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  • I mean, the cops here aren’t nearly as corrupt as the law in the USA, by design, so, I don’t worry at all about that.

    Then you sit in a place of privilege (as do I). The Indigenous communities certainly wouldn’t likely feel the same, I imagine many people of colour as well. Are they as openly dangerous? Not openly no, but they still kill quite a few people, took many Indigenous people into the middle of no where in the winter and dropped them off to die, are generally very violent when it comes to protesters that aren’t right wing etc.

    Our cops are complete and utter shit. American’s are just worse that’s all.












  • If it’s essential to the survival of our citizenry, there are zero excuses for it being private in the first place, and the NDP should have been looking into making them a public company well before striking was even being talked about. Instead they’re just saying they “might” look into it, which translated from Politician to English, means they have no intention in making them public at all.

    While I understand that these workers striking may put lab results on delay, that’s the cost of Privatizing healthcare. It is not the fault of the people striking, it is the fault of the Private company. That’s literally why the entire idea of socialized healthcare doesn’t include private interests.

    Everyone that’s been alive and paying attention long enough knows that the only way to accomplish any goal against the Wealthy and Political classes is a painful process and that pain is not directed at anyone that deserves it. The Political class only cares about the rest of us, when it’s in their interest to do so. Meaning it has to both serve the Wealthy and Political classes, or they simply ignore us. The pain caused by striking here is to the people needing their test results, that’s a terrible thing no doubt, but to get the Political class to move in any way against the Wealthy class, pain MUST be inflicted. It sucks, but it’s the reality of how our systems are setup. It’s also why things like Protesting for Palestine does absolutely nothing at the government level (other than label you as a problem anyway). Protests that don’t cause pain, don’t get results.





  • So, Conservatives bad (which is honestly true nearly 100% of the time), but we can’t let people choose to strike because…the company is run poorly because of the Conservatives?

    If you don’t even KNOW if someone’s job is an “Essential Service” then you shouldn’t be able to stand in the way of a Strike. What the NDP does know, is that Dynacare is dog shit. As such, let them eat crow with strikers instead of forcing strikers to work for people you know for absolute fact are dog shit.

    As far as it feeling like there’s an Agenda against the NDP, that’d be because there is, Post Media owns the majority of news in this country and they’re MAGA losers doing their best to sow discord. That said, the NDP shot themselves in the face here (and also very recently in BC).