The union, which held a rally to denounce the cuts last week, said in a news release that it’s demanding the government explain why experienced public servants are facing waves of workforce reductions as outsourcing spending reaches record highs.

because it's not about saving money. if they wanted to save money, they would do the opposite, which would be to abolish outsourcing. the reason public service costs have increased is that they're handing out lucrative contracts to pr agencies and hr firms, who get paid 2-3x as much as unionized workers do, particularly in management.

what it's about is privatizing the public service so that political parties, which are now organized like private corporations, are able to hand out political favours and cushy contracts to donors and allies. it's about ensuring that the party can turn the day to day running of the country into a means of rewarding those close to it and punishing those opposed to it.

this isn't how a democracy or a democratic society functions. one of the primary characteristics of a democracy in the modern era is a strong and independent public service, which runs the country independently and is sheltered from political corruption by an inability of the ruling party to control or alter work contracts based on obedience to party dictates. a state where any labour, but particularly public service labour, is controlled by the ruling political party is a characteristic of fascism, and the kind of thing you tend to mostly see in extremely corrupt middle eastern countries, which canada is essentially in the process of converting itself into.

what's going on here is not conservative cost-cutting, it's typical backroom deal liberal corruption. they're trying to make that kind of corruption systemic and endemic. it's time for a change in government. canada's greatest strength is it's independent public service, and the country will be left in ruins if the ruling party declares war on it, because that's not going to be an easy fight.

the idea is not that the liberals want to save money, it's that they want to be able to make hiring people conditional on obedience to the party, and they want to get rid of career employees that have no allegiance to any one party. 

heil carney!

https://globalnews.ca/news/11619969/canada-public-service-government-layoffs/

trump is not the first idiot president and he won't be the last.

the clear and sole victor in a fight been washington and brussels over greenland is beijing.

yes, the americans are being stupid. but this will pass.

europe would be smart to wait it out.

...and to remember what happened to serbia in the late 90s.

while trump is obviously wrong about greenland, he's got 2.5 years left in power, maybe less, and greenland is simply not a cross of rocks that europe should die on. nato needs to avoid destroying itself over what will in the end be an irrelevant detail. historians will laugh at europe if it collapses over this.

it's not an accident. it's the policy of the new nazi state of syria.

these fascists will carry on the genocide of everybody that disagrees with them, where they left off.

they should have been slaughtered when they were captured.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/some-1500-isis-prisoners-reportedly-escape-amid-syrian-govt-advance-on-kurdish-city/

the iranians are blaming israel for the protests. 

we talk a lot about orwell in the west, and sometimes it's an analogy, but it's largely hyperbole.

as much as i want to stand with the people in the street yelling, it is not just likely but probable that the protesters were coerced on to the streets by undercover agents with the explicit intent to slaughter them. 

that is right out of 1984. not hysterically. but literally.

protect your freedom judiciously. 

it's fragile.

america really has been moving backwards since clinton.

clinton I - the apex of american civilization (1992-1995)

clinton II - reversal through bush I 

bush II - reagan redux

obama - carter/ford

trump I - nixon

biden - lbj

trump II - jfk, starting with the reverse assassination 

2028-2036 - eisenhower?

2036-2040 - truman?

are we going to get a new fdr in 2040?

people should have perhaps read a little more into the trump-rfk reach around because the last american president that was this gong-ho on installing fascist dictators around the world was jfk.

nothing substantive will change if the shah launches a coup. all that will change is who controls the puppet strings. the iranian people should not be a pawn in the collapse of russia's ability to project power.

if this fascist succeeds in launching an undemocratic coup in iran, which will be a counter-revolution, which is what happened in 1979, it will just be that much more important to continue the socialist revolution.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/19/hackers-target-iran-state-tvs-satellite-transmission-to-broadcast-exiled-crown-prince