This one sentence on the article pretty much summarizes the problem:

It’s not surprising these groups check out of politics, especially when there is mounting evidence that legislators favour higher status voters.

The two main parties can barely pretend to give a fuck about the poors anymore, and the NDP has basically regressed to being equivalent of the Liberals a decade ago. The Federal Greens are a joke.

I only vote because I’m queer and the Conservatives have a much more aggressive form of homophobia than the Libs.

Québec doesn’t have a crown corp telecom, but Vidéotron is a major player there.

I’ve no experience with them (when I briefly lived in Montréal my internet was with TekSavvy) so I can’t comment on how they compare with Rogers/Bell.

Unwatched is Apple-only.

If you’re looking for similar stuff for other platforms, FreeTube is great on desktop, and Tubular is my Android YT app of choice.

Things that are violent:

• Imprisoning and deporting innocent immigrants

• State-sanctioned murder of black people via police

• Legislating away the human rights of trans people

• Forcing women to give birth against their will

The real illiberal, fundamentalist, totalitarian terrorists are on the right. I didn’t shed a tear for Kirk and I wouldn’t for PP or JK, either.

2015 will be the last federal election under first-past-the-post!

— Justin Trudeau

(I don’t disagree with your comment, I just think it says more about the sorry state of things than it does Trudeau.)

Don’t underestimate how much American MAGA rhetoric has infiltrated Canada. A lot of people here are bigoted against immigrants, queers, natives, or [INSERT MARGINALIZED GROUP HERE].

Even in my heavily Liberal city, I’ve heard someone suggest a homeless hunting season (as in, a season to hunt homeless people). I’ve seen a guy rage because city hall was flying a Pride flag. I’ve heard people say they’re scared to go to the mall because there’s too many immigrants now.

I do truly think most people I encounter have their hearts in the right place, but I’m often surprised at what some of them say, even the ones who seem nice. Unfortunately, I think this rightward shift represents more of the population than we’d like to admit.

The fact that a woman wearing a spaghetti-strap tank top and being expressive immediately makes you assume she’s a porn actress says a lot about you.

yet they offer up zero solutions as to how to acquire the funds to support the programs receiving cuts.

TAX THE RICH HOLY FUCK

lol

We could also make less work for firefighters by collectively performing society-wide mass suicide, but I don’t see what that has to do with reasonable restrictions during a time of crisis.

My definition of crisis is when there are multiple out of control forest fires active in my province. I think restricting activity in high-risk areas makes sense, especially when firefighting resources are already used up fighting existing fires elsewhere in the province.

I’m honestly a bit disappointed in the takes I’m seeing here in the comments. People literally repeating stuff reported by Alex Jones as if that’s in any way a trustworthy source.

I love the woods, that’s why I’m more than happy to avoid them during an ongoing crisis. Let the firefighters save the forests and not accidentally give them more work, y’know?

As highlighted in Gilmore’s video, it’s 100% the same energy as the reaction the right had to masking mandates.

People who are the problem and starting fires will ignore the ban while responsible people who want to enjoy nature or walk home through the park are the ones punished.

With this logic, we might as well stop having laws. Criminals always ignore them anyway.

You’d think they’d, I don’t know, google the artist before granting the permit? Even outside of fascists, there are plenty of performances I’d feel are probably inappropriate for a public park, even some I’d personally enjoy.

It’s wild to me that they’d grant a permit without doing any research into the people performing/organizing.

I read their comment as proposing to aim for potential self-sufficiency. That doesn’t necessarily imply isolationism. Developing homegrown options isn’t mutually exclusive with global trade.

It can just mean having domestic alternatives to assert our sovereignty in case, say, a fascist movement takes over the government of our largest trading partner with who we share the world’s longest border, or something like that. Purely a hypothetical, of course.

I’m really thankful this event was cancelled, but honestly quite infuriated that their permit was approved in the first place. It shouldn’t take public outrage in order to not have fascists preaching their hateful rhetoric in public parks.

A few years ago some drag queen friends of mine received death threats before a performance in this very same park. Queer and other marginalized peoples don’t deserve to be faced with violence in a city-approved public performance.

Characterizing Peterson as a “talented and charismatic academic”?? I don’t know, maybe he was before anyone knew of him, but he certainly hasn’t been that in the public eye.

Jordan Peterson became a well-known figure after publishing a series of Youtube videos about his opposition to Bill C-16, where he argued that respecting people’s pronouns is an affront to his free speech. He’s been a hack, a grifter, and an asshole since day one.

I’m honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?

I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.

Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren’t also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I’d be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.

There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).

If your job mostly revolves around checking people’s documentation and you fail to recognize government-issued ID (from the country in which you work, no less), you’re objectively shit at your job.

I don’t understand why you’re making excuses for the airline. I did a better job than this as a 19 year-old cashier selling lotto tickets.

I would definitely put my money on white nationalists.

Seperationists don’t tend to join the Canadian military, nor would they typically display stickers of the American flag on their trucks as you can see in one of the images on the article. Also, when’s the last time the souverainiste mouvement got violent? I can’t think of anything more recent than the early '70s.