alexander boulerice should resign from parliament immediately.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-newman-why-did-canada-deny-entry-to-rima-hassan-france-has-the-answer

this is pathetic.

most of bc isn't under treaty. in 2026, the premier of bc, who is a new democrat, thinks it's ok to steal land from indigenous people, without compensation or even acknowledgement.

the land does not belong to the colonizers, it belongs to the indigenous groups. that fact is established in law at this point.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-tells-first-nations-it-wants-to-suspend-dripa/

if bondi had been fired, trump would have a replacement. attorney general is kind of an important gig.

trump seems to have been caught off guard.

macron, probably between sips of perignon, and forkfuls of caviar, recently called trump inelegant in response to criticisms about his storm trooper wife.

mercy, jesus. 

be easy on him, bonaparte.

oh no he didn't.

*snaps fingers in zig zag*

this tiff will be resolved by a drag competition overseen by rupaul, who i believe is a likely candidate for attorney general.

pam bondi appears to have quit, rather than be fired.

the rest of the world should certainly take note of how much of a sick cult the iranian regime is, but, in doing so, it should be able to understand what trump is not able to understand, which is that it will not react rationally. 

there is nothing that donald trump can do to force the iranians to react rationally, except to dismantle the state, which he doesn't want to do, because he wants more theocracy, not less theocracy.

donald trump's master plan in iran is to commit war crimes against the civilian population until the regime signs on the dotted line.

...which ignores decades of evidence making it clear that the regime will send it's citizens out as cannon fodder, without a second thought.

the result is predictable: america will threaten to slaughter iranian civilians or else, and iran will happily hand over their civilians to be slaughtered, then glorify them as martyrs, then go about their day like nothing happened, while making no concessions. and the americans will need to wear that on their sleeves.

trump doesn't get it and he's not going to get it. he needs to be removed from power before this turns into a pointless, stupid bloodbath.

my solidarity was with the iranian opposition, who needed air support. the americans were positioned and ready, and this should be over by now, but the president is a stubborn retard that won't listen.

the americans should be targeting regime figures and state infrastructure with the intent on preventing the state from functioning, which will lead to it's collapse and force the iranians to rebuild it. if you force the iranians to rebuild the state, you force them to make new decisions about what the state will be once it's rebuilt. it is ultimately their decision. america can destroy the existing state, but it can't build a new one, and that would be sufficient in iran, where people are yearning to breathe freely.

instead, they are intentionally avoiding hitting state infrastructure and intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure with the intent of keeping the old regime in place (because they want a conservative regime in place) and bullying it into accepting demands enforced on it, by threatening it with further civilian attacks. this is unfortunate, and questions as to whether the united states is behaving like a rogue state or a war criminal are going to become more relevant, if they don't stop the attacks on civilian infrastructure.

the americans did this in serbia, which is emerging as the closest parallel, and it horribly failed.

they are losing the moral high ground and the upper hand against a brutally barbaric regime, which is an act of depravity and futility worth taking note of.

the problem is donald trump. he needs to be removed from command and probably sent to jail. the operation needs to continue and refocus on regime change without him.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/02/middle-east-crisis-live-trump-prime-time-address-white-house-iran-war-israel-strait-hormuz

population growth will inevitably return. unfortunately.

it's important that canadians remain vigilant in forcing their elected politicians to commit to restricting population growth to sustainable levels, and stop them from trying to manipulate the electorate for their own gerrymandering aims.

https://www.rbc.com/en/economics/canadian-analysis/featured-analysis/insights/canadas-population-downturn-rising-supply-to-keep-apartment-rents-in-check/

i would strongly support the introduction of an estate tax in canada, to try to capture as much wealth from the baby boomer generation as possible, before it is transferred to their children. the boomers evaded taxes for decades, which was a mistake in public policy, but we can't turn back the clocks to reverse their tax cuts. what we can do is right the wrongs of the past by taxing them now, and using the money to fund the social services they raided to pay for their cocaine addictions and second cars.

there's a deeper narrative on the need to increase income taxes after decades of slashing them, with little to no evidence of it having any effect on aggregate spending at all.

mark carney is at the end of the boomer generation. conservatives like him have spent their entire generation, which for him extends backwards 20 years because he's at the end of the boomer discussion rather than the start of the gen x discussion, moaning and complaining about inefficiencies in government, and we have seen 40 years of constant cuts to government at every level.

now, carney wants to increase spending on death by cutting spending on life. but there is nothing left for mark carney to cut. everything has been cut already, over the last 40 years of cuts.

we need dramatic increases in income taxes in this country - 30%, 40% tax increases - and we need to use the money collected in tax revenue to spend on life, not on death. but if it must be government spending on death that gets government to change it's approach to spending and stop cutting taxes and start raising them for the next 50 years, so be it.

a gst hike is regressive.

they should increase income taxes instead. let the rich pay for it - don't dump this burden on the poor.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canada-must-increase-taxes-cut-spending-to-hit-5-nato-target-report/

why is this unacceptable?

i think it's highly desirable.

it's the best possible outcome. it's exactly what canada and exactly what ontario wants.

what is unacceptable is for government to continue to dump millions of dollars into subsidies for 20th century technology to export to a country that is aggressively insularizing. that's a dead end strategy that leaves us with no future.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stellantis-plant-brampton-ontario-ev-ford-9.7151265

if the point of this is to stop a larger war, walking away now is the dumbest thing possible.

by slowing the process down, all the americans would be doing is prolonging the misery.

there is no alternative to regime change in iran. the regime is over. they can do it the short way or the long way. 

the americans are arguing that they never intended to carry out regime change in iran and there's not going to be regime change because it wasn't an objective.

that appears to be accurate, but it wasn't made clear. the suggestion was the opposite.

i supported the operation on the basis that it would lead to the overwhelming crippling of the iranian state, which is apparently not the operation's goal. the operation's goal is merely to degrade their military ability.

as a mission, this is incredibly stupid. if you leave the iranian state in place, it will regenerate. the americans are failing to learn the lesson of the humiliation of germany in world war one.

the pentagon may disagree, but i won't consider this successful without regime change, and don't think the americans have the choice to not carry through. they can do this now or come back and do it later. they should do it now.

on the premise of the operation being merely to temporarily degrade their abilities, i would have opposed the operation. i was actually clear about that. i was tentatively supporting the full scale liquidation of the iranian state, not an attempt to weaken it for a few months and force it to remilitarize.