as taxing back what they're spending into the economy).

2025-08-01 17:00:41 UTC

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Paintball must be a big thing in #Israel. Who knew?
#gaza #gaz

2025-04-24 19:35:34 UTC

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Canada Post is cheaper, though if you have lots of idle volunteers hand delivery might make sense.
Campaigns I've worked on use Canada Post when they want to get a piece out widely. We always avoid those border areas, though - that's a good place to put your volunteers so you don't drop outside of the riding (which confuses voters).
#elxn2025

2025-04-24 19:29:13 UTC

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It could just be they opted to include some addresses not in the riding, rather than exclude some that were.
It's just how Canada Post works for admail. You have to choose certain "postal walks" and a few of them cross riding boundaries. You can include those, and drop some in out-of-riding mailboxes, or exclude them, and miss some of your electors.

2025-04-23 20:06:20 UTC

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#NanaimoLadysmith is a good example of that. @npub1cr4…tzgu shows the #CPC candidate leading with a projected 32% of the vote. It was a second @npub1tz8…z5mh seat taken by Paul Manly in 2019, but the @npub1x8c…97t0 took it back in 2021. A four way race.
https://338canada.com/59019e.htm
#cdnpoli #elxn2025

2025-02-23 00:09:05 UTC

There seem to be a lot of voters in #Ontario still waiting for their Voter Information cards to arrive in the mail (not required to vote if you have other ID, but useful as confirmation).
If you're an eligible voter in Ontario, please weigh in on whether your card has arrived.
(Please skip this poll if you're not eligible to vote in the February election in Ontario).
#onpoli #onel

2024-10-15 13:31:01 UTC

I see #Alberta is spending their taxpayer's money on expensive ad buys again. The front and inside pages in today's #OttawaCitizen was filled with their pitch for #Ottawa to drop its production cap so they can keep pumping their dirty crude. Can't have been cheap.
No doubt it will give #PierrePoilievre's #AxeTheTax campaign a boost as well.
#cdnpoli #ClimateChange #abpoli #PostMedia
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2024-09-29 03:04:08 UTC

Cartoonist #MichaelDeAdder is complaining on #Xitter that they've ghosted his tweet with this cartoon. Wonder why?
https://deadder.substack.com/p/i-am-your-protector?r=4bddp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
#trump2024
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2024-09-18 00:20:56 UTC

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Thanks for the correction - guess I should have read the entire thread (and I never got that inference from the usually accurate #TGAM article).

2024-09-17 23:07:10 UTC

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Renew? I don't believe he's ever had one.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/47e14988ee9a721e5c79e5557d3c84ac608683b2395ee901b2ff0e6a2dffa335/J23QWOJS3JALVL7CXYH4VTHFDA/
#cdnpoli #poilievre

2024-09-01 21:47:23 UTC

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FInally read down to the bottom - seems Louisiana hasn't completely sold out:
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