This is the correct reaction to a criminal administration violating laws and court orders with impunity, however this is not the reaction we see from most police departments. Police are supposed to work for the community, upholding the communities rules, not for whoever wields the biggest stick, or whoever they agree with politically.

If kicking that candle into a pile of dry leaves happened to start a fire, then the police would've blame the protestors for rioting and used it to as justification further crack down on the community.

Mamdani told a heckler that he wanted him to be able to afford to live in New York as well.

A pastor who asked Trump to have empathy for people he doesn't like, was attacked by the entire political movement.

When they say culture war, that is what they want winning and the realization really sucks.

As an extension of the GOP, the CPC generally mirrors GOP propaganda in most things.

It's not a coincidence, PP isn't just acting like Trump, he answers to him.

Something I’ve learned in the last decade, no matter how unpopular a position, MAGA supporters will fall in line with the party rather than risk threatening the parties authority.

Juno News is directly linked to the CPC and has on multiple, occasion been responsible for spreading misinformation, and disrupting our national debates during a federal election.

That said, I agree with the poll.

I think that’s the core here, it’s clearly laid out in the judges decision that the problem wasn’t the government using excessive force, it’s that the EA isn’t really meant to deal with this level of incompetence. Its purpose is to deal with real national security threats, and nothing the convoy did was beyond the scope of the local police, they just chose not to act, and the only mechanisms to hold anyone accountable within the police are operated by the police.

Partisanship within Canadian police departments is a serious issue, and while this ruling should be a wake up call, it won’t be heard.

Unfortunately partisan actors will paint the decision as “Trudeau is a tyrant” in conservative media regardless of the reality.

Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.

To be fair, a Trump regime change is his best chance at actually ever becoming PM.

Many of his loyal base would welcome an American invasion at this point.

I don't like hearing our PM parrot US propaganda, and going directly against his speech in Davos.

I realize there might be political reasons for what he is doing, but the cynical side of me assumes this is more due to Israel lobbying our government for support.

They'll spend money on anything but paying more nurses and doctors to property staff an ER. We can't actually have results that might undermine the privatization narrative, that would defeat the purpose.

Predators protect predators.

Christian nationalism always turns into a purity contest. I feel like this would be true with any religious based political movement, but my knowledge of these structures in other parts of world is limited.

It always seems to start with purging outsiders, but once the outsiders are not soliciting the right reactions anymore they need to turn inward, they need start eating their own. They need an enemy to point to, they need to convince their followers that they are victims, and that they need to take extraordinary actions in order to take revenge on this perceived enemy.

That collective "enemy" is one of the core principles that unites these scattered political groups, and keeps them working together. Because MAGA isn't just one group, it's a collective of right wing groups united under the banner of defeating the "enemy of the nation" which they've been convinced is this imaginary idea of the left. A group apparently so powerful its influence touches every scientific institution, regulatory body, school and university in the US, but also completely helpless to pass any government policy that might benefit the working class.

Their labeling trans identity an ideology, will go down into the history books along with Geocentrism and Darwinism. As just another example of scientific method coming under attack for going against church doctrine.

Again?

Free speech to the CPC = Freedom for me to spout whatever I want without anyone being able to disagree with me, and freedom for me to shut down your speech when it conflicts with my opinion.

The words free and speech are both in there, just not in the way you'd expect. Thats the beauty of marketing with tribal based double think, it's meaning to them is different based on who is saying it.

This is normal for the CPC same thing happened in London Ontario during the last election.

If CPC supporters are contacting her saying this isn't what this party represents, then they haven't been paying any attention to what their party has been saying over the last decade. Not that it's surprising at all, the Reform wing of the CPC simply erased what was left of PC influence in the party over the pandemic. Which is how they've been trying to market extreme ideas to moderate voters, by just lying to them.

One important take away that confirms one thing I always believed about the separatist movement in Alberta, it's more money than it is people, but money can move people if you pay to have a megaphone blasting in their face 24/7. These are also incredibly lazy people, they have no shame plastering AI generated banners in small towns, and posting AI generated videos to curated Facebook groups trying to fool your granny.

I don't know why people would ever believe Smiths dog and pony show about her not being a separatist, everything else has been a lie. She's changing her own laws to appease them, at that point you're doing mental gymnastics to try and explain her actions. If she loses her leadership she'll take a nice fancy new gig in one of Sam's healthcare ventures. Just like Kenney took a seat at the ATCO board after he lost the leadership. These folks only fail up, at least until we nip this corruption problem in the butt. We still don't know who funded TBA, because grassroots Albertans it was not, and while the RCMP announced an investigation, it seems their treating it with the same zeal they did with Kenney's kamikaze campaign against Brian Jean.

They announce an investigation, do absolutely nothing for years, then by the time they start collecting evidence, oh darn, it seems we can't find it anymore! Almost like giving politicians a few years to deal with evidence before you start collecting it, might have something to do with that, but this is from a crazy cat lady, emphasis on the crazy, and not a former cop or something.

To distance themselves would mean a metaphorical decapitation, which would severely limit their political power, and thats just not something they're willing to do. Kids grow up witnessing who gets away with it, so when those same kids get older and want to get away with it, they become cops, Republicans or priests, because they know those groups will protect them from accountability when/if they get caught. This issue has been compounding for multiple generations culminating in the running joke we see playing out today.

Political actors want to paint this as a failure of the federal government but fact of the matter is, it was a failure of enforcement, and we simply do not have the means in which to hold that enforcement accountable the same way we do the federal government, which is another issue entirely.

We should have high standards for the EA’s use, but the same people who will justify state sponsored violence that targets people they don’t like, are celebrating this ruling as government overreach, because it’s about the narrative not reality, and I find it exhausting.

Police should’ve done their jobs and the federal government shouldn’t have used the act, that’s the real story.

I grew up in a cop family, this stuff almost sounds quaint.

People have no idea.

Sometimes I think this homeless class of people is supposed to be an ever present threat. If you don't want to engage with the capitalist economy, then you end up on the street, seen as less than by the majority of society.