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Last Notes npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Can’t have an employee working for the company who’s very presence at the work place proves to every other employee management negligence and incompetence. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Public funds for private gains: Canada’s most profitable corporations received pandemic subsidies while avoiding billions in taxes "while Canadian workers and their families struggled with extreme economic uncertainty, and the federal government spent unprecedented amounts of money to maintain economic stability, the 37 companies receiving CEWS spent a combined: $81.3 billion on dividends. $41.1 billion on share buybacks. $51.1 billion on acquisitions of other companies. " https://www.taxfairness.ca/sites/default/files/2023-02/cews-final-2023-02-09.pdf npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander “Canadian mining giant Cameco Corp has won another court victory in a precedent-setting tax case that reflects massive loopholes for large multinational corporations in our tax system.” “In May, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with grocery and retail giant Loblaw in a $368-million tax case over its use of a subsidiary bank in Barbados, another tax haven.” Mark Carney worked for Brookfield Asset Management, a Tax sheltering specialist. He has the knowledge & understanding to challenge all of this. https://www.thestar.com/business/international-tax-watchdog-questions-asset-management-giant-brookfield-s-tax-transparency/article_e1e54e07-c6de-5637-a94e-6d186abecc38.html https://archive.ph/KQ7Xq https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/court-loss-shows-canada-should-reform-corporate-tax-rules npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The India Canada uranium deal rewards Canada’s most successful tax evader? “Cameo [was] in hot water: the federal government is accusing the $2.8-billion company of operating a massive tax dodging scheme for years – and potentially depriving state coffers of as much $2.1-billion in cash. #canpoli #skpoli https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/04/25/news/did-company-engineer-largest-tax-dodge-canadian-history https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cameco-india-uranium-9.7111788 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The number of Canadian politicians that have worked for Altas should be an embarrassment for every Canadian Jason Kenney pres of Taxpayer’s Aaron Gunn Taxpayers Fed Videographer Jamil Jivani pres of Canada Strong & Fr** Danielle Smith Intern @ Fraser Inst Chis Alexander McDonald Laurier Ed Fast McDonald Laurier Sonya Savage McDonald Laurier <sarc> No foreign interference in Canadian politics… </sarc> npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Again the CPC can only import the anger and outrage from the US right wing… npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander An MP should be paid the median income of the constituency they serve? With the stats and pay updates quarterly. Look at all the work on economic equality a politician can do :)) MP’s would be quick to abandon all the convenient distortions average leads to, and would quickly abandon all the poor lazy statistics politicians use. Make these very public, the backbencher in a wealthy constituency doesn’t do much? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander How dare Dawson suggest conservatives contradict the very issues they shout about … “While Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promised to fight for Canada’s “common people” at a national convention this past weekend in Calgary, his party elected a governing council full of lobbyists working for some of the country’s most powerful corporations.” https://breachmedia.ca/pierre-poilievres-new-governing-council-stacked-with-corporate-lobbyists/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The “Rule of the law”, “Law and Order” party won’t stand up for laws and treaties, or order … npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116052712167105471 #AtlasNetwork #note1gvc…cq6w npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Carney is just finishing off what Harper started? The Gem of Canadian Science that Harper Killed Experimental Lakes Area was world famous; its findings might have saved Canada billions. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/05/23/Harper-Kills-ELA/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander This is just Danielle applying what she learned while interning at one of AtlasNetworks branch offices, Fraser Institute https://www.psa.org.nz/journals/understanding-atlas-how-a-right-wing-network-is-building-global-influence https://www.fraserinstitute.org/profile/m-danielle-smith npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander And the willful ignorance of these teens. "Poilievre will challenge cost of living issues" https://pressprogress.ca/big-real-estate-executives-among-top-donors-to-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/ https://pressprogress.ca/tag/big-money/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Again Canadian conservative voices merely repeat and spin the anger and outrage of the American right. (No foreign interference here ;) ) npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Conveniently Ontario conservatives held a convention this weekend as well. Leaving only western conservatives, was Poilievre’s lead nothing more than the UCP voicing their federal preference? Funny how Ontario’s absence is left unmentioned? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-pc-convention-project-ontario-9.7067023 https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/its-the-extremists-party-danielle npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The conservative voice in Canada is dominated by the extreme right wing voice of the US. The Canadian conservative politician's role is to spin and re-frame the anger and outrage of the American right for Canadian consumption. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The Alberta separtists inherit the UCP reliance on empowering anger, and with it angers' reliable ignorance and prejudice. Their separtist movement is built on authority through anger. Not justice, not equality, not honesty, not respect, but dismissing, denying, denigrating anything and everything that stands in their way, regardless of its reality. It depends on curating and nurturing the anger, outrage, prejudice and willful ignorance necessary to justify the unjustifiable, irrational and contradictory. Anything that requires a responsible compromise and recognition of realities will be dismissed. If this succeeds the results will be uglier and more cruel than anything the UCP has done. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The Jitsi platform is very mature and offers many things zoom and teams can’t do. It’s open-source any organization can set up their own jitsi infrastructure https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander While food prices are projected to increase 10% in Canada, in Finland its only 2.5% Finland is not dominated by US multinationals and has a broad cooperative based food producers and retailers #cdnpoli https://www-ptt-fi.translate.goog/ennusteet/maa-ja-elintarviketalous-kevat-2025/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www.ucalgary.ca/sustainability/mobilizing-alberta/climate-action-blogs/why-food-so-expensive-canada npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Very good idea, but it will take more than not for profit grocery stores. The for-profit Ag & Grocery industries will work hard to see this fail. They are very well funded and politically supported. It will also take effective independent producer supply Not for profit Livestock grain legume supply chain? The corporations the dominate these industries won't quietly accept any change that threatens their massive profitability. They have had decades to hone and refine their dominance. https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/115968042569243772 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Finland’s cooperative grocery industry, and the country’s taxpayer support of these cooperatives? The groceries compete on customer service, as a coop they can be highly successful while maintaining minimal profitability Not a word from our politicians on how other countries have challenged this. https://prospect.org/2023/10/11/2023-10-11-cooperative-that-could-s-group-finland/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Agriculture Canada did an inquiry into Canada’s grocery industry and found it extremely “vertically integrated”. The differenent suppliers all owned by the same corporations that “compete” (NOT) to supply groceries. Ag Canada is being cut back, these analysis will be abandoned to fund the tax break that offers minor relief while falling to challenge the issue, subsidizing these corporations allowing the profits to further integrate the industry. Grocery corporations invest their profitability in becoming more profitable through integration. Until politicians are willing to recognize and challenge this the problem will continue to become more extreme Taxpayer’s are paying for failure, Poilievre fully supports this policy #cdnpoli https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/sector/data-reports/retail-fees-issue-canadian-food-industry npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Australia did a parliamentary inquiry to fossil fuel political interference. When will Canada? Atlas Network is active and successful in Canada https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=e7c8881a-8a0f-41bf-b08c-f4e5510ecd10&subId=784523 https://web.archive.org/web/20201101115633/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/socf.13042 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cars.12467 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Understanding the Competent Concierge: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney "Carney is clear eyed and honest enough to recognize the hypocrisy of the old system.. He’s not a left winger. He’s not a post war liberal. He’s a neoliberal technocrat, and the job of neoliberal technocrats is to keep making the rich richer..like most politicians and senior technocrats in our system, is a concierge for the rich. His job is to make them better off. They don’t want to be annexed by the US or to have to live in fear of a fickle US changing deals at a whim. But they still want to be super rich. https://www.ianwelsh.net/understanding-the-competent-concierge-canadas-prime-minister-mark-carney/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Poilievre must escape Alberta cuz Danielle is burning it down with her nonsense making Poilievre’s nonsense so obvious even the most willfully ignorant can’t stand the smell? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander And those compromises would be led by conservative Canada’s favoured organization ‘Canada’ Strong and Free (yes that US based libertarian org) that held the CPC leadership convention <- take a close look at the podium logos of every candidate.. https://web.archive.org/web/20210516155124/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada-strong-and-free-network https://share.google/l1bQsLAXwGjsLUlAM npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander For Mr. "Elbows Up" PM and his "What Porn?" Minister: "Do we really think that a Canadian government that can’t find the moral clarity to act against a child abuse platform will resist a multi-pronged American assault on Canadian sovereignty?" https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/the-ethically-challenged-evan-solomon-and-mark-carney-power-dance-may-lead-to-the-end-of-canada/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Canada purports to be a pluralistic country. It recognizes many ideas, many traditions, many communities are valid and worthwhile, and the country can and should do the work to know and understand as many as possible. X is the antithesis of pluralism. X games anger outrage ignorance and prejudice for gain. The algorithm pushes these idea far beyond the real value of these ideas. Only the pathetically naive and willfully ignorant don't see this. Misinformation and its manipulation and the outsized harm and impact is today's political reality. Solomon is feigning outrage with the naive confidence that his party's own misinformation gains through X, is still worthy and justified, that it will compete with the anger and outrage capable of supporting the killing of an innocent woman. Supporting X is supporting anger, ignorance fear and prejudice, not very Canadian, or its it? #cdnpoli https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/878/334/997/182/414/original/2c8da7d2fd427112.jpg npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Wondering if there will be a spike in donations from Calgary Jan 29-31? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander It may turn a few heads, and change the minds of a few, but it will be no match for the anger ignorance and outrage machine of America’s right. That machine is huge, widely and abundantly supported and methodically cruel blind and unforgiving npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander This to combat the fear & ignorance? https://hci.social/@tod/115871080586971260 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Canadian conservative issues are still driven by the issues of the American right from the loud and highly effective ignorance and outright machine of its media machine. Enough complaint conservative Canadian media will work to dismiss and deny the Minneapolis shooting to make it irrelevant, or feed the conservative media bias conspiracies… While the rest of Canada is horrified will it be denied and dismissed by our cons? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander CBC our national broadcaster seek clicks and views, not accuracy and honesty. A national broadcaster is the first defense against misinformation, so common on commercial social media. CBC wants exposure, and won't do the highly necessary and difficult work of challenging misinformation. Fenlon is saying doing the difficult and challenging work of a national broadcaster is far too hard for the CBC. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Poilievre’s wife Anaida is Venezuelan. His perspective is highly biased? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaida_Poilievre npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Carney won’t magically gain 20 seats in Alberta… npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander LNG & pipelines Ndp & Green? Will provincial NDP politics harm federal? Will those mainland Lib seats turn to Ndp or Green. Lowan speaks plenty on economic injustices. How will the issues fall between fed & prov? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Mark Carney would have become very familiar with Campbell River and North Island. The previously unthinkable promises that would have been made? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Liberals come in almost dead last in Naniamo, cept last election npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander True, A bye-election that would give a majority would bring in significantly more money and people. Would it have made a difference? Could Liberals in more remote and rural Canada make themselves relevant? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander If the division in OneBC extends to B.C. Conservatives…. NDP focused on leadership, with Carney doing everything that pleases corporate Canada, Gunns resignation would be an ideal time for the highly effective Liberal vote harvesting machine to plant itself in NorthIsland. The money and people that would be focused here? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander And what would Gunn consider the greater loss, his seat going to the NDP or Liberals. I don’t know enough about North Island to understand which way the pipeline MOU is slanting the politics. For Gunn to pass up a leadership opportunity suggests conservative support has dropped significantly. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander RE: https://flipboard.com/@blackpressmedia/clearwater-e137pofnz/-/a-zFZJldRvT0KoAi6d4k43qA%3Aa%3A3177150469-%2F0 “While the risk is small that my departure could upend the balance of power in Ottawa and give the Liberals that majority government, any risk is too great a risk for me,” Gunn said Gunn recognizes the politics in B.C. has changed and another conservative win in his riding isn’t guaranteed.. That his win is from a progressive vote split. Read more at: https://clearwatertimes.com/2025/12/24/federal-mp-aaron-gunn-will-not-seek-b-c-conservative-party-leadership/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub #note1ztp…6p6h npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Canadians will have to decide if they want a housing system that serves the wealthy or the ordinary. The wealthy will work hard to convince the ordinary that nobody will have success unless they do. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander But the enormously wealthy for-profit housing industry will complain loudly and effectively, because limited-profit housing associations bring down rental prices and profits. REIT profitability will suffer, but ordinary Canadians can live for less. What's the choice, and who makes it? https://www.housingeurope.eu/new-study-and-upcoming-conference-the-price-dampening-effect-of-limited-profit-housing-in-austria/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Unless Canada wants to put serious limits on for-profit housing it needs to follow Vienna and Finland in making non-market housing competitive https://cms.gbv.at/repos/files/GBV/Pressemappe/Pressemappe_dokumente/Folder%20Limited-Profit%20Housing%20Associations%20in%20Austria.pdf https://www.kuntarahoitus.fi/en/who-we-finance/affordable-social-housing npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Every opportunity, Poilievre shouts "people can't afford homes!" TaxFairness shows Canada's tax breaks from REIT income fuel Canada's housing inflation Poili complains on. His solution, give them a bigger tax break. He equates profit to freedom, and he's all for freedom https://financialpost.com/federal_election/what-you-need-to-know-about-poilievres-capital-gains-tax-deferral-proposal https://www.taxfairness.ca/sites/default/files/2024-09/C4TF%20FIRE%20Report_0.pdf npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander "But the photo with MacKenzie wasn’t Poilievre’s first exposure to the Diagolon movement. On Canada Day, the Conservative leadership hopeful marched with James Topp, another Canadian Forces veteran who has appeared numerous times on MacKenzie’s podcast. That wasn’t an accident, and Poilievre and his staff must have done their due diligence on Topp before deciding to march with him. That they chose to do so in spite of his affiliation with someone like MacKenzie speaks volumes — and raises some uncomfortable questions about the Conservative movement’s persistent proximity to far-right groups." Conservatives will soon vote on having a leader comfortable shaking hands with a neoNazi as their leader. "Leger finds that 78 percent of Conservative voters are satisfied with Poilievre" #cdnpoli https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08/23/opinion/pierre-poilievre-dangerous-dance-diagolon-extremist https://thewalrus.ca/the-numbers-behind-poilievres-leadership-dilemma/ https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/115747276994924691 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.7022299 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Conservative Leader Poilievre shakes hands with Second Sons president Jeremy Mackenzie https://globalnews.ca/news/8989888/diagolon-explainer-jeremy-mackenzie-pierre-poilievre/ https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08/23/opinion/pierre-poilievre-dangerous-dance-diagolon-extremist #cdnpoli https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/115747255510270591 https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/747/262/953/942/836/original/b11625f40a1aa5c0.png npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The nazi's in Canada, Second Sons: Nationalist club "Second Sons Canada" recruits members by focusing on fitness, history and tradition, but its leaders hold radical beliefs.Revering tradition & history while welcoming white nationalism "We do have national socialist members" https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.7022299 https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/115747276994924691 #cdnpoli npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Poileivre's statement about Ma being against "driving up the cost of living.. fight for an affordable future"? That evening Poilevre was fundraising amongst Toronto's wealthiest, who've built their wealth driving up the cost of living and making Canada unaffordable. https://youtu.be/ARx-Gqu64g0?t=148 https://www.conservative.ca/events/ https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/719/301/616/336/655/original/e89e363066f00d36.png npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander ConocoPhillips is laying off employees at its Canadian operations, according to three sources and a company memo reviewed by Reuters, as it moves to cut up to a quarter of its global workforce by next year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/conocophillips-canada-layoffs-9.6951040 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Precisely the opposite at Athabaska U. Canada's "online university" UCP demanded faculty be one site ... https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/10/Execs-Fleeing-Athabasca-University/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander One of the "fresh ideas" confederation of independent business had in 1981: "John Bulloch, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said: Paid maternity leave is a totally ridiculous kind of demand to expect employers to pay. Those who want to have babies should pay for them." https://www.rankandfile.ca/the-1981-postal-workers-strike-for-maternity-leave/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander “Canada’s biggest oil sands companies have benefitted to the tune of $4.3 billion since Alberta handed large corporations a ‘job creation’ tax cut three years ago, but those jobs never materialized, a new study has found. Instead, a total of 3,452 jobs with oil sands majors were lost to automation and consolidation since 2019” https://www.theenergymix.com/no-new-jobs-came-from-albertas-4b-job-creation-tax-cut-for-big-oil/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Proquest link to story Use your library Card # https://www.proquest.com/canadiannews/docview/3279852306/8F17069EFA0F433EPQ/12 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Canadians need "uncommon" good sense. We're offered every opportunity to abandon our good sense and sound judgement for a plethora of: false solutions hiding cause reinventing and painting over the proven wrong prejudice that reinforces privilege and refuses question Us and Them division that amplifies anger and prejudice against learning and knowing. Ignorance is effortless, Knowing and understanding is damn hard work. Journalists should be doing the work, not pushing the common idiocy. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander If Rustad and his supporters' stubbornness prevails what new parties will emerge and what synonyms will be chosen for party name? The Fuddy Duddy | Dowdy | Square | Hidebound | Ossifed | Fogy| |Dark | Callow | Boar Party? https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conservative npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Carney's goal is to have Poilievre "cross the floor"? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander British Columbia Recall and Initiative Act #bcpoli https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96398_03 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander As Canadians find the cost of living crisis more and more challenging, the Alberta and Federal govt work hard to move more profits out of the country. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Politics by division, Carney reviled for accommodating Smith, Smith for cooperating with Carney npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Is Carbon Capture another debt that will never be paid? Are Canadians willing to go in more debt to subsidize its foreign owned oil industry? TMX: “ There’s no way anyone will pay the full cost of this pipeline” Trans Mountain wants higher tolls. They won't cover even half its price tag “There has never been an instance in any western country — that I'm aware of — where tolls have been set below the level required to cover the cost of the operation of a pipeline.. Trans Mountain’s proposed tolls would leave the Crown corporation $16.2 billion in the hole, and in all likelihood, the cost will end up borne by Canadian taxpayers” https://www.biv.com/news/resources-agriculture/trans-mountain-wants-higher-tolls-they-wont-cover-even-half-its-price-tag-8272705 https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/10/analysis/trans-mountain-pipelines-cost-taxpayers-canada npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander 2025, last time a Liberal MP elected in B.C.? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Is copier boy Scheer going to argue he has professional mariner experience now? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-insurance-broker-monday-1.5303394 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Hmm IDF soldiers free to speak in Canada, while a human rights scholar is detained. Something isn’t the same … https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/richard-falk-detained-cbsa-palestine-conference-9.6980514 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Jivani works hard to bring the anger ignorance and hatred in from the US. Oh but look? Jivani used to work with the American Atlas Network. 'Canada' Strong & Free is an American supported org that contends it represents Canadians? And look Cardus is another American organization based in Mason OH ... And 22 Canadian conservative MP's work equally hard to be willfully ignorant enough to pretend none of this is an issue. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304210556/https://canadastrongandfree.network/staff/ https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/202324150/202203019349301380/full https://web.archive.org/web/20201101115633/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada #atlasnetwork #cdnpoli npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The pipeline noise? If the long term market was there, the industry would put refineries in place instead of piping a raw product half a continent while demanding others pay for it, and depending on the rate subsidy TMX gives them, npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Israel has worked to prop up Abbas who’s considered corrupt and useless in Palestine, while quietly supporting Hamas, while publicly condemning it Anand is supporting all of this by merely parroting Israel. Is she willing to say anything that challenges, or do we have a minister of compromise and complacency? https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/gaza-and-the-day-after npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Anand announces she’s preparing for a leadership role in the 51st state… npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Conservatives world wide are dominated by the ideas from the US extreme right. But the rest of the world doesn’t have the highly profitable ignorance machines of Fox et. al. As the US right becomes more extreme in the US, it’s viewed as idiotic nonsense by those who haven’t fallen under its charm. The US ignorance machine fails to spread its charm outside the US. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Jason Kenney was president of ‘Canadian’ Taxpayers Federation, MP, Jamil Jivani was past president of ‘Canada’ Strong and Free, both Atlas Network advocacy org as well. Both work hard to produce bight & shiny talking points for the willfully ignorant. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809235950/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Did Carney ask the oil businessmen if they would begin paying the real cost of using a pipeline instead of half the cost like TMX. $22/ barrel would be the industry standard, Canada only charges $10. (pg 16) Every Canadian taxpayer is subsidizing a highly profitable foreign owned industry with $18 Billion. But the industry threatens to just stop using this “essential” pipeline if this subsidy is ended, leaving taxpayers with a $30 Billion stranded asset. https://archive.ph/o/gbSjj/https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2024-09/fossil-fuel-subsidies-trans-mountain-pipeline.pdf npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Are the Liberals trying to get Poilievre to cross the floor? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Smith claims she worked in "peer review: with Fraser. Fraser's "reports" are so dubious, no self-respecting journal would tarnish their reputation .. https://www.healthcoalition.ca/past-time-to-stop-platforming-the-fraser-institute-canada-can-afford-public-health-care/ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/debunking-the-fraser-institutes-latest-scaremongering-on-indigenous-rights/ https://in-sights.ca/category/fraser-institute/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander friendly reminder that Alberta premier Danielle Smith is an alumni of Fraser Institute https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/488/473/085/973/434/original/12a730f23c442bb3.png npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Friendly reminder that Conservative Party of Canada held its leadership convention with Atlas Network operatives 'Canada' Strong and Free No conflict of interest here ... https://www.cpac.ca/cpac-special/episode/conservative-leadership-debate-at-canada-strong-and-free-networking-conference?id=8b267343-c6c9-438a-bc78-37c5a11e8016 https://web.archive.org/web/20210516155124/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada-strong-and-free-network npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander I hope Quilchena takes a hard look at who it chose to represent them. It is one of the most privileged and wealthy areas in Canada. Ignorance and prejudice best meets their needs? https://govancity.com/neighbourhoods/quilchena/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Success in the tribalism of division. I’ll be as ignorant and immoral as my side needs me to be … To be moral just honest and true is to fail. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Being a lying hypocrite now shouts loudly “I’m on your side!” I’ll be as dishonest and immoral as our side needs me to be. Criticism from the other side is easily discarded as meaningless. It all depends on an extreme division and tribalism that goes beyond logic love or reason, that must continue to be more extreme to succeed. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander It all turns back to how authority works in right wing social. It depends on the slippery ever changing “Who is the loudest voice, who can turn more outrage, who can be more inflammatory, who can twist the extreme vile and unacceptable as reasonable. AND Doing the work, spending the money to cultivate having those ready and willing to accept the vile and pathetic on your side. This is insular social media job, backed up by the commercial anger and ignorance machine that Rebel Media works hard to be a part of of. Ignorance is effortless. It’s this enormous jenga block tower of anger ignorance prejudice and outrage that must be carefully built higher and higher. It’s never about accuracy honesty knowing caring <- these are the antithesis of their jenga of hatred and ignorance. Just one of these threatens to collapse it But knowing understanding and caring is hard work and requires abandoning the steely protections of ignorance and ideology for ordinary vulnerable imperfect people npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Canada should demand an entire 100% Canadian product line of GM’s new 2027 Bolt EV in Canada. Paying in Canadian $ would lower cost by 30%? It was an EV plant already new Bolt is currently made in Kansas city. https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2025/oct/1009-2027-Chevrolet-Bolt.html npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Friendly reminder to everyone that Jivani was once president of the American Atlas Network supported ‘Canada’ Strong and Free. An organization that purports to be Canadian but Altas is a world wide Libertarian organization working to advocate for the extraordinarily wealthy in the US. Cbc never seems to remember this https://web.archive.org/web/20230304210556/https://canadastrongandfree.network/staff/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201022153417/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada https://www.desmog.com/canada-strong-and-free-network/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Again Canadian conservatives are incapable of anything independent of the US right wing and whatever ignorance and hatred is pushed to the top of their cesspool. It’s never a better idea, but what outrage and division of the moment is turning the most heads. Re-spin and repackage then point it at Canada to see if it sticks npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Everyone should stop by and give them an Ottawa cheer? .. https://www.sportchek.ca/en/pdp/coghlan-s-air-horn-81955449f.html npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Hmm, Is Canada's autosector just a scaled back version of the US? In Europe Stellantis offers: Opel Grandland Electric a high end family SUV Opel Mokka, economical subcompact Midrange family crossover: Frontera & Astra Compact Sedan: Astra Combi Compact EV minivan Zafira Even "mini-er" van High Performance Rally EV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoigMl35U8U And the polar opposite of a pickup https://www.media.stellantis.com/em-en/opel/press/new-opel-rocks-entry-level-electric-light-motor-vehicle-in-new-guise Many available as EV, Hybrid or ICE For Canada just the Pacifica Van, Hornet & Fiat 500e? (And the Jeeps and Rams ...) https://www.media.stellantis.com/em-en/opel/press/greenovation-at-opel-the-suv-trio-grandland-frontera-and-mokka https://www.media.stellantis.com/em-en/opel/press/people-carrier-is-ready-to-go-opel-opens-order-books-for-new-combo-electric https://www.stellantisfleet.ca/en/electric-vehicles#zones_body_blocks_features-tabs-vehicle-tray npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The unasked question for Canadians ... Do we want workers who can afford groceries and a place to live, or wealthier billionaires & executives? The choice should be ours, not left to politicians and lobbyists npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Meanwhile in Quebec, Jean-Sébastien Joly, brother of Liberal Minister Mélanie Joly owner Intelcom keeps Amazon's Quebec deliveries running: "these "independent" delivery drivers were paid between $1.60 and $3.00 per parcel delivered. If we subtract the cost of fuel, most of them earn less than the minimum wage." after Amazon "Lays off 4,500 Workers in Quebec to Bust Their Union" https://thenorthstar.media/2025/03/amazons-subcontractor-in-quebec/ https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/02/amazon-lays-4500-workers-quebec-bust-their-union npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander If everything is Canadian, Moe and Smith have just popped, deflated abandoned the long standing “equalization is bad” argument that’s fueled western Canadian politics since NDP last Sask. “Prime Minister Stephen Harper has asked Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall to drop a lawsuit against the federal government over equalization payments.. "They were willing to stand up against Liberals, but when it comes to standing up against Conservatives, not a chance," Calvert said. "They'd sooner sell out the people of Saskatchewan than stand up against this Conservative prime minister."” #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/wall-says-harper-asked-to-have-equalization-suit-dropped-1.728419 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander There’s a reason no corporation wants to invest in this scheme, and it’s not because of what Alberta’s premier calls Ottawa’s ‘Nine Bad Laws’. https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/was-danielle-smiths-pipeline-announcement-designed-to-distract/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Smith is well versed in manipulating messaging for political gain. (She interned at Fraser Institute…) Her success will be tempered by how many Canadians are willing to take this manipulation at face value or see it for the manipulation it is and reject her for taking them as fools. Easiest way to manipulate is to anger… npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander There is a gas pipeline to b.c. already, it’s not being used to capacity, there is no tanker ban in southern bc. Increasing the capacity on TMX would meet every demand. All her demands could be met with the existing pipeline. It’s all strategic political noise npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Smith is facing a teachers strike in Alberta Her disrespect is a selfish ploy to distract from her failure as a provincial leader to do the fundamental basic of managing public schools and education that every other provincial leader manages far better? But her political advocacy has turned responsibility upside-down? https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6924058 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Poilievre's political strategy is to import the anger and ignorance from the US right and push it on Canadians. He has nothing without this. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Finland puts “World’s Largest Sand Battery Now in Operation”. Uses sand to store thermal heat when it’s cheap to produce. Finland uses district heating. Rather than every individual building consuming energy to heat itself, a set of buildings use a common heating source. Offers efficiency of scale https://polarnightenergy.com/news/worlds-largest-sand-battery-now-in-operation/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Canada Post has 28 directors and senior executives. If they average $300 K each, $8.5 million is saved without them. If the organization is failing so spectacularly why are they still employed? https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/115273375930141565 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Gasparo appears to be working to take advantage. gaining support from outrage, but stepping away from accuracy and honesty when it offers no gain. Looks Pathetic npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander If this is accurate? Watch the political maneuvering and language… Acknowledge one of your players has lied to every Canadian, while trying to portray this as harmless while not appearing to be dishonest damage one’s own legitimacy in the process. Or toss the fool and minimize the damage? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander VOX: How the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk is transforming MAGA.. It is a model that allows the language of Christian mercy to coexist with the harsh realities of authoritarian rule, which is exactly what MAGA is aiming for. It was also a model that allowed for women to have a significant public role while not transgressing normative ideas of femininity. MAGA faith is going to need martyrs for all the reasons Christianity did: to inspire the faithful, punish dissenters, and keep the money flowing.” https://archive.ph/bcFa5 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The “Us vs Them” division and “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on” <- The cons will play these for all they’re worth. With strategic division Truth is made irrelevant. It’s what the ‘US’ shouts first that’s taken as gospel… All corrections apologies clarifications are safely ignored and dismissed as ‘THEM’ nonsense. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander For example: https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/204/203/098/610/850/original/e36167a040773b00.png