RBC posted:

why do film nerds all have the same voice

Fashionable Jorts posted:

I've seen prisons that are more visually appealing.

Bob NewSCART posted:

can someone who knows better tell me if this is the case; do property taxes for neighbourhoods/areas that are designated to a school directly influence the amount of money that school has available to them/the amount that school gets funded, or is it all a part of a larger redistribution system?

Another Bill posted:

Mon dieu... at least I know I can always get work teaching French out west

incontinence 100 posted:

I hope you like being homeless.

Another Bill posted:

A, a, a.... sans-abris

univbee posted:

half cocaine posted:

remember When the most offensive thing about Fletcher was that he was against assisted suicide because he was afraid someone like him might murdered by a caregiver

Another Bill posted:

Sans abri, sans merci is an incredible tag line

univbee posted:

priznat posted:

I keep getting calls from Numeris which I am guessing is some kind of polling firm for the election but I’ll be hosed if I want to talk to a pollster.

a primate posted:

worse, they work for the cable companies

infernal machines posted:

we'll be lucky if we keep universal health care for another decade

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2019 SHORT PLATFORM

CREATE JOBS

Adopt a full-employment policy and replace precarious work with well-paid, permanent jobs.
Enact a 32 hour work week with no loss in take-home pay.
Invest in value-added manufacturing and secondary industry.
Nationalize GM and build an affordable electric car and mass public transit. Retrofit and upgrade public infrastructure.
Build 1 million units of social housing.
Expand social programs.
Enact plant closure legislation.
Cancel job-destroying ‘free trade’ deals.

RAISE WAGES, PENSIONS, AND EI

Raise the minimum wage to $20.
Enact universal pay and employment equity.
Raise EI benefits to 90% of previous earnings, and include coverage for first-time job seekers.
Increase public pensions, with full benefits at 60.
Enact a Labour Bill of Rights guaranteeing the right to strike, picket and organize.

HALT CLIMATE CHANGE

Emergency legislation to slash carbon emissions and end carbon ‘credits’.
Nationalize energy and natural resources.
Develop solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and other renewables.
Close the tarsands and associated pipelines, and guarantee jobs at equivalent wages to laid-off workers.
Ban fracking.
Impose heavy fines and jail terms on polluters.

PEACE, DISARMAMENT & SOVEREIGNTY

Adopt an independent Canadian foreign policy of peace and disarmament.
Cut military spending by 75%.
Get out of NATO and NORAD.
Sign the Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Bring Canadian troops home and cancel military exports.
No new fighter jets.
End Canada’s involvement in US regime change in Venezuela.
Enact boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel.

EXPAND UNIVERSAL SOCIAL PROGRAMS – END POVERTY

Enact a liveable Guaranteed Annual Income.
Ban “workfare”.
Expand Medicare to include pharmacare, dental and vision care, long-term care, and mental health care.
Reduce drug overdose deaths with harm reduction and ‘safe supply’ policies.
Enforce the Canada Health Act.
Stop privatization.
Enact a universally accessible, free, quality, public childcare system.
Make post-secondary education free.
Cancel student debt.
Ban unpaid internships.
Introduce postal banking and restore home delivery at Canada Post.

A NEW, EQUAL AND VOLUNTARY PARTNERSHIP

Recognize the right of nations to self-determination, up to and including secession, and draft a new Constitution based on an equal, voluntary partnership of Indigenous peoples, Québec, Acadians, and English-speaking Canada.
Rescind the Clarity Act.
Just settlement of Indigenous land claims without extinguishment of inherent title.
Enact the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to veto development.
Enact recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry.

FULL GENDER EQUALITY

Close the wage gap.
Guarantee universally accessible abortion and reproductive health services, and free, quality public childcare across Canada.
Protect women’s right to EI maternity coverage, and increase parental benefits.
Fund equality-seeking women’s groups, crisis centres and transition houses.
Protect 2sLGBTQi rights and end violence against women, Trans and 2sLGBTQi people.

FIGHT RACISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA, ISLAMOPHOBIA

Ban racism and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, racialization, religion, or place of origin.
Prosecute hate groups as criminal organizations.
Ban racial profiling.

WELCOME IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES

End scape-goating and stop deportations of immigrants and refugees.
Scrap the Safe Third Country Agreement and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Provide a path to citizenship for foreign and migrant workers.
Fund legal aid.

TAX THE GREEDY, NOT THE NEEDY

Double the corporate tax rate.
Restore the capital tax.
Raise the capital gains tax to 100%.
Introduce wealth and inheritance taxes on estates over $1 million.
Eliminate taxes on incomes under $40,000.
Axe the HST.
Collect deferred corporate taxes – close loopholes.
Enact progressive taxation based on ability to pay.

CURB CORPORATE POWER

Public ownership and democratic control of banks, insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, energy and natural resources, Bombardier, Air Canada, CN, and US automakers in Canada.
Repeal Deferred Prosecution Agreements.
Amend bankruptcy laws to put workers’ wages and pensions first.

END SECURITY STATE LAWS – DEFEND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

Repeal undemocratic “anti-terrorism” legislation.
Abolish secret detention without trial, national security certificates, and the no-fly list.
Abolish CSIS and the Communications Security Establishment.
Defend the right to dissent.
Put police and RCMP under civilian control.
Ban possession of handguns.

MAKE EVERY VOTE COUNT

Enact Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation.

Another Bill posted: