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Last Notes npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander “Singh talked tough about getting ready for the next federal vote, suggesting the Conservatives would form a government that would make deep cuts that will hurt workers, retirees, young people, patients, and families “in order to give more to big corporations and wealthy CEOs.” “Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people” https://www.thestar.com/politics/ndp-kills-deal-that-propped-up-justin-trudeaus-liberals-putting-his-minority-government-at-risk/article_9744b22a-6acd-11ef-96a6-9329e7e56dc6.html npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Prejudice and racism on full display, shouting “the homeless are not worthy of support!” npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Saskatoon mayor candidates advocate for isolating homeless in industrial areas where there are no services. A policy designed to fail? #skpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/mayoral-candidates-talk-about-the-shelters-1.7302703 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Barber also spoke with Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnists/mandryk-counselling-convoy-protesters-a-new-low-for-wall-the-right npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/01/21/Worries-Rise-NPA-Vancouver-Extremist-Candidates-2022/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Postmedia expects to get $8 million to $10 million this year from taxpayers https://thetyee.ca/ Mediacheck/2019/07/11/Postmedia-Taxpayer-Subsidies/ If the federal government thinks its various subsidies to Canadian newspapers are doing much to uphold democracy, it needs to take a clear-eyed look at Postmedia’s paid circulation numbers. https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/government-subsidies-are-not-stemming-the-bleeding-in-the-journalism-industry/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander CTV’s strategy just enables and reinforces the conservative effort to dismiss and deny effective journalism. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Is it mollifying those ready to dismiss & deny? This is a losing battle, blunting criticism to remain heard. The cons already have ample numbers willing to deny & dismiss. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Wow, Canada’s perfect, why is Poilievre travelling around the country shouting it’s broken? A message for the very well privileged who face no issues and are blind to the disparity that surrounds them. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander that wheat & barley? https://www.nfu.ca/2020-hindsight-ending-the-canadian-wheat-board-was-an-economic-tragedy/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander This is just a “house of cards” taking legitimate anger and frustration but building and stoking it with ignorance and prejudice. The only thing that unites it is fear anger and prejudice. When the cards topple there will be even more anger and prejudice and perhaps violence. Who and what will suffer? I hope those exploiting it for gain suffer the worst. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Twitter is the ideal tool for anger and division. The language and noise are signals to be with or against a division. With division so effective any ideas that challenge are deemed "outsider" ideas and can be dismissed without acknowledging or addressing the criticism. it reinforces ignorance and prejudice while extending and expanding its reach. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The biggest threat Twitter holds in politics, is its ability to dismiss and deny. Poilievre and the conservatives would fail without it and the other social media platforms that cater to deny & dismiss. Without these social media tools Poilievre would rely on mainstream media where hard questions are made, and good answers are demanded. Poilievre can easily dismiss mainstream media and its questions npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander A big part of Twitter is to use the language, the noise of the day, to gain standing and “credibility” within the group. It’s not to “out oneself” as being ignorant and racist, but to signal “This is my tribe/team, I’m loyal to it”. That the language and prejudice is so obvious is assumed to be irrelevant, the prejudice and racism has been deemed an outsider’s idea npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The only “unity” Poilievre offers is ignorance fear and prejudice: the essentials of anger and division. He’s leading a race to the bottom. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Gee corporate influence in chronically underfunded public education? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/university-of-saskatoon-professor-monsanto-1.4107475 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/u-of-s-professor-says-there-s-nothing-unusual-about-his-ties-to-monsanto-1.4100399 npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander "think tank expertise is political rather than neutral and that think tanks provide policy-related evidence for competing causes, projects and worldviews" Every conservative politician that collaborates with Atlas Network think-tanks is asking Canadians to be an eager participant in their willful ignorance, what political interference? #cdnpoli https://web.archive.org/web/20210729032136/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Montreal has a “right of first refusal” policy. When an offer to sell property in Montreal is made, the city must be notified. The city has the right to buy that property, at the price offered + additional costs incurred, to build social housing. If Montreal follows Vienna’s policy, that property is removed from the speculative housing market. This reduces inflationary housing. What other cities do this? https://www.dwpv.com/en/insights/publications/2020/droit-de-premier-refus-montreal-logement-social npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Vienna, the most successful public housing municipality does it by having the municipality own the housing, removing it from the speculative market, and leasing at affordable rates . They now work with non-profits. Initially funded by a tax on wealth oriented consumptions. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-social-housing-secret-how-vienna-became-the-worlds-most-livable-city npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Poilievre’s dedication to “market freedom” will insure home ownership remains an unattainable dream for all but the wealthiest. https://pressprogress.ca/big-real-estate-executives-among-top-donors-to-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/ npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander It seems all of Canada has forgotten of Sk’s extraordinary effective in both cost and treatment dental therapist program when it decided to subsidize dentists.<-but this doesn’t challenge the very capable and well off dentist advocacy. SK dentists were not unhappy when the school program was shut down? npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The current program is good, I look forward to its eligibility being expanded. BUT I grew up with a school based dental therapist program in Sk, could this program be improved it it took some of the therapist program? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310545740_Saskatchewan's_school-based_dental_program_staffed_by_dental_therapists_a_retrospective_case_study_Saskatchewan's_school-based_dental_program npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander social media (and rest of the net) has no real borders. It’s a policy that doesn’t reflect reality. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The strategies of manipulative political actors will likely be quicker more sophisticated than a regulatory body, but at the very minimum these reg bodies should at least recognize these threats exist. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander The Poilievre bot for northern ontario will be vey damaging if it can show that Poilievre and his campaign view its supporters as naive gullible fools that can be easily manipulated. The cons become miserable cowards. npub1klmxke5nafugykx9whm0zesdw658v45hdsp4q3mwwxr9ywaqwfjs74jxt2 Gordon J Holtslander Cons have been so successful fundraising they’ve raised more than can be legally spent during writ period, thus a non-campaign campaign… Common sense used to tell us the world is flat, and the sun rotates around it and …